Uganda

See also: Úganda

Contents

English

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈɡændə/, /uˈɡɑːndə/

Proper noun

Uganda

2. Country in Eastern Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Ugandan
• discuss Uganda

Translations

Republic of Uganda

• Afrikaans: Uganda
• Amharic: ዩጋንዳ (yuganda)
• Arabic: أُوغَنْدَا‎ f (ʾuḡandā), أُوغَنْدَة‎ f (ʾuḡanda)
• Armenian: Ուգանդա (Uganda)
• Asturian: Uganda (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Uqanda (az)
• Belarusian: Уга́нда f (Uhánda)
• Bengali: উগান্ডা (uganḍa)
• Breton: Ouganda
• Bulgarian: Уга́нда f (Ugánda)
• Burmese: ယူဂန်းဒါး (yugan:da:)
• Catalan: Uganda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏干達 (zh), 乌干达 (zh) (Wūgāndá)

• Czech: Uganda (cs) f
• Danish: Uganda
• Dhivehi: ޔުގެންޑާ‎ (dv) (yugenḍā)
• Dinka: Yuganda
• Dutch: Uganda (nl), Oeganda (nl)
• Esperanto: Ugando (eo)
• Estonian: Uganda (et)
• Faroese: Uganda n
• Finnish: Uganda (fi)
• French: Ouganda (fr)
• Galician: Uganda (gl)
• Georgian: უგანდა (uganda)
• German: Uganda (de)
• Greek: Ουγκάντα (el) f (Ougkánta)
• Hausa: Yuganda
• Hebrew: אוגנדה‎ n (ugáneda)
• Hindi: युगांडा (hi) (yugāṇḍā)
• Hungarian: Uganda (hu)
• Interlingua: Uganda
• Irish: Uganda m, Poblacht Uganda f
• Italian: Uganda (it)
• Japanese: ウガンダ (ja) (Uganda)
• Kalenjin: Uganda
• Kamba: Uganda
• Kannada: ಉಗಾಂಡ (kn) (ugāṇḍa)
• Kazakh: Уганда (Wganda)
• Khmer: អ៊ូហ្គង់ដា (ʾuugɑngdaa)
• Kikuyu: Uganda
• Kis: Uganda
• Korean: 우간다 (ko) (Uganda)
• Kurdish: Ûganda (ku)

  Sorani: ئوگاندا‎ (uganda)

• Kyrgyz: Уганда (ky) (Uganda)
• Lango (Uganda): yùgándà
• Lao: ອູການດາ (’ū kān dā)
• Latvian: Uganda f
• Lithuanian: Uganda (lt) f
• Luhya: Uganda
• Luo: Uganda
• Macedonian: Уга́нда (mk) f (Ugánda)
• Malayalam: ഉഗാണ്ട (ml) (ugāṇṭa)
• Maltese: l-Uganda f
• Maori: Ukānga
• Meru: Uganda
• Mongolian: Уганда (mn) (Uganda)
• Navajo: Yogénda
• Norman: Uganda (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Uganda (no)

  Nynorsk: Uganda (nn)

• Oriya: ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା (ugāṇḍā)
• Persian: اوگاندا‎ (ugândâ)
• Polish: Uganda (pl)
• Portuguese: Uganda (pt)
• Romanian: Uganda (ro) f
• Russian: Уга́нда (ru) f (Ugánda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Уганда f

  Roman: Uganda (sh) f

• Spanish: Uganda (es)
• Swahili: Uganda
• Swedish: Uganda (sv)
• Tagalog: Uganda (tl)
• Tajik: Уганда (Uganda)
• Tamil: உகாண்டா (ukāṇṭā)
• Tatar: Уганда (Uğanda)
• Telugu: ఉగాండా (te) (ugāṇḍā)
• Thai: ยูกันดา (th) (yuu-gan-dâa)
• Turkish: Uganda (tr)
• Turkmen: Uganda
• Ukrainian: Уга́нда (uk) f (Uhánda)
• Uyghur: ئۇگاندا‎ (uganda)
• Uzbek: Uganda (uz)
• Vietnamese: U-gan-đa
• Yoruba: Uganda

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Appendix:Place names in Uganda

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.da/

Proper noun

Uganda ?

1. Uganda

Related terms

• ugandès

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Czech

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda

Related terms

• Uganďan
• ugandský

Further reading

• Uganda in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Uganda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Proper noun

Uganda n

1. Uganda

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Faroese

Etymology

From Swahili Buganda (subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”).

Proper noun

Uganda n

1. Uganda

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Uganda
Accusative	Uganda
Dative	Uganda
Genitive	Uganda

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɡɑndɑ/, [ˈuɡɑndɑ]

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda

Declension

Inflection of Uganda (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		Uganda	—
genitive		Ugandan	—
partitive		Ugandaa	—
illative		Ugandaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Uganda	—
accusative	nom.	Uganda	—
	gen.	Ugandan
genitive		Ugandan	—
partitive		Ugandaa	—
inessive		Ugandassa	—
elative		Ugandasta	—
illative		Ugandaan	—
adessive		Ugandalla	—
ablative		Ugandalta	—
allative		Ugandalle	—
essive		Ugandana	—
translative		Ugandaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Ugandatta	—
comitative		—	—

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda n (genitive Ugandas)

1. Uganda

Related terms

• Ugander, Uganderin
• ugandisch

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Irish

Proper noun

Uganda m

1. Uganda

Synonyms

• Poblacht Uganda

Derived terms

• Ugandach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Uganda	nUganda	hUganda	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda

Related terms

• ugandese

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Japanese

Romanization

Uganda

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウガンダ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.da/, [ʊˈɡan.da]

Proper noun

Uganda f (genitive Ugandae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Uganda

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Uganda
Genitive	Ugandae
Dative	Ugandae
Accusative	Ugandam
Ablative	Ugandā
Vocative	Uganda

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Latvian

Proper noun

Uganda f (4th declension)

1. Uganda

Declension

Declension of Uganda (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Uganda	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Ugandu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Ugandas	—
dative (datīvs)	Ugandai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Ugandu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Ugandā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Uganda	—

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Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Uganda

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda

Related terms

• ugander
• ugandisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda

Related terms

• ugandar
• ugandisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡan.da/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda

Declension

declension of Uganda

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugandy
dative	Ugandzie
accusative	Ugandę
instrumental	Ugandą
locative	Ugandzie
vocative	Ugando

Derived terms

• Ugandyjczyk m, Ugandyjka f
• adjective: ugandyjski

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/

Proper noun

Uganda f

1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔɡaːnda/
• Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Ùgānda f (Cyrillic spelling У̀га̄нда)

1. Uganda

Declension

Declension of Uganda

	singular
nominative	Uganda
genitive	Ugande
dative	Ugandi
accusative	Ugandu
vocative	Ugando
locative	Ugandi
instrumental	Ugandom

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡanda/, [uˈɣãn̪d̪a]

Proper noun

Uganda ?

1. Uganda

Related terms

• ugandés

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Swahili

Proper noun

Uganda

1. Uganda

Derived terms

• Mganda