Gambia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

The Gambia

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Etymology edit

From the name of the Gambia River. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Dictionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæm.bi.ə/

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Proper noun edit

Gambia or the Gambia

1. A river in West Africa.
3. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of The Gambia.

Usage notes edit

The country is referred to with the definite article the. The capitalization of the article when it occurs not at the beginning of a sentence varies.

Hypernyms edit

• Subsahara

Derived terms edit

• Gambian

Translations edit

See also edit

• 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]}
• Gambia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Etymology edit

From English Gambia, from Mandinka Kambra/Kambaa ("Gambia River").

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Etymology edit

From English Gambia.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑmbiɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝mbiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gam‧bi‧a

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Gambia n (proper noun, genitive Gambias or (optionally with an article) Gambia)

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms edit

• Gambier
• gambisch
• Senegambia

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒmbijɒ]
• Hyphenation: Gam‧bia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension edit

Related terms edit

• gambiai

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bja/
• Rhymes: -ambja
• Hyphenation: Gàm‧bia

Proper noun edit

Gambia m

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms edit

• gambiano

Anagrams edit

• ambagi, bigama

Pronunciation edit

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bi.a/, [ˈɡämbiä]

Proper noun edit

Gambia f sg (genitive Gambiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension edit

First-declension noun, singular only.

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Related terms edit

• gambier
• gambisk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Related terms edit

• gambiar
• gambisk

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bja/

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Gam‧bia

Proper noun edit

Gambia f

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

• Gambia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡambi̯a]

Proper noun edit

Gambia f (genitive singular Gambie)

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

References edit

• “Gambia”, 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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡambja/ [ˈɡãm.bja]

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Gam‧bia

Proper noun edit

Gambia f

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Further reading edit

• “Gambia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Proper noun edit

Gambia

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

See also edit

• (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 Wikipedia has an article on:

Gambia

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Proper noun edit

Gambia n (genitive Gambias)

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms edit

• gambier
• gambisk

Yoruba Wikipedia has an article on:

Gáḿbíà

Wikipedia ^yo

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Gambia.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.ŋ́.bí.à/

Proper noun edit

Gáḿbíà

1. Gambia (a country in West Africa)
2. River Gambia (a river in West Africa)

Alternative forms edit

• Gáńbíà (nonstandard)