Kenya

See also: Kenýa, Kénya, Kênya, and kenyà

English

Kenya

Etymology

From Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”) cognate of Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”) and Kikuyu nyaga (“ostrich”), from the name of Mount Kenya. See Kirinyaga County § Etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.jə/, (dated) /ˈkiːn.jə/
• (Kenya) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.ɲa]

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (Kenya):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnjə, (dated) -iːnjə
• Hyphenation: Ke‧n‧ya

Proper noun

Kenya

2. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Kenya AA
• Kenya tick typhus

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

• Afrikaans: Kenia
• Albanian: Kenia (sq) f
• Amharic: ኬንያ (kenya)
• Arabic: كِينِيَا f (kēniyā)
• Armenian: Քենիա (Kʻenia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܸܢܝܵܐ f (kinyā)
• Asturian: Keña f
• Azerbaijani: Keniya (az)
• Bashkir: Кения (Keniya)
• Belarusian: Ке́нія f (Kjénija)
• Bengali: কেনিয়া (bn) (keniẏa)
• Breton: Kenya
• Bulgarian: Ке́ния f (Kénija)
• Burmese: ကင်ညာ (kangnya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肯尼亞 / 肯尼亚 (zh) (Kěnníyà), 肯亞 / 肯亚 (zh) (Kěnyà) (Taiwan)

• Crimean Tatar: Keniya
• Czech: Keňa (cs) f
• Danish: Kenya
• Dinka: Kenya
• Dutch: Kenia (nl) n, Kenya (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kenjo
• Estonian: Keenia (et), Kenya (et)
• Faroese: Kenja n
• Finnish: Kenia (fi)
• French: Kenya (fr)
• Galician: Quenia (gl) f
• Georgian: კენია (ka) (ḳenia)
• German: Kenia (de)
• Greek: Κένυα (el) f (Kénya)
• Gujarati: કેન્યા m (kenyā)
• Hausa: Kenya
• Hebrew: קֶנְיָה f (kenya)
• Hindi: कीनिया (hi) (kīniyā), केन्या (kenyā), केनिया (hi) m (keniyā), कीनया m (kīnyā), कीनीया m (kīnīyā), केनया m (kenyā), कीन्या m (kīnyā)
• Hungarian: Kenya (hu)
• Icelandic: Kenía (is) f
• Ido: Kenia (io)
• Indonesian: Kenya (id)
• Interlingua: Kenya
• Irish: An Chéinia f
• Italian: Kenya (it) m
• Japanese: ケニア (ja) (Kenia)
• Kalenjin: Kenya
• Kamba: Kenya
• Kannada: ಕೀನ್ಯಾ (kīnyā)
• Kazakh: Кения (kk) (Keniä)
• Khmer: កេនយ៉ា (km) (keenyaa)
• Kikuyu: Kenya
• Kis: Kenya
• Korean: 케냐 (ko) (Kenya), 케니아 (ko) (Kenia) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کینیا (ckb) (kînya)

• Kyrgyz: Кения (ky) (Keniya)
• Lao: ເກນຢາ (kēn yā)
• Latgalian: Keneja
• Latin: Kenia
• Latvian: Kenija f
• Lithuanian: Kenija (lt) f
• Luhya: Kenya
• Luo: Kenya
• Macedonian: Кенија (mk) f (Kenija)
• Malay: Kenya (ms)
• Malayalam: കെനിയ (keniya)
• Maltese: il-Kenja f
• Maori: Kēnia
• Marathi: केनिया (keniyā)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: Кени (Keńi)

• Meru: Kenya
• Mongolian: Кени (Keni)
• Nahuatl: Quenia
• Navajo: Dził Dah Gai Biyaagi Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
• Norman: Qùenia m, Kenya
• North Frisian: Keenia
• Northern Sami: Kenia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kenya (no)

  Nynorsk: Kenya (nn)

• Occitan: Kenya (oc) m
• Odia: କେନିଆ (keniā)
• Papiamentu: Kenia
• Pashto: کېنيا (kenyā)
• Persian: کنیا (keniyâ)
• Polish: Kenia (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Quênia (pt) m

