Kinshasa
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Kongo [Term?] (“the salt market”)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːsə
- IPA(key): /kɪnˈʃɑːsə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Kinshasa
- The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.
Synonyms
- Leopoldville (obsolete)
Translations
the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Anagrams
Afrikaans
Derived terms
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɪnʃasa]
Proper noun
Kinshasa f (related adjective kinshaský)
- Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Declension
Declension of Kinshasa (sg-only hard feminine)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Kinshasa |
| genitive | Kinshasy |
| dative | Kinshase |
| accusative | Kinshasu |
| vocative | Kinshaso |
| locative | Kinshase |
| instrumental | Kinshasou |
Further reading
- Kinshasa in Internetová jazyková příručka
Dutch
Etymology
Named after a nearby village.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪnˈʃaː.saː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Kin‧sha‧sa
Synonyms
- Leopoldstad (historical)
- Leopoldville (historical)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kin.ʃa.sa/
(file) Audio (Belgium) (file)
Proper noun
Kinshasa m
- Kinshasa (the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Synonym: (historical) Léopoldville
Portuguese
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkinʃasa]
Proper noun
Kinshasa f (genitive singular Kinshasy, declension pattern of žena)
- Kinshasa (the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
References
- “Kinshasa”, 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
Spanish
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