Pretoria

See also: pretoria, Prétoria, Pretória, pretorią, and Pretorią

English

Etymology

Named after Andries Pretorius (1798–1853).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɔːɹi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Pretoria

1. The administrative capital of South Africa.

   Coordinate terms: Bloemfontein, Cape Town

   • 2025 January 25, Hanna Ziady, “‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Following the health department’s findings, the company temporarily closed the factory, located in the city of Polokwane north of Johannesburg, as well as two other sites in Germiston and Pretoria. It also recalled its ready-to-eat meat products, pledging to address any “valid claims which may be made against it in due course.”

2. (metonymic) the South African government

Derived terms

• Pretorian

Translations

administrative capital of South Africa

• Afrikaans: Pretoria (af)
• Albanian: Pretoria
• Amharic: ፕሪቶሪያ (pəritoriya)
• Arabic: بْرِيتُورِيَا f (britūriyā)
• Armenian: Պրետորիա (Pretoria)
• Azerbaijani: Pretoriya
• Belarusian: Прэто́рыя f (Pretóryja)
• Bengali: প্রিটোরিয়া (priṭōriẏa)
• Bulgarian: Прето́рия f (Pretórija)
• Burmese: ပရီတိုရီးယားမြို့ (pa.rituiri:ya:mrui.)
• Catalan: Pretòria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比勒陀利亞 / 比勒陀利亚 (zh) (Bǐlēituólìyà)

• Czech: Pretorie f
• Danish: Pretoria n
• Dutch: Pretoria (nl) n
• Estonian: Pretoria
• French: Prétoria (fr) f, Pretoria (fr) f
• Georgian: პრეტორია (ṗreṭoria)
• German: Pretoria (de) n
• Greek: Πραιτώρια (Praitória)
• Hebrew: פְּרֶטוֹרְיָה f (pretóriya)
• Hindi: प्रिटोरिया m (priṭoriyā)
• Hungarian: Pretoria (hu)
• Icelandic: Pretoría
• Indonesian: Pretoria
• Irish: Preatóiria
• Italian: Pretoria (it) f
• Japanese: プレトリア (ja) (Puretoria)
• Kazakh: Претория (Pretoriä)
• Khmer: ប្រេតូរីយ៉ា (km) (preetouriiyaa)
• Korean: 프리토리아 (Peuritoria)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Pretoria

• Kyrgyz: Претория (Pretoriya)
• Latvian: Pretorija f
• Lithuanian: Pretorija f
• Macedonian: Преторија f (Pretorija)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Претория (Pretorija)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Pretoria

• Occitan: Pretòria f
• Pashto: پريتوريا f (pretoryā)
• Persian: پرتوریا (pretoriyâ)
• Polish: Pretoria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Pretória (pt) f
• Romanian: Pretoria (ro)
• Russian: Прето́рия (ru) f (Pretórija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Прѐто̄рија f

  Roman: Pretoria f, Prètōrija (sh) f

• Slovak: Pretória f
• Slovene: Pretorija f
• Southern Ndebele: iPitori
• Spanish: Pretoria (es)
• Swahili: Pretoria
• Swedish: Pretoria (sv) n
• Tajik: Претория (Pretoriya)
• Tatar: Претория (Pretoriyä)
• Telugu: ప్రిటోరియా (priṭōriyā)
• Thai: พริทอเรีย (prí-tɔɔ-riia)
• Turkish: Pretoria (tr)
• Turkmen: Pretoriýa
• Ukrainian: Прето́рія f (Pretórija)
• Urdu: پریٹوریا m (priṭoriyā)
• Uzbek: Pretoriya
• Vietnamese: Prê-tô-ri-a, Pri-tơ-ri-a
• West Frisian: Pretoria n
• Xhosa: iPitoli
• Yiddish: פּרעטאָריע n (pretorye)
• Zulu: iPitoli, ePitoli

Anagrams

• priorate

Afrikaans

Etymology

Named after Andries Pretorius (1798–1853).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈtʊəria/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Pretoria

1. Pretoria (the administrative capital of South Africa)

Polish

Pretoria

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans Pretoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɛˈtɔ.rja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: Pre‧to‧ria
• Homophone: pretoria

Proper noun

Pretoria f (related adjective pretoryjski)

1. Pretoria (a city, the administrative capital of South Africa)

Declension

Declension of Pretoria

	singular
nominative	Pretoria
genitive	Pretorii
dative	Pretorii
accusative	Pretorię
instrumental	Pretorią
locative	Pretorii
vocative	Pretorio

Derived terms

nouns

• pretoryjczyk
• pretoryjka

Further reading

• Pretoria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Pretoria in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈtoɾja/ [pɾeˈt̪o.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: Pre‧to‧ria

Proper noun

Pretoria ?

1. Pretoria (the administrative capital of South Africa)