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Makdashau

Makdashau is the obsolete form of Mogadishu.

Meaning of Mogadishu

Proper noun

Mogadishu

  1. The capital city of Somalia.
    • 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.2007 April 22, en, “Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2021
    Synonyms:
    Xamar
  2. (metonymically) The government of Somalia.

Questions about Makdashau

What is Makdashau the obsolete form of?
Makdashau is the obsolete form of Mogadishu.

Words near Makdashau in the dictionary

  1. makatite
  2. Makato
  3. Makaton
  4. Makawao
  5. Makayla
  6. Makdashau
  7. makdous
  8. make
  9. make a better door than a window
  10. make a big thing out of
  11. make a bolt for it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Makdashau (page history and authors); Mogadishu (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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