Mozambique

See also: mozambique

English

Map of Mozambique.

Alternative forms

• Mosambique, Mocambique

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊ.zæmˈbiːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Mozambique

2. A country in East Africa and Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique (since 1990). Capital: Maputo.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Moz.

4. (historical, from 1975) The former communist country of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
   1. (historical, from the 16th century) A former colony of Portugal.
5. An island or its town in the province of Nampula, Mozambique, from which its name was transferred to the country.
6. A broad strait, the modern Mozambique Channel, which separates the island of Madagascar from the African mainland of Mozambique.
   • 1857 May, “Extracts from the Journal of Captain M. S. Nolloth, H.M.S. 'Frolic'”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1857, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 252:

     During our cruise in the Mozambique we had generally light winds, almost invariably from E.S.E., or calms, and smooth water, nearly the whole time.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Mozambiquan, Mozambiquean (adjective/noun)
• mozambique (noun)

Related terms

• Mozambican (adjective/noun)

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Mosambiek (af)
• Amharic: ሞዛምቢክ (mozambik)
• Arabic: مُوزَمْبِيق m (mōzambīq, mūzambīq), مُوزَامْبِيق m (mōzambīq, mūzambīq)
• Armenian: Մոզամբիկ (Mozambik)
• Azerbaijani: Mozambik (az)
• Belarusian: Мазамбі́к m (Mazambík)
• Bengali: মোজাম্বিক (bn) (mōjambik)
• Breton: Mozambik
• Bulgarian: Мозамби́к m (Mozambík)
• Burmese: မိုဇမ်ဘစ် (muijambhac)
• Catalan: Moçambic (ca)
• Chichewa: Mozambique, Mozambiki
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莫桑比克 (zh) (Mòsāngbǐkè), 莫三比克 (zh) (Mòsānbǐkè)

• Czech: Mozambik (cs) m, Mosambik (cs) m
• Danish: Mozambique
• Dhivehi: މުސިންބީ (musin̊bī)
• Dutch: Mozambique (nl) n
• Esperanto: Mozambiko (eo)
• Estonian: Mosambiik (et)
• Faroese: Mosambik n
• Finnish: Mosambik (fi)
• French: Mozambique (fr) m
• Georgian: მოზამბიკი (ka) (mozambiḳi)
• German: Mosambik (de) n
• Greek: Μοζαμβίκη (el) f (Mozamvíki)
• Hebrew: מוזמביק
• Hindi: मोज़ाम्बिक (mozāmbik)
• Hungarian: Mozambik (hu)
• Interlingua: Mozambique
• Irish: Mósaimbíc
• Italian: Mozambico (it) m
• Japanese: モザンビーク (ja) (Mozanbīku)
• Kamba: Msumbiji
• Kazakh: Мозамбик (kk) (Mozambik)
• Khmer: ម៉ូសំប៊ិក (km) (mousɑmbɨk)
• Kikuyu: Msumbiji
• Korean: 모잠비크 (ko) (Mojambikeu), 모잠비끄 (ko) (Mojambikkeu) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Lao: ໂມຊຳບິກ (mō sam bik)
• Latin: Mozambicum
• Lithuanian: Mozambikas (lt) m
• Luhya: Msumbiji
• Luo: Msumbiji
• Macedonian: Мозамбик (mk) m (Mozambik)
• Malagasy: Mozambika (mg)
• Maltese: il-Możambik
• Manx: Yn Vosambeeck
• Maori: Mohapiki
• Marathi: मोजाम्बिक m (mojāmbik)
• Meru: Msumbiji
• Mongolian: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Norman: Mozambique m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mosambik (no)

  Nynorsk: Mosambik (nn)

• Persian: موزامبیک (muzâmbik)
• Polish: Mozambik (pl)
• Portuguese: Moçambique (pt)
• Romanian: Mozambic (ro) n
• Russian: Мозамби́к (ru) m (Mozambík)
• Scottish Gaelic: Mòsaimbic, Mosambìog
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мозамбик m

  Roman: Mozambik (sh) m

• Sinhalese: මොසැම්බික් (mosæmbik)
• Slovak: Mozambik (sk) m
• Slovene: Mozambik (sl) m
• Spanish: Mozambique (es)
• Swahili: Msumbiji (sw)
• Swedish: Moçambique (sv)
• Tagalog: Mosambike
• Tajik: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Thai: โมซัมบิก (th) (moo-sam-bìk)
• Tigrinya: ሞዛምቢክ (mozambik)
• Turkish: Mozambik (tr)
• Turkmen: Mozambik
• Ukrainian: Мозамбі́к (uk) m (Mozambík)
• Urdu: موزمبیق
• Uzbek: Mozambik (uz)
• Vietnamese: Mô-dăm-bích
• Welsh: Mosambic
• Yoruba: Moṣamibiku

Noun

Mozambique (plural Mozambiques)

1. A native or inhabitant of Mozambique; a Mozambican.
2. Alternative letter-case form of mozambique (“fabric”).

See also

• Countries of the world

countries in Africa (appendix)edit

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
• 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

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Chichewa

Alternative forms

• Mozambiki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.zaˈᵐbí.ki/

Proper noun

Mozambíque

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Danish

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Mozambique n

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.zɑ̃.bik/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Mozambique m

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• mozambicain
• Mozambicain

Interlingua

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /moθamˈbike/ [mo.θãmˈbi.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /mosamˈbike/ [mo.sãmˈbi.ke]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ike
• Syllabification: Mo‧zam‧bi‧que

Proper noun

Mozambique ?

1. Mozambique (a country in East Africa and Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• canal de Mozambique
• mozambiqueño