Colombia

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See also: Colômbia, Colómbia, Colòmbia, and colombià

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506).

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: Columbia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

Derived terms[edit]

Colombian

Translations[edit]

country in South America

Adyghe: Коломбие (Kʷolombije)
Afrikaans: Colombia
Albanian: Kolumbi f (indefinite), Kolumbia (sq) f (definite)
Amharic: ኮሎምቢያ (kolombiya)
Arabic: كُولُومْبِيَا‎ f (kolombiyā)
Egyptian Arabic: كولومبيا‎ f (kulumbya)
Armenian: Կոլումբիա (hy) (Kolumbia)
Aromanian: Culumbii f (indefinite), Culumbia f (definite)
Assamese: কলম্বিয়া (kolombia)
Asturian: Colombia (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Kolumbiya (az)
Basque: Kolonbia
Belarusian: Калу́мбія f (Kalúmbija)
Bengali: কলম্বিয়া (bn) (kolombiẏa), কলোমবিয়া (kolōmbiẏa)
Bhutanese: ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ (ko lom bi ya)
Breton: Kolombia
Bulgarian: Колу́мбия f (Kolúmbija)
Burmese: ကိုလံဘီယာ (kuilambhiya)
Catalan: Colòmbia (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎪᎸᎻᏈᎢᎠ (golvmiquiia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哥倫比亞／哥伦比亚 (zh) (Gēlúnbǐyà)
Czech: Kolumbie (cs) f
Danish: Colombia (da) n
Dhivehi: ކޮލަންބިއާ‎ (kolan̊biā)
Dutch: Colombia (nl) n, Colombië n (dated)
Esperanto: Kolombio (eo)
Estonian: Colombia (et), Kolumbia
Finnish: Kolumbia (fi)
French: Colombie (fr) f
Friulian: Colombie f
Galician: Colombia (gl) f
Georgian: კოლუმბია (ka) (ḳolumbia)
German: Kolumbien (de) n
Greek: Κολομβία (el) f (Kolomvía)
Gujarati: કોલમ્બિયા (kolambiyā)
Hawaiian: Kolomepia
Hebrew: קוֹלוֹמְבְּיָה‎ (he) f (kolombya)
Hindi: कोलम्बिया (hi) (kolambiyā)
Hungarian: Kolumbia (hu)
Icelandic: Kólumbía (is) f
Ido: Kolumbia (io)
Indonesian: Kolombia (id)
Interlingua: Colombia
Irish: An Cholóim f
Italian: Colombia (it) f
Japanese: コロンビア (ja) (Koronbia)
Kalenjin: ^{(please verify)} kol
Kamba: Kolombia
Kannada: ಕೊಲೊಂಬಿಯ (kolombiya)
Kazakh: Колумбия (kk) (Kolumbiä)
Khmer: កូឡុំប៊ី (km) (koulombii)
Kikuyu: Kolombia
Korean: 콜롬비아 (ko) (Kollombia), 꼴롬비아 (ko) (Kkollombia) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Kolombiya (ku)
Kyrgyz: Колумбия (Kolumbiya)
Lao: ໂກລົມບີ (kō lom bī)
Latvian: Kolumbija f
Lithuanian: Kolumbija (lt) f
Luhya: Kolombia
Luo: Kolombia
Macedonian: Колумбија f (Kolumbija)
Malay: Colombia
Malayalam: കൊളംബിയ (koḷambiya)
Maori: Koromōpia
Marathi: कोलंबिया (kolambiyā)
Meru: Kolombia
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Колумби (Kolumbi)
Navajo: Kolámbiya
Nepali: कोलोम्बिया (kolombiyā)
Norman: Colombie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Colombia n
Occitan: Colómbia (oc) f
Odia: କଲମ୍ବିଆ (kôlômbia)
Ossetian: Колумби (Kolumbi)
Pashto: کولومبيا‎ f (kolombyā)
Persian: کلمبیا‎ (fa) (kolombiyâ)
Polish: Kolumbia (pl) f
Portuguese: Colômbia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ (kolambīā)
Romanian: Columbia (ro) f
Russian: Колу́мбия (ru) f (Kolúmbija)
Scots: Colombie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Колу̀мбија f

Roman: Kolùmbija (sh) f
Shan: မိူင်းၵူဝ်ႇလမ်ႇပီႇယႃႇ (móeng kò làm pìi yàa)
Sicilian: Culummia f
Silesian: Kolůmbja f
Sinhalese: කොලොම්‍බියාව (kolombiyāwa)
Slovak: Kolumbia f
Slovene: Kolumbija (sl) f
Spanish: Colombia (es) f
Swahili: Kolombia (sw)
Swedish: Colombia (sv) n
Tagalog: Kolombiya
Tajik: Кулумбия (tg) (Kulumbiya)
Tamil: கொலம்பியா (kolampiyā)
Tatar: Колумбия (Qolumbiyä)
Telugu: కొలంబియా (te) (kolambiyā)
Thai: โคลอมเบีย (th) (koo-lɔm-biia)
Tibetan: ཁོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ (kho lom bi ya)
Tigrinya: ኮሎምብያ (kolombəya)
Turkish: Kolombiya (tr)
Turkmen: Kolumbiýa
Ukrainian: Колу́мбія (uk) f (Kolúmbija)
Urdu: کولمبیا‎ m (kolambiyā)
Uyghur: كولومبىيە‎ (kolombiye)
Uzbek: Kolumbiya (uz)
Vietnamese: Cô-lôm-bi-a
Yiddish: קאָלאָמביע‎ f (kolombye)
Yoruba: Kòlóńbíà

See also[edit]

(countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Further reading[edit]

Colombia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian[edit]

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia f

Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Nahuatl[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Danish[edit]

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Alternative forms[edit]

Colombië (dated)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish Colombia. Named after Christopher Columbus.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈlɔm.bi.aː/
(Netherlands)
audio (file)
Hyphenation: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia n

Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms[edit]

Colombiaan

Related terms[edit]

Colombiaans

Galician[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Colômbia (reintegrationist)

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms[edit]

colombiano

Interlingua[edit]

Interlingua Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Italian[edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /koˈlom.bja/, /koˈlɔm.bja/^[1]
Rhymes: -ombja, -ɔmbja
Hyphenation: Co‧lóm‧bia, Co‧lòm‧bia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia f

Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms[edit]

colombiano

References[edit]

^ Colombia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams[edit]

coliambo

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia

Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Etymology[edit]

From Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”) +‎ -ia. Named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /koˈlombja/ [koˈlõm.bja]
Rhymes: -ombja
Syllabification: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia f

Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

^ Francisco de Miranda (1806-08-02) Proclamación de Don Francisco de Miranda, Comandante-General del Exército Colombiano, á los pueblos habitantes del Continente Americo-Colombiano (in Spanish)

Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia n (genitive Colombias)

Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms[edit]

Welsh[edit]

Welsh Wikipedia has an article on:

Colombia

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /kɔˈlɔmbja/
Rhymes: -ɔmbja

Proper noun[edit]

Colombia f

Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms[edit]

Gweriniaeth Colombia (“Republic of Colombia”)

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Colombia	Golombia	Ngholombia	Cholombia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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