Mozambique

See also: mozambique

English

Map of Mozambique.

Alternative forms

• Mosambique, Mocambique

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique, ie Mussa + ibn + Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́ka (“announce, prophesy”), thus "Moses, descendant of the prophet".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊ.zæmˈbiːk/

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Mozambique

1. A country in southeastern Africa, having Maputo as its capital; modern Republic of Mozambique (since 1990); formerly —

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Moz.

   1. (historical, from 1975) The communist People's Republic of Mozambique.
   2. (historical, from the 16th century) A former colony of Portugal.
2. An island or its town in the province of Nampula, Mozambique, (from which its name was transferred to the country).
3. The Mozambique Channel, a broad strait which separates the island of Madagascar from the African mainland of Mozambique.
   • 1857 May, “Extracts from the Journal of Captain M. S. Nolloth, H.M.S. 'Frolic'”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1857, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 252:

     During our cruise in the Mozambique we had generally light winds, almost invariably from E.S.E., or calms, and smooth water, nearly the whole time.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Mozambiquan or Mozambiquean (adjective/noun)
• mozambique (noun)

 

Related terms

• Mozambican (adjective/noun)

 

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Mosambiek (af)
• Amharic: ሞዛምቢክ (mozambik)
• Arabic: مُوزَمْبِيق‎ m (mōzambīq, mūzambīq), مُوزَامْبِيق‎ m (mōzambīq, mūzambīq)
• Armenian: Մոզամբիկ (Mozambik)
• Azerbaijani: Mozambik (az)
• Belarusian: Мазамбі́к m (Mazambík)
• Bengali: মোজাম্বিক (bn) (mōjambik)
• Breton: Mozambik
• Bulgarian: Мозамби́к m (Mozambík)
• Burmese: မိုဇမ်ဘစ် (muijambhac)
• Catalan: Moçambic (ca)
• Chichewa: Mozambique, Mozambiki
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莫桑比克 (zh) (Mòsāngbǐkè), 莫三比克 (zh) (Mòsānbǐkè)

• Czech: Mozambik (cs) m, Mosambik (cs) m
• Danish: Mozambique
• Dhivehi: މުސިންބީ‎ (musin̊bī)
• Dutch: Mozambique (nl) n
• Esperanto: Mozambiko (eo)
• Estonian: Mosambiik (et)
• Faroese: Mosambik n
• Finnish: Mosambik (fi)
• French: Mozambique (fr) m
• Georgian: მოზამბიკი (ka) (mozambiḳi)
• German: Mosambik (de) n
• Greek: Μοζαμβίκη (el) f (Mozamvíki)
• Hebrew: מוזמביק‎
• Hindi: मोज़ाम्बिक (mozāmbik)
• Hungarian: Mozambik (hu)
• Interlingua: Mozambique
• Irish: Mósaimbíc
• Italian: Mozambico (it) m
• Japanese: モザンビーク (ja) (Mozanbīku)
• Kamba: Msumbiji
• Kazakh: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Khmer: ម៉ូសំប៊ិក (km) (mousɑmbɨk)
• Kikuyu: Msumbiji
• Korean: 모잠비크 (ko) (Mojambikeu), 모잠비끄 (ko) (Mojambikkeu) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Lao: ໂມຊຳບິກ (mō sam bik)
• Latin: Mozambicum
• Lithuanian: Mozambikas (lt) m
• Luhya: Msumbiji
• Luo: Msumbiji
• Macedonian: Мозамбик (mk) m (Mozambik)
• Malagasy: Mozambika (mg)
• Maltese: il-Możambik
• Manx: Yn Vosambeeck
• Maori: Mohapiki
• Marathi: मोजाम्बिक m (mojāmbik)
• Meru: Msumbiji
• Mongolian: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Norman: Mozambique m
• Persian: موزامبیک‎ (muzâmbik)
• Polish: Mozambik (pl)
• Portuguese: Moçambique (pt)
• Romanian: Mozambic (ro) n
• Russian: Мозамби́к (ru) m (Mozambík)
• Scottish Gaelic: Mòsaimbic, Mosambìog
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мозамбик m

  Roman: Mozambik (sh) m

• Sinhalese: මොසැම්බික් (mosæmbik)
• Slovak: Mozambik (sk) m
• Slovene: Mozambik (sl) m
• Spanish: Mozambique (es)
• Swahili: Msumbiji (sw)
• Swedish: Moçambique (sv)
• Tagalog: Mosambike
• Tajik: Мозамбик (Mozambik)
• Thai: โมซัมบิก (th) (moo-sam-bìk)
• Tigrinya: ሞዛምቢክ (mozambik)
• Turkish: Mozambik (tr)
• Turkmen: Mozambik
• Ukrainian: Мозамбі́к (uk) m (Mozambík)
• Urdu: موزمبیق‎
• Uzbek: Mozambik (uz)
• Vietnamese: Mô-dăm-bích
• Welsh: Mosambic
• Yoruba: Moṣamibiku

Noun

Mozambique (plural Mozambiques)

1. A native or inhabitant of Mozambique; a Mozambican.
2. Alternative letter-case form of mozambique (“fabric”).

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 in Africa) [edit]}

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Chichewa

Alternative forms

• Mozambiki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.zaˈᵐbí.ki/

Proper noun

Mozambíque

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Danish

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Mozambique n

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.zɑ̃.bik/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Mozambique m

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Derived terms

• mozambicain
• Mozambicain

Interlingua

Proper noun

Mozambique

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /moθamˈbike/ [mo.θãmˈbi.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mosamˈbike/ [mo.sãmˈbi.ke]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ike
• Syllabification: Mo‧zam‧bi‧que

Proper noun

Mozambique ?

1. Mozambique (a country in Africa)

Derived terms

• canal de Mozambique
• mozambiqueño