Dushanbe

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Etymology

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Tajik Душанбе (Dušanbe)bor.

English Dushanbe

Borrowed from Tajik Душанбе (Dušanbe).

Pronunciation

• enPR: do͞o-shăn′bə, do͞o-shän′bə

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Dushanbe

2. The capital city of Tajikistan.

   Synonym: (historical) Stalinabad

Translations

capital of Tajikistan

• Afrikaans: Doesjanbe
• Albanian: Dushanbe
• Amharic: ዱሻንቤ (dušanbe)
• Arabic: دُوشَنْبِه f (dušanbih)
• Armenian: Դուշանբե (hy) (Dušanbe)
• Asturian: Duxambé (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Düşənbə (az)
• Bashkir: Дүшәмбе (Düşəmbe)
• Belarusian: Душанбэ́ m (Dušanbé)
• Bengali: দুশান্‌বে (bn) (duśan‌be)
• Bulgarian: Душанбе́ n (Dušanbé)
• Burmese: ဒူရှန်ဘဲမြို့ (duhranbhai:mrui.)
• Catalan: Duixanbe
• Chagatai: دوشنبه (dwšnbh)
• Cherokee: ᏚᏝᎾᏇ (dutlanaque)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杜尚別 / 杜尚别 (zh) (Dùshàngbié), 杜尚貝 / 杜尚贝 (zh) (Dùshàngbèi)

• Czech: Dušanbe (cs) n
• Danish: Dushanbe n, Dusjanbe n
• Dutch: Doesjanbe n
• Esperanto: Duŝanbeo (eo)
• Estonian: Dušanbe (et)
• Finnish: Dušanbe (fi)
• French: Douchanbé (fr) f
• Georgian: დუშანბე (ka) (dušanbe)
• German: Duschanbe (de) n
• Greek: Ντουσαμπέ f (Ntousampé)
• Hebrew: דוּשָנבֶּה f (dushanbe)
• Hindi: दुशान्बे m (duśānbe)
• Hungarian: Dusanbe (hu)
• Icelandic: Dúsjanbe
• Indonesian: Dushanbe
• Irish: Dushanbe
• Italian: Dušanbe
• Japanese: ドゥシャンベ (ja) (Dushanbe)
• Kazakh: Душанбе (Duşanbe), Дүйсенбі (Düisenbı)
• Khmer: ឌូស្ហាន់បេ (duusanbee), ឌូសាន់បេ (duusanbee)
• Korean: 두샨베 (Dusyanbe)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Duşenbe (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Дүйшөмбү (ky) (Düyşömbü)
• Lao: ດູຊານເບ (dū sān bē)
• Latvian: Dušanbe
• Lithuanian: Dušanbė
• Macedonian: Душанбе (Dušanbe)
• Malay: Dushanbe
• Maltese: Duxanbe
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Душанбе (Dušanbe)

• Nogai: Дуьйсемби (Düysembi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Dusjanbe (no) n

  Nynorsk: Dusjanbe n

• Ossetian: Душанбе́ (Dušanbé)
• Pashto: دوشنبه f (dušanba)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دوشَنْبِه (došanbe)

• Polish: Duszanbe (pl) n
• Portuguese: Dushanbe (pt) f, Duchambe f
• Romanian: Dușanbe (ro)
• Russian: Душанбе́ (ru) m (Dušanbɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Душанбе

  Latin: Dušanbe

• Sinhalese: දුෂාන්බේ (duṣānbē)
• Slovak: Dušanbe (sk) n
• Slovene: Dušanbe
• Spanish: Dusambé (es), Dushambé
• Swedish: Dusjanbe (sv) n
• Tajik: Душанбе (tg) (Dušanbe)
• Tamil: துசான்பே (tucāṉpē)
• Tatar: Дүшәнбе (Düşänbe)
• Thai: ดูชานเบ (duu-chaan-bêe)
• Tibetan: དུ་ཤང་པེ (du shang pe)
• Turkish: Duşanbe (tr)
• Turkmen: Duşanbe
• Ukrainian: Душанбе́ (uk) m (Dušanbé)
• Urdu: دُوشَن٘بَہ m (dūśamba)
• Uyghur: دۈشەنبە (düshenbe)
• Uzbek: Dushanbe
• Vietnamese: Đu-san-be
• Yaghnobi: Душамбеҳ (Dušambeh)
• Yakut: Душанбе (Dušanbe)
• Yiddish: דושאַנבע n (dushanbe)

Further reading

• Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Stalinabad”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1818, column 2: “Developed (after 1929) as a new city of broad, tree-lined thoroughfares, on site of old Tadzhik village of Dyushambe.”

Anagrams

• bunheads, unbashed

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Duchambe

Proper noun

Dushanbe f

1. Dushanbe (the capital city of Tajikistan)