Zimbabwe

See also: zimbabwe

English

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/
• Hyphenation: Zi‧mba‧bwe

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Republic of Zimbabwe

• Afrikaans: Zimbabwe
• Albanian: Zimbabveja (sq) f
• Amharic: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe)
• Arabic: زِيمْبَابْوِي‎‎ m (zīmbābwī)
• Armenian: Զիմբաբվե (Zimbabve)
• Azerbaijani: Zimbabve (az)
• Belarusian: Зімба́бвэ n (Zimbábve)
• Bengali: জিম্বাবুয়ে (jimbabuye)
• Breton: Zimbabwe ?
• Bulgarian: Зимба́бве n (Zimbábve)
• Burmese: ဇင်ဘာဘွေ (jangbhabhwe)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 津巴布韋 (zh), 津巴布韦 (zh) (Jīnbābùwéi)

• Czech: Zimbabwe (cs) n
• Danish: Zimbabwe (da)
• Dhivehi: ޒިމްބާބުވޭ‎‎ (zimbābuvē)
• Dutch: Zimbabwe (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝེ་ (dzim bab we)
• Esperanto: Zimbabvo (eo)
• Estonian: Zimbabwe (et)
• Faroese: Simbabvi n
• Finnish: Zimbabwe (fi)
• French: Zimbabwe (fr) m
• Georgian: ზიმბაბვე (zimbabve)
• German: Simbabwe (de)
• Greek: Ζιμπάμπουε (el) f (Zimpámpoue)
• Hausa: Zimbabuwe
• Hebrew: זימבבואה‎‎ (zimbabve)
• Hindi: ज़िम्बाब्वे (hi) (zimbābve)
• Hungarian: Zimbabwe (hu)
• Icelandic: Simbabve (is) n
• Ido: Zimbabwe (io)
• Indonesian: Zimbabwe (id)
• Interlingua: Zimbabwe
• Irish: An tSiombáib f, Poblacht na Siombáibe f
• Italian: Zimbabwe (it) m
• Japanese: ジンバブエ (Jinbabue)
• Kalenjin: Zimbabwe
• Kamba: Zimbabwe
• Kazakh: Зимбабве (Zïmbabve)
• Khmer: ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ (km) (siimbaavee)
• Kikuyu: Zimbabwe
• Korean: 짐바브웨 (Jimbabeuwe)
• Kyrgyz: Зимбабве (Zimbabve)
• Lao: ຊິມບັບເວ (sim bap wē)
• Latvian: Zimbabve
• Lithuanian: Zimbabvė (lt)

• Luhya: Zimbabwe
• Luo: Zimbabwe
• Macedonian: Зимба́бве (mk) n (Zimbábve)
• Malay: Zimbabwe
• Maltese: iż-Żimbabwe
• Maori: Timuwawe
• Meru: Zimbabwe
• Mongolian: Зимбабве (Zimbabve)
• Navajo: Hooghan Tsé Bee Ádaalyaaí bikéyah
• Norman: Zimbabwe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Zimbabwe (no)

  Nynorsk: Zimbabwe (nn)

• Pashto: زېمبابوې‎‎
• Persian: زیمبابوه‎‎ (zimbâbve)
• Polish: Zimbabwe (pl)
• Portuguese: Zimbabwe (pt) m, Zimbábue (pt) m, Zimbabué (pt) m
• Romanian: Zimbabwe (ro)
• Russian: Зимба́бве (ru) n (Zimbábvɛ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Зимбабве m

  Roman: Zimbabve (sh) m

• Shona: Zimbabwe
• Sinhalese: සිම්බාබ්වේ (simbābvē)
• Slovak: Zimbabwe n
• Slovene: Zimbabve (sl) n
• Spanish: Zimbabue (es)
• Swahili: Zimbabwe
• Swedish: Zimbabwe (sv)
• Tagalog: Simbabwe
• Tajik: Зимбабве (Zimbabve)
• Tatar: Зимбабве (Zimbabwe)
• Telugu: జింబాబ్వే (te) (jimbābvē)
• Thai: ซิมบับเว (th) (sim-báp-wee)
• Tibetan: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝི། (dzim bab wi)
• Tigrinya: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe)
• Turkish: Zimbabve (tr)
• Turkmen: Zimbabwe
• Ukrainian: Зімба́бве (uk) n (Zimbábve)
• Urdu: زمبابوے‎‎
• Uyghur: زىمبابۋې‎‎ (zimbabwë)
• Uzbek: Zimbabve (uz)
• Vietnamese: Dim-ba-bu-ê
• Yiddish: זימבאַבווע‎‎ (zimbabve)
• Yoruba: Şimibabe

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

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Czech

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwský
• Zimbabwan

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n

1. Zimbabwe

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Finnish

(index z)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Declension

Inflection of Zimbabwe (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Zimbabwe	—
genitive		Zimbabwen	—
partitive		Zimbabwea	—
illative		Zimbabween	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Zimbabwe	—
accusative	nom.	Zimbabwe	—
	gen.	Zimbabwen
genitive		Zimbabwen	—
partitive		Zimbabwea	—
inessive		Zimbabwessa	—
elative		Zimbabwesta	—
illative		Zimbabween	—
adessive		Zimbabwella	—
ablative		Zimbabwelta	—
allative		Zimbabwelle	—
essive		Zimbabwena	—
translative		Zimbabweksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Zimbabwetta	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

• adjectives: zimbabwelainen
• nouns: zimbabwelainen

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Italian

Proper noun

Zimbabwe m

1. Zimbabwe

Derived terms

• zimbabwiano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwer
• zimbabwisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwar
• zimbabwisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z̪imˈbabvɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n (undeclinable)

1. Zimbabwe

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Zimbabwe m

1. Alternative form of Zimbabué

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Swahili

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (country in Southern Africa)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n (genitive Zimbabwes)

1. Zimbabwe