Gabon

See also: gabon and Gabón

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbɒn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Proper noun

Gabon

1. 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 (Gabon)
• Azeri: Qabon (az)
• Belarusian: Габо́н m (Habón)
• Bengali: গাবন (gabôn)
• Breton: Gabon
• Bulgarian: Габо́н m (Gabón)
• Burmese: ဂါဘွန် (gabhwan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加蓬 (zh) (Jiāpéng)

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

• Korean: 가봉 (ko) (Gabong)
• Kyrgyz: Габон (ky) (Gabon)
• 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-bɔɔng)
• Turkish: Gabon (tr)
• Turkmen: Gabon
• Ukrainian: Габо́н (uk) m (Habón)
• Uzbek: Gabon (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ga-bông

Coordinate terms

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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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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		—	—

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Gabon m

1. Gabon

Derived terms

• Gabonais
• gabonais

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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	—

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	—

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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): /ˈɡabɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

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

• Gabończyk m, Gabonka f
• adjective: gaboński

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Romanian

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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Swahili

Alternative forms

• Gaboni

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

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Swedish

Proper noun

Gabon n

1. Gabon

Derived terms

• gabones
• gabonsk

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Gabón (“Gabon”).

Proper noun

Gabón

1. Gabon

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Turkish

Proper noun

Gabon

1. Gabon

Derived terms

• Gabonlu