Antananarivo

English

Proper noun

Antananarivo

2. The capital city of Madagascar.

Synonyms

• Tana

Translations

city

• Afrikaans: Antananarivo
• Amharic: አንታናናሪቮ (ʾäntananarivo)
• Arabic: أَنْتَانَانَارِيفُو m (ʔantānānārīvō)
• Armenian: Անտանանարիվու (hy) (Antananarivu)
• Assamese: আন্তানানাৰিভ’ (antananaribhö)
• Asturian: Antananarivu
• Azerbaijani: Antananarivu
• Belarusian: Антананары́ву m (Antananarývu)
• Bulgarian: Антананари́ву m (Antananarívu)
• Catalan: Antananarivo f
• Chechen: Антананари́ву m (Antananarı̇́vu)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安塔那那利佛

  Mandarin: 塔那那利佛 (zh) (Tǎnànàlìfó), 安塔那那利佛 (zh) (Āntǎnànàlìfó)

  Wu: 塔那那利佛

• Czech: Antananarivo (cs) n
• Danish: Antananarivo
• Esperanto: Antananarivo (eo)
• Finnish: Antananarivo
• French: Tananarive (fr) f, Antananarivo (fr) f
• Galician: Antananarivo (gl)
• Georgian: ანტანანარივუ (anṭananarivu)
• German: Antananarivo (de) n
• Greek: Ανταναναρίβο (el) n (Antananarívo)
• Hebrew: אנטננריבו
• Hindi: अन्टाननरीवो (anṭānanrīvo)
• Hungarian: Antananarivo (hu)
• Icelandic: Antananarívó
• Irish: Antananairíveo m
• Japanese: アンタナナリボ (ja) (Antananaribo)
• Kazakh: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Korean: 안타나나리보 (Antananaribo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئانتاناناریڤۆ (antananarîvo)

• Kyrgyz: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Latvian: Antananarivu
• Lithuanian: Antananaryvas
• Macedonian: Антананариво m (Antananarivo)
• Malay: Antananarivo, Tanah Seribu
• Malayalam: ആന്റനനറീവൊ (ānṟananaṟīvo)
• Marathi: अंतानानारिव्हो (antānānārivho)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: Антананариву (Antananarivu)

• Mingrelian: ანტანანარივუ (anṭananarivu)
• Mongolian: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Ossetian: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Persian: آنتاناناریوو
• Polish: Antananarywa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Antananarivo (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਅੰਤਾਨਾਨਾਰੀਵੋ (antānānārīvo)
• Romanian: Antananarivo (ro)
• Russian: Антананари́ву (ru) m (Antananarívu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Антананариво m

  Roman: Antananarivo m

• Somali: Antananarifo
• Spanish: Antananarivo (es) f
• Tajik: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Tamil: அண்டனானரீவோ (aṇṭaṉāṉarīvō)
• Thai: อันตานานารีโว (an-dtaa-naa-naa-rii-wôo)
• Tibetan: ཨེན་ཊ་ན་ན་རི་བོ། (en ṭa na na ri bo)
• Udmurt: Антананариву (Antananarivu)
• Ukrainian: Антананарі́ву m (Antananarívu)
• Urdu: اینٹانانیریو (enṭānāneryo)
• Uzbek: Antananarivu
• Veps: Antananarivu
• Vietnamese: An-ta-na-na-ri-vô
• Western Panjabi: انٹاناناریوو
• Wolof: Antananariwo
• Yiddish: אַנטאַנאַנאַריוואָ (antananarivo)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Antananarivo

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈantananarɪvo]

Proper noun

Antananarivo n (relational adjective antananarivský)

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

Declension

Declension of Antananarivo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Antananarivo
genitive	Antananariva
dative	Antananarivu
accusative	Antananarivo
vocative	Antananarivo
locative	Antananarivu
instrumental	Antananarivem

Further reading

• “Antananarivo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Esperanto

Etymology

From Malagasy Antananarivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antananaˈrivo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: An‧ta‧na‧na‧ri‧vo

Proper noun

Antananarivo (accusative Antananarivon)

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Malagasy Antananarivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ta.na.na.ʁi.vo/

Proper noun

Antananarivo f

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

   Synonyms: Tananarive, Tana

Related terms

• Madagascar

See also

• capitale

Malagasy

Etymology

From an- (focus prefix) +‎ tanana (“city”) +‎ arivo (“one thousand”), literally “city of a thousand”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə̥ntə̥ˌnaˈⁿd͡ʐivʷ/

Proper noun

Antananarivo

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ta.na.naˈɾi.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ta.na.naˈɾi.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ta.na.naˈɾi.vo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɐ.nɐ.nɐˈɾi.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɐ.nɐ.nɐˈɾi.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɐ.nɐ.nɐˈɾi.bu/ [ɐ̃.tɐ.nɐ.nɐˈɾi.βu]

• Hyphenation: An‧ta‧na‧na‧ri‧vo

Proper noun

Antananarivo ?

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

Romanian

Proper noun

Antananarivo

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈantananarivɔ]

Proper noun

Antananarivo n (genitive singular Antananariva, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Antananarivo (the capital of Madagascar)

References

• “Antananarivo”, 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, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antananaˈɾibo/ [ãn̪.t̪a.na.naˈɾi.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: An‧ta‧na‧na‧ri‧vo

Proper noun

Antananarivo f

1. Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)