Rwanda

English

Rwanda

Etymology

From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuˈændə/, /ɹəˈwændə/, /ɹəˈwɒndə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹuˈɑndə/, /ɹəˈwɑndə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒndə, -ændə

Proper noun

Rwanda

2. A country in East Africa.
4. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.

   Synonym: Kinyarwanda

5. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Rwandan

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Rwanda
• Amharic: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda)
• Arabic: رُوَانْدَا f (ruwāndā)
• Armenian: Ռուանդա (Ṙuanda)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܘܲܢܕܵܐ f (rwandā)
• Azerbaijani: Ruanda (az)
• Bashkir: Руанда (Rwanda)
• Belarusian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda)
• Bengali: রুয়ান্ডা (bn) (ruẏanḍa)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: রুয়ান্ডা
• Breton: Rwanda (br)
• Bulgarian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda)
• Burmese: ရဝမ်ဒါ (ra.wamda)
• Catalan: Ruanda (ca), Rwanda
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧旺達 / 卢旺达 (zh) (Lúwàngdá); (Taiwan) 盧安達 / 卢安达 (zh) (Lú'āndá)

• Czech: Rwanda (cs) f
• Danish: Rwanda (da)
• Dinka: Ruanda
• Dutch: Rwanda (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ruando (eo)
• Finnish: Ruanda (fi)
• French: Ruanda (fr) m, Rwanda (fr) m
• Georgian: რუანდა (ruanda)
• German: Ruanda (de) n
• Greek: Ρουάντα (el) f (Rouánta)
• Hausa: Ruwanda
• Hebrew: רואנדה (ruanda)
• Hindi: रवांडा (hi) (ravāṇḍā)
• Hungarian: Ruanda (hu)
• Interlingua: Rwanda
• Italian: Ruanda (it) m
• Japanese: ルワンダ (ja) (Ruwanda)
• Kalenjin: Rwanda
• Kamba: Rwanda, Rwanda
• Kazakh: Руанда (kk) (Ruanda)
• Khmer: រវ៉ាន់ដា (km) (rɔvandaa)
• Khoekhoe: Roandab m
• Kikuyu: Rwanda
• Korean: 르완다 (ko) (Reuwanda)
• Kyrgyz: Руанда (Ruanda)
• Lithuanian: Ruanda (lt) f
• Luhya: Rwanda
• Luo: Rwanda
• Macedonian: Руа́нда (mk) f (Ruánda)
• Malay: Rwanda (ms)
• Malayalam: റുവാണ്ട (ṟuvāṇṭa)
• Maltese: ir-Ruanda
• Maori: Rāwana
• Meru: Rwanda
• Mongolian: Руанда (mn) (Ruanda)
• Navajo: Wánda Dineʼé bikéyah
• Norman: Rwanda m
• Norwegian: Rwanda (no)
• Occitan: Rwanda (oc) m
• Persian: رواندا (ruândâ)
• Polish: Rwanda (pl)
• Portuguese: Ruanda (pt) m
• Romanian: Ruanda f, Rwanda (ro) f
• Russian: Руа́нда (ru) f (Ruánda)
• Rwanda-Rundi: u Rwanda (rw)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Руанда f

  Roman: Ruanda (sh) f

• Shan: မိူင်းရဝၢၼ်းတႃႇ (móeng rǎ wáan tàa)
• Sinhalese: රුවන්ඩාව (ruwanḍāwa)
• Slovak: Rwanda f
• Slovene: Ruanda (sl) f
• Spanish: Ruanda (es) f
• Swahili: Rwanda (sw)
• Swedish: Rwanda (sv)
• Tagalog: Ruwanda
• Tajik: Руанда (Ruanda)
• Thai: รวันดา (th) (rá-wan-dâa)
• Tigrinya: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda)
• Turkish: Ruanda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Руа́нда (uk) f (Ruánda)
• Urdu: روانڈا (rvānḍā)
• Vietnamese: Ru-an-đa
• Yoruba: Ruwanda

language — see Kinyarwanda

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

• Rwanda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Rwanda, kin ⁠

Anagrams

• Radwan, adrawn

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa; capital: Kigali)

Derived terms

• Rwandees

Catalan

Proper noun

Rwanda ?

1. Alternative spelling of Ruanda: Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrvanda]

Proper noun

Rwanda f (relational adjective rwandský, demonym Rwanďan)

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Rwanda (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Rwanda
genitive	Rwandy
dative	Rwandě
accusative	Rwandu
vocative	Rwando
locative	Rwandě
instrumental	Rwandou

Further reading

• “Rwanda”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Rwanda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Rwanda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Rwanda n

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

French

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁwɑ̃.da/

Proper noun

Rwanda m

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• rwandais
• Rwandais

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• rwander
• rwandisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• rwandar
• rwandisk

Polish

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrvan.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: Rwan‧da

Proper noun

Rwanda f (related adjective rwandyjski)

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Rwanda

	singular
nominative	Rwanda
genitive	Rwandy
dative	Rwandzie
accusative	Rwandę
instrumental	Rwandą
locative	Rwandzie
vocative	Rwando

Derived terms

nouns

• Rwandyjczyk
• Rwandyjka

See also

countries in Africa: państwa Afryki (appendix)edit

• Algieria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Czad
• Demokratyczna Republika Konga
• Dżibuti
• Egipt
• Erytrea
• Eswatini
• Etiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gwinea
• Gwinea Bissau
• Gwinea Równikowa
• Kamerun
• Kenia
• Komory
• Kongo
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Maroko
• Mauretania
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Południowa Afryka
• Republika Środkowoafrykańska
• Republika Zielonego Przylądka
• Rwanda
• Sahara Zachodnia
• Senegal
• Seszele
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Południowy
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunezja
• Uganda
• Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej
• Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Further reading

• Rwanda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rwanda-Rundi

Proper noun

Rwānda class 9 (or class 11)

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• u Rwanda

Descendants

See Rwanda § Translations

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²rvanda/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Rwanda n (genitive Rwandas)

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• rwandier
• rwandisk
• rwandiska

References

• Rwanda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʊ.ˈanda/
• Rhymes: -anda

Proper noun

Rwanda f (not mutable)

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Coordinate terms

countries in Africa: gwledydd Affrica (appendix)edit

• Angola
• Algeria
• Benin
• Botswana
• Bwrcina Ffaso
• Bwrwndi
• Cabo Verde
• Camerŵn
• Cenia
• De Affrica
• De Swdan
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gini
• Gini Bisaw
• Gini Gyhydeddol
• Gorllewin Sahara
• Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica
• Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo
• Gweriniaeth y Congo
• Jibwti
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagasgar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mawrisiws
• Mawritania
• Moroco
• Mosambic
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Swdan
• São Tomé a Príncipe
• Tansania
• Tiwnisia
• Togo
• Tsiad
• Wganda
• y Comoros
• y Seychelles
• y Traeth Ifori
• yr Aifft

Derived terms

• Gweriniaeth Rwanda (“Republic of Rwanda”)