Rwanda

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Rwanda-Rundi rwanda (“domain”, literally “area occupied by a swarm”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈændə/, /ɹəˈwændə/, /ɹəˈwɒndə/
• IPA^(key): /ɹuˈɑndə/, /ɹəˈwɑndə/

Proper noun

Rwanda

2. A country in East Africa.
4. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.

   Synonym: Kinyarwanda

5. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Rwandan

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Rwanda
• Amharic: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda)
• Arabic: رُوَانْدَا f (ruwāndā)
• Armenian: Ռուանդա (Ṙuanda)
• Belarusian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda)
• Bengali: রুয়ান্ডা (ruẏanḍa)
• Breton: Rwanda
• Bulgarian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda)
• Burmese: ရဝမ်ဒါ (ra.wamda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧旺達／卢旺达 (zh) (Lúwàngdá), 卢旺达 (zh) (Lúwàngdá); (Taiwan) 盧安達／卢安达 (Lú'āndá), 卢安达 (Lú'āndá)

• Czech: Rwanda (cs) f
• Danish: Rwanda (da)
• Dinka: Ruanda
• Dutch: Rwanda (nl)
• Esperanto: Ruando (eo)
• Finnish: Ruanda (fi)
• French: Ruanda (fr) m, Rwanda (fr) m
• Georgian: რუანდა (ruanda)
• German: Ruanda (de) n
• Greek: Ρουάντα (el) f (Rouánta)
• Hausa: Ruwanda
• Hebrew: רואנדה (ruanda)
• Hindi: रवांडा (ravāṇḍā)
• Hungarian: Ruanda (hu)
• Interlingua: Rwanda
• Italian: Ruanda (it)
• Japanese: ルワンダ (ja) (Ruwanda)
• Kalenjin: Rwanda
• Kamba: Rwanda, Rwanda
• Kazakh: Руанда (Ruanda)
• Khmer: រវ៉ាន់ដា (km) (rɔvandaa)
• Kikuyu: Rwanda
• Korean: 르완다 (Reuwanda)
• Kyrgyz: Руанда (Ruanda)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Luhya: Rwanda
• Luo: Rwanda
• Macedonian: Руа́нда (mk) f (Ruánda)
• Maltese: ir-Ruanda
• Maori: Rāwana
• Meru: Rwanda
• Mongolian: Руанда (mn) (Ruanda)
• Nama: Roandab m
• Navajo: Wánda Dineʼé bikéyah
• Norman: Rwanda m
• Norwegian: Rwanda (no)
• Occitan: Rwanda (oc) m
• Persian: رواندا (ruândâ)
• Polish: Rwanda (pl)
• Portuguese: Ruanda (pt)
• Romanian: Ruanda f, Rwanda (ro) f
• Russian: Руа́нда (ru) f (Ruánda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Руанда f

  Roman: Ruanda (sh) f

• Sinhalese: රුවන්ඩාව (ruwanḍāwa)
• Slovak: Rwanda f
• Slovene: Ruanda (sl) f
• Spanish: Ruanda (es) f
• Swahili: Rwanda (sw)
• Swedish: Rwanda (sv)
• Tagalog: Ruwanda
• Tajik: Руанда (Ruanda)
• Thai: รวันดา (th) (rá-wan-dâa)
• Tigrinya: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda)
• Turkish: Ruanda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Руа́нда (uk) f (Ruánda)
• Urdu: روانڈا (rvānḍā)
• Vietnamese: Ru-an-đa
• Yoruba: Ruwanda

language — see Kinyarwanda

See also

• 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 in Africa) [edit]}

Further reading

• Rwanda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Rwanda, kin ⁠

Anagrams

• Radwan, adrawn

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda

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Czech

Proper noun

Rwanda f

1. Rwanda

Related terms

• rwandský
• Rwanďan

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Rwanda n

1. Rwanda

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French

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁwɑ̃.da/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Rwanda m

1. Rwanda

Derived terms

• rwandais
• Rwandais

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda

Related terms

• rwander
• rwandisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda

Related terms

• rwandar
• rwandisk

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ruˈan.da//, //ˈrvan.da//

Proper noun

Rwanda f

1. Rwanda (country)

Declension

Declension of Rwanda

	singular
nominative	Rwanda
genitive	Rwandy
dative	Rwandzie
accusative	Rwandę
instrumental	Rwandą
locative	Rwandzie
vocative	Rwando

Derived terms

• (nouns) Rwandyjczyk m, Rwandyjka f
• (adjective) rwandyjski

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Swahili

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²rvanda/

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda