Namibia

See also: namibia, namíbia, Namibía, and Namíbia

English

Etymology

From Namib, from Haiǁom, Khoekhoe namib (“desert”), +‎ -ia. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəˈmɪbi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪbiə

• Audio (Canada)

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Proper noun

Namibia

2. A country in southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Namibia

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Namibian

Translations

Republic of Namibia

• Afrikaans: Namibië (af)
• Albanian: Namibia (sq)
• Amharic: ናሚቢያ (namibiya)
• Arabic: نَامِيبِيَا‎ f (namībiyā)
• Aragonese: Namibia
• Armenian: Նամիբիա (Namibia)
• Asturian: Namibia (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Namibiya (az)
• Basque: Namibia
• Belarusian: Намі́бія f (Namíbija)
• Bengali: নামিবিয়া (bn) (namibiẏa)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: নামিবিয়া (nāmibiẏā)
• Breton: Namibia
• Bulgarian: Нами́бия f (Namíbija)
• Burmese: နမီးဘီးယား (na.mi:bhi:ya:)
• Catalan: Namíbia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 納米比亞／纳米比亚 (naap⁶ mai⁵ bei² aa³)

  Mandarin: 納米比亞／纳米比亚 (zh) (Nàmǐbǐyà)

  Min Nan: Namibia

• Cornish: Namibi
• Crimean Tatar: Namibiya
• Czech: Namibie (cs) f
• Danish: Namibia
• Dutch: Namibië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Namibio (eo)
• Estonian: Namiibia (et)
• Faroese: Namibia n
• Finnish: Namibia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Namibie
• French: Namibie (fr) f
• Galician: Namibia (gl)
• Georgian: ნამიბია (ka) (namibia)
• German: Namibia (de) n
• Greek: Ναμίμπια (el) f (Namímpia)
• Haitian Creole: Namibi
• Hausa: Namibiya
• Hebrew: נמיביה‎ f (namíbiya)
• Hindi: नामीबिया (hi) (nāmībiyā)
• Hungarian: Namíbia (hu)
• Icelandic: Namibía (is) f
• Ido: Namibia (io)
• Ilocano: Namibia
• Indonesian: Namibia (id)
• Irish: An Namaib f
• Italian: Namibia (it) f
• Japanese: ナミビア (ja) (Namibia)
• Javanese: Namibia
• Kalenjin: Namibia
• Kamba: Namibia
• Kannada: ನಮೀಬಿಯ (kn) (namībiya)
• Kapampangan: Namibia
• Kashmiri: नमीबिया (namībiyā)
• Kazakh: Намибия (Namibiä)
• Khmer: ណាមីប៊ី (km) (naamiibii)
• Kikuyu: Namibia
• Kongo: Namibia
• Korean: 나미비아 (ko) (Namibia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Namîbiya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Намибия (Namibiya)
• Latgalian: Namibeja
• Latin: Namibia
• Latvian: Namībija
• Ligurian: Namibia
• Lingala: Namibia
• Lithuanian: Namibija (lt)
• Low German: Namibia (nds)
• Luo: Namibia
• Luxembourgish: Namibien
• Macedonian: Намибија f (Namibija)
• Malay: Namibia
• Malayalam: നമീബിയ (namībiya)
• Maltese: Namibja f
• Manx: Yn Nameeb
• Maori: Namīpia
• Marathi: नामिबिया (nāmibiyā)
• Meru: Namibia
• Mongolian: Намиби (Namibi)
• Nahuatl: Namibia
• Navajo: Séí Dah Daaskʼidtah Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
• Norman: Namibie f
• Northern Sami: Namibia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Namibia (no)

  Nynorsk: Namibia (nn)

• Occitan: Namibia (oc)
• Ossetian: Намиби (Namibi)
• Pashto: نېمبيا‎
• Persian: نامیبیا‎ (nâmibiyâ)
• Piedmontese: Namibia
• Polish: Namibia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Namíbia (pt)
• Quechua: Namibya
• Romanian: Namibia (ro) f
• Russian: Нами́бия (ru) f (Namíbija)
• Samogitian: Namibėjė
• Sanskrit: नमीबिया (namībiyā)
• Scots: Namibie
• Scottish Gaelic: Naimibia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Намибија f

