Thimphu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪmˈpuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Thimphu

1. The capital city of Bhutan.
   • 2024 September 16, “A fledgling democracy, Bhutan aims for gender equality and public engagement in governing”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on September 19, 2024, Asia‎^[2]:

     Bhutan, the tiny 'Land of the Thunder Dragon' in South Asia, is a polar contrast to what one might associate with any of its closest neighbors, China, India, Nepal, or Bangladesh. For instance, Thimphu, its most populous city, is the only capital city in the world without a single traffic light. The city’s busiest intersection is still managed by a traffic policeman directing vehicles using flamboyant hand movements accentuated by his white gloves – apparently all the traffic intervention the 114,000 residents need.

Translations

the capital of Bhutan

• Afrikaans: Thimphu
• Albanian: Thimphu
• Amharic: ጢምጱ (ṭimp̣u)
• Arabic: تِيمْفُو f (timfū)
• Armenian: Թհիմփհու (hy) (Tʻhimpʻhu)
• Assamese: থিম্ফু (thimphu)
• Asturian: Thimphu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Thimphu (az)
• Belarusian: Тхімпху́ m (Tximpxú)
• Bengali: থিম্পু (bn) (thimpu)
• Bulgarian: Тхимпху́ m (Thimphú)
• Burmese: သင်ဖူ (sanghpu), ဆင်းဖု (hcang:hpu.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廷布 (ting⁴ bou³)

  Mandarin: 廷布 (zh) (Tíngbù)

• Czech: Thimbú n
• Danish: Thimphu n
• Dutch: Thimphu n
• Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu)
• Estonian: Thimphu
• Finnish: Thimphu
• French: Thimphou (fr) f
• Galician: Thimphu (gl)
• Georgian: თიმფუ (ka) (timpu)
• German: Thimphu (de) n
• Greek: Τιμπού n (Timpoú)
• Gujarati: થિમ્ફુ (thimphu)
• Hebrew: טְהִימְפְּהוּ f
• Hindi: थिम्फू m (thimphū), थिम्पू m (thimpū)
• Hungarian: Timpu (hu)
• Icelandic: Timfú
• Indonesian: Thimphu
• Irish: Thimphu
• Italian: Thimphu
• Japanese: ティンプー (ja) (Tinpū)
• Kannada: ಥಿಂಪು (thimpu)
• Kazakh: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Khmer: ធីមភូ (km) (thiimphuu)
• Korean: 팀부 (Timbu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Thimphou

• Kyrgyz: Тхимпху (ky) (Thimphu)
• Lao: ທິມພູ (thim phū)
• Latvian: Thimphu
• Lithuanian: Timpu
• Macedonian: Тимбу n (Timbu)
• Malay: Thimphu
• Malayalam: തിംഫു (timphu)
• Marathi: थिंफू (thimphū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Thimphu

• Odia: ଥିମ୍ପୁ (thimpu)
• Pashto: تيمفو
• Persian: تیمفو (timfu)
• Polish: Thimphu (pl) n
• Portuguese: Timfu f
• Punjabi: ਥਿੰਫੂ (thimphū)
• Romanian: Thimphu (ro)
• Russian: Тхимпху́ (ru) m (Tximpxú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тимбу n, Тимпу n

  Roman: Thimphu n, Timbu n, Timpu n

• Slovak: Thimphu n
• Slovene: Thimphu n
• Spanish: Timbu (es) m
• Swedish: Thimphu (sv) n
• Tagalog: Timbu
• Tajik: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Tamil: திம்பு (timpu)
• Tatar: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Telugu: థింపూ (thimpū)
• Thai: ทิมพู (tim-puu)
• Tibetan: ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu)
• Turkish: Thimphu (tr)
• Turkmen: Thimphu
• Ukrainian: Тхімпху́ m (Tximpxú), Тхі́мпху m or n (Txímpxu)
• Urdu: تھمپھو m (thimphū), تھمپو m (thimpū)
• Uyghur: تىمپۇ (timpu)
• Uzbek: Thimphu
• Vietnamese: Thim-bu
• Yiddish: טהימפּהו n (thimphu)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Thimpu

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Proper noun

Thimphu

1. Thimphu (the capital city of Bhutan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtim.fu/
• Rhymes: -imfu
• Syllabification: Thim‧phu

Proper noun

Thimphu n (indeclinable)

1. Thimphu (the capital city of Bhutan)

Further reading

• Thimphu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Thimphu f

1. Alternative form of Timbu

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Proper noun

Thimphu n

1. Thimphu (the capital of Bhutan)

References

• “Thimphu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025