Maputo

See also: maputo

English

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Maputo and Maputo River

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Etymology

From Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈpuːtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Maputo

1. The capital city of Mozambique.
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 114:

     Then came a rough exultant voice, ‘This is the Voice of Zimbabwe broadcasting from Maputo!’

2. A river in southeastern Africa.

Synonyms

• Lourenço Marques (pre-independence), City of Acacias, Pearl of the Indian Ocean (nicknames)

Translations

capital of Mozambique

Afrikaans: Maputo Arabic: مَابُوتُو m (maputū) Asturian: Maputu (ast) Chinese: Mandarin: 馬普托 / 马普托 (zh) (Mǎpǔtuō) Czech: Maputo (cs) n Danish: Maputo Dutch: Maputo n Esperanto: Maputo (eo) German: Maputo (de) n Irish: Mapútó m Japanese: マプト (ja) (Maputo) Korean: 마푸토 (Maputo) Polish: Maputo (pl) n Portuguese: Maputo (pt) m Russian: Мапу́ту (ru) m (Mapútu) Spanish: Maputo (es)

Anagrams

• map out

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Maputo

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Proper noun

Maputo

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Maputo

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaputo]

Proper noun

Maputo n (relational adjective maputský)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Maputo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Maputo
genitive	Maputa
dative	Maputu
accusative	Maputo
vocative	Maputo
locative	Maputu
instrumental	Maputem

Further reading

• “Maputo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

Maputo

Wikipedia ^eo

Etymology

From Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈputo/
• Rhymes: -uto
• Hyphenation: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo (accusative Maputon)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Holonyms

• Mozambiko (“Mozambique”)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Maputo

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈpu.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utɔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo n (indeclinable, related adjective maputański)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Derived terms

nouns

• maputanka
• maputańczyk

References

• Maputo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈpu.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈpu.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈpu.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈpu.tu/

• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo m

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Usage notes

When referring to the city, Maputo is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Maputo

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaputɔ]

Proper noun

Maputo n (genitive singular Maputa, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Maputo (the capital of Mozambique)

References

• “Maputo”, 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