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.

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), اَلرَّأْس اَلْأَخْضَر‎ m (ar-raʾs 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)
• 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)
• Dutch: Kaapverdië (nl)
• Esperanto: Kabo-Verdo
• Estonian: Roheneemesaared (et), Cabo Verde (only in diplomacy)
• Faroese: Grønhøvdaoyggjarnar
• Finnish: Kap Verde (fi)
• French: Cap-Vert (fr)
• Galician: Cabo Verde (gl) m
• Georgian: კაბო-ვერდე (ḳabo-verde)
• German: Kap Verde (de)
• Greek: Πράσινο Ακρωτήριο (el) n (Prásino Akrotírio)
• Haitian Creole: Kap Vè
• Hawaiian: Laeuliuli
• Hebrew: כף ורדה‎
• Hindi: केप वर्डे (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

• Kazakh: Кабо Верде (Kabo Verde)
• Khmer: កាប់វែរ (km) (kapvɛɛ)
• Kikuyu: Kepu Vad
• Korean: 카보베르데 (ko) (Kabobereude)
• Kyrgyz: Кабо-Верде (Kabo-Verde)
• Latvian: Kaboverde
• 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
• Maltese: il-Kape Verde
• Maori: Te Kūrae Matomato
• Meru: Kepu Vad
• Navajo: Tónteel Bibąąh Dootłʼizhí
• Norman: Vèrt Cap m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kapp Verde (no) (Republikken Kapp Verde)

  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
• 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)
• Tagalog: Kabo Berde
• Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Димоғаи Сабз (Jazirahoyi Dimoġayi Sabz), Кабо Верде (Kabo Verde)
• Thai: กาบูเวร์ดี (th) (gaa-buu-wee-dii)
• Ukrainian: Ка́бо-Ве́рде (uk) f (Kábo-Vérde)
• Uzbek: Keyp Verd, Kabo-verde
• Vietnamese: Cáp-Ve, Cáp Ve
• Welsh: Cabo Verde (cy)

See also

• Praia
• Appendix:Countries of the world