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Kabul
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kabul Kábul
English
right|thumb|250px|Kabul skyline in 2020
right|thumb|250px|Former flag of Kabul, pre-2021
right|thumb|250px|Map of Kabul Province
Alternative forms
en Cabool Cabul Caubool Caubul all _ obsolete
en Kabol from Iranian Persian
Etymology
en fa-cls کَابُل, of en 1 origin. See the Persian entry for more.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɑːbəl/, käʹbəl
en /ˈkaːˌbʊl/, käʹbo͝ol
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kabul.wav Southern England
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Zazollo-Kabul.wav United States
en ɑːbəl uːl 2
Proper noun
en Q5838en caplc c/Afghanistan.
en Michael D. Shear; Jim Tankersley Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building w:The New York Times 2021-09-01 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html 0362-4331 Mr. Biden declared that he believed with “all of my heart” that he had made a wise decision. But he appeared defiant as he sought to counter a torrent of criticism from Democrats and Republicans — and from some families of the service members killed in Kabul last week — for his handling of the withdrawal.The president refused to offer any sort of mea culpa on Tuesday, even as the Taliban celebrated their “independence” from America with gunfire in the streets of Kabul. https://web.archive.org/web/20220215051209/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html
en metonymy The Afghanistan government.
en Q188933en province c/Afghanistan.
en Q8515 en A <<river>> rising in the <<mountain/Hindu Kush>> of northeastern Maidan <<province/Wardak>>, <<c/Afghanistan>> and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the <<river/Indus>> river at <<region/Attock>>, <<c/Pakistan>>.
Derived terms
rare en Kabulese
en Kabuli
Translations
capital and largest city of Afghanistan
Afrikaans: af Kaboel
Albanian: sq Kabuli m, sq Kabul m indefinite
Amharic: am ካቡል
Arabic: ar كَابُل f
Armenian: hy Քաբուլ
Assamese: as কাবুল
Asturian: ast Kabul
Azerbaijani: az Kabil
Basque: eu Kabul
Belarusian: be Кабу́л m
Bengali: bn কাবুল
Bulgarian: bg Кабу́л m
Burmese: my ကဘူးလ်
Cherokee: chr ᎧᏊᎵ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 喀布爾 haak3 bou3 ji5
Mandarin: cmn 喀布爾 Kābù'ěr; cmn 哈布爾 Hābù'ěr historically
Czech: cs Kábul m
Danish: da Kabul n
Dutch: nl Kaboel n, nl Kabul n
Esperanto: eo Kabulo
Estonian: et Kabul
Finnish: fi Kabul
French: fr Kaboul m
Galician: gl Cabul, gl Kabul, gl Kābul
Georgian: ka ქაბული
German: de Kabul n
Greek: el Καμπούλ
Gujarati: gu કાબુલ
Hebrew: he קאבול f kabul קאבול \ קָבּוּל
Hindi: hi काबुल m, hi काबूल m
Hungarian: hu Kabul
Icelandic: is Kabúl
Indonesian: id Kabul
Irish: ga Cabúl m
Italian: it Kabul
Japanese: ja カブール Kabūru
Kannada: kn ಕಾಬುಲ್
Kazakh: kk Кабул
Khmer: km កាប៊ុល
Korean: ko ^카불
Kumyk: kum Къабул Qabul
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Kabûl
Kyrgyz: ky Кабул
Lao: lo ກາບູນ
Latin: la Cabura f, la Cabulum n
Latvian: lv Kabula f
Limburgish: li Kaboel
Lithuanian: lt Kabulas m
Macedonian: mk Кабул m
Malay: ms Kabul
Malayalam: ml കാബൂൾ
Maltese: mt Kabul
Manchu: mnc ᡥᠠᠪᡠᠯ
Marathi: mr काबुल
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Кабул
Mongolian script: mn ᠻᠠᠪᠦ᠋᠋ᠯ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Kabul
Odia: or କାବୁଲ
Pashto: ps کابل m kābǝl
Persian:
Classical Persian: fa-cls کَابُل
Dari: prs کَابُل
Iranian Persian: fa-ira کابُل
Middle Persian: pal kʾpwl kābul
Polish: pl Kabul m
Portuguese: pt Cabul m
Punjabi: pa ਕਾਬੁਲ
Romanian: ro Kabul
Russian: ru Кабу́л m
Sanskrit: sa कुभा
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ка̀бул m
Latin: sh Kàbul m
Sinhalese: si කාබුල්
Slovak: sk Kábul m
Slovene: sl Kabul m
Spanish: es Kabul m
Swedish: sv Kabul n
Sylheti: syl ꠇꠣꠛꠥꠟ
Tajik: tg Кобул
Tamil: ta காபூல், ta காபுல்
Tatar: tt Кабул
Telugu: te కాబూల్, te కాబూలు
Thai: th คาบูล
Tibetan: bo ཁ་པུལ
Turkish: tr Kâbil
Turkmen: tk Kabul
Ukrainian: uk Кабу́л m
Urdu: ur کابُل m kābul
Uyghur: ug كابۇل
Uzbek: uz Kabul
Vietnamese: vi Ka-bun
Yiddish: yi קאַבול n
See also
References
Anagrams
en abklu baulk bulak
Catalan
ca:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
ca capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
Derived terms
ca kabulí
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
German
de:
Pronunciation
de /ˈkaːbʊl/ /ˈkaːˌbuːl/ /kaˈbuːl/
de De-Kabul.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor fa-cls:کابل<id:Kabul><tr:kābul> + 1
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Kabul.wav
Proper noun
m-in
pl capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
Declension
s
Derived terms
pl adjective kabulski
pl nouns kabulczyk kabulka
Further reading
pl exonyms
Serbo-Croatian
sh:
Proper noun
m-in
sh capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es fa-cls کَابُل, in turn borrowed from es sa कुभा Kabul River, es grc Κάβουρα a settlement in Afghanistan crossed by Alexander the Great and es ae 𐬐𐬎𐬡𐬀. Pronunciation changed to "Kabul" around the 11th century.Kakar, M. Hassan The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world 3 May 2021 Oxford University Press Oxford https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173509401 978-0-19-517632-2 173509401
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodrigo5260-Kabul.wav<a:Peru>>
Proper noun
m
es capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul
es Afganistán
Derived terms
es kabulí
References
Swedish
sv:
Proper noun
n
sv capital city c/Afghanistan Kabul