Mogadishu

English

Etymology

Uncertain; may be a compound term of Somali words "muuq" (appearance) + "disho", present subjunctive form of dil (beat / kill). Another proposal is that its borrowed from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو (maqadīšū), from Classical Persian مَقْعَد (maq'ad, “seat”) + شَاه (šāh, “shah, king”), literally “seat of the shah”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒ.ɡəˈdiː.ʃuː/, /-ˈdɪ-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊ.ɡəˈdi.ʃu/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Mogadishu

2. The capital city of Somalia.

   Synonym: (Somalia) Xamar

   Coordinate terms: Bosaso, Berbera; see others

   • 2007 April 22, en, “Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2021:

     Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed at least 230 people.

3. (metonymic) The government of Somalia.

Derived terms

• Mogadishan
• Mogadishu line

Translations

capital city of Somalia

• Afrikaans: Mogadisjoe
• Amharic: ሞቃዲሾ (moḳadišo)
• Arabic: مَقَدِيشُو (ar) f (maqadīšū), مَقْدِيشُو (ar) f (maqdīšū)

  Hijazi Arabic: مُقْديشو f (mugdīšu), مَقْدِيشو f (magdīšū)

• Armenian: Մոգադիշո (Mogadišo)
• Asturian: Mogadixu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Moqadişo (az)
• Belarusian: Магады́ша m (Mahadýša)
• Bengali: মকদীশু (mokdiśu)
• Bulgarian: Могади́шу n (Mogadíšu)
• Burmese: မိုဂါဒစ်ရှူးမြို့ (muigadachru:mrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩加迪休 (zh) (Mójiādíxiū) (Taiwan), 摩加迪沙 (zh) (Mójiādíshā) (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore)

• Czech: Mogadišo (cs) n
• Danish: Mogadishu n
• Dutch: Mogadishu n
• Esperanto: Mogadiŝo (eo)
• Estonian: Muqdisho
• Faroese: Mogadishu
• Finnish: Mogadishu (fi)
• French: Mogadiscio (fr) m
• Galician: Mogadixo (gl)
• Georgian: მოგადიშო (mogadišo)
• German: Mogadischu (de) n
• Greek: Μογκαντίσου (el) (Mogkantísou)
• Hebrew: מוֹגָדִישׁוֹ f (mugadishu)
• Hindi: मोगादीशू m (mogādīśū)
• Hungarian: Mogadishu (hu)
• Icelandic: Mógadisjú
• Indonesian: Mogadishu
• Irish: Mogaidisiú m
• Italian: Mogadiscio (it) m
• Japanese: モガディシュ (ja) (Mogadishu)
• Kazakh: Могадишо (Mogadıyšo)
• Khmer: ម៉ូហ្កាឌីស្យូ (km) (mougiədiisyou)
• Korean: 모가디슈 (Mogadisyu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Mogadishu

• Kyrgyz: Могадишо (Mogadişo)
• Lao: ໂມກາດິຊູ (mō kā di sū)
• Latin: Mogadīscium
• Latvian: Mogadīšo
• Lithuanian: Mogadišas m
• Macedonian: Могадишу m (Mogadišu)
• Malay: Mogadishu
• Marathi: मोगादिशू (mogādiśū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Могадишу (Mogadišu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mogadishu

  Nynorsk: Mogadishu

• Pashto: موګادیشو (mōgādīšō)
• Persian: موگادیشو (mogâdišu)
• Polish: Mogadiszu (pl) n
• Portuguese: Mogadixo (pt) f, Mogadíscio (pt) f
• Romanian: Mogadishu (ro)
• Russian: Могади́шу (ru) m (Mogadíšu), Могади́шо (ru) m (Mogadíšo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Могадишу m

  Latin: Mogadishu (sh) m, Mogadišu m

• Sinhalese: මොගඩිෂු (mogaḍiṣu)
• Slovak: Mogadišo n
• Slovene: Mogadiš m
• Somali: Muqdisho (so)
• Spanish: Mogadiscio (es) m
• Swedish: Mogadishu (sv) n
• Tagalog: Mogadishu
• Tajik: Могадишо (Mogadišo)
• Tamil: முக்தீசூ (muktīcū)
• Tatar: Могадишо (Moğädişo)
• Thai: โมกาดิชู (moo-gaa-dì-chuu)
• Tibetan: མོ་ག་དི་ཤུ (mo ga di shu)
• Tigrinya: ሞቓድሾ (mox̣adšo)
• Turkish: Mogadişu
• Turkmen: Mogadişu
• Ukrainian: Могаді́шо m (Mohadíšo), Моґаді́шо m (Mogadíšo)
• Urdu: موغادیشو m (moġādīśū)
• Uyghur: موقدىشۇ (moqdishu), مۇقدىشو (muqdisho)
• Uzbek: Mogadisho
• Vietnamese: Mô-ga-đi-su
• Yiddish: מאָגאַדישו n (mogadishu)

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو (maqadīšū) or Somali Muqdisho.

Proper noun

Mogadishu

1. Mogadishu (the capital city of Somalia)

Japanese

Romanization

Mogadishu

1. Rōmaji transcription of モガディシュ

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmo.ɡaˈd͡ʒi.ʃu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.ɡɐˈdi.ʃu/ [ˌmɔ.ɣɐˈði.ʃu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.ɡɐˈdi.ʃu/ [ˌmɔ.ɣɐˈði.ʃu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.ɡɐˈdi.ʃu/

Proper noun

Mogadishu f

1. alternative spelling of Mogadixo