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Colombia
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Colômbia Colómbia Colòmbia colombià
English
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Etymology
en es Colombia, from en it Colombo Cristoforo Colombo; en Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus = 1451 1506 1. Equivalent to en it:Colombo -ia place; en Columbia 1.
Pronunciation
en /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/ RP,US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Colombia.wav Southern England
en en-us-Colombia.ogg US
en /kəˈlʊm.bi.ə/ Northern England
en /kəˈlʌm.be.ə/ Scotland
en /koˈlom.bjɐ/ Philippines
en Columbia
Proper noun
en Q739en country cont/South America Bogotá Republic of Colombia.
en New Granada<q:historical>
en David Charter Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business w:The Times https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/fafo-meaning-colombia-trump-tariffs-migrants-d6xhncq5z 2025-01-27 Fafo works with small trading nations such as Colombia because US markets could quickly adapt to the greater expense of its coffee, flowers and other exports. There will be a different order of chaos, though, if Trump follows through on tariffs on the EU (17 per cent of US imports), Mexico (15 per cent), China (14 per cent) or Canada (12 per cent). https://web.archive.org/web/20251230121554/https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/fafo-meaning-colombia-trump-tariffs-migrants-d6xhncq5z 30 December 2025
Derived terms
en Colombian
Translations
Q739 country in South America
Afrikaans: af Colombia n, af Colombië n, af Kolombië n
Albanian: sq Kolumbí f indefinite, sq Kolumbía f definite
Amharic: am ኮሎምቢያ
Arabic: ar كُولُومْبِيَا f kolombiyā, ar كُلُمبِية f kolombiyā, ar كُلُمبيا f kolombiyā
Egyptian Arabic: arz كولومبيا f kulumbya
Armenian: hy Կոլումբիա
Aromanian: rup Culumbii f indefinite, rup Culumbia f definite
Assamese: as কলম্বিয়া
Asturian: ast Colombia f
Azerbaijani: az Kolumbiya
Basque: eu Kolonbia
Belarusian: be Калу́мбія f
Bengali: bn কলম্বিয়া, bn কলোমবিয়া
Breton: br Kolombia
Bulgarian: bg Колу́мбия f
Burmese: my ကိုလံဘီယာ
Catalan: ca Colòmbia f
Cherokee: chr ᎪᎸᎻᏈᎢᎠ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 哥倫比亞
Mandarin: cmn 哥倫比亞 Gēlúnbǐyà
Wu: wuu 哥倫比亞
Circassian:
West Circassian: ady Коломбие
Corsican: co Colombia f, co Culumbia f, co Culombia f
Czech: cs Kolumbie f
Danish: da Colombia n
Dhivehi: dv ކޮލަންބިއާ
Dutch: nl Colombia n, nl Colombië n dated
Dzongkha: dz ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ
Esperanto: eo Kolombio
Estonian: et Colombia, et Kolumbia
Faroese: fo Kolumbia
Finnish: fi Kolumbia
French: fr Colombie f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Kolombia n
Friulian: fur Colombie f
Galician: gl Colombia f
Georgian: ka კოლუმბია
German: de Kolumbien n
Alemannic German: gsw Kolumbie n
Bavarian: bar Kolumbien n
Greek: el Κολομβία f
Gujarati: gu કોલમ્બિયા
Haitian Creole: ht Kolonbi
Hawaiian: haw Kolomepia
Hebrew: he קוֹלוֹמְבְּיָה f kolombya
Hindi: hi कोलंबिया m
Hungarian: hu Kolumbia
Icelandic: is Kólumbía f
Ido: io Kolumbia
Indonesian: id Kolombia
Interlingua: ia Colombia
Irish: ga Colóim f
Italian: it Colombia f
Japanese: ja コロンビア Koronbia
Kalenjin: kln kol
Kamba: kam Kolombia
Kannada: kn ಕೊಲೊಂಬಿಯ
Kazakh: kk Колумбия
Khmer: km កូឡុំប៊ី
Kikuyu: ki Kolombia
Korean: ko ^콜롬비아, ko ^꼴롬비아 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Kolombiya
Kyrgyz: ky Колумбия
Lao: lo ໂກລົມບີ
Latin: la Columbia f, la Colombia f
Latvian: lv Kolumbija f
Lithuanian: lt Kolumbija f
Luhya: luy Kolombia
Luo: luo Kolombia
Macedonian: mk Колумбија f
Malay: ms Colombia
Malayalam: ml കൊളംബിയ
Māori: mi Koromōpia
Marathi: mr कोलंबिया
Meru: mer Kolombia
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Колумби
Navajo: nv Kolámbiya
Nepali: ne कोलोम्बिया
Norman: nrf Colombie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Colombia n
Occitan: oc Colómbia f, oc Colòmbia f
Odia: or କଲମ୍ବିଆ
Ossetian: os Колумби
Pashto: ps کولومبيا f kolombyā
Persian:
Dari: prs کولَمْبِیَا
