Nairobi

See also: Nairóbi

English

Etymology

From Maasai enkare nyrobi (“cold water, cold river”), the name of the Nairobi river.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /naɪˈɹəʊbi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /naɪˈɹoʊbi/

Proper noun

Nairobi

2. The capital city of Kenya.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     By 1899 the railhead had reached the further edge of the Athi Plain at mile 315, and halted while the survey parties went ahead, and a supply base was established at the foot of the hills. This spot has become Nairobi.

Derived terms

• Nairobi disease
• Nairobi fly
• Nairobi grass rat
• Nairobi sheep disease

 

Translations

capital of Kenya

• Afrikaans: Nairobi
• Amharic: ናይሮቢ (nayrobi)
• Arabic: نَيْرُوبِي f (nayrūbī)
• Armenian: Նայրոբի (Nayrobi)
• Bengali: নাইরোবি (nairōbi)
• Catalan: Nairobi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內羅畢／内罗毕 (zh) (Nèiluóbì)

• Czech: Nairobi (cs) n
• Danish: Nairobi
• Dutch: Nairobi (nl) n
• Esperanto: Najrobio (eo)
• Finnish: Nairobi (fi)
• French: Nairobi (fr)
• German: Nairobi (de) n
• Greek: Ναϊρόμπι (el) (Naïrómpi)
• Hebrew: ניירובי \ נַיְרוֹבִּי f (nairobi)
• Hindi: नायरोबी (nāyrobī), नाइरोबी (nāirobī)
• Italian: Nairobi (it) f
• Japanese: ナイロビ (ja) (Nairobi)
• Kannada: ನೈರೋಬಿ (nairōbi)
• Khmer: ណៃរ៉ូប៊ី (km) (nayroubii)
• Korean: 나이로비 (ko) (Nairobi)
• Maltese: Najrobi
• Navajo: Naiwóobii
• Occitan: Nairòbi (oc)
• Persian: نایروبی (nâyrubi)
• Polish: Nairobi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Nairóbi (pt)
• Russian: Найро́би (ru) m (Najróbi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Најроби m

  Roman: Najrobi m

• Spanish: Nairobi (es) m
• Swahili: Nairobi
• Swedish: Nairobi (sv) n
• Thai: ไนโรบี (nai-roo-bii)
• Tibetan: ནའི་རོ་བི། (na'i ro bi)
• Vietnamese: Nai-rô-bi

Anagrams

• robinia

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Nairobi

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnajrobɪ]

Proper noun

Nairobi n (indeclinable, related adjective nairobský)

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Further reading

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /najroːbi/, [najˈʁoːb̥i]

Proper noun

Nairobi

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Further reading

• Nairobi on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛ.ʁɔ.bi/ ~ /ne.ʁɔ.bi/, /na.i.ʁɔ.bi/

Proper noun

Nairobi f

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Derived terms

• Nairobien
• nairobien

 

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /najˈrɔ.bi/
• Rhymes: -ɔbi
• Hyphenation: Nai‧rò‧bi

Proper noun

Nairobi f

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Anagrams

• barioni, binario, brionia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /najˈɾɔ.bi/ [naɪ̯ˈɾɔ.bi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /najˈɾɔ.bi/ [najˈɾɔ.βi]

Proper noun

Nairobi

1. Alternative form of Nairóbi

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnajrɔbi]

Proper noun

Nairobi n

1. Nairobi (the capital of Kenya)

References

• “Nairobi”, 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naiˈɾobi/ [nai̯ˈɾo.β̞i]
• Rhymes: -obi
• Syllabification: Nai‧ro‧bi

Proper noun

Nairobi ?

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Nairobi

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)

Swedish

Proper noun

Nairobi n (genitive Nairobis)

1. Nairobi (the capital city of Kenya)