Tanganyika

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæŋɡənˈjiːkə/, /tæŋɡəˈniːkə/

Proper noun

Tanganyika

1. A large lake in Central Africa, between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
2. A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.

Derived terms

• Tanganyikan

Translations

lake

• Arabic: بحيرَة تنجانيقا
• Aragonese: Laco Tanganica
• Azerbaijani: Tanqanika Gölü
• Basque: Tanganyika lakua
• Bulgarian: Танганика (Tanganika)
• Catalan: Llac Tanganyika
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坦干依喀湖 (Tǎngānyīkā Hú)

• Czech: Tanganika
• Danish: Tanganyikasøen
• Dutch: Tanganyikameer n
• Esperanto: Tanganjiko
• Estonian: Tanganjika järv
• Finnish: Tanganjikajärvi
• French: Lac Tanganyika m
• Galician: Lago Tanganica
• Georgian: ტანგანიიკა (ṭanganiiḳa)
• German: Tanganjikasee
• Greek: Modern: Τανγκανίκα (Tangkaníka)
• Hebrew: אגם טנגנייקה
• Hungarian: Tanganyika-tó
• Icelandic: Tanganjikavatn
• Indonesian: Danau Tanganyika
• Irish: Loch Tanganyika
• Italian: Lago Tanganica
• Japanese: タンガニーカ湖
• Javanese: Tlaga Tanganyika
• Korean: 탕가니카 호 (tangganika ho)
• Latvian: Tanganjikas ezers
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• Lingala: Tanganyika
• Lithuanian: Tanganika
• Macedonian: Тангањика (Tanganjika)
• Malay: Tasik Tanganyika
• Norwegian: Tanganyikasjøen

  Norwegian Nynorsk: Tanganyikasjøen

• Persian: دریاچه تانگانیکا
• Polish: Tanganika (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lago Tanganica
• Quechua: Tanganika qucha
• Romanian: Lacul Tanganyika
• Russian: Танганьи́ка f (Tanganʹíka)
• Samogitian: Tanganėka
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Језеро Тангањика, Тангањика

  Roman: Jezero Tanganjika, Tanganjika (sh)

• Sicilian: Lacu Tanganyika
• Slovak: Tanganika
• Slovene: Tanganjiško jezero
• Spanish: Lago Tanganica
• Swahili: Tanganyika
• Swedish: Tanganyikasjön
• Tamil: டாங்கனிக்கா ஏரி (ṭāṅkaṉikkā ēri)
• Thai: ทะเลสาบแทนแกนยิกา
• Turkish: Tanganika Gölü
• Ukrainian: Танганьїка (Tanhanʹjika)
• Venetian: Lago Tanganica
• Welsh: Llyn Tanganyika
• Yakut: Танганьика күөл (Tanganyika küöl)

territory, former country

• Afrikaans: Tanganjika
• Albanian: Tanganjika
• Arabic: تَنْجَانِيقَا f (tanganīqā)
• Basque: Tanganika
• Bulgarian: Танганика f (Tanganika)
• Catalan: Tanganyika f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坦噶尼喀 (zh) (Tǎngāníkā)

• Czech: Tanganika f
• Danish: Tanganyika
• Dutch: Tanganyika n
• Esperanto: Tanganjikio
• Finnish: Tanganjika
• French: Tanganyika (fr) m
• German: Tanganjika n
• Hebrew: טנגנייקה f (tanganyika)
• Hungarian: Tanganyika
• Icelandic: Tanganjika
• Indonesian: Tanganyika
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• Italian: Tanganika f
• Japanese: タンガニーカ (tanganīka)
• Korean: 탕가니카 (tangganika)
• Lithuanian: Tanganika
• Marathi: टांगानिका (ṭāṅgānikā)
• Norwegian: Tanganyika (no)
• Polish: Tanganika (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tanganica f
• Russian: Танганьи́ка f (Tanganʹíka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тангањика f

  Roman: Tanganjika (sh) f

• Slovene: Tanganjika f
• Spanish: Tanganica f
• Swahili: Tanganyika
• Swedish: Tanganyika
• Tamil: தங்கனீக்கா (taṅkaṉīkkā)
• Ukrainian: Танганьїка f (Tanhanʹjika)
• Walloon: Tanganyika f

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Swahili

Proper noun

Tanganyika

1. Tanganyika (lake)
2. (historical) Tanganyika (colonial possession and later country)