Kenya

See also: Kenýa, Kénya, and Kênya

English

Etymology

Probably from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”), referring to Mount Kenya.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnjə/, /ˈkiːnjə/
(Kenya) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɲa]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Hyphenation: Ken‧ya, Ke‧nya

Proper noun

Kenya

Country in Eastern Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

Hypernyms

Subsahara

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

Afrikaans: Kenia
Albanian: Kenia (sq) f
Amharic: ኬንያ (kenya)
Arabic: كِينِيَا‎ f (kēniyā)
Armenian: Քենիա (Kʿenia)
Asturian: Keña f
Azerbaijani: Keniya (az)
Bashkir: Кения (Keniya)
Belarusian: Ке́нія f (Kjénija)
Bengali: কেনিয়া (keniya)
Breton: Kenya
Bulgarian: Ке́ния f (Kénija)
Burmese: ကင်ညာ (kangnya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肯尼亞 (zh), 肯尼亚 (zh) (Kěnníyà), 肯亞 (zh), 肯亚 (zh) (Kěnyà) (Taiwan)
Crimean Tatar: Keniya
Czech: Keňa (cs) f
Danish: Kenya
Dinka: Kenya
Dutch: Kenia (nl), Kenya (nl)
Esperanto: Kenjo
Estonian: Keenia (et), Kenya (et)
Faroese: Kenja n
Finnish: Kenia (fi)
French: Kenya (fr)
Galician: Quenia (gl) f
Georgian: კენია (ḳenia)
German: Kenia (de)
Greek: Κένυα (el) f (Kénya)
Gujarati: કેન્યા (kenyā)
Hausa: Kenya
Hebrew: קֶנְיָה‎ f (kenya)
Hindi: कीनिया (hi) (kīniyā), केन्या (kenyā)
Hungarian: Kenya (hu)
Icelandic: Kenía (is) f
Ido: Kenia (io)
Indonesian: Kenya (id)
Interlingua: Kenya
Italian: Kenya (it)
Japanese: ケニア (ja) (Kenia)
Kalenjin: Kenya
Kamba: Kenya
Kannada: ಕೀನ್ಯಾ (kīnyā)
Kazakh: Кения (Kenïya)
Khmer: កេនយ៉ា (km) (keenyaa)
Kikuyu: Kenya
Kis: Kenya
Korean: 케냐 (Kenya)
Kurdish:
Sorani: کینیا‎ (kînya)
Kyrgyz: Кения (ky) (Keniya)
Lao: ເກນຢາ (kēn yā)
Latgalian: Keneja
Latin: Kenia
Latvian: Kenija f
Lithuanian: Kenija (lt) f
Luhya: Kenya
Luo: Kenya
Macedonian: Кенија (mk) f (Kenija)
Malay: Kenya

Malayalam: കെനിയ (keniya)
Maltese: il-Kenja f
Maori: Kēnia
Marathi: केनिया (keniyā)
Mari:
Western Mari: Кени (Keni)
Meru: Kenya
Mongolian: Кени (Keni)
Nahuatl: Quenia
Navajo: Kénya
Norman: Qùenia m, Kenya
North Frisian: Keenia
Northern Sami: Kenia
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Kenya (no)

Nynorsk: Kenya (nn)
Occitan: Kenya (oc) m
Oriya: କେନିଆ (keniā)
Papiamentu: Kenia
Pashto: کېنيا‎ (kenyā)
Persian: کنیا‎ (keniyâ)
Polish: Kenia (pl) f
Portuguese: Quénia (pt) m (Portugal), Quênia (pt) m (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਕੀਨੀਆ (kīnīā)
Quechua: Kinya
Romanian: Kenya (ro) f
Russian: Ке́ния (ru) f (Kénija)
Sango: Kenyäa
Sardinian: Kènya
Scots: Kenyae
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Кенија f

Roman: Kenija (sh) f
Sinhalese: කෙන්යාව (kenyāva)
Slovak: Keňa (sk) f
Slovene: Kénija (sl) f
Somali: Kiinya
Spanish: Kenia (es) f
Swahili: Kenya (sw)
Swedish: Kenya (sv)
Tagalog: Kenya (tl)
Tajik: Кения (Keniya)
Tamil: கென்யா (keṉyā)
Tatar: Кения (Keniya)
Telugu: కెన్యా (te) (kenyā)
Thai: เคนยา (th) (ken-yâa)
Tibetan: ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། (khe ni ya)
Tigrinya: ኬንያ (kenya)
Turkish: Kenya (tr)
Turkmen: Keniýa
Ukrainian: Ке́нія (uk) f (Kénija)
Urdu: کینیا‎ (kīniyā)
Uyghur: كېنىيە‎ (këniye)
Uzbek: Keniya (uz)
Vietnamese: Kê-ni-a
Western Panjabi: کینیا‎
Yakut: Кения (Keniya)
Yiddish: קעניע‎ (kenye)
Yoruba: Kenya

See also

Countries of the world

Further reading

Kenya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Yanke, nakey

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɲə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɲa/
Hyphenation: Ke‧nya

Proper noun

Kenya m or f

Kenya

Dinka

Proper noun

Kenya

Kenya

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ke.nja/

Proper noun

Kenya m

Kenya

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kenya

Kenya

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Kenya

Kenya

Related terms

kenyan, kenyanar
kenyansk

Portuguese

Proper noun

Kenya m

Alternative spelling of Quénia

Swahili

Proper noun

Kenya

Kenya

Derived terms

Mkenya

Swedish

Proper noun

Kenya n

Kenya

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Kenia (“Kenya”).

Proper noun

Kenya

Kenya

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