Cape Verde

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Portuguese Cabo Verde, from cabo (“cape”) + verde (“green”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪpˈvɝd/

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Proper noun

Cape Verde

1. An archipelago and country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Cabo Verde.
   • 1992, Nixon, Richard, “The Southern Hemisphere”, in Seize the Moment‎^[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN 91-37743, OCLC 440652941, page 250:

     In the Cape Verde Islands, the electoral victory of Movement for Democracy ushered out sixteen years of one-party rule.

Usage notes

In October 2013, the government requested that the country be known as Cabo Verde in every language, rather than by partial translations (Cape Verde, Kaap Verde, etc) as had previously been the case. Cabo Verde had already seen some use in English, but continues to be less common than Cape Verde.

Synonyms

• Cabo Verde

Hypernyms

• Macaronesia
• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Cape Verdean

Translations

country in Western Africa

• Afrikaans: Kaap Verde
• Albanian: Kepi i Gjelbër (sq)
• Amharic: ካቦ ቨርዴ (kabo värde)
• Arabic: كَاب فِيرْدِي‎ m (kāb fīrdī), الرَّأْس الْأَخْضَر‎‎‎ m (ar-raʾs al-ʾaḵḍar)

  Hijazi Arabic: كابو ڤيردي‎ f (kabu vērdi), اَلرَّاس اَلْأَخْضَر‎‎ f (ar-rās al-ʾaḵḍar)

• Aragonese: Cabo Verde m
• Armenian: Կաբո Վերդե (hy) (Kabo Verde), Կանաչ Հրվանդան (hy) (Kanačʿ Hrvandan)
• Asturian: Cabu Verde (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Kabo-Verde (az)
• Belarusian: Ка́ба-Ве́рдэ f (Kába-Vjérde), Ка́ба-Вэ́рдэ f (Kába-Vérde)
• Bengali: কেপ ভার্দ (bn) (kep bhard)
• Breton: Kab Glas
• Bulgarian: Ка́бо Ве́рде (Kábo Vérde)
• Burmese: ကိတ်ဗာဒီ (kitbadi)
• Catalan: Cap Verd (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛得角 (zh) (Fódéjiǎo)

• Corsican: Capu Verde
• Czech: Kapverdy (cs) m pl
• Danish: Kap Verde (da) n
• Dutch: Kaapverdië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kabo-Verdo
• Estonian: Roheneemesaared (et), Cabo Verde (only in diplomacy)
• Faroese: Grønhøvdaoyggjarnar
• Finnish: Kap Verde (fi)
• French: Cap-Vert (fr) m
• Galician: Cabo Verde (gl) m
• Georgian: კაბო-ვერდე (ḳabo-verde)
• German: Kap Verde (de) n
• Greek: Πράσινο Ακρωτήριο (el) n (Prásino Akrotírio)
• Haitian Creole: Kap Vè
• Hawaiian: Laeuliuli
• Hebrew: כֵּף וֶרְדֶּה‎
• Hindi: केप वर्डे m (kep varḍe)
• Hungarian: Zöld-foki Köztársaság (hu), Zöld-foki-szigetek
• Icelandic: Grænhöfðaeyjar (is) f pl
• Ido: Kabverdo (io)
• Interlingua: Capo Verde
• Irish: Rinn Verde f
• Italian: Capo Verde (it)
• Japanese: カーボベルデ (ja) (Kāboberude)
• Kabuverdianu: Kabu Verdi
• Kalenjin: Kep Vad
• Kamba: Kepu Vad
• Kannada: ಕೇಪ್ ವೆರ್ದೆ (kēp verde)
• Kazakh: Кабо Верде (Kabo Verde)
• Khmer: កាប់វែរ (km) (kapvɛɛ)
• Kikuyu: Kepu Vad
• Korean: 카보베르데 (ko) (Kabobereude)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kap Verde

• Kyrgyz: Кабо-Верде (Qabo-Verde)

• Lao: ເຄບເວີດ (khēp wœ̄t)
• Latvian: Kaboverde f
• Lithuanian: Žaliasis Kyšulys (lt)
• Luhya: Kepu Vad
• Luo: Kep Vad
• Luxembourgish: Kap Verde
• Macedonian: Зелено’ртска Република f (Zeleno’rtska Republika), Зелено’ртски Острови pl (Zeleno’rtski Ostrovi)
• Malay: Tanjung Verde
• Malayalam: കേപ്പ് വേർഡ് (kēppŭ vēṟḍŭ)
• Maltese: il-Kape Verde
• Maori: Te Kūrae Matomato
• Meru: Kepu Vad
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Кабо-Верде (Kabo-Verde)

• Navajo: Tónteel Bibąąh Dootłʼizhí
• Norman: Vèrt Cap m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kapp Verde (no)

  Nynorsk: Kapp Verde (nn)

• Occitan: Cap Verd m
• Persian: کاپ ورد‎ (kâp verd)
• Polish: Republika Zielonego Przylądka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cabo Verde (pt)
• Romanian: Capul Verde n, Republica Capului Verde (ro) f
• Russian: Ка́бо-Ве́рде (ru) f (Kábo-Vɛ́rdɛ), Острова́ Зелёного Мы́са m pl (Ostrová Zeljónovo Mýsa)
• Sardinian: Cabu Birde
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Зеленортска Република f

  Roman: Zelenortska Republika f

• Sicilian: Capu Virdi
• Sinhalese: කේප් වර්ඩ් (kēp warḍ)
• Slovak: Kapverdy m pl
• Slovene: Kapvêrdski otóki m pl, Zelenoŕtski otóki (sl) m pl
• Spanish: Cabo Verde (es) m
• Swahili: Cabo Verde
• Swedish: Kap Verde (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kabo Berde, Cabo Verde
• Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Димоғаи Сабз (Jazirahoyi Dimoġayi Sabz), Кабо Верде (Kabo Verde), Димоғаи Сабз (Dimoġayi Sabz)
• Tamil: கேப் வர்டி (kēp varṭi)
• Tatar: Кабо-Верде (Qabo-Werde)
• Telugu: కేప్ వర్దె (te) (kēp varde)
• Thai: กาบูเวร์ดี (th) (gaa-buu-wee-dii)
• Turkish: Yeşil Burun Adaları (tr)
• Turkmen: Kabo-Werde
• Ukrainian: Ка́бо-Ве́рде (uk) f (Kábo-Vérde)
• Urdu: کیپ ورڈی‎ m (kep varḍe)
• Uyghur: يېشىل تۇمشۇق‎ (yëshil tumshuq)
• Uzbek: Keyp Verd, Kabo-verde
• Vietnamese: Cáp-Ve, Cáp Ve
• Welsh: Cabo Verde (cy)

See also

• Praia
• Appendix:Countries of the world