Gambia

See also: gambia, gambiâ, Gàmbia, and Gâmbia

English

Etymology

From Mandinka Kambra/Kambaa ("Gambia River").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæm.bi.ə/

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Proper noun

Gambia

1. A river in West Africa.
3. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of The Gambia.

Usage notes

The country is referred to with the definite article the. The capitalization of the article when it occurs not at the beginning of a sentence varies.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Gambian

Translations

The Republic of The Gambia

• Afrikaans: Gambië
• Amharic: ጋምቢያ (gambiya)
• Arabic: غَامْبِيَا‎ f (ḡāmbiyā)
• Armenian: Գամբիա (hy) (Gambia)
• Azerbaijani: Qambiya (az)
• Belarusian: Га́мбія f (Hámbija)
• Bengali: গাম্বিয়া (bn) (gambiẏa)
• Breton: Gambia
• Bulgarian: Га́мбия f (Gámbija)
• Burmese: ဂမ်ဘီယာ (gambhiya)
• Catalan: Gàmbia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岡比亞 (zh), 冈比亚 (zh) (Gāngbǐyà)

• Crimean Tatar: Gambiya
• Czech: Gambie (cs) f
• Danish: Gambia (da)
• Dhivehi: ގެމްބިއާ‎ (gem̊biā)
• Dutch: Gambia (nl)
• Esperanto: Gambio (eo)
• Estonian: Gambia (et)
• Faroese: Gambia n
• Finnish: Gambia (fi)
• French: Gambie (fr)
• Georgian: გამბია (gambia)
• German: Gambia (de)
• Greek: Γκάμπια (el) f (Gkámpia)
• Hausa: Gambiya
• Hebrew: גמביה‎
• Hindi: गाम्बिया (hi) (gāmbiyā)
• Hungarian: Gambia (hu)
• Icelandic: Gambía (is)
• Indonesian: Gambia (id)
• Interlingua: Gambia
• Irish: An Ghaimbia f
• Italian: Gambia (it)
• Japanese: ガンビア (ja) (Ganbia)
• Kalenjin: Gambia
• Kamba: Gambia
• Kazakh: Гамбия (Gambïya)
• Khmer: ហ្គំប៊ី (km) (gumbii)
• Kikuyu: Gambia
• Korean: 감비아 (ko) (Gambia)

• Kyrgyz: Гамбия (Ğambiya)
• Latvian: Gambija f
• Lithuanian: Gambija (lt) f
• Luhya: Gambia
• Luo: Gambia
• Macedonian: Гамбија (mk) f (Gambija)
• Malayalam: ഗാംബിയ (gāmbiya)
• Maltese: il-Gambja
• Mandinka: Kambiya
• Maori: Te Kamopia
• Meru: Gambia
• Mongolian: Гамби (Gambi)
• Navajo: Géémbiya
• Norman: Gambie f
• Norwegian: Gambia (no)
• Occitan: Gàmbia
• Oriya: ଗାମ୍ବିଆ (gambia)
• Persian: گامبیا‎ (gâmbiyâ)
• Polish: Gambia (pl)
• Portuguese: Gâmbia (pt)
• Romanian: Gambia (ro) f
• Russian: Га́мбия (ru) f (Gámbija)
• Samogitian: Gambėjė
• Scots: Gambie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гамбија f

  Roman: Gambija (sh) f

• Silesian: Gambijo
• Slovak: Gambia f
• Slovene: Gámbija (sl) f
• Spanish: Gambia (es) f
• Swahili: Gambia (sw)
• Swedish: Gambia (sv)
• Tajik: Гамбия (Gambiya)
• Tamil: காம்பியா (ta) (kāmpiyā)
• Telugu: గాంబియా (te) (gāmbiyā)
• Thai: แกมเบีย (th) (gɛɛm-biia)
• Turkish: Gambiya (tr)
• Turkmen: Gambiýa
• Ukrainian: Га́мбія (uk) f (Hámbija)
• Vietnamese: Găm-bi-a
• Wolof: Gàmbi (wo)
• Yoruba: Gambia

See also

• 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) [edit]}
• Gambia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in Africa)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in Africa)

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Danish

Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

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Faroese

Etymology

From English Gambia, from Mandinka Kambra/Kambaa ("Gambia River").

Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑmbiɑ/, [ˈɡɑmbiɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbiɑ
• Syllabification: Gam‧bi‧a

Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Gambia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Gambia	—
genitive		Gambian	—
partitive		Gambiaa	—
illative		Gambiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Gambia	—
accusative	nom.	Gambia	—
	gen.	Gambian
genitive		Gambian	—
partitive		Gambiaa	—
inessive		Gambiassa	—
elative		Gambiasta	—
illative		Gambiaan	—
adessive		Gambialla	—
ablative		Gambialta	—
allative		Gambialle	—
essive		Gambiana	—
translative		Gambiaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Gambiatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Gambia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Gambiani	Gambiamme
2nd person	Gambiasi	Gambianne
3rd person	Gambiansa

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gambia n (proper noun, genitive Gambias or (optionally with an article) Gambia)

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Gambier
• gambisch
• Senegambia

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒmbijɒ]
• Hyphenation: Gam‧bia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Proper noun

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Gambia	—
accusative	Gambiát	—
dative	Gambiának	—
instrumental	Gambiával	—
causal-final	Gambiáért	—
translative	Gambiává	—
terminative	Gambiáig	—
essive-formal	Gambiaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Gambiában	—
superessive	Gambián	—
adessive	Gambiánál	—
illative	Gambiába	—
sublative	Gambiára	—
allative	Gambiához	—
elative	Gambiából	—
delative	Gambiáról	—
ablative	Gambiától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Gambiáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Gambiáéi	—

Possessive forms of Gambia
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Gambiám	—
2nd person sing.	Gambiád	—
3rd person sing.	Gambiája	—
1st person plural	Gambiánk	—
2nd person plural	Gambiátok	—
3rd person plural	Gambiájuk	—

Related terms

• gambiai

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bja/
• Rhymes: -ambja
• Hyphenation: Gàm‧bia

Proper noun

Gambia m

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• gambiano

Anagrams

• ambagi, bigama

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Latin

Proper noun

Gambia f sg (genitive Gambiae); first declension

2. (New Latin) Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Gambia
Genitive	Gambiae
Dative	Gambiae
Accusative	Gambiam
Ablative	Gambiā
Vocative	Gambia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• gambier
• gambisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• gambiar
• gambisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Gam‧bia

Proper noun

Gambia f

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Gambia

	singular	plural
nominative	Gambia	Gambie
genitive	Gambii	Gambii
dative	Gambii	Gambiom
accusative	Gambię	Gambie
instrumental	Gambią	Gambiami
locative	Gambii	Gambiach
vocative	Gambio	Gambie

Derived terms

nouns

• Gambijczyk
• Gambijka

 

adjective

• gambijski

 

Further reading

• Gambia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Gambia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡambi̯a]

Proper noun

Gambia f (genitive Gambie)

1. Gambia (a country in Africa)

References

• Gambia in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡambja/, [ˈɡãm.bja]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gambia f

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Gambia

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

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]}

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Swedish

Proper noun

Gambia n (genitive Gambias)

2. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• gambier
• gambisk

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Yoruba

Gáḿbíà

Etymology

English Gambia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.ŋ́.bí.à/

Proper noun

Gáḿbíà

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)