Botswana

See also: botswana

English

Coat of arms

Etymology

After the Tswana people.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒtˈswɑːnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑːtˈswɑːnə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Proper noun

Botswana

1. A country in Southern Africa (formerly Bechuanaland). Official name: Republic of Botswana.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Republic of Botswana

• Amharic: ቦትስዋና (botswana)
• Arabic: بُتْسْوَانَا‏‎ f (butswānā)
• Armenian: Բոտսվանա (Botsvana)
• Belarusian: Батсва́на f (Batsvána)
• Bengali: বতসোয়ানা (bôtsoyana)
• Breton: Botswana
• Bulgarian: Ботсва́на f (Botsvána)
• Burmese: ဘော့ဆွာနာ (bhau.hcwana)
• Catalan: Botswana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博茨瓦納 (zh), 博茨瓦纳 (zh) (Bócíwǎnà)

• Czech: Botswana (cs) f
• Danish: Botswana
• Dutch: Botswana (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bocvano (eo)
• Estonian: Botswana (et)
• Faroese: Botsvana n
• Finnish: Botswana (fi)
• French: Botswana (fr)
• Galician: Botsuana (gl), Botswana (gl)
• German: Botsuana (de)
• Greek: Μποτσουάνα (el) f (Botsouána)
• Hebrew: בוצוונה‏‎ (botswana)
• Hindi: बोत्सवाना (hi) (botsavānā)
• Hungarian: Botswana (hu)
• Interlingua: Botswana
• Irish: An Bhotsuáin f, Poblacht na Botsuáine f
• Italian: Botswana (it) f
• Japanese: ボツワナ (Botsuwana)
• Khmer: បុតស្វាណា (km) (botsvana)

• Kikuyu: Botswana
• Korean: 보츠와나 (Bocheuwana)
• Latvian: Botsvana f
• Luhya: Botswana
• Luo: Botswana
• Macedonian: Боцва́на (mk) f (Bocvána)
• Malagasy: Botsoana
• Maltese: il-Botswana
• Maori: Poriwana
• Meru: Botswana
• Navajo: Tswana Dineʼé bikéyah
• Norman: Botswana
• Norwegian: Botswana (no)
• Polish: Botswana (pl) f
• Portuguese: Botsuana (pt) f
• Romanian: Botswana (ro) f
• Russian: Ботсва́на (ru) f (Botsvána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Боцвана f

  Roman: Bocvana (sh) f

• Sicilian: Botsuana f
• Spanish: Botsuana (es) f
• Swahili: Botswana (sw)
• Swedish: Botswana (sv) n
• Tagalog: Botswana (tl)
• Thai: บอตสวานา (th) (bɔ́ɔt-sà-waa-nâa)
• Turkish: Botsvana (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ботсва́на (uk) f (Botsvána)
• Vietnamese: Bốt-xoa-na

See also

• Gaborone
• Countries of the world

Further reading

• Botswana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• swan boat

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Breton

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Catalan

Proper noun

Botswana f

1. Botswana

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Botswana f

1. Botswana

See also

• Bečuánsko

Related terms

• botswanský
• Botswaňan

Further reading

• Botswana in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Botswana in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Botswana n

1. Botswana

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Estonian

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Finnish

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

Declension

Inflection of Botswana (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Botswana	—
genitive		Botswanan	—
partitive		Botswanaa	—
illative		Botswanaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Botswana	—
accusative	nom.	Botswana	—
	gen.	Botswanan
genitive		Botswanan	—
partitive		Botswanaa	—
inessive		Botswanassa	—
elative		Botswanasta	—
illative		Botswanaan	—
adessive		Botswanalla	—
ablative		Botswanalta	—
allative		Botswanalle	—
essive		Botswanana	—
translative		Botswanaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Botswanatta	—
comitative		—	—

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt.swa.na/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot͡svaːnɒ]
• Hyphenation: Bots‧wa‧na

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Botswana	—
accusative	Botswanát	—
dative	Botswanának	—
instrumental	Botswanával	—
causal-final	Botswanáért	—
translative	Botswanává	—
terminative	Botswanáig	—
essive-formal	Botswanaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Botswanában	—
superessive	Botswanán	—
adessive	Botswanánál	—
illative	Botswanába	—
sublative	Botswanára	—
allative	Botswanához	—
elative	Botswanából	—
delative	Botswanáról	—
ablative	Botswanától	—

Possessive forms of Botswana
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Botswanám	—
2nd person sing.	Botswanád	—
3rd person sing.	Botswanája	—
1st person plural	Botswanánk	—
2nd person plural	Botswanátok	—
3rd person plural	Botswanájuk	—

Related terms

• botswanai

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Italian

Proper noun

Botswana m

1. Botswana

Derived terms

• botswaniano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

Related terms

• botswaner
• botswansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

Related terms

• botswan, botswanar
• botswansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt.sˈfana/, /bɔt͡sˈfana/

Proper noun

Botswana f

1. Botswana

Declension

declension of Botswana

	singular	plural
nominative	Botswana	Botswany
genitive	Botswany	Botswan
dative	Botswanie	Botswanom
accusative	Botswanę	Botswany
instrumental	Botswaną	Botswanami
locative	Botswanie	Botswanach
vocative	Botswano	Botswany

Derived terms

• Botswańczyk m, Botswanka f
• adjective: botswański

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Romanian

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Scots

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Botsuana

Proper noun

Botswana f

1. Botswana

Related terms

• botsuano, botsuana

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Swedish

Proper noun

Botswana n (genitive Botswanas)

1. Botswana

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Botswana (“Bostwana”).

Proper noun

Botswana

1. Botswana