Zimbabwe

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• Received-Pronunciation: /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /zɪmˈbɑːbwɛj/
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• General-American: /zɪmˈbɑbweɪ/
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• Australia: /zɪmˈbɐːbwæɪ/
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• New-Zealand: /zəmˈbɐːbwæɪ/
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• Scotland: /zɪmˈbabwe/
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• Wales: /zɪmˈbaːbweː/
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• CMU ARPABET: Z IH0 M B AA1 B W EY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mbá Shona imbá Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è Shona ibwe Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder. English Zimbabwe From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“houses of stones”) (see imba (“house”), ibwe (“stone”)), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

From the Bantu word for a meeting house.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Afrikaans: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Albanian: Zimbabveja — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Amharic: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Arabic: زِيمْبَابْوِي (zīmbābwī) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܝܼܡܒܵܒܘܹܐ (zīmbābwē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Armenian: Զիմբաբվե (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Asturian: Zimbabue — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Azerbaijani: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Balinese: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Balinese: Zimbabwé — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Belarusian: Зімба́бвэ (Zimbábve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Bengali: জিম্বাবুয়ে (jimbabuẏe) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Betawi: Jimbabwé — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Breton: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Bulgarian: Зимба́бве (Zimbábve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Burmese: ဇင်ဘာဘွေ (jangbhabhwe) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Catalan: Zimbàbue — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Cherokee: ᏏᎻᏆᏇ (simiquaque) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Chichewa: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Chinese Mandarin: 津巴布韋 /津巴布韦 (Jīnbābùwéi) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Corsican: Zimbabue — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Czech: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Danish: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Dhivehi: ޒިމްބާބުވޭ (zim̊bābuvē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Dutch: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Dzongkha: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝེ་ (dzim bab we) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Esperanto: Zimbabvo — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Estonian: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Faroese: Simbabvi — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Finnish: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• French: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• French: Zimbabwé — Republic of Zimbabwe
• West-Frisian: Simbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Georgian: ზიმბაბვე (zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• German: Simbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Greek: Ζιμπάμπουε (Zimpámpoue) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Hausa: Zimbabuwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Hebrew: זימבבואה (zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Hindi: ज़िम्बाब्वे (zimbābve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Hungarian: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Icelandic: Simbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Ido: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Indonesian: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Interlingua: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Irish: An tSiombáib — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Irish: Poblacht na Siombáibe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Italian: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Japanese: ジンバブエ (Jinbabue) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Javanese: Zimbabwé — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Kalenjin: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Kamba: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Kazakh: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Khmer: ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ (siimbaavee) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Kikuyu: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Korean: 짐바브웨 (Jimbabeuwe) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Kyrgyz: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Lao: ຊິມບັບເວ (sim bap wē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Latvian: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Lithuanian: Zimbabvė — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Luhya: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Luo: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Macedonian: Зимба́бве (Zimbábve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Malay: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Malayalam: സിംബാബ്വെ (simbābve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Maltese: iż-Żimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Māori: Timuwawe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Meru: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Mongolian: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Navajo: Tsé Bee Bighan Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Norman: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Norwegian Bokmål: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Pashto: زېمبابوې — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Persian: زیمبابوه (zimbâbve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Polish: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Portuguese: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Portuguese: Zimbábue — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Portuguese: Zimbabué — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Romanian: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Russian: Зимба́бве (Zimbábvɛ) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Serbo-Croatian: Зимбабве — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Serbo-Croatian: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Shona: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Sinhalese: සිම්බාබ්වේ (simbābwē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Slovak: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Slovene: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Spanish: Zimbabue — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Sundanese: Zimbabwé — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Swahili: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Swedish: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tagalog: Simbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tajik: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tamil: ஜிம்பாப்வே (jimpāpvē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tamil: சிம்பாப்வே (cimpāpvē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tatar: Зимбабве — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Telugu: జింబాబ్వే (jimbābvē) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Thai: ซิมบับเว (sim-báp-wee) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tibetan: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝི། (dzim bab wi) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Tigrinya: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Turkish: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Turkmen: Zimbabwe — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Ukrainian: Зімба́бве (Zimbábve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Urdu: زمبابوے — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Uyghur: زىمبابۋې (zimbabwë) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Uzbek: Zimbabve — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Vietnamese: Dim-ba-bu-ê — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Yiddish: זימבאַבווע (zimbabve) — Republic of Zimbabwe
• Yoruba: Sìǹbábúwè — Republic of Zimbabwe