Abu Dhabi

English

Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي (ʔabū ẓaby, “father of the gazelle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.bu ˈdɑ.bi/, /ˈɑ.bu ˈðɑ.bi/, /ˈɑ.bu ˈdæ.bi/

• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Abu Dhabi

1. An emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf.
2. The capital city of the United Arab Emirates; capital city of Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates.

Coordinate terms

• United Arab Emirates
  • Ajman
  • Dubai
  • Fujairah
  • Ras al-Khaimah
  • Sharjah
  • Umm al-Quwain

Translations

one of the United Arab Emirates

• Armenian: Աբու Դաբի (hy) (Abu Dabi)
• Esperanto: Abudabio
• Irish: Abú Daibí m
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• Russian: А́бу-Да́би (ru) m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Uyghur: ئەبۇ زەبى (ebu zebi)
• West Frisian: Abû Daby n

capital of UAE

• Afrikaans: Aboe Dhabi
• Albanian: Abu Dabi
• Amharic: አቡ ዳቢ (ʾäbu dabi)
• Arabic: أَبُو ظَبْي f (ʔabū ẓaby)
• Armenian: Աբու Դաբի (hy) (Abu Dabi)
• Assamese: আবু জাবী (abu zabi), আবু ঢাবী (abu dhabi)
• Azerbaijani: Əbu-Dabi (az)
• Bashkir: Әбү-Дәби (Əbü-Dəbi)
• Belarusian: А́бу-Да́бі m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Bengali: আবুধাবি (abudhabi)
• Bulgarian: А́бу Да́би m (Ábu Dábi)
• Burmese: အဘူဒါဘီမြို့ (a.bhudabhimrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿布扎比 (aa³ bou³ zaat³ bei²)

  Mandarin: 阿布扎比 (zh) (Ābùzābǐ)

• Czech: Abú Zabí (cs) n
• Danish: Abu Dhabi n
• Dutch: Abu Dhabi (nl) n, Aboe Dhabi n
• Esperanto: Abu-Dabio (eo), Abudabio
• Estonian: Abu Dhabi (et)
• Finnish: Abu Dhabi (fi)
• French: Abou Dabi (fr) m, Abou Dhabi (fr) m
• Galician: Abu Dabi
• Georgian: აბუ-დაბი (abu-dabi)
• German: Abu Dhabi (de) n
• Greek: Άμπου Ντάμπι n (Ámpou Ntámpi)
• Hebrew: אַבּוּ דַּאבִּי f (ábu dábi)
• Hindi: अबू धाबी m (abū dhābī)
• Hungarian: Abu-Dzabi (hu)
• Icelandic: Abú Dabí
• Ido: Abu Dhabi
• Indonesian: Abu Dhabi
• Irish: Abú Daibí m
• Italian: Abu Dhabi (it)
• Japanese: アブダビ (ja) (Abudabi)
• Kazakh: Абу-Даби (kk) (Abu-Dabi)
• Khmer: អាប៊ុយដាប៊ី (km) (ʼaabuydaabii)
• Korean: 아부다비 (Abudabi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Ebû Zebî

• Kyrgyz: Абу-Даби (ky) (Abu-Dabi)
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• Lao: ອາບູດາບີ (ʼā bū dā bī)
• Latvian: Abū Dabī
• Lithuanian: Abu Dabis (lt) m
• Macedonian: Абу Даби (mk) m (Abu Dabi)
• Malay: Abu Dhabi
• Maltese: Abu Dhabi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Абу-Даби (Abu-Dabi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Abu Dhabi

  Nynorsk: Abu Dhabi

• Pashto: ابوظبي f (abozabi)
• Persian: ابوظبی (abuzâbi)
• Polish: Abu Zabi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Abu Dhabi (pt)
• Romanian: Abu Dhabi (ro)
• Russian: А́бу-Да́би (ru) m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Абу Даби m

  Roman: Abu Dabi m

• Sinhalese: අබුඩාබි (abuḍābi)
• Slovak: Abú Zabí (sk) n, Abú Dábí n
• Slovene: Abu Dabi m
• Spanish: Abu Dabi (es)
• Swedish: Abu Dhabi (sv) n
• Tagalog: Abu Dhabi
• Tajik: Абузабӣ (Abuzabi)
• Tamil: அபுதாபி (ta) (aputāpi)
• Tatar: Әбу-Даби (Äbu-Dabi)
• Thai: อาบูดาบี (aa-buu-daa-bii)
• Tibetan: ཨ་པོའུ་དྷ་པེ (a po'u dha pe)
• Turkish: Abu Dabi
• Turkmen: Abu-Dabi
• Ukrainian: А́бу-Да́бі m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Urdu: ابو ظہبی m (abū zahabī), ابوظہبی m (abūzahabī)
• Uyghur: ئەبۇ زەبى (ebu zebi)
• Uzbek: Abu-Dabi
• Vietnamese: A-bu Đa-bi (vi)
• Võro: Abu Dhabi
• West Frisian: Abû Daby n
• Yiddish: אַבו דאַבי n (abu dabi)

Further reading

• Abu Dhabi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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German

Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي (ʔabū ẓaby), probably in part through English Abu Dhabi, as the transliteration dh for Arabic ظ (ẓ) is not common in German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌabuˈdaːbi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌabuˈdabi/ (rare; learned)

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Abu Dhabi n (proper noun, genitive Abu Dhabis or (optionally with an article) Abu Dhabi)

1. Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf)
2. Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

Declension of Abu Dhabi [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Abu Dhabi
genitive	des	Abu Dhabis, Abu Dhabi1
dative	dem	Abu Dhabi
accusative	das	Abu Dhabi

¹Optionally with an article.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Abu Dhabi f

1. Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf)
2. Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates)