Uganda

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Uganda

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”), possibly from Proto-Bantu *ngàndá (“family”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈɡændə/

  • Audio (UK):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /(j)uˈɡɑndə/, /juˈɡændə/

  • Audio (US); /juˈɡɑndə/:

    (file)

  • Audio (US); /uˈɡɑndə/:

    (file)

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /juˈɡændə/

  • Audio (Canada):

    (file)

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /jʉːˈɡændə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /jʉˈɡandə/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /(j)ʊˈɡɑɳɖɑ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda

2. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
   • 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Ugandan
• discuss Uganda

Descendants

• → Japanese: ウガンダ (Uganda)
• → Welsh: Wganda

Translations

Republic of Uganda

• Afrikaans: Uganda
• Amharic: ዩጋንዳ (yuganda)
• Arabic: أُوغَنْدَا f (ʔuḡandā), أُوغَنْدَة f (ʔuḡanda)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܼܓܲܢܕܵܐ f (ūgandā)

• Armenian: Ուգանդա (Uganda)
• Asturian: Uganda (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Uqanda (az)
• Belarusian: Уга́нда f (Uhánda)
• Bengali: উগান্ডা (bn) (uganḍa)
• Breton: Ouganda (br)
• Bulgarian: Уга́нда f (Ugánda)
• Burmese: ယူဂန်းဒါး (yugan:da:)
• Catalan: Uganda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏干達 / 乌干达 (zh) (Wūgāndá)

• Corsican: Uganda f
• Czech: Uganda (cs) f
• Danish: Uganda
• Dhivehi: ޔުގެންޑާ (dv) (yugen̊ḍā)
• Dinka: Yuganda
• Dutch: Uganda (nl) n, Oeganda (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ugando (eo)
• Estonian: Uganda (et)
• Faroese: Uganda n
• Finnish: Uganda (fi)
• French: Ouganda (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Uganda (fy) n

• Galician: Uganda (gl)
• Georgian: უგანდა (uganda)
• German: Uganda (de)
• Greek: Ουγκάντα (el) f (Ougkánta)
• Hausa: Yuganda
• Hebrew: אוגנדה (he) n (ugáneda), אוּגַנְדָה (he)
• Hindi: युगांडा (hi) (yugāṇḍā)
• Hungarian: Uganda (hu)
• Interlingua: Uganda
• Irish: Uganda m, Poblacht Uganda f
• Italian: Uganda (it) f
• Japanese: ウガンダ (ja) (Uganda)
• Kalenjin: Uganda
• Kamba: Uganda
• Kannada: ಉಗಾಂಡ (kn) (ugāṇḍa)
• Kazakh: Уганда (kk) (Uganda)
• Khmer: អ៊ូហ្គង់ដា (ʼuugŭəngdaa)
• Kikuyu: Uganda
• Kis: Uganda
• Korean: 우간다 (ko) (Uganda)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئوگاندا (uganda)

  Northern Kurdish: Ûganda

• Kyrgyz: Уганда (ky) (Uganda)
• Lango (Uganda): yùgándà
• Lao: ອູການດາ (ʼū kān dā)
• Latvian: Uganda (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Uganda (lt) f
• Luhya: Uganda
• Luo: Uganda
• Macedonian: Уга́нда (mk) f (Ugánda)
• Malayalam: ഉഗാണ്ട (ml) (ugāṇṭa)
• Maltese: l-Uganda f
• Māori: Ukānga
• Meru: Uganda
• Mongolian: Уганда (mn) (Uganda)
• Navajo: Yogénda
• Norman: Uganda (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Uganda (no)

  Nynorsk: Uganda (nn)

• Occitan: Oganda f
• Odia: ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା (ugāṇḍā)
• Persian: اوگاندا (ugândâ)
• Polish: Uganda (pl)
• Portuguese: Uganda (pt) m
• Romanian: Uganda (ro) f
• Russian: Уга́нда (ru) f (Ugánda)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Ubuganda
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Уганда f

  Latin: Uganda (sh) f

• Spanish: Uganda (es)
• Swahili: Uganda
• Swedish: Uganda (sv)
• Tagalog: Uganda (tl)
• Tajik: Уганда (Uganda)
• Tamil: உகாண்டா (ukāṇṭā)
• Tatar: Уганда (Uğanda)
• Telugu: ఉగాండా (te) (ugāṇḍā)
• Thai: ยูกันดา (th) (yuu-gan-dâa)
• Turkish: Uganda (tr)
• Turkmen: Uganda
• Ukrainian: Уга́нда (uk) f (Uhánda), Уґа́нда f (Ugánda)
• Uyghur: ئۇگاندا (uganda)
• Uzbek: Uganda (uz)
• Vietnamese: U-gan-đa
• Yoruba: Uganda

See also

• Appendix: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

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Oeganda

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa; capital: Kampala)

Derived terms

• Ugandees

Catalan

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [uˈɣan.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [uˈɣan.da]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda ?

