Zambia

See also: Zámbia and Zâmbia

English

Zambia

Etymology

From Zambezi. See Zambezi at Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzæmbiə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Zambia):

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Proper noun

Zambia

2. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Zambian

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Zambië (af)
• Amharic: ዛምቢያ (zambiya)
• Arabic: زَامْبِيَا (ar) f (zambiyā)
• Armenian: Զամբիա (hy) (Zambia)
• Belarusian: За́мбія f (Zámbija)
• Bengali: জাম্বিয়া (bn) (jambiẏa)
• Breton: Zambia (br)
• Bulgarian: За́мбия f (Zámbija)
• Burmese: ဇမ်ဘီယာ (jambhiya)
• Chichewa: Zambia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贊比亞 / 赞比亚 (zh) (Zànbǐyà)

• Czech: Zambie (cs) f
• Danish: Zambia
• Dutch: Zambia (nl)
• Esperanto: Zambio (eo)
• Faroese: Sambia n
• Finnish: Sambia (fi)
• French: Zambie (fr) f
• Georgian: ზამბია (ka) (zambia)
• German: Sambia (de) n
• Greek: Ζάμπια (el) f (Zámpia)
• Hausa: Zambiya
• Hindi: ज़ाम्बिया (hi) (zāmbiyā)
• Hungarian: Zambia (hu)
• Irish: an tSaimbia f
• Italian: Zambia (it) m
• Japanese: ザンビア (ja) (Zanbia)
• Kalenjin: Zambia
• Kamba: Zambia
• Kazakh: Замбия (kk) (Zambiä)
• Khmer: ហ្សំប៊ី (km) (zɑmbii)
• Kikuyu: Zambia
• Korean: 잠비아 (ko) (Jambia)
• Kyrgyz: Замбия (ky) (Zambiya)
• Lao: ຊຳບີ (sam bī)
• Latvian: Zambija f
• Lithuanian: Zambija (lt) f
• Luhya: Zambia
• Luo: Zambia
• Macedonian: За́мбија (mk) f (Zámbija)
• Malayalam: സാംബിയ (sāmbiya), ജംബിയ (jambiya)
• Maltese: iż-Żambja
• Maori: Tāmipia
• Meru: Zambia
• Mongolian: Замби (Zambi)
• Norman: Zambia (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Zambia (no)

  Nynorsk: Zambia (nn)

• Persian: زامبیا (zâmbiyâ)
• Polish: Zambia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Zâmbia (pt) f
• Romanian: Zambia (ro) f
• Russian: За́мбия (ru) f (Zámbija)
• Scots: Zambie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Замбија f

  Roman: Zambija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සැම්බියා (sæmbiyā)
• Slovak: Zambia f
• Slovene: Zámbija (sl) f
• Spanish: Zambia (es) f
• Swahili: Zambia (sw)
• Swedish: Zambia (sv)
• Tagalog: Sambiya
• Tajik: Замбия (Zambiya)
• Tamil: சாம்பியா (ta) (cāmpiyā), ஜம்பியா (jampiyā)
• Telugu: జాంబియా (te) (jāmbiyā)
• Thai: แซมเบีย (th) (sɛɛm-biia)
• Tibetan: ཛམ་བི་ཡ (dzam bi ya)
• Tigrinya: ዛምቢያ (zambiya)
• Turkish: Zambiya (tr)
• Ukrainian: За́мбія (uk) f (Zámbija)
• Urdu: زامبیا (zāmbiyā)
• Uyghur: زامبىيە (zambiye)
• Uzbek: Zambiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Dăm-bi-a
• Yoruba: Sáńbíà

See also

• Appendix: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

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Chichewa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /záˈᵐbi.a/

Proper noun

Zámbia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Danish

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• zambisk
• zambier

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Zambia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑm.bi.aː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Zam‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia n

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• Zambiaan
• Zambiaas

Galician

Proper noun

Zambia f

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• zambiano

Hungarian

Zambia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɒmbijɒ]
• Hyphenation: Zam‧bia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa; official name: Zambiai Köztársaság)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Zambia	—
accusative	Zambiát	—
dative	Zambiának	—
instrumental	Zambiával	—
causal-final	Zambiáért	—
translative	Zambiává	—
terminative	Zambiáig	—
essive-formal	Zambiaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Zambiában	—
superessive	Zambián	—
adessive	Zambiánál	—
illative	Zambiába	—
sublative	Zambiára	—
allative	Zambiához	—
elative	Zambiából	—
delative	Zambiáról	—
ablative	Zambiától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Zambiáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Zambiáéi	—

Possessive forms of Zambia

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Zambiám	—
2nd person sing.	Zambiád	—
3rd person sing.	Zambiája	—
1st person plural	Zambiánk	—
2nd person plural	Zambiátok	—
3rd person plural	Zambiájuk	—

Derived terms

• zambiai

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika országai (appendix)edit

• Algéria
• Angola
• Benin
• Bissau-Guinea
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Comore-szigetek
• Csád
• Dél-afrikai Köztársaság
• Dél-Szudán
• Dzsibuti
• Egyenlítői-Guinea
• Egyiptom
• Elefántcsontpart
• Eritrea
• Etiópia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghána
• Guinea
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaság
• Kongói Köztársaság
• Közép-afrikai Köztársaság
• Lesotho
• Libéria
• Líbia
• Madagaszkár
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokkó
• Mauritánia
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namíbia
• Niger
• Nigéria
• Ruanda
• Seychelle-szigetek
• Sierra Leone
• São Tomé és Príncipe
• Szenegál
• Szomália
• Szudán
• Szváziföld
• Tanzánia
• Togo
• Tunézia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Zöld-foki Köztársaság

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zam.bja/
• Rhymes: -ambja
• Hyphenation: Zàm‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia m

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• zambiano

Latin

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪͡z̪am.bi.a]

Proper noun

Zambia f sg (genitive Zambiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Zambia
genitive	Zambiae
dative	Zambiae
accusative	Zambiam
ablative	Zambiā
vocative	Zambia

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• zambier
• zambisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• zambiar
• zambisk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzam.bja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Zam‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia f (related adjective zambijski)

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Zambia

	singular
nominative	Zambia
genitive	Zambii
dative	Zambii
accusative	Zambię
instrumental	Zambią
locative	Zambii
vocative	Zambio

Derived terms

nouns

• Zambijczyk
• Zambijka

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

• Zambia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθambja/ [ˈθãm.bja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsambja/ [ˈsãm.bja]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Zam‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia f

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• zambiano

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Southern 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

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Zambia n (genitive Zambias)

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived terms

• zambier
• zambisk
• zambiska

References

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