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Rwanda
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English
thumb|right|Rwanda
Etymology
en :bor rw:u Rwānda 1
From en rw u Rwanda from the archaic verb rw anda -anda to expand. Compare zu anda to multiply.
Pronunciation
en /ɹuˈændə/ /ɹəˈwændə/ /ɹəˈwɒndə/ UK
en /ɹuˈɑndə/ /ɹəˈwɑndə/ US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Rwanda.wav UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Rwanda.wav Southern England
en ɒndə ændə 3
Proper noun
en Q1037en country r/East Africa.
en Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says w:Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/rwanda-talks-receive-migrants-deported-us-foreign-minister-says-2025-05-05/ 2025-05-05 The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.
en Q33573The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
en Kinyarwanda
The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
en VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda? 2004 Collateral Stuart Beattie DreamWorks Pictures
Hypernyms
en Subsahara
Derived terms
en Rwandese Rwandan
Translations
Q1037 country
Afrikaans: af Rwanda
Amharic: am ሩዋንዳ
Arabic: ar رُوَانْدَا f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܪܘܲܢܕܵܐ f
Armenian: hy Ռուանդա
Asturian: ast Ruanda
Azerbaijani: az Ruanda
Balinese: ban Rwanda
Bashkir: ba Руанда
Belarusian: be Руа́нда f
Bengali: bn রুয়ান্ডা
Betawi: bew Ruanda
Breton: br Rwanda
Bulgarian: bg Руа́нда f
Burmese: my ရဝမ်ဒါ
Catalan: ca Ruanda, ca Rwanda
Cherokee: chr ᎶᏩᏂᏓ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 盧旺達 Lúwàngdá; Taiwan cmn 盧安達 Lú'āndá
Czech: cs Rwanda f
Danish: da Rwanda
Dinka: din Ruanda
Dutch: nl Rwanda n
Esperanto: eo Ruando
Finnish: fi Ruanda
French: fr Ruanda m, fr Rwanda m
Georgian: ka რუანდა
German: de Ruanda n
Greek: el Ρουάντα f
Hausa: ha Ruwanda
Hebrew: he רואנדה ruanda
Hindi: hi रवांडा
Hungarian: hu Ruanda
Indonesian: id Rwanda
Interlingua: ia Rwanda
Italian: it Ruanda m
Japanese: ja ルワンダ Ruwanda
Javanese: jv Rwanda
Kalenjin: kln Rwanda
Kamba: kam Rwanda, kam Rwanda
Kazakh: kk Руанда
Khmer: km រវ៉ាន់ដា
Khoekhoe: naq Roandab m
Kikuyu: ki Rwanda
Korean: ko ^르완다
Kyrgyz: ky Руанда
Lithuanian: lt Ruanda f
Luhya: luy Rwanda
Luo: luo Rwanda
Macedonian: mk Руа́нда f
Malay: ms Rwanda
Malayalam: ml റുവാണ്ട
Maltese: ir-mt Ruanda
Manipuri:
Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy রুয়ান্ডা
Māori: mi Rāwana
Meru: mer Rwanda
Mongolian: mn Руанда
Navajo: nv Wánda Dineʼé bikéyah
Norman: nrf Rwanda m
Norwegian: no Rwanda
Occitan: oc Rwanda m
Persian: fa رواندا ruândâ
Polish: pl Rwanda
Portuguese: pt Ruanda m
Romanian: ro Ruanda f, ro Rwanda f
Russian: ru Руа́нда f
Rwanda-Rundi: rw u Rwanda
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Руанда f
Latin: sh Ruanda f
Shan: shn မိူင်းရဝၢၼ်းတႃႇ
Sinhalese: si රුවන්ඩාව
Slovak: sk Rwanda f
Slovene: sl Ruanda f
Spanish: es Ruanda f
Sundanese: su Rwanda
Swahili: sw Rwanda
Swedish: sv Rwanda
Tagalog: tl Ruwanda
Tajik: tg Руанда
Thai: th รวันดา
Tigrinya: ti ሩዋንዳ
Turkish: tr Ruanda
Ukrainian: uk Руа́нда f
Urdu: ur روانڈا
Vietnamese: vi Ru-an-đa
Yoruba: yo Ruwanda
Q33573 language Kinyarwanda
See also
Countries of the world
Further reading
kin
Anagrams
en aadnrw Radwan adrawn
en Languages
Afrikaans
af:
Pronunciation
af LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-Rwanda.wav
Proper noun
af Rwanda Q1037 af:Kigali
Derived terms
af Rwandees
Catalan
Pronunciation
ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Marvives-Rwanda.wav Barcelona
Proper noun
?
