Kuwait

English

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Kuwait

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Koweit (obsolete)
• Kuwayt

Etymology

From Arabic الْكُوَيْت (al-kuwayt), diminutive of اَلْكُوت (al-kūt).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k(j)uːˈweɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kuːˈweɪt/, /kʊˈweɪt/, enPR: ko͝o-wātʹ

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt
• enPR: ko͝o-wītʹ

Proper noun

Kuwait

2. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
3. Alternative form of Kuwait City: The capital city of Kuwait.

Related terms

• Kuwaiti

Translations

country in West Asia

Afrikaans: Koeweit Albanian: Kuvajt m, Kuvajti m (definite) Amharic: ኩዌት (kuwet) Arabic: الْكُوَيْت (ar) f (al-kuwayt) Gulf Arabic: الكويت f (likwēt, il-kwēt) Hijazi Arabic: الكُويت f (alkuwēt) Armenian: Քուվեյթ (Kʻuveytʻ) Assamese: কুৱেইট (kueit) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܵܝܬ (kwayt) Asturian: Kuwait (ast) Azerbaijani: Küveyt (az) Bashkir: Кувейт (Kuveyt) Belarusian: Куве́йт m (Kuvjéjt), Кувэ́йт m (Kuvéjt) Bengali: কুয়েত (bn) (kuẏet) Breton: Koweit Bulgarian: Куве́йт (bg) m (Kuvéjt) Burmese: ကူဝိတ် (kuwit) Chinese: Cantonese: 科威特 (fo1 wai1 dak6) Mandarin: 科威特 (zh) (Kēwēitè) Czech: Kuvajt (cs) m Danish: Kuwait (da) n Dutch: Koeweit (nl) n Esperanto: Kuvajto (eo) Estonian: Kuveit (et) Farefare: Kuweet Finnish: Kuwait (fi) French: Koweït (fr) m Georgian: ქუვეითი (ka) (kuveiti) German: Kuwait (de) n Greek: Κουβέιτ (el) n (Kouvéit) Gujarati: કુવૈત (kuvait) Hausa: Kwìyât f Hebrew: כְּוֵית / כְּווֵית f (kuwayt) Hindi: कुवैत (hi) m (kuvait) Hungarian: Kuvait (hu) Icelandic: Kúveit (is) n Ido: Kuwait (io) Indonesian: Kuwait (id) Interlingua: Kuwait Irish: Cuáit f Italian: il Kuwait (it) m Japanese: クウェート (ja) (Kuwēto) Kalenjin: Kuwait Kamba: Kuwait Kannada: ಕುವೈತ್ (kn) (kuvait) Kazakh: Кувейт (kk) (Kuveit) Khmer: គុយវ៉ែត (kuyvaet) Kikuyu: Kuwait Korean: 쿠웨이트 (ko) (Kuweiteu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kuweyt (ku) Kyrgyz: Кувейт (ky) (Kuveyt) Lak: Кувайт (Kuwayt) Lao: ຄູເວດ (khū wēt) Latvian: Kuveita (lv) f Lithuanian: Kuveitas (lt) m Luhya: Kuwait Luo: Kuwait Macedonian: Кувајт (mk) m (Kuvajt) Malay: Kuwait (ms) Malayalam: കുവൈറ്റ് (kuvaiṟṟ‌) Maltese: Il-Kuwajt m Marathi: कुवेत (kuvet) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Кувейт (mn) (Kuvejt) Navajo: Kóóweiʼ Nepali: कुवेत (kuvet) Norman: Kuwait Norwegian: Bokmål: Kuwait (no) n Nynorsk: Kuwait (nn) n Odia: କୁଏତ (kueta) Pashto: کويت m (kowayt), کوېټ m (kowayṭ) Persian: Dari: کُوَیْت (kuwayt) Iranian Persian: کُوِیْت (koveyt) Polish: Kuwejt (pl) m Portuguese: Kuwait (pt) m, Kuait (pt) m, Kuaite m Punjabi: ਕੁਵੈਤ (pa) (kuvait) Romanian: Kuwait (ro), Kuweit (ro) n Russian: Куве́йт (ru) m (Kuvéjt) Samogitian: Kuveits m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ку̏ва̄јт m Roman: Kȕvājt (sh) m Sinhalese: කුවේටය (kuwēṭaya) Slovak: Kuvajt (sk) m Slovene: Kuvajt (sl) m Spanish: Kuwait (es) m Swahili: Kuwait (sw) Swedish: Kuwait (sv) n Tagalog: Kuwait Tajik: Қувайт (Quvayt) Tamil: குவைத் (kuvait), குவெய்த் (kuveyt) Tatar: Күвәйт (Küwäyt) Telugu: కువైట్ (te) (kuvaiṭ) Thai: คูเวต (th) (kuu-wèet) Tibetan: ཁུ་ཝི་ཐི (khu wi thi) Turkish: Kuveyt (tr) Turkmen: Kuweýt Ukrainian: Куве́йт (uk) m (Kuvéjt) Urdu: کُوَیت m (kuvait) Uyghur: كۇۋەيت (kuweyt) Uzbek: Quvayt (uz) Vietnamese: Cô-oét Yiddish: קוּווײַט n (kuvayt)

