Maputo

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English

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Etymology

From Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Maputo

  1. The capital city of Mozambique.
    • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 114:
      Then came a rough exultant voice, ‘This is the Voice of Zimbabwe broadcasting from Maputo!’
  2. A river in southeastern Africa.

Synonyms

  • Lourenço Marques (pre-independence), City of Acacias, Pearl of the Indian Ocean (nicknames)

Translations

Anagrams

Afrikaans

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Proper noun

Maputo

  1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)

Czech

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Maputo n (related adjective maputský)

  1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
  2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Maputo (sg-only hard neuter)
singular
nominative Maputo
genitive Maputa
dative Maputu
accusative Maputo
vocative Maputo
locative Maputu
instrumental Maputem

Further reading

  • Maputo in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

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Etymology

From Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Maputo (accusative Maputon)

  1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
  2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Holonyms

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo m

  1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
  2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Slovak

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Maputo n (genitive singular Maputa, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. Maputo (the capital of Mozambique)

References

  • “Maputo”, 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, 2024
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