Kenya

Kenýa Kénya Kênya kenyà English thumb|right|Kenya Etymology From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including from en ki kere nyaga white mountain (because it is snow-capped) from en kam kii nyaa ostrich mountain from en ki kĩrĩma mountain Pronunciation en /ˈkɛn.jə/ dated /ˈkiːn.jə/ en [ˈkɛ.ɲa] Kenya en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Kenya.wav UK en Kenya pronunciation.ogg Kenya en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-Kenya.wav US en ɛnjə iːnjə 2 dated en Ke n ya Proper noun en Q114en country r/East Africa Republic of Kenya. en 1950-04 Timothy H. Cobb The Kenya-Uganda Railway Railway Magazine 262 The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way. en Zoe Sottile He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/jamaica-deportation-migrant-ice-us 2025-07-08 Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters. https://web.archive.org/web/20250817025253/https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/jamaica-deportation-migrant-ice-us 17 August 2025 Hypernyms en Subsahara Derived terms en Kenya AA Kenya tick typhus kenyaite Kenyan kenyte Translations Q114 country in Eastern Africa Afrikaans: af Kenia Albanian: sq Kenia f Amharic: am ኬንያ Arabic: ar كِينِيَا f kēniyā Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܟܸܢܝܵܐ f Armenian: hy Քենիա Asturian: ast Keña f, ast Kenia Azerbaijani: az Keniya Balinese: ban Kenya, ban Kénya Bashkir: ba Кения Belarusian: be Ке́нія f Bengali: bn কেনিয়া Betawi: bew Kénia Breton: br Kenya Bulgarian: bg Ке́ния f Burmese: my ကင်ညာ Catalan: ca Kenya f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 肯尼亞 Kěnníyà, cmn 肯亞 Kěnyà Taiwan Crimean Tatar: crh Keniya Czech: cs Keňa f Danish: da Kenya Dinka: din Kenya Dutch: nl Kenia n, nl Kenya n Esperanto: eo Kenjo Estonian: et Keenia, et Kenya Faroese: fo Kenja n Finnish: fi Kenia French: fr Kenya Frisian: North Frisian: frr Keenia Galician: gl Quenia f Georgian: ka კენია German: de Kenia Greek: el Κένυα f Gujarati: gu કેન્યા m Hausa: ha Kenya Hebrew: he קֶנְיָה f kenya Hindi: hi कीनिया, hi केन्या, hi केनिया m, hi कीनया m, hi कीनीया m, hi केनया m, hi कीन्या m Hungarian: hu Kenya Icelandic: is Kenía f Ido: io Kenia Indonesian: id Kenya Interlingua: ia Kenya Irish: ga Céinia An Chéinia f Italian: it Kenya m Japanese: ja ケニア Kenia Javanese: jv Kénya Kalenjin: kln Kenya Kamba: kam Kenya Kannada: kn ಕೀನ್ಯಾ Kazakh: kk Кения Khmer: km កេនយ៉ា Kikuyu: ki Kenya Kis: kis Kenya Korean: ko ^케냐, ko ^케니아 North Korea Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb کینیا Kyrgyz: ky Кения Lao: lo ເກນຢາ Latgalian: ltg Keneja Latin: la Kenia Latvian: lv Kenija f Lithuanian: lt Kenija f Luhya: luy Kenya Luo: luo Kenya Macedonian: mk Кенија f Malay: ms Kenya Malayalam: ml കെനിയ Maltese: mt Kenja f il-Kenja Māori: mi Kēnia Marathi: mr केनिया Mari: Western Mari: mrj Кени Meru: mer Kenya Mongolian: mn Кени Nahuatl: nah Quenia Norman: nrf Qùenia m, nrf Kenya Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Kenya Nynorsk: nn Kenya Occitan: oc Kenya m Odia: or କେନିଆ Papiamentu: pap Kenia Pashto: ps کېنيا kenyā Persian: fa کنیا keniyâ Polish: pl Kenia f Portuguese: Brazilian Portuguese: pt Quênia m European Portuguese: pt Quénia m Punjabi: pa ਕੀਨੀਆ Western Punjabi: pnb کینیا Quechua: qu Kinya Romanian: ro Kenya f Russian: ru Ке́ния f Sami: Northern Sami: se Kenia Sango: sg Kenyäa Sardinian: sc Kènya Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Кенија f Latin: sh Kenija f Sinhalese: si කෙන්යාව Slovak: sk Keňa f Slovene: sl Kénija f Somali: so Kiinya Spanish: es Kenia f Sundanese: su Kénya Swahili: sw Kenya Swedish: sv Kenya Tagalog: tl Kenya Tajik: tg Кения Tamil: ta கென்யா Tatar: tt Кения Telugu: te కెన్యా Thai: th เคนยา Tibetan: bo ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། Tigrinya: ti ኬንያ Turkish: tr Kenya Turkmen: tk Keniýa Ukrainian: uk Ке́нія f Urdu: ur کینیا kīniyā Uyghur: ug كېنىيە Uzbek: uz Keniya Vietnamese: vi Kê-ni-a Wolaytta: wal Keeniya Yakut: sah Кения Yiddish: yi קעניע Yoruba: yo Kẹ́ńyà See also Countries of the world References Further reading Hinde, H.B. Vocabularies of the Kamba amd Kikuyu languages of East Afica Anagrams en aekny Kanye Yanke nakey Catalan Etymology ca Pronunciation kènia,kènya ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Kenya.wav Valencia ca Kè ny a Proper noun mf ca Kenya Q114 Derived terms ca kenyà Danish da: Proper noun da proper noun da Kenya Q114 Derived terms da kenyaner da kenyansk Dinka din: Etymology From din en Kenya. Proper noun din proper noun din Kenya Q114 French Etymology fr :bor en:Kenya fr en Kenya. Pronunciation [e:é] fr Fr-Kenya.oga fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Kenya.