See also

• Countries of the world

countries in Asia (appendix)edit

• Afghanistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• Cyprus
• East Timor
• Egypt
• Georgia
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• North Korea
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuwait

Wikipedia ^ca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈβajt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kuˈvajt]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Kuwait m

1. Kuwait (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Derived terms

• kuwaitià

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuwait

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Kuwait

1. Kuwait (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuwait

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Arabic الْكُوَيْت (al-kuwayt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuwɑi̯t/, [ˈkuwɑ̝i̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -uwɑit
• Syllabification^(key): Ku‧wait
• Hyphenation^(key): Ku‧wait

Proper noun

Kuwait

1. Kuwait (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Declension

Inflection of Kuwait (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Kuwait	—
genitive		Kuwaitin	—
partitive		Kuwaitia	—
illative		Kuwaitiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Kuwait	—
accusative	nom.	Kuwait	—
	gen.	Kuwaitin
genitive		Kuwaitin	—
partitive		Kuwaitia	—
inessive		Kuwaitissa	—
elative		Kuwaitista	—
illative		Kuwaitiin	—
adessive		Kuwaitilla	—
ablative		Kuwaitilta	—
allative		Kuwaitille	—
essive		Kuwaitina	—
translative		Kuwaitiksi	—
abessive		Kuwaititta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Kuwait (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Kuwaitini — accusative nom. Kuwaitini — gen. Kuwaitini genitive Kuwaitini — partitive Kuwaitiani — inessive Kuwaitissani — elative Kuwaitistani — illative Kuwaitiini — adessive Kuwaitillani — ablative Kuwaitiltani — allative Kuwaitilleni — essive Kuwaitinani — translative Kuwaitikseni — abessive Kuwaitittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Kuwaitisi — accusative nom. Kuwaitisi — gen. Kuwaitisi genitive Kuwaitisi — partitive Kuwaitiasi — inessive Kuwaitissasi — elative Kuwaitistasi — illative Kuwaitiisi — adessive Kuwaitillasi — ablative Kuwaitiltasi — allative Kuwaitillesi — essive Kuwaitinasi — translative Kuwaitiksesi — abessive Kuwaitittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Kuwaitimme — accusative nom. Kuwaitimme — gen. Kuwaitimme genitive Kuwaitimme — partitive Kuwaitiamme — inessive Kuwaitissamme — elative Kuwaitistamme — illative Kuwaitiimme — adessive Kuwaitillamme — ablative Kuwaitiltamme — allative Kuwaitillemme — essive Kuwaitinamme — translative Kuwaitiksemme — abessive Kuwaitittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Kuwaitinne — accusative nom. Kuwaitinne — gen. Kuwaitinne genitive Kuwaitinne — partitive Kuwaitianne — inessive Kuwaitissanne — elative Kuwaitistanne — illative Kuwaitiinne — adessive Kuwaitillanne — ablative Kuwaitiltanne — allative Kuwaitillenne — essive Kuwaitinanne — translative Kuwaitiksenne — abessive Kuwaitittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Kuwaitinsa — accusative nom. Kuwaitinsa — gen. Kuwaitinsa genitive Kuwaitinsa — partitive Kuwaitiaan Kuwaitiansa — inessive Kuwaitissaan Kuwaitissansa — elative Kuwaitistaan Kuwaitistansa — illative Kuwaitiinsa — adessive Kuwaitillaan Kuwaitillansa — ablative Kuwaitiltaan Kuwaitiltansa — allative Kuwaitilleen Kuwaitillensa — essive Kuwaitinaan Kuwaitinansa — translative Kuwaitikseen Kuwaitiksensa — abessive Kuwaitittaan Kuwaitittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• kuwaitilainen

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuwait

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːvaɪ̯t/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːvɛɪ̯t/, /kuˈvɛɪ̯t/, /kuˈvaɪ̯t/ (less common)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Kuwait n (proper noun, genitive Kuwaits or (optionally with an article) Kuwait)

1. Kuwait (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Derived terms

• Kuwaiter
• kuwaitisch

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuwait

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْكُوَيْت (al-kuwayt), diminutive of اَلْكُوت (al-kūt).

Proper noun

Kuwait

1. Kuwait (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Noun

Kuwait (plural Kuwait-Kuwait)

1. Kuwaiti

Adjective

Kuwait

1. Kuwaiti

See also

countries in Asia: negara-negara di Asia (appendix)edit

• Afganistan
• Arab Saudi
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Filipina
• Georgia
• India
• Indonesia
• Irak
• Iran
• Israel
• Jepang
• Kamboja
• Kazakhstan
• Kirgizstan
• Korea Selatan
• Korea Utara
• Kuwait
• Laos
• Libanon
• Maladewa
• Malaysia
• Mesir
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestina
• Qatar
• Rusia
• Singapura
• Siprus
• Sri Lanka
• Suriah
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Tiongkok
• Turki
• Turkmenistan
• Uni Emirat Arab
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yaman
• Yordania

Further reading

• “Kuwait”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016