Zanzibar

See also: zanzibar

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār), literally meaning “black-skinned coast”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzænzɪbɑː(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Zanzibar

  1. An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
    • 2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 July 2019:
      Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.
  2. (historical) A former sultanate in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania.

Derived terms

Translations

Czech

Proper noun

Zanzibar m inan (relational adjective zanzibarský, demonym Zanzibarec)

  1. Zanzibar

Declension

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɑn.ziˌbɑr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Zan‧zi‧bar

Proper noun

Zanzibar n

  1. Zanzibar

Derived terms

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zan.d͡zi.bar/, (traditional) */d͡zan.d͡ziˈbar/[1]
  • Rhymes: -andzibar, (traditional) -ar
  • Hyphenation: Zàn‧zi‧bar, (traditional) Zan‧zi‧bàr

Proper noun

Zanzibar f

  1. Zanzibar

References

  1. ^ Zanzibar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Zanzibar

  1. Zanzibar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Zanzibar

  1. Zanzibar

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zanˈzi.bar/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ibar
  • Syllabification: Zan‧zi‧bar

Proper noun

Zanzibar m

  1. Zanzibar

Declension

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba(ʁ)/ [zɐ̃.ziˈba(h)]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈbaɾ/ [zɐ̃.ziˈβaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba.ɾi/ [zɐ̃.ziˈβa.ɾi]

  • Hyphenation: Zan‧zi‧bar

Proper noun

Zanzibar ?

  1. Zanzibar (an island off the coast of Tanzania)

Swahili

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār, literally black-skinned coast).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Zanzibar

  1. Zanzibar (an island off the coast of Tanzania)