Kenya
Syllables: Ke·n·ya/ˈkɛn.jə/
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dated/ˈkiːn.jə/
Kenya proper noun: a country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
Proper noun
Kenya
- 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.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262
- 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.2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10...
Kenya meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Kenya in Hindi
- country in Eastern Africa
- कीनिया kīniyā, केन्या kenyā, केनिया keniyā, कीनया kīnyā, कीनीया kīnīyā, केनया kenyā
Kenya in Tamil
- country in Eastern Africa
- கென்யா keṉyā
Kenya in Marathi
- country in Eastern Africa
- केनिया keniyā
Kenya in Urdu
- country in Eastern Africa
- کینیا kīniyā
More languagesFewer languages
- Kenya in Bengali
- কেনিয়া keniẏa
- Kenya in Telugu
- కెన్యా kenyā
- Kenya in Malayalam
- കെനിയ keniya
- Kenya in Kannada
- ಕೀನ್ಯಾ kīnyā
- Kenya in Punjabi
- ਕੀਨੀਆ kīnīā
- Kenya in Gujarati
- કેન્યા kenyā
- Kenya in Odia
- କେନିଆ keniā
- Kenya in Sinhala
- කෙන්යාව kenyāwa
- Kenya in Pashto
- کېنيا kenyā
- Kenya in Tagalog
- Kenya
- Kenya in Arabic
- كِينِيَا kēniyā
- Kenya in Malay
- Kenya
- Kenya in Indonesian
- Kenya
- Kenya in Persian
- کنیا keniyâ
- Kenya in Thai
- เคนยา ken-yâa
- Kenya in Vietnamese
- Kê-ni-a
- Kenya in Myanmar
- ကင်ညာ kangnya
Origin of Kenya
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”)
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Questions about Kenya
- What does Kenya mean?
- Kenya means a country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
- What is Kenya in Hindi?
- Kenya in Hindi is कीनिया (kīniyā), केन्या (kenyā), केनिया (keniyā). See Kenya meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Kenya?
- Kenya is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Kenya?
- Kenya is pronounced /ˈkɛn.jə/.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Kenya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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