Kenya en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including * from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped) * from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”) * from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)
Meanings
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A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.
2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025:The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.
1950 April 14, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
Deriveds
Kenyan · Kenya AA · kenyaite · Kenya tick typhus · kenyte
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Translations (134)
mr केनिया (country in Eastern Africa) · qu Kinya (country in Eastern Africa) · ha Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · so Kiinya (country in Eastern Africa) · kln Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · ka კენია (country in Eastern Africa) · af Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · ban Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · ki Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · nrf Qùenia (country in Eastern Africa) · gu કેન્યા (country in Eastern Africa) · ga An Chéinia (country in Eastern Africa) · ur کینیا (country in Eastern Africa) · fr Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · ar كِينِيَا (country in Eastern Africa) · frr Keenia (country in Eastern Africa) · tl Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · kam Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · crh Keniya (country in Eastern Africa) · he קֶנְיָה (country in Eastern Africa) · hi केन्या (country in Eastern Africa) · tt Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · hi कीनीया (country in Eastern Africa) · am ኬንያ (country in Eastern Africa) · aii ܟܸܢܝܵܐ (country in Eastern Africa) · or କେନିଆ (country in Eastern Africa) · hy Քենիա (country in Eastern Africa) · pa ਕੀਨੀਆ (country in Eastern Africa) · ml കെനിയ (country in Eastern Africa) · br Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · io Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · hi कीन्या (country in Eastern Africa) · ky Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · sh Кенија (country in Eastern Africa) · bg Ке́ния (country in Eastern Africa) · da Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · be Ке́нія (country in Eastern Africa) · ast Keña (country in Eastern Africa) · sg Kenyäa (country in Eastern Africa) · su Kénya (country in Eastern Africa) · ko 케냐 (country in Eastern Africa) · sv Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · uz Keniya (country in Eastern Africa) · gl Quenia (country in Eastern Africa) · nb Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · is Kenía (country in Eastern Africa) · hi केनया (country in Eastern Africa) · ug كېنىيە (country in Eastern Africa) · ko 케니아 (country in Eastern Africa) · jv Kénya (country in Eastern Africa) · bn কেনিয়া (country in Eastern Africa) · mrj Кени (country in Eastern Africa) · fo Kenja (country in Eastern Africa) · pl Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · ti ኬንያ (country in Eastern Africa) · es Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · kn ಕೀನ್ಯಾ (country in Eastern Africa) · fa کنیا (country in Eastern Africa) · wal Keeniya (country in Eastern Africa) · pt Quênia (country in Eastern Africa) · kk Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · ps کېنيا (country in Eastern Africa) · eo Kenjo (country in Eastern Africa) · luy Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · mi Kēnia (country in Eastern Africa) · ckb کینیا (country in Eastern Africa) · la Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · sk Keňa (country in Eastern Africa) · si කෙන්යාව (country in Eastern Africa) · ia Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · ro Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · ltg Keneja (country in Eastern Africa) · yo Kẹ́ńyà (country in Eastern Africa) · cmn 肯尼亞 /肯尼亚 (country in Eastern Africa) · se Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · tr Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · sl Kénija (country in Eastern Africa) · pnb کینیا (country in Eastern Africa) · ast Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · te కెన్యా (country in Eastern Africa) · hi केनिया (country in Eastern Africa) · ban Kénya (country in Eastern Africa) · oc Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · din Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · th เคนยา (country in Eastern Africa) · ru Ке́ния (country in Eastern Africa) · pt Quénia (country in Eastern Africa) · tg Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · tk Keniýa (country in Eastern Africa) · sh Kenija (country in Eastern Africa) · sw Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · fi Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · id Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · pap Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · mt il-Kenja (country in Eastern Africa) · lo ເກນຢາ (country in Eastern Africa) · hi कीनिया (country in Eastern Africa) · az Keniya (country in Eastern Africa) · luo Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · et Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · vi Kê-ni-a (country in Eastern Africa) · nl Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · bo ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། (country in Eastern Africa) · ja ケニア (country in Eastern Africa) · cmn 肯亞 /肯亚 (country in Eastern Africa) · nl Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · uk Ке́нія (country in Eastern Africa) · lt Kenija (country in Eastern Africa) · mk Кенија (country in Eastern Africa) · hi कीनया (country in Eastern Africa) · sc Kènya (country in Eastern Africa) · ca Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · yi קעניע (country in Eastern Africa) · el Κένυα (country in Eastern Africa) · ta கென்யா (country in Eastern Africa) · de Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · lv Kenija (country in Eastern Africa) · it Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · hu Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · nn Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · mer Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · sah Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · sq Kenia (country in Eastern Africa) · bew Kénia (country in Eastern Africa) · nah Quenia (country in Eastern Africa) · et Keenia (country in Eastern Africa) · nrf Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · my ကင်ညာ (country in Eastern Africa) · kis Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · mn Кени (country in Eastern Africa) · ba Кения (country in Eastern Africa) · km កេនយ៉ា (country in Eastern Africa) · ms Kenya (country in Eastern Africa) · cs Keňa (country in Eastern Africa)