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Kenya

nom propreattesté dans les dialogues

  • //ˈkɛn.jə//
  • //ˈkiːn.jə//
  • /[ˈkɛ.ɲa]/

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

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  1. 1

    A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

    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.

    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.

Étymologie

From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including * from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped) * from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”) * from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).