Colombia

See also: Colômbia, Colómbia, Colòmbia, and colombià

English

Flag of Colombia

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”); named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Equivalent to Colombo +‎ -ia; piecewise doublet of Columbia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /koˈlom.bjɐ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Columbia

Proper noun

Colombia

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

   Synonym: (historical) New Granada

   • 2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 January 2025:

     Fafo works with small trading nations such as Colombia because US markets could quickly adapt to the greater expense of its coffee, flowers and other exports. There will be a different order of chaos, though, if Trump follows through on tariffs on the EU (17 per cent of US imports), Mexico (15 per cent), China (14 per cent) or Canada (12 per cent).

Derived terms

• Colombian

Translations

country in South America

• Afrikaans: Colombia
• Albanian: Kolumbí f (indefinite), Kolumbía (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ኮሎምቢያ (kolombiya)
• Arabic: كُولُومْبِيَا f (kolombiyā), كُلُمبِية f (kolombiyā), كُلُمبيا 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)
• Breton: Kolombia (br)
• Bulgarian: Колу́мбия f (Kolúmbija)
• Burmese: ကိုလံဘီယာ (kuilambhiya)
• Catalan: Colòmbia (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎪᎸᎻᏈᎢᎠ (golvmiquiia)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哥倫比亞 / 哥伦比亚 (go¹ leon⁴ bei² aa³)

  Mandarin: 哥倫比亞 / 哥伦比亚 (zh) (Gēlúnbǐyà)

  Wu: 哥倫比亞 / 哥伦比亚 (¹ku-len-pi-ia)

• Circassian:

  West Circassian: Коломбие (Kʷolombije)

• Czech: Kolumbie (cs) f
• Danish: Colombia (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކޮލަންބިއާ (kolan̊biā)
• Dutch: Colombia (nl) n, Colombië n (dated)
• Dzongkha: ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ (ko lom bi ya)
• Esperanto: Kolombio (eo)
• Estonian: Colombia (et), Kolumbia
• Faroese: 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)
• Haitian Creole: Kolonbi
• 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 (ky) (Kolumbiya)
• Lao: ໂກລົມບີ (klm bī)
• Latvian: Kolumbija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Kolumbija (lt) f
• Luhya: Kolombia
• Luo: Kolombia
• Macedonian: Колумбија f (Kolumbija)
• Malay: Colombia (ms)
• Malayalam: കൊളംബിയ (koḷambiya)
• Māori: 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, Colòmbia f
• Odia: କଲମ୍ବିଆ (kalambiā)
• Ossetian: Колумби (Kolumbi)
• Pashto: کولومبيا f (kolombyā)
• Persian:

  Dari: کولَمْبِیَا (kōlambiyā)

  Iranian Persian: کُلُمْبِیا (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

  Latin: 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: کولَمْبِیا m (kolambiyā)
• Uyghur: كولومبىيە (kolombiye)
• Uzbek: Kolumbiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Cô-lôm-bi-a
• Yiddish: קאָלאָמביע f (kolombye)
• Yoruba: Kòlóńbíà, Kòlóḿbíà

See also

countries in South America (appendix)edit

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Further reading

• Colombia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Proper noun

Colombia f

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Danish

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• colombianer
• colombiansk

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Colombië (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Colombia. Named after Christopher Columbus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈlɔm.bi.aː/

• Audio (Netherlands):

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• Hyphenation: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun

Colombia n

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Colombiaan

Related terms

• Colombiaans

Galician

Alternative forms

• Colômbia (reintegrationist)

Proper noun

Colombia ?

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• colombiano

Interlingua

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Colombia f

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• colombiano

Anagrams

• coliambo

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• colombianer
• colombiansk
• kolombianer
• kolombiansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Colombia

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• colombian
• colombianar
• colombiansk
• kolombian
• kolombianar
• kolombiansk

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlombja/ [koˈlõm.bja]

• Audio (Colombia); “República de Colombia”:

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• Audio (Peru); “Colombia; capital: Bogotá”:

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• Rhymes: -ombja
• Syllabification: Co‧lom‧bia

Proper noun

Colombia f

1. Colombia (a country in South America)
   • 2025 May 30, Maxime Tamsett, “Arrestan a más de 100 personas en “operación de control” migratorio en un sitio de construcción en Florida, según HSI”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Los detenidos eran “de México, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia y Honduras”, de acuerdo con la publicación de HSI Tampa.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• colombianidad
• colombianismo
• colombianista
• colombiano
• Gran Colombia

Descendants

→ Japanese: コロンビア (Koronbia)

See also

countries in South America: países de Suramérica (appendix)edit

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brasil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Perú
• Surinam
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Colombia n (genitive Colombias)

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• colombian
• colombiansk
• colombianska

See also

countries in South America: Sydamerikas länder (appendix)edit

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brasilien
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Surinam
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

References

• Colombia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈlɔmbja/
• Rhymes: -ɔmbja

Proper noun

Colombia f

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Coordinate terms

countries in South America: gwledydd De America (appendix)edit

• Bolifia
• Brasil
• Colombia
• Ecwador
• Feneswela
• Gaiana
• Paragwâi
• Periw
• Swrinam
• Tsile
• Wrwgwái
• yr Ariannin

Derived terms

• Gweriniaeth Colombia (“Republic of Colombia”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Colombia

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Colombia	Golombia	Ngholombia	Cholombia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.