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Rwanda

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Rwanda

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Rwanda-Rundi -anda
Rwanda-Rundi u Rwāndabor.
English Rwanda

    From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).

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    Rwanda

    2. A country in East Africa.
      • 2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters‎[1]:
        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.
    4. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
      Synonym: Kinyarwanda
    5. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
      • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:
        VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

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    countries in Africa (appendix)edit

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    Afrikaans

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    Rwanda

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa; capital: Kigali)

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    Rwanda ?

    1. alternative spelling of Ruanda: Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Rwanda f (relational adjective rwandský, demonym Rwanďan)

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Declension of Rwanda (sg-only hard feminine)
    singular
    nominative Rwanda
    genitive Rwandy
    dative Rwandě
    accusative Rwandu
    vocative Rwando
    locative Rwandě
    instrumental Rwandou

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    Rwanda n

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Rwanda m

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Indonesian

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    Borrowed from Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).

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    Rwanda

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Rwanda (plural Rwanda-Rwanda or para Rwanda)

    1. Rwandan

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    Rwanda (comparative lebih Rwanda, superlative paling Rwanda)

    1. Rwandan

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    countries in Africa: negara-negara di Afrika (appendix)edit

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    The flag of Rwanda.
     
    Rwanda in Africa.
     
    Downtown Kigali viewed from Kimihurura.

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    Internationalism, based on Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda (“Rwanda”), from the archaic Rwanda-Rundi verb -anda (“to expand”).

    Compare Zulu -anda (“to increase, multiply; spread”). Parallel international forms include Norwegian Nynorsk Rwanda, Danish Rwanda, Swedish Rwanda, Dutch Rwanda and English Rwanda.

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    Rwanda

    1. Rwanda; a country in Central Africa, Africa, a landlocked country in Central Africa, with Kigali as its capital.
      Hun reiste gjennom Rwanda med buss fra Kigali mot grensen til Tanzania. ― She travelled through Rwanda by bus from Kigali toward the Tanzanian border.
      • 2026 June 25, Dag Leraand and Fredrik Lyngås Pedersen, “Rwanda”, in Store norske leksikon‎[2]:
        Rwanda er en republikk i Sentral-Afrika som grenser til Uganda i nord, Tanzania i øst, Burundi i sør og Den demokratiske republikken Kongo i vest.
        Rwanda is a republic in Central Africa bordering Uganda to the north, Tanzania to the east, Burundi to the south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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    • The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Rwanda (“the Republic of Rwanda”).

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    • rwanda (“Rwanda, Kinyarwanda language”)

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    countries in Africa: land i Afrika (appendix)edit

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Rwanda

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)
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    • IPA(key): /ˈrvan.da/
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    • Rhymes: -anda
    • Syllabification: Rwan‧da

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    Rwanda f (related adjective rwandyjski)

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    Declension of Rwanda
    singular
    nominative Rwanda
    genitive Rwandy
    dative Rwandzie
    accusative Rwandę
    instrumental Rwandą
    locative Rwandzie
    vocative Rwando

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    countries in Africa: państwa Afryki (appendix)edit

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    • “Rwanda”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

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    Rwānda class 9 (or class 11)

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)
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    Rwanda

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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    countries in Africa: nchi za Afrika (appendix)edit

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    Rwanda n (genitive Rwandas)

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)
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    Rwanda f (not mutable)

    1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

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