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandès

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɡanda]

Proper noun

Uganda f (relational adjective ugandský, demonym Uganďan)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandy
dative	Ugandě
accusative	Ugandu
vocative	Ugando
locative	Ugandě
instrumental	Ugandou

Further reading

• “Uganda”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Uganda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Uganda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• ugander
• ugandisk

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Oeganda

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda n

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• Ugandees
• Ugandese

Faroese

Etymology

From Swahili Buganda (subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda n

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Uganda
accusative	Uganda
dative	Uganda
genitive	Uganda

Finnish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɡɑndɑ/, [ˈuɡɑ̝ndɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uɡɑndɑ
• Syllabification^(key): U‧gan‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Uganda (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		Uganda	—
genitive		Ugandan	—
partitive		Ugandaa	—
illative		Ugandaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Uganda	—
accusative	nom.	Uganda	—
	gen.	Ugandan
genitive		Ugandan	—
partitive		Ugandaa	—
inessive		Ugandassa	—
elative		Ugandasta	—
illative		Ugandaan	—
adessive		Ugandalla	—
ablative		Ugandalta	—
allative		Ugandalle	—
essive		Ugandana	—
translative		Ugandaksi	—
abessive		Ugandatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Uganda (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Ugandani — accusative nom. Ugandani — gen. Ugandani genitive Ugandani — partitive Ugandaani — inessive Ugandassani — elative Ugandastani — illative Ugandaani — adessive Ugandallani — ablative Ugandaltani — allative Ugandalleni — essive Ugandanani — translative Ugandakseni — abessive Ugandattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Ugandasi — accusative nom. Ugandasi — gen. Ugandasi genitive Ugandasi — partitive Ugandaasi — inessive Ugandassasi — elative Ugandastasi — illative Ugandaasi — adessive Ugandallasi — ablative Ugandaltasi — allative Ugandallesi — essive Ugandanasi — translative Ugandaksesi — abessive Ugandattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Ugandamme — accusative nom. Ugandamme — gen. Ugandamme genitive Ugandamme — partitive Ugandaamme — inessive Ugandassamme — elative Ugandastamme — illative Ugandaamme — adessive Ugandallamme — ablative Ugandaltamme — allative Ugandallemme — essive Ugandanamme — translative Ugandaksemme — abessive Ugandattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Ugandanne — accusative nom. Ugandanne — gen. Ugandanne genitive Ugandanne — partitive Ugandaanne — inessive Ugandassanne — elative Ugandastanne — illative Ugandaanne — adessive Ugandallanne — ablative Ugandaltanne — allative Ugandallenne — essive Ugandananne — translative Ugandaksenne — abessive Ugandattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Ugandansa — accusative nom. Ugandansa — gen. Ugandansa genitive Ugandansa — partitive Ugandaansa — inessive Ugandassaan Ugandassansa — elative Ugandastaan Ugandastansa — illative Ugandaansa — adessive Ugandallaan Ugandallansa — ablative Ugandaltaan Ugandaltansa — allative Ugandalleen Ugandallensa — essive Ugandanaan Ugandanansa — translative Ugandakseen Ugandaksensa — abessive Ugandattaan Ugandattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• ugandalainen

compounds

• ugandangueretsa
• ugandankalliorotta
• ugandankobi

German

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda n (proper noun, genitive Ugandas or (optionally with an article) Uganda)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• Ugander
• ugandisch

See also

countries in Africa: Staaten Afrikas (appendix)edit

• Ägypten
• Algerien
• Angola
• Äquatorialguinea
• Äthiopien
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Demokratische Republik Kongo
• Dschibuti
• Elfenbeinküste
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Gabun
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenia
• Komoren
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Mosambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republik Kongo
• Ruanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Seychellen
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Südafrika
• Sudan
• Südsudan
• São Tomé und Príncipe
• Tansania
• Togo
• Tschad
• Tunesien
• Uganda
• Zentralafrikanische Republik

