Lake Victoria

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Lake Victoria

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Lake Victoria

The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.
Synonym: Nalubaale

Translations

African lake

Afrikaans: Victoriameer
Albanian: Liqeni Viktoria
Amharic: ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ (viktoriya häyḳ)
Arabic: بُحَيْرَة فِيكْتُورِيَا f (buḥayra(t) fīktūriyā)
Armenian: Վիկտորիա լիճ (Viktoria lič)
Azerbaijani: Viktoriya gölü (az)
Belarusian: Вікторыя f (Viktóryja)
Bengali: ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ (bhikṭōriẏa hrod)
Breton: Lenn Victoria m
Bulgarian: Виктория f (Viktorija)
Burmese: ဝိတိုရိယအိုင် (wi.tuiri.ya.uing)
Catalan: llac Victòria m
Chechen: Викто́ри (Viktóri)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 維多利亞湖 / 维多利亚湖 (zh) (Wéiduōlìyà Hú)
Czech: Viktoriino jezero n
Danish: Victoriasøen c
Dutch: Victoriameer n
Esperanto: Viktoria lago
Estonian: Victoria järv
Faroese: Viktoriavatn n
Finnish: Victorianjärvi
French: lac Victoria (fr) m
Frisian:
West Frisian: Fiktoariamar
Galician: Lago Vitoria m
Georgian: ვიქტორიას ტბა (vikṭorias ṭba)
German: Victoriasee m
Greek: Λίμνη Βικτόρια f (Límni Viktória)
Gujarati: વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ (vikṭoriyā taḷāv)
Hebrew: אגם ויקטוריה m (agám viktória)
Hindi: विक्टोरिया झील (vikṭoriyā jhīl)
Hungarian: Viktória-tó (hu)
Icelandic: Viktoríuvatn n
Ido: Lago Viktoria
Indonesian: Danau Victoria
Irish: Loch Victoria m
Italian: lago Vittoria m
Japanese: ヴィクトリア湖 (Vikutoria-ko)
Kannada: ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ (vikṭōriyā sarōvara)
Kazakh: Виктория көлі (Vıyktorıya köli)
Khmer: បឹងវិចតូរីយ៉ា (bəngvɨctouriiyaa)
Korean: 빅토리아호 (biktoriaho)
Kyrgyz: Виктория көлү (Viktoriya kölü)
Latvian: Viktorijas ezers m
Lithuanian: Viktorijos ežeras m
Luganda: Nnalubaale
Macedonian: Викториино Езеро n (Viktoriino Ezero)
Malay: Tasik Victoria
Malayalam: വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം (vikṭōṟiya taṭākaṁ)
Marathi: व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर (vhikṭoriyā sarovar)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Victoriasjøen m

Nynorsk: Victoriasjøen m
Occitan: lac Victòria m
Oromo: Hara Viktooriyaa
Ossetian: Виктори (Viktori)
Pannonian Rusyn: Викторийово озеро n (Viktorijovo ozero)
Persian: دریاچه ویکتوریا (daryâče viktôriyâ)
Polish: Jezioro Wiktorii n
Portuguese: Lago Vitória m
Punjabi: ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ (pa) (vikṭorīā jhīl)
Romanian: Lacul Victoria n
Russian: Викто́рия (ru) f (Viktórija), озеро Викто́рия n (ozero Viktórija)
Rwanda-Rundi: Nyanza
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Викторијино језеро n

Latin: Viktorijino jezero (sh) n
Slovak: Viktóriino jazero n
Slovene: Viktorijino jezero (sl) n
Somali: Harta Fiktooriya
Spanish: Lago Victoria m
Swahili: Ziwa Victoria
Swedish: Victoriasjön c
Tagalog: Lawa ng Victoria
Tajik: кӯли Виктория (kül-i Viktoriya)
Tamil: விக்டோரியா ஏரி (vikṭōriyā ēri)
Telugu: విక్టోరియా సరస్సు (te) (vikṭōriyā sarassu)
Thai: ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย (tá-lee-sàap wík-dtɔɔ-riia)
Turkish: Victoria Gölü
Turkmen: Wiktoriýa köli
Ukrainian: Вікто́рія (uk) f (Viktórija), озеро Вікто́рія n (ozero Viktórija)
Uzbek: Viktoriya
Vietnamese: hồ Victoria
Welsh: Llyn Victoria m