Abuja

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/
• Rhymes: -uːdʒə

Proper noun

Abuja

2. The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
   • 2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 139:

     Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.

   • 2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.

Translations

The capital city of Nigeria

• Abkhaz: Абуџа (Abudẑa)
• Afrikaans: Abuja
• Amharic: አቡጃ (ʾäbuǧa)
• Arabic: أَبُوجَا f (ʔabūjā)
• Armenian: Աբուջա (Abuǰa)
• Asturian: Abuya (ast)
• Belarusian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Bengali: আবুজা (bn) (abuja)
• Bulgarian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Burmese: အဘူဂျာမြို့ (a.bhugyamrui.)
• Catalan: Abuja
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿布賈 / 阿布贾 (zh) (Ābùjiǎ)

• Czech: Abuja f, Abudža f
• Danish: Abuja ?
• Esperanto: Abuĝo (eo)
• Estonian: Abuja (et)
• Farefare: Abuza
• Georgian: აბუჯა (abuǯa)
• Greek: Αμπούζα (el) f (Ampoúza), Αμπούτζα (el) f (Ampoútza)
• Hebrew: אַבּוּגָ׳ה f (abúja)
• Hindi: अबुजा m (abujā)
• Irish: Abúise f
• Italian: Abuja (it) f
• Japanese: アブジャ (ja) (Abuja)
• Khmer: អាប៊ូហ្សា (km) (ʼaabuuhsaa)
• Korean: 아부자 (ko) (Abuja)
• Latvian: Abudža f
• Macedonian: Абуџа (mk) f (Abudža)
• Nupe: Abújá
• Persian: آبوجا (âbujâ)
• Polish: Abudża (pl) f
• Portuguese: Abuja (pt) f
• Russian: Абу́джа (ru) f (Abúdža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Абуја f, Абуџа f

  Latin: Abuja f, Abudža f

• Spanish: Abuya f
• Swedish: Abuja (sv) ?
• Thai: อาบูจา (aa-buu-jaa)
• Turkish: Abuja
• Ukrainian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Urdu: ابوجا m (abujā)
• Vietnamese: A-bu-gia
• Võro: Abuja
• Yoruba: Àbújá

Anagrams

• Bajau

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Proper noun

Abuja

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Czech

Alternative forms

• Abudža

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈabudʒa]

Proper noun

Abuja f

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Declension

Declension of Abuja (sg-only mixed feminine)

	singular
nominative	Abuja
genitive	Abuji, Abuje
dative	Abuje, Abuji
accusative	Abuju
vocative	Abujo
locative	Abuje, Abuji
instrumental	Abujou

Japanese

Romanization

Abuja

1. Rōmaji transcription of アブジャ

Nupe

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.bú.d͡ʒá/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Abújá

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

   Keńci dókun fédùn ci Abújá o. ― Many Hausa people live in Abuja.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈbu.ʒɐ/ [ɐˈβu.ʒɐ]

• Rhymes: -uʒɐ

Proper noun

Abuja f

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abud͡ʒa/, [ˈabud͡ʒa]
• Rhymes: -ud͡ʒa
• Hyphenation: A‧bu‧ja

Proper noun

Abuja f (genitive singular Abuje, declension pattern of ulica)

1. Abuja (the capital of Nigeria)

References

• “Abuja”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Yoruba

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.bú.d͡ʒá/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Àbújá

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)