Further reading

• “Uganda” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Uganda

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɡɒndɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ugan‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa; official name: Ugandai Köztársaság)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Uganda	—
accusative	Ugandát	—
dative	Ugandának	—
instrumental	Ugandával	—
causal-final	Ugandáért	—
translative	Ugandává	—
terminative	Ugandáig	—
essive-formal	Ugandaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Ugandában	—
superessive	Ugandán	—
adessive	Ugandánál	—
illative	Ugandába	—
sublative	Ugandára	—
allative	Ugandához	—
elative	Ugandából	—
delative	Ugandáról	—
ablative	Ugandától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Ugandáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Ugandáéi	—

Possessive forms of Uganda

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Ugandám	—
2nd person sing.	Ugandád	—
3rd person sing.	Ugandája	—
1st person plural	Ugandánk	—
2nd person plural	Ugandátok	—
3rd person plural	Ugandájuk	—

Derived terms

• ugandai

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika országai (appendix)edit

• Algéria
• Angola
• Benin
• Bissau-Guinea
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Comore-szigetek
• Csád
• Dél-afrikai Köztársaság
• Dél-Szudán
• Dzsibuti
• Egyenlítői-Guinea
• Egyiptom
• Elefántcsontpart
• Eritrea
• Etiópia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghána
• Guinea
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaság
• Kongói Köztársaság
• Közép-afrikai Köztársaság
• Lesotho
• Libéria
• Líbia
• Madagaszkár
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokkó
• Mauritánia
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namíbia
• Niger
• Nigéria
• Ruanda
• Seychelle-szigetek
• Sierra Leone
• São Tomé és Príncipe
• Szenegál
• Szomália
• Szudán
• Szváziföld
• Tanzánia
• Togo
• Tunézia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Zöld-foki Köztársaság

Indonesian

Etymology

Derived from Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /uˈɡanda/ [uˈɡan.da]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Noun

Uganda (plural Uganda-Uganda or para Uganda)

1. Ugandan

Adjective

Uganda (comparative lebih Uganda, superlative paling Uganda)

1. Ugandan

See also

countries in Africa: negara-negara di Afrika (appendix)edit

• Afrika Selatan
• Aljazair
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cad
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Etiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Khatulistiwa
• Guinea-Bissau
• Jibuti
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Komoro
• Lesoto
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Maroko
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mesir
• Mozambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Pantai Gading
• Republik Afrika Tengah
• Republik Demokratik Kongo
• Republik Kongo
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome dan Principe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Selatan
• Tanjung Verde
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Further reading

• “Uganda”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Irish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda m

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Synonyms

• Poblacht Uganda

Derived terms

• Ugandach

Mutation

Mutated forms of Uganda

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Uganda	nUganda	hUganda	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.da/
• Rhymes: -anda
• Hyphenation: U‧gàn‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandese

Anagrams

• adugna

Japanese

Romanization

Uganda

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウガンダ

Latin

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈɡan.da]

Proper noun

Uganda f sg (genitive Ugandae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandae
dative	Ugandae
accusative	Ugandam
ablative	Ugandā
vocative	Uganda

Latvian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda f (4th declension)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda (4th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	Uganda	—
genitive	Ugandas	—
dative	Ugandai	—
accusative	Ugandu	—
instrumental	Ugandu	—
locative	Ugandā	—
vocative	Uganda	—

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda

nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandos
dative	Ugandai
accusative	Ugandą
instrumental	Uganda
locative	Ugandoje
vocative	Uganda

Related terms

• ugandietis m, ugandietė f

Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Uganda

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugander
• ugandisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandar
• ugandisk

Polish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f (related adjective ugandyjski)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandy
dative	Ugandzie
accusative	Ugandę
instrumental	Ugandą
locative	Ugandzie
vocative	Ugando

Derived terms

nouns

• Ugandyjczyk
• Ugandyjka

See also

countries in Africa: państwa Afryki (appendix)edit

• Algieria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Czad
• Demokratyczna Republika Konga
• Dżibuti
• Egipt
• Erytrea
• Eswatini
• Etiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gwinea
• Gwinea Bissau
• Gwinea Równikowa
• Kamerun
• Kenia
• Komory
• Kongo
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Maroko
• Mauretania
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Południowa Afryka
• Republika Środkowoafrykańska
• Republika Zielonego Przylądka
• Rwanda
• Sahara Zachodnia
• Senegal
• Seszele
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Południowy
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunezja
• Uganda
• Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej
• Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Further reading

• Uganda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/ [uˈɣɐ̃.dɐ]

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɐ
• Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f or m

