Abidjan

English

Etymology

From the Ebrié expression min-chan m'bidjan (literally “I just cut the leaves”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.ɪˈd͡ʒɑn/, /ˌæb.əˈd͡ʒɑn/, /ˈæb.əˌd͡ʒɑn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Abidjan

2. the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast.

Derived terms

• Abidjani
• Abidjanian

 

Translations

the largest city of Ivory Coast

• Afrikaans: Abidjan
• Amharic: አቢጃን (ʾäbiǧan)
• Arabic: أَبِيدْجَان m (ʔabīdjān)
• Armenian: Աբիջան (hy) (Abiǰan)
• Azerbaijani: Abican
• Basque: Abidjan
• Belarusian: Абіджа́н m (Abidžán)
• Bulgarian: Абиджа̀н m (Abidžàn)
• Catalan: Abidjan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿比讓 / 阿比让 (zh) (Ābǐràng), 阿必尚 (Ābǐshàng)

• Czech: Abidžan (cs)
• Danish: Abidjan
• Dutch: Abidjan
• Esperanto: Abiĝano
• Estonian: Abidjan (et)
• Finnish: Abidjan (fi)
• French: Abidjan (fr)
• Galician: Abidjan
• Georgian: აბიჯანი (abiǯani)
• German: Abidjan (de)
• Greek: Αμπιντζάν m (Ampintzán)
• Hebrew: אביג'אן m (abig'an)
• Hindi: आबिदजान (ābidjān)
• Hungarian: Abidjan (hu)
• Ido: Abidjan
• Indonesian: Abidjan
• Italian: Abidjan
• Japanese: アビジャン (ja) (Abijan)
• Kazakh: Абиджан (Abidjan)
• Korean: 아비장 (ko) (abijang)
• Kyrgyz: Абиджан (ky) (Abidjan)
• Latvian: Abidžāna
• Lithuanian: Abidžanas
• Macedonian: Абиџан (Abidžan)
• Maltese: Abidjan
• Norwegian: Abidjan

  Nynorsk: Abidjan

• Occitan: Abidjan
• Persian: آبیجان
• Polish: Abidżan (pl)
• Portuguese: Abidjan (pt), Abijão, Abijã
• Romanian: Abidjan (ro)
• Russian: Абиджа́н (ru) m (Abidžán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Абиџан, Абидјан

  Roman: Abidžan, Abidjan

• Slovak: Abidžan
• Slovene: Abidžan
• Spanish: Abiyán (es)
• Swahili: Abidjan
• Swedish: Abidjan (sv)
• Thai: อาบีจาน (aa-bii-jaan)
• Turkish: Abican
• Turkmen: Abijan
• Ukrainian: Абіджа́н m (Abidžán)
• Uzbek: Abijan
• Yoruba: Abíjan

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Abidjan

1. Abidjan (the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast)

Derived terms

• Abidjanner
• Abidjans

See also

• Yamoussoukro

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.dʒɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Abidjan f

1. Abidjan (the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒbid͡ʒːaːn]
• Hyphenation: Abi‧djan
• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Abidjan

1. Abidjan (the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Abidjan	—
accusative	Abidjant	—
dative	Abidjannak	—
instrumental	Abidjannal	—
causal-final	Abidjanért	—
translative	Abidjanná	—
terminative	Abidjanig	—
essive-formal	Abidjanként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Abidjanban	—
superessive	Abidjanon	—
adessive	Abidjannál	—
illative	Abidjanba	—
sublative	Abidjanra	—
allative	Abidjanhoz	—
elative	Abidjanból	—
delative	Abidjanról	—
ablative	Abidjantól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Abidjané	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Abidjanéi	—

Possessive forms of Abidjan
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Abidjanom	—
2nd person sing.	Abidjanod	—
3rd person sing.	Abidjanja	—
1st person plural	Abidjanunk	—
2nd person plural	Abidjanotok	—
3rd person plural	Abidjanjuk	—

Derived terms

• abidjani

 

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Abijão, Abijã

Proper noun

Abidjan f

1. Abidjan (the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Àbidžan (Serbia, Montenegro)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎbid͡ʒan/
• Hyphenation: A‧bid‧jan

Proper noun

Àbidjan m (Cyrillic spelling А̀бидјан)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia) Abidjan (the de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast)

Declension

Declension of Abidjan

	singular
nominative	Abidjan
genitive	Abidjana
dative	Abidjanu
accusative	Abidjan
vocative	Abidjane
locative	Abidjanu
instrumental	Abidjanom

Further reading

• Abidjan on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sh