  European: Quénia (pt) m

• Punjabi: ਕੀਨੀਆ (kīnīā)
• Quechua: Kinya
• Romanian: Kenya (ro) f
• Russian: Ке́ния (ru) f (Kénija)
• Sango: Kenyäa (sg)
• Sardinian: Kènya
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кенија f

  Roman: Kenija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: කෙන්යාව (kenyāwa)
• Slovak: Keňa (sk) f
• Slovene: Kénija (sl) f
• Somali: Kiinya
• Spanish: Kenia (es) f
• Swahili: Kenya (sw)
• Swedish: Kenya (sv)
• Tagalog: Kenya (tl)
• Tajik: Кения (Keniya)
• Tamil: கென்யா (keṉyā)
• Tatar: Кения (Keniyä)
• Telugu: కెన్యా (te) (kenyā)
• Thai: เคนยา (th) (ken-yâa)
• Tibetan: ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། (khe ni ya)
• Tigrinya: ኬንያ (kenya)
• Turkish: Kenya (tr)
• Turkmen: Keniýa
• Ukrainian: Ке́нія (uk) f (Kénija)
• Urdu: کینیا (kīniyā)
• Uyghur: كېنىيە (këniye)
• Uzbek: Keniya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Kê-ni-a
• Western Panjabi: کینیا (keneyā)
• Yakut: Кения (Keniya)
• Yiddish: קעניע (kenye)
• Yoruba: Kenya

See also

• 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

Further reading

• Hinde, H.B. Vocabularies of the Kamba amd Kikuyu languages of East Afica
• Kenya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kenya on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Kenya on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Kenya on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Kanye, Yanke, nakey

Catalan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɛ.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) unknown

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya

Proper noun

Kenya m or f

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• kenyà

Danish

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

Dinka

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Kenya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke.nja/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kenya m

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa; official name: Kenyai Köztársaság)

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	Kenya	—
accusative	Kenyát	—
dative	Kenyának	—
instrumental	Kenyával	—
causal-final	Kenyáért	—
translative	Kenyává	—
terminative	Kenyáig	—
essive-formal	Kenyaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Kenyában	—
superessive	Kenyán	—
adessive	Kenyánál	—
illative	Kenyába	—
sublative	Kenyára	—
allative	Kenyához	—
elative	Kenyából	—
delative	Kenyáról	—
ablative	Kenyától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Kenyáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Kenyáéi	—

Possessive forms of Kenya

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Kenyám	—
2nd person sing.	Kenyád	—
3rd person sing.	Kenyája	—
1st person plural	Kenyánk	—
2nd person plural	Kenyátok	—
3rd person plural	Kenyájuk	—

Derived terms

• kenyai

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• kenyan, kenyanar
• kenyansk

Portuguese

Proper noun

Kenya m

1. Alternative spelling of Quénia: Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Swahili

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kenya) IPA^(key): /kɛ.ɲɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

   Synonym: Jamhuri ya Kenya

Derived terms

• Mkenya

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kenya n (genitive Kenyas)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• kenyan
• kenyansk
• kenyanska

Further reading

• Kenya in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Kenya or Spanish Kenia (“Kenya”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛː.ɲɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛn̪.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: Ken‧ya

Proper noun

Kenya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈ᜔ᜌ)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Kenya

	singular
nominative	Kenya
accusative	Kenya'yı
dative	Kenya'ya
locative	Kenya'da
ablative	Kenya'dan
genitive	Kenya'nın

Possessive forms of Kenya

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Kenya'm	Kenyalarım Kenya'larım
senin (your)	Kenya'n	Kenyaların Kenya'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Kenya'sı	Kenyaları Kenya'ları
bizim (our)	Kenya'mız	Kenyalarımız Kenya'larımız
sizin (your)	Kenya'nız	Kenyalarınız Kenya'larınız
onların (their)	Kenya'sı Kenyaları Kenya'ları	Kenyaları Kenya'ları

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika ülkesi (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