Gabon

See also: gabon, Gabón, and Gabōn

English

Etymology

From Portuguese gabão (“cloak”), referring to the Komo estuary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbɒn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Gabon

2. A country in Western Africa. Official name: Gabonese Republic

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Gabonese Republic

• Afrikaans: Gabon
• Albanian: Gabon m
• Amharic: ጋቦን (gabon)
• Arabic: اَلْغَابُون‎ m (al-ḡabūn)
• Armenian: Գաբոն (hy) (Gabon)
• Azerbaijani: Qabon (az)
• Belarusian: Габо́н m (Habón)
• Bengali: গাবন (gabôn)
• Breton: Gabon
• Bulgarian: Габо́н m (Gabón)
• Burmese: ဂါဘွန် (gabhwan)
• Catalan: Gabon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加蓬 (zh) (Jiāpéng) (Mainland China), 加彭 (zh) (Jiāpéng) (Taiwan)

• Czech: Gabon (cs) m
• Danish: Gabon
• Dutch: Gabon (nl) n
• Esperanto: Gabono (eo)
• Estonian: Gabon (et)
• Finnish: Gabon (fi)
• French: Gabon (fr)
• Galician: Gabón (gl)
• Georgian: გაბონი (ka) (gaboni)
• German: Gabun (de) n
• Greek: Γκαμπόν (el) f (Gkampón)
• Hausa: Gabon
• Hindi: गबोन (gabon)
• Hungarian: Gabon (hu)
• Icelandic: Gabon (is)
• Interlingua: Gabon
• Irish: An Ghabúin f
• Italian: Gabon (it)
• Japanese: ガボン (ja) (Gabon)
• Kalenjin: Gabon
• Kamba: Gabon
• Kazakh: Габон (Gabon)
• Khmer: ហ្គាបុង (giəbong)

• Kikuyu: Gabon
• Korean: 가봉 (ko) (Gabong)
• Kyrgyz: Габон (Ğabon)
• Latvian: Gabona f
• Lithuanian: Gabonas (lt) m
• Luhya: Gabon
• Luo: Gabon
• Macedonian: Габон (mk) m (Gabon)
• Maltese: Gabon
• Maori: Kāpona
• Meru: Gabon
• Mongolian: Габон (mn) (Gabon)
• Navajo: Gabǫ́ǫ́
• Norman: Gabon m
• Norwegian: Gabon (no)
• Persian: گابن‎ (gâbon)
• Polish: Gabon (pl)
• Portuguese: Gabão (pt)
• Romanian: Gabon (ro) n
• Russian: Габо́н (ru) m (Gabón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Габон m

  Roman: Gabon (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ගැබොන් (gæbon)
• Slovak: Gabon (sk) m
• Slovene: Gabon (sl) m
• Spanish: Gabón (es) m
• Swahili: Gaboni (sw)
• Swedish: Gabon (sv)
• Tagalog: Gabon (tl)
• Tajik: Габон (tg) (Gabon)
• Thai: กาบอง (th) (gaa-bɔng)
• Turkish: Gabon (tr)
• Turkmen: Gabon
• Ukrainian: Габо́н (uk) m (Habón)
• Uzbek: Gabon (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ga-bông
• Yoruba: Gabon

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries) [edit]}

Further reading

• Gabon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bogan, bogan, goban, obang

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Breton

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbon/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈbon/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon (a country in Africa)

Derived terms

• gabonès

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon

Related terms

• Gaboňan
• Gabonec
• gabonský

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Danish

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gabon n

1. Gabon

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Finnish

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

Declension

Inflection of Gabon (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Gabon	—
genitive		Gabonin	—
partitive		Gabonia	—
illative		Gaboniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Gabon	—
accusative	nom.	Gabon	—
	gen.	Gabonin
genitive		Gabonin	—
partitive		Gabonia	—
inessive		Gabonissa	—
elative		Gabonista	—
illative		Gaboniin	—
adessive		Gabonilla	—
ablative		Gabonilta	—
allative		Gabonille	—
essive		Gabonina	—
translative		Gaboniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Gabonitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Gabon (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Gabonini	Gabonimme
2nd person	Gabonisi	Gaboninne
3rd person	Gaboninsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.bɔ̃/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Gabonais
• gabonais

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒbon]
• Hyphenation: Ga‧bon
• Rhymes: -on

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Gabon	—
accusative	Gabont	—
dative	Gabonnak	—
instrumental	Gabonnal	—
causal-final	Gabonért	—
translative	Gabonná	—
terminative	Gabonig	—
essive-formal	Gabonként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Gabonban	—
superessive	Gabonon	—
adessive	Gabonnál	—
illative	Gabonba	—
sublative	Gabonra	—
allative	Gabonhoz	—
elative	Gabonból	—
delative	Gabonról	—
ablative	Gabontól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Gaboné	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Gabonéi	—

Possessive forms of Gabon
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Gabonom	—
2nd person sing.	Gabonod	—
3rd person sing.	Gabonja	—
1st person plural	Gabonunk	—
2nd person plural	Gabonotok	—
3rd person plural	Gabonjuk	—

Derived terms

• gaboni

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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Italian

Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon

Derived terms

• gabonese

Anagrams

• bagno, bagnò

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Japanese

Romanization

Gabon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ガボン

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

Related terms

• gaboner
• gabonsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

Related terms

• gabonar
• gabonsk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.bɔn/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -abɔn
• Syllabification: Ga‧bon

Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon

Declension

Declension of Gabon

	singular	plural
nominative	Gabon	Gabony
genitive	Gabonu	Gabonów
dative	Gabonowi	Gabonom
accusative	Gabon	Gabony
instrumental	Gabonem	Gabonami
locative	Gabonie	Gabonach
vocative	Gabonie	Gabony

Derived terms

nouns

• Gabończyk
• Gabonka

 

adjective

• gaboński

 

Further reading

• Gabon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Gabon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎboːn/
• Hyphenation: Ga‧bon

Proper noun

Gàbōn m (Cyrillic spelling Га̀бо̄н)

1. Gabon

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡabon]

Proper noun

Gabon m (genitive Gabonu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Gabon (a country in Africa)

References

• Gabon in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swahili

Alternative forms

• Gaboni

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Swedish

Proper noun

Gabon n (genitive Gabons)

1. Gabon (a country in Central Africa)

Derived terms

• gabones
• gabonesisk

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Gabón (“Gabon”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Ga‧bon
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈbon/, [ɡɐˈbon]

Proper noun

Gabón

1. Gabon (a country in Central Africa)

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Turkish

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

Derived terms

• Gabonlu