Kabul

See also: kabul and Kábul

English

Kabul skyline in 2020

Former flag of Kabul, pre-2021

Map of Kabul Province

Alternative forms

• Cabool, Cabul, Caubool, Caubul (all obsolete)
• Kabol (from Iranian Persian)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), of unknown origin. See the Persian entry for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːbəl/, enPR: käʹbəl

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːˌbʊl/, enPR: käʹbo͝ol
• IPA^(key): /kəˈbuːl/, enPR: kə-bo͞olʹ
• Rhymes: -ɑːbəl, -uːl

Proper noun

Kabul

2. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
4. A province of Afghanistan.
6. A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.

Derived terms

• (rare) Kabulese
• Kabuli

Translations

capital and largest city of Afghanistan

• Afrikaans: Kaboel
• Albanian: Kabuli m, Kabul m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ካቡል (kabul)
• Arabic: كَابُل f (kābul)
• Armenian: Քաբուլ (Kʻabul)
• Assamese: কাবুল (kabul)
• Asturian: Kabul (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kabil
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} Kabul (eu)
• Belarusian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Bengali: কাবুল (bn) (kabul)
• Bulgarian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Burmese: ကဘူးလ် (ka.bhul:)
• Cherokee: ᎧᏊᎵ (kaquuli)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 喀布爾 / 喀布尔 (haak³ bou³ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 喀布爾 / 喀布尔 (zh) (Kābù'ěr); 哈布爾 / 哈布尔 (Hābù'ěr) (historically)

• Czech: Kábul (cs) m
• Danish: Kabul n
• Dutch: Kaboel (nl) n, Kabul (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kabulo (eo)
• Estonian: Kabul (et)
• Finnish: Kabul (fi)
• French: Kaboul (fr) m
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Cabul (gl), ^{(please verify)} Kabul (gl), ^{(please verify)} Kābul
• Georgian: ქაბული (ka) (kabuli)
• German: Kabul (de) n
• Greek: Καμπούλ (el) (Kampoúl)
• Gujarati: કાબુલ (kābul)
• Hebrew: קאבול \ קָבּוּל f (kabul)
• Hindi: काबुल m (kābul), काबूल (hi) m (kābūl)
• Hungarian: Kabul (hu)
• Icelandic: Kabúl
• Indonesian: Kabul
• Irish: Cabúl m
• Italian: Kabul (it)
• Japanese: カブール (ja) (Kabūru)
• Kannada: ಕಾಬುಲ್ (kābul)
• Kazakh: Кабул (Kabul)
• Khmer: កាប៊ុល (km) (kaabul)
• Korean: 카불 (ko) (Kabul)
• Kumyk: Къабул (Qabul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kabûl (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Кабул (Kabul)
• Lao: ກາບູນ (kā būn)
• Latin: Cabura f, Cabulum n
• Latvian: Kabula f
• Limburgish: ^{(please verify)} Kaboel (li)
• Lithuanian: Kabulas m
• Macedonian: Кабул m (Kabul)
• Malay: Kabul
• Malayalam: കാബൂൾ (kābūḷ)
• Maltese: Kabul
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᠪᡠᠯ (habul)
• Marathi: काबुल (kābul)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Кабул (Kabul)

  Mongolian script: ᠻᠠᠪᠦ᠋᠋ᠯ (kabül)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kabul (no)

• Odia: କାବୁଲ (kābula)
• Pashto: کابل (ps) m (kābǝl)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: کَابُل (kābul)

  Dari: کَابُل (kābul)

  Iranian Persian: کابُل (kâbol)

  Middle Persian: kʾpwl (/⁠kābul⁠/)

• Polish: Kabul (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cabul (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਾਬੁਲ (pa) (kābul)
• Romanian: Kabul (ro)
• Russian: Кабу́л (ru) m (Kabúl)
• Sanskrit: कुभा (sa) (kubhā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ка̀бул m

  Latin: Kàbul (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කාබුල් (kābul)
• Slovak: Kábul (sk) m
• Slovene: Kabul m
• Spanish: Kabul (es) m
• Swedish: Kabul (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠛꠥꠟ (xabul)
• Tajik: Кобул (tg) (Kobul)
• Tamil: காபூல் (ta) (kāpūl), காபுல் (kāpul)
• Tatar: Кабул (Qabul)
• Telugu: కాబూల్ (kābūl), కాబూలు (kābūlu)
• Thai: คาบูล (kaa-buul)
• Tibetan: ཁ་པུལ (kha pul)
• Turkish: Kâbil (tr)
• Turkmen: Kabul
• Ukrainian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Urdu: کابُل m (kābul)
• Uyghur: كابۇل (kabul)
• Uzbek: Kabul
• Vietnamese: Ka-bun
• Yiddish: קאַבול n (kabul)

See also

provinces of Afghanistanedit

• Badakhshan
• Badghis
• Baghlan
• Balkh
• Bamyan
• Daykundi
• Farah
• Faryab
• Ghazni
• Ghor
• Helmand
• Herat
• Jowzjan
• Kabul
• Kandahar
• Kapisa
• Khost
• Kunar
• Kunduz
• Laghman
• Logar
• Nangarhar
• Nimruz
• Nuristan
• Paktia
• Paktika
• Panjshir
• Parwan
• Samangan
• Sar-e Pol
• Takhar
• Uruzgan
• Wardak
• Zabul

Anagrams

• baulk, bulak

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβul]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈbul]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈbul]

Proper noun

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Derived terms

• kabulí

Estonian

Proper noun

Kabul

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːbʊl/, /ˈkaːˌbuːl/, /kaˈbuːl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Kabul n (proper noun, genitive Kabuls or (optionally with an article) Kabul)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کابل (kābul).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bul/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -abul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Proper noun

Kabul m inan

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Declension

Declension of Kabul

	singular
nominative	Kabul
genitive	Kabulu
dative	Kabulowi
accusative	Kabul
instrumental	Kabulem
locative	Kabulu
vocative	Kabulu

Derived terms

adjective

• kabulski

nouns

• kabulczyk
• kabulka

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Kabul m inan (Cyrillic spelling Кабул)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), in turn borrowed from Sanskrit कुभा (kubhā, “Kabul River”), Ancient Greek Κάβουρα (Káboura, “a settlement in Afghanistan crossed by Alexander the Great”) and Avestan 𐬐𐬎𐬡𐬀 (kuβa). Pronunciation changed to "Kabul" around the 11th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbul/ [kaˈβ̞ul]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Proper noun

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

   Holonym: Afganistán

Derived terms

• kabulí

Swedish

Proper noun

Kabul n (genitive Kabuls)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)