Mogadishu

English Etymology en; may be a compound term of Somali words "muuq" (appearance) + "disho", present subjunctive form of dil (beat / kill). Another proposal is that its borrowed from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو (maqadīšū), from Classical Persian مَقْعَد (maq'ad, “seat”) + شَاه (šāh, “shah, king”), literally “seat of the shah”. Pronunciation en /ˌmɒ.ɡəˈdiː.ʃuː/ /-ˈdɪ-/ UK en /ˌmoʊ.ɡəˈdi.ʃu/ US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mogadishu.wav Southern England Proper noun en Q2449 en capital city c/Somalia. en Xamar<q:Somalia> en Bosaso<id:Q331556> Berbera ; see others en 2007-04-22 Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee https://web.archive.org/web/20210412161128/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/world/africa/22iht-somalia.4.5393615.html Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed at least 230 people. en metonym The government of Somalia. Derived terms en Mogadishan Mogadishu line Translations capital city of Somalia Afrikaans: af Mogadisjoe Amharic: am ሞቃዲሾ Arabic: ar مَقَدِيشُو f, ar مَقْدِيشُو f Hijazi Arabic: acw مُقْديشو f mugdīšu, acw مَقْدِيشو f magdīšū Armenian: hy Մոգադիշո Asturian: ast Mogadixu Azerbaijani: az Moqadişo Belarusian: be Магады́ша m Bengali: bn মকদীশু Bulgarian: bg Могади́шу n Burmese: my မိုဂါဒစ်ရှူးမြို့ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 摩加迪休 Mójiādíxiū Taiwan, cmn 摩加迪沙 Mójiādíshā Mainland China Hong Kong Singapore Czech: cs Mogadišo n Danish: da Mogadishu n Dutch: nl Mogadishu n Esperanto: eo Mogadiŝo Estonian: et Muqdisho Faroese: fo Mogadishu Finnish: fi Mogadishu French: fr Mogadiscio m Galician: gl Mogadixo Georgian: ka მოგადიშო German: de Mogadischu n Greek: el Μογκαντίσου Hebrew: he מוֹגָדִישׁוֹ f mugadishu Hindi: hi मोगादीशू m Hungarian: hu Mogadishu Icelandic: is Mógadisjú Indonesian: id Mogadishu Irish: ga Mogaidisiú m Italian: it Mogadiscio m Japanese: ja モガディシュ Mogadishu Kazakh: kk Могадишо Khmer: km ម៉ូហ្កាឌីស្យូ Korean: ko ^모가디슈 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Mogadishu Kyrgyz: ky Могадишо Lao: lo ໂມກາດິຊູ Latin: la Mogadīscium Latvian: lv Mogadīšo Lithuanian: lt Mogadišas m Macedonian: mk Могадишу m Malay: ms Mogadishu Marathi: mr मोगादिशू Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Могадишу Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Mogadishu Nynorsk: nn Mogadishu Pashto: ps موګادیشو mōgādīšō Persian: fa موگادیشو mogâdišu Polish: pl Mogadiszu n Portuguese: pt Mogadixo f, pt Mogadíscio f Romanian: ro Mogadishu Russian: ru Могади́шу m, ru Могади́шо m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Могадишу m Latin: sh Mogadishu m, sh Mogadišu m Sinhalese: si මොගඩිෂු Slovak: sk Mogadišo n Slovene: sl Mogadiš m Somali: so Muqdisho Spanish: es Mogadiscio m Swedish: sv Mogadishu n Tagalog: tl Mogadishu Tajik: tg Могадишо Tamil: ta முக்தீசூ Tatar: tt Могадишо Thai: th โมกาดิชู Tibetan: bo མོ་ག་དི་ཤུ Tigrinya: ti ሞቓድሾ Turkish: tr Mogadişu Turkmen: tk Mogadişu Ukrainian: uk Могаді́шо m, uk Моґаді́шо m Urdu: ur موغادیشو m moġādīśū Uyghur: ug موقدىشۇ, ug مۇقدىشو Uzbek: uz Mogadisho Vietnamese: vi Mô-ga-đi-su Yiddish: yi מאָגאַדישו n Faroese Etymology Ultimately, from fo ar مَقَدِيشُو or fo so Muqdisho. Proper noun fo proper noun fo capital city c/Somalia Mogadishu Japanese Romanization モガディシュ Portuguese Pronunciation Mô*ga:disho Proper noun f pt Mogadixo