Uganda
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Uganda
Flag of Uganda
See also: Úganda
English
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”), possibly from Proto-Bantu *-ganda (“family”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(j)uˈɡændə/, /(j)uˈɡɑːndə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio (Canada): (file)
Proper noun
Uganda
- A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Republic of Uganda
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See also
- Appendix: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]
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa; capital: Kampala)
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda ?
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Central Nahuatl
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda f (relational adjective ugandský, demonym Uganďan)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
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), 2008–2025
Danish
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Derived terms
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda n
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Derived terms
Faroese
Etymology
From Swahili Buganda (subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda n
- 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
Proper noun
Uganda
- 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. | ||
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Derived terms
(compounds):
German
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Uganda n (proper noun, genitive Ugandas or (optionally with an article) Uganda)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
See also
- (countries of Africa) Staaten Afrikas; Ägypten, Algerien, Angola, Äquatorialguinea, Äthiopien, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Dschibuti, Elfenbeinküste, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kamerun, Kap Verde, Kenia, Komoren, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyen, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Marokko, Mauretanien, Mauritius, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sambia, São Tomé und Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Südafrika, Sudan, Südsudan, Tansania, Togo, Tschad, Tunesien, Uganda, Zentralafrikanische Republik (Category: de:Countries in Africa)
Further reading
- “Uganda” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hungarian
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
| 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 | — |
| 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
Irish
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda m
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| 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
Proper noun
Uganda f
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
Uganda
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
- (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)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
Declension of Uganda (4th declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | Uganda | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | Ugandas | — |
| dative (datīvs) | Ugandai | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | Ugandu | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | Ugandu | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | Ugandā | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | Uganda | — |
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda f
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
Declension of Uganda
Related terms
- ugandietis m, ugandietė f
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Polish
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda f (related adjective ugandyjski)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
Declension of Uganda
Derived terms
(nouns):
See also
- (countries of Africa) państwa Afryki; 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 (Category: pl:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Further reading
- Uganda in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɐ
- Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da
Proper noun
Uganda f or m
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Proper noun
Uganda f
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ùgānda f (Cyrillic spelling У̀га̄нда)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
Declension of Uganda
Slovak
Etymology
Derived from Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda f (genitive singular Ugandy, declension pattern of žena)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
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, 2003–2025
Spanish
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda ?
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
Swahili
Etymology
From Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Uganda
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Derived terms
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]
Swedish
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Uganda ? (genitive Ugandas)
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Related terms
References
Tagalog
Etymology
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔuˈɡanda/
- Rhymes: -anda
- Syllabification: U‧gan‧da
Proper noun
Uganda (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜄᜈ᜔ᜇ)
- 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
- Uganda (a country in East Africa)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Uganda | - |
| definite accusative | Uganda'yı | - |
| dative | Uganda'ya | - |
| locative | Uganda'da | - |
| ablative | Uganda'dan | - |
| genitive | Uganda'nın | - |
| 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
See also
- (countries of Africa) Afrika ülkesi; 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, São Tomé ve Príncipe, Senegal, Seyşeller, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Tanzanya, Togo, Tunus, Uganda, Yeşil Burun, Zambiya, Zimbabve (Category: tr:Countries in Africa) [edit]