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• ugandense
• ugandês

Romanian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandez

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔɡaːnda/
• Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Ùgānda f (Cyrillic spelling У̀га̄нда)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugande
dative	Ugandi
accusative	Ugandu
vocative	Ugando
locative	Ugandi
instrumental	Ugandom

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɡanda/, [ˈuɡanda]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda
(pattern žena)

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandy
dative	Ugande
accusative	Ugandu
locative	Ugande
instrumental	Ugandou

Further reading

• “Uganda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɡàːnda/

Proper noun

Ugánda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Ugánda
genitive	Ugánde
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ugánda
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ugánde
dative (dajȃlnik)	Ugándi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ugándo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Ugándi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ugándo

Related terms

• Ugándčan / Ugándčanka
• ugándski

References

• “Uganda”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Uganda”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡanda/ [uˈɣ̞ãn̪.d̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda ?

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandés

Swahili

Etymology

From Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• Mganda

See also

countries in Africa: nchi za Afrika (appendix)edit

• Afrika Kusini
• Algeria ~ Aljeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Chad ~ Chadi
• Cote d'Ivoire ~ Kodivaa
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia, Uhabeshi ~ Habeshi
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea Bisau ~ Guinea-Bisau ~ Ginebisau
• Guinea ya Ikweta ~ Ginekweta
• Guinea ~ Gine ~ Gini
• Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati
• Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo, Kongo-Kinshasa
• Jamhuri ya Kongo, Kongo-Brazzaville
• Jibuti ~ Djibouti
• Kamerun ~ Cameroon ~ Kameruni
• Kenya
• Komori, Visiwa vya Ngazija
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagaska, Bukini
• Malawi, Unyasa
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mayotte
• Misri, Umisri
• Morisi
• Moroko ~ Maroko
• Msumbiji, Mozambik
• Mtakatifu Helena
• Namibia
• Niger ~ Nijeri
• Nigeria ~ Nijeria ~ Naijeria
• Rwanda ~ Ruanda
• Réunion
• Sahara ya Magharibi
• Sao Tome na Principe
• Senegal ~ Senegali
• Shelisheli
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Kusini
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Uswazi, Swaziland
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Swedish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda ? (genitive Ugandas)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• ugandier
• ugandisk
• ugandiska

See also

countries in Africa: Afrikas länder (appendix)edit

• Algeriet
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Centralafrikanska republiken
• Demokratiska republiken Kongo
• Djibouti
• Egypten
• Ekvatorialguinea
• Elfenbenskusten
• Eritrea
• Etiopien
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenya
• Komorerna
• Kongo-Brazzaville
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marocko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Moçambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé och Príncipe
• Senegal
• Seychellerna
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Sydafrika
• Sydsudan
• Tanzania
• Tchad
• Togo
• Tunisien
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

References

• Uganda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Tagalog

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔuˈɡanda/ [ʔʊˈɣan̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜄᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Turkish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Uganda

	singular	plural
nominative	Uganda	-
definite accusative	Uganda'yı	-
dative	Uganda'ya	-
locative	Uganda'da	-
ablative	Uganda'dan	-
genitive	Uganda'nın	-

Possessive forms of Uganda

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Uganda'm	Ugandalarım Uganda'larım
senin (your)	Uganda'n	Ugandaların Uganda'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Uganda'sı	Ugandaları Uganda'ları
bizim (our)	Uganda'mız	Ugandalarımız Uganda'larımız
sizin (your)	Uganda'nız	Ugandalarınız Uganda'larınız
onların (their)	Uganda'sı Ugandaları Uganda'ları	Ugandaları Uganda'ları

Derived terms

• Ugandalı

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika ülkeleri (appendix)edit

• Angola
• Batı Sahra
• Benin
• Botsvana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cezayir
• Cibuti
• Çad
• Ekvator Ginesi
• Eritre
• Esvatini
• Etiyopiya
• Fas
• Fildişi Sahili
• Gabon
• Gambiya
• Gana
• Gine
• Gine-Bissau
• Güney Afrika
• Güney Sudan
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Komorlar
• Kongo Cumhuriyeti
• Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti
• Lesotho
• Liberya
• Libya
• Madagaskar
• Malavi
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Mısır
• Moritanya
• Mozambik
• Namibya
• Nijer
• Nijeria
• Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti
• Ruanda
• Senegal
• Seyşeller
• Sierra Leone
• Somali
• Sudan
• São Tomé ve Príncipe
• Tanzanya
• Togo
• Tunus
• Uganda
• Yeşil Burun
• Zambiya
• Zimbabve