Abu Dhabi

See also: Abú Dhabí

English

Alternative forms

• Abu Zabi, Abu Zaby, Abū Ẓaby (stricter transliterations)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Abu Dhabi

2. The capital city of the United Arab Emirates; the capital of Abu Dhabi emirate.
   • 2025 May 11, Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, “Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish list”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Abu Dhabi has even branded itself “the capital of capital.”

4. An emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf.

   Holonym: United Arab Emirates

   Coordinate terms: Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain

Derived terms

• Abu Dhabian

Translations

capital of UAE

• Afar: Abu Dabi
• 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)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܒ݂ܘܼ ܛܲܒ݂ܝܵܐ f (aḇū ṭaḇyā)
• Asturian: Abu Dhabi (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Əbu-Dabi (az)
• Bashkir: Әбү-Дәби (Əbü-Dəbi)
• Belarusian: А́бу-Да́бі m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Bengali: আবুধাবি (abudhabi)
• Bulgarian: Абу̀ Да̀би m (Abù Dàbi)
• Burmese: အဘူဒါဘီမြို့ (a.bhudabhimrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿布扎比 (aa³ bou³ zaat³ bei²), 阿布扎比市 (aa³ bou³ zaat³ bei² si⁵)

  Mandarin: 阿布扎比 (zh) (Ābùzābǐ)

• Czech: Abú Zabí (cs) n, Abú Dhabí (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 (ka) (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)
• 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
• Marathi: अबू धाबी n (abū dhābī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Абу-Даби (Abu-Dabi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Abu Dhabi

  Nynorsk: Abu Dhabi

• Pashto: ابوظبي f (abozabi)
• Persian: ابوظبی (abuzabi)
• Polish: Abu Zabi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Abu Dhabi (pt), Abu Dabi
• 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 (tr)
• Turkmen: Abu-Dabi
• Ukrainian: А́бу-Да́бі (uk) 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)

emirate

• Arabic: إِمَارَة أَبُو ظَبْي f (ʔimārat ʔabū ẓaby)
• Armenian: Աբու Դաբի (hy) (Abu Dabi)
• Bulgarian: Абу́ Да̀би m (Abú Dàbi)
• Esperanto: Abudabio
• Irish: Abú Daibí m
• Marathi: अबू धाबी n (abū dhābī)
• Persian: امارت ابوظبی (emârat-e abuzabi)
• Russian: А́бу-Да́би (ru) m (Ábu-Dábi)
• Tajik: Иморати Абузабӣ (Imorat-i Abuzabi)
• Uyghur: ئەبۇ زەبى ئەمىرلىكى (ebu zebi emirliki)
• West Frisian: Abû Daby n

Further reading

• Abu Dhabi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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.

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)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˌbudaˈbi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: A‧bu Dha‧bí

Proper noun

Abu Dhabi n

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

Declension

Declension of Abu Dhabi

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabiul
genitive-dative	Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabiului
vocative	Abu Dhabiule

Further reading

• “Abu Dhabi”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025