Abuja

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Abuja

2. The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 96:

     We’ll have to wait here all night till the mobile police arrives from Abuja, a distance of 350 kilometres.

Translations

The capital city of Nigeria

• Abkhaz: Абуџа (Abudẑa)
• Afrikaans: Abuja
• Amharic: አቡጃ (ʾäbuǧa)
• Arabic: أَبُوجَا f (ʔabujā)
• Armenian: Աբուջա (Abuǰa)
• Belarusian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Bengali: আবুজা (abuja)
• Bulgarian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Burmese: အဘူဂျာမြို့ (a.bhugyamrui.)
• Catalan: Abuja
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿布賈／阿布贾 (zh) (Ābùjiǎ)

• Czech: Abuja f, Abudža f
• Danish: Abuja
• Esperanto: Abuĝo (eo)
• Estonian: Abuja (et)
• Farefare: Abuza
• Georgian: აბუჯა (abuǯa)
• Greek: Αμπούζα (el) f (Ampoúza), Αμπούτζα (el) f (Ampoútza)
• Hebrew: אַבּוּגָ׳ה f (abuja)
• Hindi: अबुजा m (abujā)
• Irish: Abúise f
• Japanese: アブジャ (ja) (Abuja)
• Khmer: អាប៊ូហ្សា (km) (ʼaabuuhsaa)
• Korean: 아부자 (ko) (Abuja)
• Latvian: Abudža f
• Macedonian: Абуџа (mk) f (Abudža)
• Nupe: Abújá
• Persian: آبوجا (âbujâ)
• Polish: Abudża (pl) f
• Portuguese: Abuja (pt) f
• Russian: Абу́джа (ru) f (Abúdža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Абуја f, Абуџа f

  Roman: Abuja f, Abudža f

• Spanish: Abuya
• Swedish: Abuja (sv)
• Thai: อาบูจา (aa-buu-jaa)
• Turkish: Abuja
• Ukrainian: Абу́джа f (Abúdža)
• Urdu: ابوجا m (abujā)
• Vietnamese: A-bu-gia
• Võro: Abuja
• Yoruba: Àbújá

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Abuja

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Czech

Alternative forms

• Abudža

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈabudʒa]

Proper noun

Abuja f

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Declension

Declension of Abuja (sg-only mixed feminine)

	singular
nominative	Abuja
genitive	Abuji, Abuje
dative	Abuje, Abuji
accusative	Abuju
vocative	Abujo
locative	Abuje, Abuji
instrumental	Abujou

Japanese

Romanization

Abuja

1. Rōmaji transcription of アブジャ

Nupe

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.bú.d͡ʒá/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Abújá

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

   Keńci dókun fédùn ci Abújá o. ― Many Hausa people live in Abuja.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.ʒa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈbu.ʒɐ/ [ɐˈβu.ʒɐ]

Proper noun

Abuja f

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈabud͡ʒa]

Proper noun

Abuja f (genitive singular Abuje, declension pattern of ulica)

1. Abuja (the capital of Nigeria)

References

• “Abuja”, 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

Yoruba

Etymology

Borrowed from English Abuja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.bú.d͡ʒá/

Proper noun

Àbújá

1. Abuja (the capital city of Nigeria)