Iranian Persian: fa-ira کُلُمْبِیا
Polish: pl Kolumbia f
Portuguese: pt Colômbia f
Punjabi: pa ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ
Romanian: ro Columbia f
Russian: ru Колу́мбия f
Sardinian: sc Colòmbia f
Scots: sco Colombie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Колу̀мбија f
Latin: sh Kolùmbija f
Shan: shn မိူင်းၵူဝ်ႇလမ်ႇပီႇယႃႇ
Sicilian: scn Culummia f
Silesian: szl Kolůmbja f
Sinhalese: si කොලොම්බියාව
Slovak: sk Kolumbia f
Slovene: sl Kolumbija f
Spanish: es Colombia f
Swahili: sw Kolombia
Swedish: sv Colombia n
Tagalog: tl Kolombiya
Tajik: tg Кулумбия
Tamil: ta கொலம்பியா
Tatar: tt Колумбия
Telugu: te కొలంబియా
Thai: th โคลอมเบีย
Tibetan: bo ཁོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ኮሎምብያ
Turkish: tr Kolombiya
Turkmen: tk Kolumbiýa
Ukrainian: uk Колу́мбія f
Urdu: ur کولَمْبِیا m
Uyghur: ug كولومبىيە
Uzbek: uz Kolumbiya
Vietnamese: vi Cô-lôm-bi-a
Yiddish: yi קאָלאָמביע f
Yoruba: yo Kòlóńbíà, yo Kòlóḿbíà
See also
Further reading
Asturian
ast:
Proper noun
f
ast Colombia Q739
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nch proper noun
nch Colombia Q739
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhn proper noun
nhn Colombia Q739
Danish
da:
Proper noun
da Colombia Q739
Related terms
da colombianer
da colombiansk
Dutch
nl:
Alternative forms
nl Colombië dated
Etymology
Borrowed from nl es Colombia. Named after Christopher Columbus.
Pronunciation
nl /ˌkoːˈlɔm.bi.aː/
nl Nl-Colombia.ogg Netherlands
nl Co lom bia
Proper noun
n
nl Colombia Q739
Derived terms
nl Colombiaan
Related terms
nl Colombiaans
Galician
Alternative forms
gl Colômbia reintegrationist
Proper noun
gl Colombia Q739
Related terms
gl colombiano
Interlingua
ia:
Proper noun
ia proper noun
ia Colombia Q739
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
Colómbia,Colòmbia<r:DiPI>
Proper noun
f
it Colombia Q739
Derived terms
it colombiano
References
Anagrams
it abcilmoo coliambo
Malay
ms:
Etymology
From ms es Colombia.
Pronunciation
kolombia
Proper noun
کولومبيا
ms Colombia Q739
Norwegian Bokmål
nb:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Colombia Q739
Related terms
nb colombianer colombiansk kolombianer kolombiansk
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Colombia Q739
Related terms
nn colombian colombianar colombiansk kolombian kolombianar kolombiansk
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :af it:Colombo -ia
From es it:Colombo -ia Cristoforo Colombo. es Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus = 1451 1506 in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.es 1806-08-02 Francisco de Miranda Proclamación de Don Francisco de Miranda, Comandante-General del Exército Colombiano, á los pueblos habitantes del Continente Americo-Colombiano
Pronunciation
+<audio:Es-República de Colombia.oga<a:Colombia><text:República de Colombia>><audio:es-Colombia.ogg<a:Peru><text:Colombia; capital: Bogotá>>
Proper noun
f colombiano
es Colombia Q739 Bogotá
es Maxime Tamsett Arrestan a más de 100 personas en “operación de control” migratorio en un sitio de construcción en Florida, según HSI w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/05/30/eeuu/arrestan-100-personas-operacion-control-migratorio-florida-trax 2025-05-30 Los detenidos eran “de México, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia y Honduras”, de acuerdo con la publicación de HSI Tampa. https://web.archive.org/web/20250720000116/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/05/30/eeuu/arrestan-100-personas-operacion-control-migratorio-florida-trax 20 July 2025
Derived terms
es colombianidad colombianismo colombianista Gran Colombia
Descendants
ja 1 コロンビア Koronbia
gug 1 Kolómbia
See also
References
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Colombia.wav
Proper noun
n
sv Colombia Q739
Related terms
sv colombian
sv colombiansk
sv colombianska
See also
References
saol
Svensk MeSH
Welsh
cy:
Pronunciation
cy /kɔˈlɔmbja/
cy ɔmbja 3
Proper noun
f
cy Colombia Q739
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
cy Gweriniaeth Colombia Republic of Colombia
Mutation