Colombia

See also: Colômbia, Colòmbia, and colombià

English

Etymology

Named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: Columbia

Proper noun

Colombia

Country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia.

Derived terms

Colombian

Translations

country in South America

Adyghe: Коломбие (Kolombie)
Afrikaans: Colombia
Albanian: Kolumbi f (indefinite), Kolumbia (sq) f
Arabic: كُولُومْبِيَا‎‎ f (kolombiyā)
Armenian: Կոլումբիա (Kolumbia)
Assamese: কলম্বিয়া (kolombia)
Asturian: Colombia (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Kolumbiya (az)
Basque: Kolonbia
Belarusian: Калу́мбія f (Kalúmbija)
Bengali: কলম্বিয়া (kôlômbiya), কলোমবিয়া (kôlombiya)
Breton: Kolombia
Bulgarian: Колу́мбия f (Kolúmbija)
Burmese: ကိုလံဘီယာ (kuilambhiya)
Catalan: Colòmbia (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎪᎸᎻᏈᎢᎠ (golvmiquiia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哥倫比亞 (zh), 哥伦比亚 (zh) (Gēlúnbǐyà)
Czech: Kolumbie (cs) f
Danish: Colombia (da)
Dhivehi: ކޮލަންބިއާ‎‎ (kolanbiā)
Dutch: Colombia (nl), Colombië
Esperanto: Kolombio (eo)
Estonian: Colombia (et), Kolumbia
Finnish: Kolumbia (fi)
French: Colombie (fr) f
Galician: Colombia (gl) f
Georgian: კოლუმბია (ḳolumbia)
German: Kolumbien (de) n
Greek: Κολομβία (el) f (Kolomvía)
Hawaiian: Kolomepia
Hebrew: קוֹלוֹמְבְּיָה‎‎ (he) f (kolombia)
Hindi: कोलम्बिया (hi) (kolambiyā)
Hungarian: Kolumbia (hu)
Icelandic: Kólumbía (is) f
Ido: Kolumbia (io)
Indonesian: Kolombia (id)
Interlingua: Colombia
Irish: An Cholóim f
Italian: Colombia (it) f
Japanese: コロンビア (ja) (Koronbia)
Kalenjin: kol
Kamba: Kolombia
Kazakh: Колумбия (Kolwmbïya)
Khmer: កូឡុំប៊ី (km) (koulombii)
Kikuyu: Kolombia
Korean: 콜롬비아 (Kollombia)

Kyrgyz: Колумбия (Kolumbiya)
Lao: ໂກລົມບີ (kō lom bī)
Latvian: Kolumbija f
Lithuanian: Kolumbija (lt) f
Luhya: Kolombia
Luo: Kolombia
Macedonian: Колумбија f (Kolumbija)
Malay: Colombia
Maori: Koromōpia
Meru: Kolombia
Mongolian: Колумб (Kolumb)
Navajo: Kolámbiya
Norman: Colombie f
Norwegian: Colombia
Ossetian: Колумби (Kolumbi)
Pashto: کولومبيا‎‎ f (kolombyã)
Persian: کلمبیا‎‎ (fa) (kolombiyâ)
Polish: Kolumbia (pl) f
Portuguese: Colômbia (pt) f
Romanian: Columbia (ro) f
Russian: Колу́мбия (ru) f (Kolúmbija)
Scots: Colombie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Колу̀мбија f

Roman: Kolùmbija (sh) f
Silesian: Kolůmbja f
Sinhalese: කොලොම්‍බියාව (kolom‍biyāva)
Slovak: Kolumbia f
Slovene: Kolumbija (sl) f
Spanish: Colombia (es) f
Swahili: Kolombia (sw)
Swedish: Colombia (sv)
Tagalog: Kolombiya
Tajik: Кулумбия (tg) (Kulumbiya)
Tatar: Колумбия (Qolumbiya)
Telugu: కొలంబియా (te) (kolambiyā)
Thai: โคลอมเบีย (th) (koo-lɔm-biia)
Tibetan: ཁོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ (kho lom bi ya)
Turkish: Kolombiya (tr)
Turkmen: Kolumbiýa
Ukrainian: Колу́мбія (uk) f (Kolúmbija)
Urdu: کولمبیا‎‎ m (kolambiyā)
Uyghur: كولومبىيە‎‎ (kolombiye)
Uzbek: Kolumbiya (uz)
Vietnamese: Cô-lôm-bi-a
Yiddish: קאָלאָמביע‎‎ (kolombye)
Yoruba: Kòlómíbìa

Asturian

Proper noun

Colombia f

Colombia

Danish

Proper noun

Colombia

Colombia

Dutch

Pronunciation

(Netherlands)
audio (file)

Proper noun

Colombia n

Colombia

Interlingua

Proper noun

Colombia

Colombia

Italian

Proper noun

Colombia f

Colombia

Derived terms

colombiano

Anagrams

coliambo

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Colombia

Colombia

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Colombia

Colombia

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Named after the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈlombja/, [koˈlõmbja]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
("República de Colombia")
Audio (Peru) (file)
("Colombia, capital: Bogotá")

Proper noun

Colombia f

Colombia

Derived terms

colombiano adj
colombianidad
colombianismo
colombianista

Swedish

Proper noun

Colombia n (genitive Colombias)

Colombia

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