Kinshasa

English

Alternative forms

• Kin

Etymology

From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːsə
• IPA^(key): /kɪnˈʃɑːsə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Kinshasa

2. The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.

Synonyms

• Leopoldville (obsolete)

Translations

the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Afrikaans: Kinshasa
• Arabic: كِنْشاسة f (kinšāsah)
• Armenian: Կինշասա (hy) (Kinšasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金沙薩／金沙萨 (zh) (Jīnshāsà)

• Czech: Kinshasa (cs) f
• Danish: Kinshasa
• Dutch: Kinshasa (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kinŝaso (eo)
• Finnish: Kinshasa (fi)
• French: Kinshasa (fr)
• Georgian: კინშასა (ḳinšasa)
• German: Kinshasa (de) n
• Greek: Κινσάσα (el) (Kinsása)
• Hebrew: קינשאסה
• Hindi: किन्शासा (kinśāsā)
• Irish: Cinseasa
• Japanese: キンシャサ (ja) (Kinshasa)
• Korean: 킨샤사 (Kinsyasa)
• Lingala: Kinsásá
• Marathi: किन्शासा n (kinśāsā)
• Persian: کینشاسا
• Polish: Kinszasa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Quinxassa f
• Russian: Кинша́са (ru) f (Kinšása)
• Spanish: Kinsasa, Kinshasa (es)

Anagrams

• Kashanis

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Kinshasa

1. Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Derived terms

• Kongo-Kinshasa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪnʃasa]

Proper noun

Kinshasa f (related adjective kinshaský)

1. Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Declension

Declension of Kinshasa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Kinshasa
genitive	Kinshasy
dative	Kinshase
accusative	Kinshasu
vocative	Kinshaso
locative	Kinshase
instrumental	Kinshasou

Further reading

• “Kinshasa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

Named after a nearby village.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪnˈʃaː.saː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Kin‧sha‧sa

Proper noun

Kinshasa n

1. Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Synonyms

• Leopoldstad (historical)
• Leopoldville (historical)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kin.ʃa.sa/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Belgium):

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Proper noun

Kinshasa m

1. Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

   Synonym: (historical) Léopoldville

Derived terms

• Kin
• Kinois / kinois

Portuguese

Proper noun

Kinshasa f

1. Alternative spelling of Quinxassa

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkinʃasa]

Proper noun

Kinshasa f

1. Kinshasa (the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

• “Kinshasa”, 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

Spanish

Proper noun

Kinshasa ?

1. Alternative form of Kinsasa