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
- 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.
- (historical) A former sultanate in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania.
Derived terms
Translations
island region
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Czech
Proper noun
Zanzibar m inan (relational adjective zanzibarský, demonym Zanzibarec)
Declension
Declension of Zanzibar (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
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Further reading
- “Zanzibar”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “Zanzibar”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɑn.ziˌbɑr/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Zan‧zi‧bar
Proper noun
Zanzibar n
Derived terms
- Zanzibarees
- Zanzibari
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
References
- ^ Zanzibar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Zanzibar
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Zanzibar
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zanˈzi.bar/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ibar
- Syllabification: Zan‧zi‧bar
Proper noun
Zanzibar m
Declension
Declension of Zanzibar
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Zanzibar |
| genitive | Zanzibaru |
| dative | Zanzibarowi |
| accusative | Zanzibar |
| instrumental | Zanzibarem |
| locative | Zanzibarze |
| vocative | Zanzibarze |
Further reading
- Zanzibar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba(ʁ)/ [zɐ̃.ziˈba(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba(ʁ)/ [zɐ̃.ziˈba(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈbaɾ/ [zɐ̃.ziˈβaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐ̃.ziˈba.ɾi/ [zɐ̃.ziˈβa.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: Zan‧zi‧bar
Proper noun
Zanzibar ?
Swahili
Etymology
Ultimately from Classical Persian زنگبار (zangibār, literally “black-skinned coast”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Proper noun
Zanzibar