Cameroon

English thumb|right|Cameroon Etymology 1 en country :bor fr:Cameroun 1 en fr Cameroun, from en pt - Rio dos pt camarão Camarões river of prawns, a name given to the Wouri River Wouri river estuary, in 1472 by the sailors of the Portuguese explorer Fernão do Pó (a.k.a. Fernando Pó), raving about the abundance of shrimps of the species Lepidophthalmus turneranus (the Cameroon ghost shrimp) in the river; pt camarão itself is from en la cammarus lobster, from en grc κάμμαρος a kind of lobster or shrimp. Pronunciation en /kæməˈɹuːn/ en En-Cameroon-pronunciation.ogg US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Cameroon.wav UK en uːn 3 Proper noun en Q1009en country r/Central Africa Yaoundé Republic of Cameroon. It also claims Ambazonia. en Ngala Killian Chimtom Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/africa/boko-haram-recruiting-cameroon 2015-03-03 Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information. https://web.archive.org/web/20251021232228/https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/africa/boko-haram-recruiting-cameroon/ 21 October 2025 Hypernyms en Subsahara Derived terms en Camfranglais Cameroon scaly-tail Cameroonian Translations Q1009 country in Central Africa Afrikaans: af Kameroen Albanian: sq Kamerun m Amharic: am ካሜሩን Arabic: ar الْكَامِيرُون f, ar الْكَمِيرُون f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܟܵܡܝܼܪܘܿܢ f Armenian: hy Կամերուն Azerbaijani: az Kamerun Basque: eu Kamerun Belarusian: be Камеру́н m Bengali: bn ক্যামেরুন Breton: br Kameroun Bulgarian: bg Камеру́н m Burmese: my ကင်မရွန်း Catalan: ca Camerun m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 喀麥隆 Kāmàilóng Czech: cs Kamerun m Danish: da Cameroun Dhivehi: dv ކެމަރޫން Dutch: nl Kameroen n Esperanto: eo Kamerunio, eo Kameruno Estonian: et Kamerun Farefare: gur Kamerun Faroese: fo Kamerun n Finnish: fi Kamerun French: fr Cameroun m Galician: gl Camerún m Georgian: ka კამერუნი German: de Kamerun Greek: el Καμερούν n Hausa: ha Kamaru f Kàmàr̃u Hebrew: he קִמְרוֹן kamerun Hindi: hi कैमरून Hungarian: hu Kamerun Icelandic: is Kamerún n Interlingua: ia Cameroun Irish: ga Camarún m Italian: it Camerun m Japanese: ja カメルーン Kamerūn Kalenjin: kln Kamerun Kamba: kam Kameluni Kazakh: kk Камерун Khmer: km កាមេរូន Kikuyu: ki Kaamerun Korean: ko ^카메룬, ko ^까메룬 North Korea Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb کامیرۆن Kyrgyz: ky Камерун Latvian: lv Kamerūna f Lithuanian: lt Kamerūnas m Luhya: luy Kameruni Luo: luo Kamerun Macedonian: mk Камерун m Maltese: il-mt Kamerun m Māori: mi Kamarūna Meru: mer Kameruni Mongolian: mn Камерун Navajo: nv Táłtłʼááh Chʼosh Daadánígíí Bitooh Norman: nrf Cameroun m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Kamerun Nynorsk: nn Kamerun Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Камерун m Persian: fa کامرون kâmerun Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Cameroon Polish: pl Kamerun Portuguese: pt Camarões Romanian: ro Camerun n Russian: ru Камеру́н m Scots: sco Cameroon Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Камерун m Latin: sh Kamerun m Sinhalese: si කැමරූන් Slovak: sk Kamerun m Slovene: sl Kámerun m Spanish: es Camerún Swahili: sw Kameruni Swedish: sv Kamerun Tagalog: tl Kamerun Tajik: tg Камерун Tamil: ta கேமரூன், ta கமரூன், ta கமெரூன் Thai: th แคเมอรูน Tibetan: bo ཁམ་མུ་རོན Turkish: tr Kamerun Turkmen: tk Kamerun Ukrainian: uk Камеру́н m Urdu: ur کیمرون kaimarūn Uyghur: ug كامېرۇن Uzbek: uz Kamerun Vietnamese: vi Ca-mơ-run Võro: vro Kamõrun Wolaytta: wal Kaameruun Yoruba: yo Kamẹrúùnù Noun A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa. See also :Appendix:Countries of the world Further reading Etymology 2 en conservative :der Cameron :influence -oon 1 Alteration of en Cameron, influenced by en -oon. Noun en UK politics A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron. en 2007-03-21 The Cameroons Andy Beckett The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/mar/21/conservatives.uk He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, the Cameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office. https://web.archive.org/web/20261015075206/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/mar/21/conservatives.uk 15 October 2026 en 2010-09-13 Nick Boles: The Coalition’s Cameroon Outrider Iain Martin Wall Street Journal Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypal Cameroon ultra-modernizer. I don’t think Boles even owned a tie until he was elected to the House of Commons. That’s how much of a Cameroon the man is. en 2012-03-30 Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London James Chapman Daily Mail http://chapman.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/index.html Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron. 8 June 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120519084812/http://chapman.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/index.html 19 May 2012 en 2023-11-13 What David Cameron's return says about British politics Bagehot Economist https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/11/13/what-david-camerons-return-says-about-british-politics Mr Cameron won significantly smaller vote shares than either Theresa May or Boris Johnson. There are not many Cameroons in Britain. Outside some newspaper op-ed pages, there never were. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qsH4T 14 November 2023 See also en Blairite en Brownite en Thatcherite Anagrams en acemnoor con amore monorace en Sheep en eponyms terms suffixed with -oon Swahili sw: Pronunciation sw Sw-ke-Cameroon.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Cameroon Q1009 See also