Kamerun

Kamõrun English Proper noun en historical An African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of the modern Republic of Cameroon. Derived terms en Kamerunian Basque eu: Pronunciation Proper noun in eu Cameroon Q1009 Declension in.pr.topo Derived terms eu kamerundar<t:Cameroonian> Further reading 38 Czech cs: Pronunciation Proper noun m-in kamerunský Kamerunec cs Cameroon Q1009 Declension m.sg Further reading Estonian Proper noun et proper nouns et Cameroon Q1009 Finnish fi: Etymology From fi pt Camarões. Pronunciation Proper noun fi Cameroon Q1009 Declension sg Kamerun a 0 Derived terms fi kamerunilainen fi compounds kameruninruostegueretsa kameruninsaukko German Pronunciation de De-Kamerun.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun toponym de Cameroon Q1009 Related terms de Kameruner de kamerunisch See also Further reading Hungarian hu: Pronunciation hu Ka me run hu un 3 Proper noun hu proper noun hu Cameroon Q1009 hu:Kameruni Köztársaság Declension Kameruno o - sgKamerun j jai sg Derived terms hu kameruni See also Indonesian id: Etymology From id nl Kameroen, from id 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, pt camarão itself is from id la cammarus lobster, from id grc κάμμαρος a kind of lobster or shrimp. Pronunciation Kamèrun Proper noun Kamèrun id Cameroon Q1009 id ms:Cameroon Noun a Kamèrun Cameroonian Adjective Kamèrun Cameroonian See also Further reading Maltese mt: Proper noun proper noun m Il-Kamerun mt Cameroon Q1009 mt:Repubblika tal-Kamerun See also Norwegian Bokmål no thumb|The flag of Cameroon. thumb|Cameroon in Africa. thumb|Mount Cameroon seen from Douala. Etymology nb, ultimately from nb pt Camarões Cameroon, after Portuguese Wouri River Rio dos Camarões River of Shrimps, an early name for the present-day Wouri River, given because of the abundance of shrimp in the river. The name contains the plural of pt camarão shrimp, prawn, from nb la cammārus lobster, with Portuguese pt -ão augmentative suffix, ultimately from nb grc κάμμαρος a kind of lobster or shrimp, from nb qsb-grc -. The further origin is nb 1 1. The immediate donor of the Norwegian form is nb 1 1. Parallel international adaptations include nn Kamerun, sv Kamerun, de Kamerun, nl Kameroen, fr Cameroun and en Cameroon. Pronunciation nb /¹kaməˈrʉːn/ [kaməˈɾʉ̀ːn] nb ʉːn 3 nb Ka me run Proper noun nb proper noun Cameroon; nb country r/Central Africa cont/Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, with Yaoundé as its capital. nb Kamerun har både fransk og engelsk som offisielle språk. Cameroon has both French and English as official languages. nb 8 September 2021 Kamerun FN-sambandet https://fn.no/land/kamerun Kamerun er en republikk på vestkysten av Afrika, innerst i Guineabukta. Cameroon is a republic on the west coast of Africa, at the head of the Gulf of Guinea. https://web.archive.org/web/20251226015213/https://fn.no/Land/kamerun 26 December 2025 nb historical Kamerun; nb A <<former>> German <<colony>> in <<r/Central Africa>> from 1884 to 1919. nb Kamerun kom under tysk kontroll under kappløpet om Afrika. Kamerun came under German control during the Scramble for Africa. nb 25 June 2026 Morten Hagen Kamerun Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Kamerun Kamerun ble dermed et tysk protektorat fra 1884 til 1919 — i praksis en autoritært styrt tysk koloni. Kamerun thus became a German protectorate from 1884 to 1919 — in practice an authoritarian German colony. https://web.archive.org/web/20260420185437/https://snl.no/Kamerun 20 April 2026 Usage notes The official Norwegian long-form name of the modern country is Republikken Kamerun (“the Republic of Cameroon”). The historical sense refers to German Kamerun, a protectorate and colony that included the territory of present-day Cameroon and some surrounding areas. Derived terms nb kameruner a Cameroonian nb kamerunsk Cameroonian See also References “Kamerun” in Store norske leksikon. “Navn på stater” at Språkrådet. Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Proper noun nn proper noun nn Cameroon Q1009 Related terms nn kamerunar nn kamerunsk Polish pl: Pronunciation Pl-Kamerun.ogg Proper noun m-in kameruński pl Cameroon Q1009 Declension s Derived terms pl nouns Kameruńczyk Kamerunka See also Further reading Serbo-Croatian Pronunciation sh /kâmeruːn/ sh Ka me run Proper noun Kȁmerūn m-in sh Cameroon Q1009 Declension Kamerun Kameruna Kamerunu Kamerun Kamerune Kamerunu Kamerunom Slovene sl: Pronunciation Kȃmerun Proper noun Kȃmerun m-in sl Cameroon Q1009 Declension Kámerun sg Related terms sl Kámerunec / sl Kámerunka sl kámerunski Swahili sw: Pronunciation sw Sw-ke-Kamerun.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Cameroon Q1009 See also Swedish sv: Pronunciation sv /kamɛˈrʉːn/ sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Kamerun.wav Proper noun n sv Cameroon Q1009 Related terms sv kamerunare sv kamerunier sv kamerunsk sv kamerunska See also Further reading 12 Svensk MeSH Tagalog tl Pronunciation Kamerún Proper noun Kamerún + tl Cameroon Q1009 Turkish tr: Pronunciation tr LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-Kamerun.wav Proper noun tr Cameroon Q1009 Declension Kamerun Kamerun'u Kamerun'a Kamerun'da Kamerun'dan Kamerun'un See also