Rwanda
/ɹuˈændə/US/ɹuˈɑndə/
Rwanda proper noun: a country in East Africa.
Proper noun
Rwanda
- A country in East Africa.
- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters
- The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
- Synonyms:
- Kinyarwanda
- The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
- VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures
Rwanda meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
Rwanda in Hindi
- country
- रवांडा ravāṇḍā
Rwanda in Urdu
- country
- روانڈا rvānḍā
Rwanda in Bengali
- country
- রুয়ান্ডা ruẏanḍa
Rwanda in Malayalam
- country
- റുവാണ്ട ṟuvāṇṭa
More languagesFewer languages
- Rwanda in Kannada
- ರುವಾಂಡ
- Rwanda in Sinhala
- රුවන්ඩාව ruwanḍāwa
- Rwanda in Tagalog
- Ruwanda
- Rwanda in Arabic
- رُوَانْدَا ruwāndā
- Rwanda in Malay
- Rwanda
- Rwanda in Indonesian
- Rwanda
- Rwanda in Persian
- رواندا ruândâ
- Rwanda in Thai
- รวันดา rá-wan-dâa
- Rwanda in Vietnamese
- Ru-an-đa
- Rwanda in Myanmar
- ရဝမ်ဒါ ra.wamda
Synonyms of Rwanda
Origin of Rwanda
From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).
Words formed from Rwanda
Words that rhyme with Rwanda
Questions about Rwanda
- What does Rwanda mean?
- Rwanda means a country in East Africa.
- What is Rwanda in Hindi?
- Rwanda in Hindi is रवांडा (ravāṇḍā). See Rwanda meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Rwanda?
- Rwanda is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Rwanda?
- Rwanda is pronounced /ɹuˈændə/ (UK).
Words near Rwanda in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Rwanda (page history and authors); Rwanda (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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