Lake Victoria

English Etymology Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton. Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lake Victoria.wav Southern England Proper noun Lake Victoria en Q5505 en The largest <<lake>> in <<continent/Africa>>, with shoreline in <<c/Kenya>>, <<c/Uganda>> and <<c/Tanzania>>; one of the African Great Lakes. en Nalubaale Translations African lake Afrikaans: af Victoriameer Albanian: sq Liqeni Viktoria Amharic: am ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ Arabic: ar بُحَيْرَة فِيكْتُورِيَا f Armenian: hy Վիկտորիա լիճ Azerbaijani: az Viktoriya gölü Belarusian: be Вікторыя f Bengali: bn ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ Breton: br Lenn Victoria m Bulgarian: bg Виктория f Burmese: my ဝိတိုရိယအိုင် Catalan: ca llac Victòria m Chechen: ce Викто́ри Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 維多利亞湖 Wéiduōlìyà Hú Czech: cs Viktoriino jezero n Danish: da Victoriasøen c Dutch: nl Victoriameer n Esperanto: eo Viktoria lago Estonian: et Victoria järv Faroese: fo Viktoriavatn n Finnish: fi Victorianjärvi French: fr lac Victoria m Frisian: West Frisian: fy Fiktoariamar Galician: gl Lago Vitoria m Georgian: ka ვიქტორიას ტბა German: de Victoriasee m Greek: el Λίμνη Βικτόρια f Gujarati: gu વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ Hebrew: he אגם ויקטוריה m agám viktória Hindi: hi विक्टोरिया झील Hungarian: hu Viktória-tó Icelandic: is Viktoríuvatn n Ido: io Lago Viktoria Indonesian: id Danau Victoria Irish: ga Loch Victoria m Italian: it lago Vittoria m Japanese: ja ヴィクトリア湖 Vikutoria-ko Kannada: kn ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ Kazakh: kk Виктория көлі Khmer: km បឹងវិចតូរីយ៉ា Korean: ko 빅토리아호 Kyrgyz: ky Виктория көлү Latvian: lv Viktorijas ezers m Lithuanian: lt Viktorijos ežeras m Luganda: lg Nnalubaale Macedonian: mk Викториино Езеро n Malay: ms Tasik Victoria Malayalam: ml വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം Marathi: mr व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Victoriasjøen m Nynorsk: nn Victoriasjøen m Occitan: oc lac Victòria m Oromo: om Hara Viktooriyaa Ossetian: os Виктори Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Викторийово озеро n Persian: fa دریاچه ویکتوریا daryâče viktôriyâ Polish: pl Jezioro Wiktorii n Portuguese: pt Lago Vitória m Punjabi: pa ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ Romanian: ro Lacul Victoria n Russian: ru Викто́рия f, ru озеро Викто́рия n Rwanda-Rundi: rw Nyanza Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Викторијино језеро n Latin: sh Viktorijino jezero n Slovak: sk Viktóriino jazero n Slovene: sl Viktorijino jezero n Somali: so Harta Fiktooriya Spanish: es Lago Victoria m Swahili: sw Ziwa Victoria Swedish: sv Victoriasjön c Tagalog: tl Lawa ng Victoria Tajik: tg кӯли Виктория Tamil: ta விக்டோரியா ஏரி Telugu: te విక్టోరియా సరస్సు Thai: th ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย tá-lee-sàap wík-dtɔɔ-riia Turkish: tr Victoria Gölü Turkmen: tk Wiktoriýa köli Ukrainian: uk Вікто́рія f, uk озеро Вікто́рія n Uzbek: uz Viktoriya Vietnamese: vi hồ Victoria Welsh: cy Llyn Victoria m Further reading pn en eponyms