ca Ruanda: ca Rwanda Q1037
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Rvanda
Proper noun
f rwandský Rwanďan
cs Rwanda Q1037
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Rwanda.ogg
Proper noun
n
nl Rwanda Q1037
French
fr:
Alternative forms
fr Ruanda
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Rwanda.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
Proper noun
m
fr Rwanda Q1037
Derived terms
fr rwandais
fr Rwandais
Indonesian
id:
Etymology
id rw u Rwanda from the archaic verb rw anda -anda to expand. Compare zu anda to multiply.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
id Rwanda Q1037
Noun
a
Rwandan
Adjective
Rwandan
See also
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
no
thumb|The flag of Rwanda.
thumb|Rwanda in Africa.
thumb|Downtown Kigali viewed from Kimihurura.
Etymology
nb, based on nb rw u Rwanda Rwanda, from the archaic Rwanda-Rundi verb rw -anda to expand.
Compare Zulu zu anda -anda to increase, multiply; spread. Parallel international forms include nn Rwanda, da Rwanda, sv Rwanda, nl Rwanda and en Rwanda.
Pronunciation
nb /¹rʊˈan.da/ [rʊˈàn.da]
nb anda 3
nb rwanda
nb Rwan da
Proper noun
nb proper noun
Rwanda; nb country r/Central Africa cont/Africa Rwanda, a landlocked country in Central Africa, with Kigali as its capital.
nb Hun reiste gjennom Rwanda med buss fra Kigali mot grensen til Tanzania. She travelled through Rwanda by bus from Kigali toward the Tanzanian border.
nb 25 June 2026 Dag Leraand and Fredrik Lyngås Pedersen Rwanda Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Rwanda Rwanda er en republikk i Sentral-Afrika som grenser til Uganda i nord, Tanzania i øst, Burundi i sør og Den demokratiske republikken Kongo i vest. Rwanda is a republic in Central Africa bordering Uganda to the north, Tanzania to the east, Burundi to the south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. https://web.archive.org/web/20260724161942/https://snl.no/Rwanda 24 July 2026
Usage notes
The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Rwanda (“the Republic of Rwanda”).
Derived terms
nb rwander a Rwandan
nb rwandisk Rwandan
Related terms
nb rwanda Rwanda, Kinyarwanda language
See also
References
“Rwanda” in Store norske leksikon.
“Rwanda” in NRK-språket.
“Land Norge har diplomatiske forbindelser med”, Utenriksdepartementet.
Anagrams
nb aadnrw rwanda
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Rwanda Q1037
Related terms
nn rwandar
nn rwandisk
Polish
Alternative forms
pl Ruanda
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-Rwanda.wav
Proper noun
f rwandyjski
pl Rwanda Q1037
Declension
<f.sg>
Derived terms
pl nouns Rwandyjczyk Rwandyjka
See also
Further reading
Rwanda-Rundi
Proper noun
Rwānda 9 rw or class 11
rw Rwanda Q1037
Related terms
rw u Rwanda
Descendants
See Rwanda#Translations
Swahili
Pronunciation
sw Sw-ke-Rwanda.flac Kenya
Proper noun
sw proper noun
sw Rwanda Q1037
See also
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv /²rvanda/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Rwanda.wav
Proper noun
n
sv Rwanda Q1037
Related terms
sv rwandier
sv rwandisk
sv rwandiska
See also
References
saol
Svensk MeSH
Welsh
cy:
Pronunciation
cy /rʊ.ˈanda/
cy anda 3
Proper noun
f
cy Rwanda Q1037
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
cy Gweriniaeth Rwanda Republic of Rwanda