Uganda
/juːˈɡændə/
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British/jʉwˈɡandə/
Uganda proper noun: a country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
Proper noun
Uganda
- A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
- The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2024
Uganda meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
Uganda in Hindi
- Republic of Uganda
- युगांडा yugāṇḍā
Uganda in Tamil
- Republic of Uganda
- உகாண்டா ukāṇṭā
Uganda in Bengali
- Republic of Uganda
- উগান্ডা uganḍa
Uganda in Telugu
- Republic of Uganda
- ఉగాండా ugāṇḍā
More languagesFewer languages
- Uganda in Malayalam
- ഉഗാണ്ട ugāṇṭa
- Uganda in Kannada
- ಉಗಾಂಡ ugāṇḍa
- Uganda in Odia
- ଉଗାଣ୍ଡା ugāṇḍā
- Uganda in Tagalog
- Uganda
- Uganda in Arabic
- أُوغَنْدَا ʔuḡandā, أُوغَنْدَة ʔuḡanda
- Uganda in Persian
- اوگاندا ugândâ
- Uganda in Thai
- ยูกันดา yuu-gan-dâa
- Uganda in Vietnamese
- U-gan-đa
- Uganda in Myanmar
- ယူဂန်းဒါး yugan:da:
- Dhivehi
- ޔުގެންޑާ yugen̊ḍā
Origin of Uganda
From Swahili Uganda (“Buganda, subnational kingdom”), from Luganda Buganda (“land of the Ganda”), possibly from Proto-Bantu *ngàndá (“family”).
Words formed from Uganda
Phrases with Uganda
Questions about Uganda
- What does Uganda mean?
- Uganda means a country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
- What is Uganda in Hindi?
- Uganda in Hindi is युगांडा (yugāṇḍā). See Uganda meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Uganda?
- Uganda is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Uganda?
- Uganda is pronounced /juːˈɡændə/ (UK).
Words near Uganda in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Uganda (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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