Kabul

• Cabool, Cabul, Caubool, Caubul (all obsolete)
• Kabol (from Iranian Persian)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), of unknown origin. See the Persian entry for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːbəl/, enPR: käʹbəl

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːˌbʊl/, enPR: käʹbo͝ol^[1]
• IPA^(key): /kəˈbuːl/, enPR: kə-bo͞olʹ^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɑːbəl, -uːl

Kabul

2. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
4. A province of Afghanistan.
6. A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.

• (rare) Kabulese
• Kabuli

• baulk, bulak

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβul]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈbul]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈbul]

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

• kabulí

Kabul

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːbʊl/, /ˈkaːˌbuːl/, /kaˈbuːl/

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Kabul n (proper noun, genitive Kabuls or (optionally with an article) Kabul)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کابل (kābul).

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bul/

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• Rhymes: -abul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Kabul m inan

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

• Kabul in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Kabul in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Kabul m inan (Cyrillic spelling Кабул)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), in turn borrowed from Sanskrit कुभा (kubhā, “Kabul River”), Ancient Greek Κάβουρα (Káboura, “a settlement in Afghanistan crossed by Alexander the Great”) and Avestan 𐬐𐬎𐬡𐬀 (kuβa). Pronunciation changed to "Kabul" around the 11th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbul/ [kaˈβ̞ul]

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

   Holonym: Afganistán

Kabul n (genitive Kabuls)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)