Lesotho

See also: Lesothó

English

Etymology

After the Sotho people.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈsuːtuː/

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Proper noun

Lesotho

2. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Kingdom of Lesotho.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Lesotho (af)
• Albanian: Lesoto (sq)
• Amharic: ሌሶቶ (lesoto)
• Arabic: لِيسُوتُو‎ m (lisūtū)
• Armenian: Լեսոթո (hy) (Lesotʿo)
• Azerbaijani: Lesoto (az)
• Belarusian: Лесо́та f or n (Ljesóta)
• Bengali: লেসোথো (bn) (leśotho)
• Breton: Lesotho
• Bulgarian: Лесо́то m (Lesóto)
• Burmese: လီဆိုသို (lihcuisui)
• Catalan: Lesotho (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萊索托 (zh), 莱索托 (zh) (Láisuǒtuō)

• Czech: Lesotho (cs) n
• Danish: Lesotho
• Dhivehi: ލެސޯތޯ‎ (dv) (lesōtō)
• Dutch: Lesotho (nl)
• Esperanto: Lesoto (eo)
• Estonian: Lesotho (et)
• Faroese: Lesoto n
• Finnish: Lesotho (fi)
• French: Lesotho (fr) m
• Georgian: ლესოთო (lesoto)
• German: Lesotho (de)
• Greek: Λεσότο n (Lesóto)
• Hausa: Lesoto, Lesotho
• Hebrew: לסוטו‎ (lesoto)
• Hindi: लेसोथो (hi) (lesotho)
• Hungarian: Lesotho (hu)
• Icelandic: Lesótó (is)
• Interlingua: Lesotho
• Irish: Leosóta m
• Italian: Lesotho (it) m
• Japanese: レソト (ja) (Resoto)
• Kalenjin: Lesotho
• Kamba: Lesotho
• Kazakh: Лесото (Lesoto)
• Khmer: ឡេសូតូ (km) (leesoutou)
• Kikuyu: Lesotho

• Korean: 레소토 (ko) (Resoto)
• Kyrgyz: Лесото (Lesoto)
• Latvian: Lesoto f
• Lithuanian: Lesotas (lt) m
• Luhya: Lesotho
• Luo: Lesotho
• Macedonian: Лесо́то n (Lesóto)
• Malay: Lesotho
• Maori: Teroto (mi)
• Meru: Lesotho
• Mongolian: Лесото (mn) (Lesoto)
• Navajo: Sotho Dineʼé bikéyah
• Norman: Lesotho m
• Norwegian: Lesotho (no)
• Persian: لسوتو‎ (lesoto)
• Polish: Lesotho (pl) n, Lesoto (pl) n
• Portuguese: Lesoto (pt) m
• Romanian: Lesotho (ro) n
• Russian: Лесо́то (ru) f or n (Lesóto)
• Samogitian: Lesuots
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лесо̏то m

  Roman: Lesȍto (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ලෙසෝතෝ (lesōtō)
• Sotho: Lesotho (st)
• Spanish: Lesoto (es)
• Swahili: Lesotho (sw)
• Swedish: Lesotho (sv)
• Tagalog: Lesoto, Lesotho (tl)
• Tajik: Лесото (Lesoto)
• Thai: เลโซโท (th) (lee-soo-too)
• Turkish: Lesotho (tr)
• Turkmen: Lesoto
• Ukrainian: Лесо́то (uk) f or n (Lesóto)
• Uzbek: Lesoto (uz)
• Vietnamese: Lê-xô-thô
• Volapük: Lesotän
• Yoruba: Lesoto
• Zulu: OSotho

See also

• Basutoland
• Maseru
• 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]}

Anagrams

• looseth

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈsutu/

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Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho (a country in Africa)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ləˈzɔt.o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ləˈzɔt.u/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /leˈzɔt.o/

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Proper noun

Lesotho m

1. Lesotho (a country in Africa)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho (a country in Africa)

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Czech

Proper noun

Lesotho n

1. Lesotho

Related terms

• lesothský

Further reading

• Lesotho in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Lesotho n

1. Lesotho

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Finnish

Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho (African country)

Declension

Inflection of Lesotho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Lesotho	—
genitive		Lesothon	—
partitive		Lesothoa	—
illative		Lesothoon	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Lesotho	—
accusative	nom.	Lesotho	—
	gen.	Lesothon
genitive		Lesothon	—
partitive		Lesothoa	—
inessive		Lesothossa	—
elative		Lesothosta	—
illative		Lesothoon	—
adessive		Lesotholla	—
ablative		Lesotholta	—
allative		Lesotholle	—
essive		Lesothona	—
translative		Lesothoksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Lesothotta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Lesotho (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Lesothoni	Lesothomme
2nd person	Lesothosi	Lesothonne
3rd person	Lesothonsa

Derived terms

• lesotholainen

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Lesotho n (proper noun, genitive Lesothos or (optionally with an article) Lesotho)

1. Lesotho (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• Lesother
• lesothisch

See also

• Basutoland

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛsotoː]
• Hyphenation: Le‧so‧tho
• Rhymes: -toː

Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Lesotho	—
accusative	Lesothót	—
dative	Lesothónak	—
instrumental	Lesothóval	—
causal-final	Lesothóért	—
translative	Lesothóvá	—
terminative	Lesothóig	—
essive-formal	Lesothoként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Lesothóban	—
superessive	Lesothón	—
adessive	Lesothónál	—
illative	Lesothóba	—
sublative	Lesothóra	—
allative	Lesothóhoz	—
elative	Lesothóból	—
delative	Lesothóról	—
ablative	Lesothótól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Lesothóé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Lesothóéi	—

Possessive forms of Lesotho
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Lesothóm	—
2nd person sing.	Lesothód	—
3rd person sing.	Lesothója	—
1st person plural	Lesothónk	—
2nd person plural	Lesothótok	—
3rd person plural	Lesothójuk	—

Derived terms

• lesothói

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Italian

Proper noun

Lesotho m

1. Lesotho

Derived terms

• lesothiano

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Latin

Proper noun

Lesothō

1. dative/ablative of Lesothum

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Norwegian Bokmål

Lesotho

Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho

Related terms

• lesothoer
• lesothisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho

Related terms

• lesothoar
• lesothisk

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Lesoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛˈsɔ.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
• Syllabification: Le‧so‧tho

Proper noun

Lesotho n (indeclinable)

1. Lesotho

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Lesotho m

1. Alternative spelling of Lesoto

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Lesotho

1. Lesotho (a country in Southern Africa)

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

Lesotho n (genitive Lesothos)

1. Lesotho