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Kenya.wav France Proper noun m fr Kenya Q114 Hungarian hu: Pronunciation hu Ke nya hu ɲɒ 2 Proper noun hu proper noun hu Kenya Q114 hu:Kenyai Köztársaság Declension Kenyá o sgKenyá sg Derived terms hu kenyai See also Indonesian id: Etymology From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including from id ki kere nyaga white mountain (because it is snow-capped) from id kam kii nyaa ostrich mountain from id ki kĩrĩma mountain Pronunciation Ké.nya Proper noun id Kenya Q114 Noun a Kenyan Adjective Kenyan See also References Further reading Italian it: Alternative forms it Chenia dated Etymology it. Pronunciation chènia Proper noun m # it Kenya Q114 Derived terms it kenyota, it keniota Kenyan Norwegian Bokmål no:Kenya,Kenya (navn) thumb|The flag of Kenya. thumb|Kenya in Africa. thumb|A landscape near Mount Kenya. Etymology nb en Kenya, from the name of no Mount Kenya. The modern form was recorded in the 19th century by the German missionary and explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf as Kenia and Kegnia. The deeper origin of the mountain name is nb 1 1. One proposed explanation derives Krapf's forms from nb kam Kĩ-Nyaa or nb kam Kĩlĩma Kĩinyaa. Another connects the name with nb ki Kĩrĩma Kĩrĩnyaga mountain of brightness; mountain of whiteness, referring to the contrasting dark rock and snow of the mountain. The female given name is derived from the country name. Parallel international adaptations include nn Kenya, da Kenya, sv Kenya, de Kenia, nl Kenia and fr Kenya Kenya. Pronunciation nb /¹ˈkɛn.ja/ [ˈkɛ̀n.ja] nb ɛnja 2 nb Ke nya Proper noun nb proper noun Kenya; nb country r/East Africa cont/Africa, on the Indian Ocean, with Nairobi as its capital. nb De krysset grensen fra Uganda til Kenya. They crossed the border from Uganda into Kenya. nb 25 June 2026 Kenya Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Kenya Kenya er en republikk i Øst-Afrika. Kenya is a republic in East Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20260830135315/https://snl.no/Kenya 30 August 2026 nb rare nb female, derived from the country name.“Kenya”, Alt om navn, based on data from Statistics Norway. nb Kenya begynte på skolen denne høsten. Kenya started school this autumn. Usage notes The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Kenya (“the Republic of Kenya”). Derived terms nb kenyaner a Kenyan nb kenyansk Kenyan Statistics According to name statistics from Statistics Norway, seven women in Norway had nb Kenya as their first given name in August 2023; none had it as their sole given name. See also References “Kenya” in Store norske leksikon. “Navn på stater” at Språkrådet. “About Kenya – History”, Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Washington, D.C. Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Etymology nn Proper noun nn proper noun nn Kenya Q114 Related terms nn kenyan, nn kenyanar nn kenyansk Portuguese Proper noun m pt sometimes proscribed pt Quênia//Quénia: pt Kenya Q114 Usage notes Quênia Quénia Swahili thumb sw: Etymology sw Pronunciation kenya sw Sw-ke-Kenya.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Kenya Q114 sw Jamhuri ya Kenya Derived terms sw Mkenya See also Swedish sv: Etymology sv Pronunciation sv /ˈkeːnʏa/ sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Kenya.wav Proper noun n sv Kenya Q114 Related terms sv kenyan sv kenyansk sv kenyanska See also Further reading 12 Svensk MeSH Tagalog Etymology tl :bor en:Kenya es:Kenia<t:Kenya> + 1 Pronunciation Proper noun + tl Kenya Q114 Turkish tr: Pronunciation tr LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-Kenya.wav Proper noun tr Kenya Q114 Declension Kenya Kenya'yı Kenya'ya Kenya'da Kenya'dan Kenya'nın See also