  Roman: Namibija (sh)

• Sicilian: Namibbia
• Silesian: Namibijo
• Slovak: Namíbia f
• Slovene: Namíbija (sl) f
• Spanish: Namibia (es)
• Swahili: Namibia (sw)
• Swedish: Namibia (sv)
• Tagalog: Namibya
• Tajik: Намибия (tg) (Namibiya)
• Tamil: நமீபியா (ta) (namīpiyā)
• Tatar: Намибия (Namibiya)
• Telugu: నమీబియా (te) (namībiyā)
• Thai: นามิเบีย (th) (naa-mí-biia)
• Turkish: Namibya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Намі́бія (uk) f (Namíbija)
• Urdu: نمیبیا‎
• Uzbek: Namibiya
• Venda: Namibia
• Venetian: Namibia
• Vietnamese: Nam-mi-bi-a, Na-mi-bi-a
• Volapük: Namibiyän
• Võro: Namiibia
• Welsh: Namibia
• Wolof: Namibi
• Yoruba: Namibia
• Zazaki: Namibya (Southern Zazaki)

See also

• Windhoek
• 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]}

Further reading

Namibia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Proper noun

Namibia f

1. Namibia (a country)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia (a country in Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia (a country in Africa)

Faroese

Etymology

From Haiǁom / Khoekhoe namib (“desert”) + Latinate suffix -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈmiːpia/
• Rhymes: -iːpia

Proper noun

Namibia n

1. Namibia

Finnish

Etymology

From German Namibia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑmibiɑ/, [ˈnɑmiˌbiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Na‧mi‧bi‧a

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia

Declension

Inflection of Namibia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Namibia	—
genitive		Namibian	—
partitive		Namibiaa	—
illative		Namibiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Namibia	—
accusative	nom.	Namibia	—
	gen.	Namibian
genitive		Namibian	—
partitive		Namibiaa	—
inessive		Namibiassa	—
elative		Namibiasta	—
illative		Namibiaan	—
adessive		Namibialla	—
ablative		Namibialta	—
allative		Namibialle	—
essive		Namibiana	—
translative		Namibiaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Namibiatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Namibia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Namibiani	Namibiamme
2nd person	Namibiasi	Namibianne
3rd person	Namibiansa

Derived terms

• namibialainen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈmiːbia/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Namibia n (proper noun, genitive Namibias or (optionally with an article) Namibia)

1. Namibia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• Namibianer
• namibianisch
• Namibier
• namibisch
• Nordnamibia
• Südnamibia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈmi.bja/
• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: Na‧mì‧bia

Proper noun

Namibia f

1. Namibia

Derived terms

• namibiano

Latin

Proper noun

Namibia f sg (genitive Namibiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Namibia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Namibia
Genitive	Namibiae
Dative	Namibiae
Accusative	Namibiam
Ablative	Namibiā
Vocative	Namibia

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia

Related terms

• namibier
• namibisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia

Related terms

• namibiar
• namibisk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈmi.bja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: Na‧mi‧bia

Proper noun

Namibia f

1. Namibia (a country in Southern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Namibia

	singular
nominative	Namibia
genitive	Namibii
dative	Namibii
accusative	Namibię
instrumental	Namibią
locative	Namibii
vocative	Namibio

Derived terms

adjective

• namibijski

 

nouns

• Namibijczyk
• Namibijka

 

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈmibja/ [naˈmi.β̞ja]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: Na‧mi‧bia

Proper noun

Namibia f

1. Namibia

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

Namibia

1. Namibia

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]}

Swedish

Proper noun

Namibia n (genitive Namibias)

1. Namibia (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• namibier
• namibisk
• namibiska

Yoruba

Nàmíbíà

Etymology

Borrowed from English Namibia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nà.mí.bí.à/

Proper noun

Nàmíbíà

1. Namibia (a country in Southern Africa)