Kuwait
/k(j)uːˈweɪt//kuːˈweɪt/
Kuwait proper noun: a country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City. Also the ellipsis of Kuwait City.
Proper noun
Kuwait
- A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
- The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.2026 March 2, Haley Britzky, “No warning, no siren: Six US service members killed in Iranian strike that hit makeshift operations center in Kuwait”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2026
Also used as
Kuwait is also the ellipsis of Kuwait City.
Kuwait meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Kuwait in Hindi
- country in West Asia
- कुवैत kuvait
Kuwait in Tamil
- country in West Asia
- குவைத் kuvait, குவெய்த் kuveyt
Kuwait in Marathi
- country in West Asia
- कुवेत kuvet
Kuwait in Urdu
- country in West Asia
- کُوَیت kuvait
More languagesFewer languages
- Kuwait in Bengali
- কুয়েত kuẏet
- Kuwait in Telugu
- కువైట్ kuvaiṭ
- Kuwait in Malayalam
- കുവൈറ്റ് kuvaiṟṟ
- Kuwait in Kannada
- ಕುವೈತ್ kuvait
- Kuwait in Punjabi
- ਕੁਵੈਤ kuvait
- Kuwait in Gujarati
- કુવૈત kuvait
- Kuwait in Odia
- କୁଏତ kueta
- Kuwait in Sinhala
- කුවේටය kuwēṭaya
- Kuwait in Assamese
- কুৱেইট kueit
- Kuwait in Nepali
- कुवेत kuvet
- Kuwait in Pashto
- کويت kowayt, کوېټ kowayṭ
- Kuwait in Tagalog
- Kuwait
- Kuwait in Arabic
- الْكُوَيْت al-kuwayt
- Kuwait in Malay
- Kuwait
- Kuwait in Indonesian
- Kuwait
- Kuwait in Thai
- คูเวต kuu-wèet
- Kuwait in Vietnamese
- Cô-oét
- Kuwait in Myanmar
- ကူဝိတ် kuwit
Forms of Kuwait
| alternative form | Kuwayt |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | Koweit |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Kowait |
Origin of Kuwait
From Arabic الْكُوَيْت (al-kuwayt), diminutive of اَلْكُوت (al-kūt).
Words formed from Kuwait
Phrases with Kuwait
Words that rhyme with Kuwait
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about Kuwait
- What does Kuwait mean?
- Kuwait means a country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
- What is Kuwait in Hindi?
- Kuwait in Hindi is कुवैत (kuvait). See Kuwait meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Kuwait?
- Kuwait is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Kuwait?
- Kuwait is pronounced /k(j)uːˈweɪt/ (UK).
Words near Kuwait in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuwait (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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