indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Settlement
Usage French, English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Urdu, Uzbek
Scripts أبيدجان(Arabic) आबिदजान(Hindi) آبیدجان(Urdu) Абиджан(Uzbek)
Pronounced Pron. A-BEE-JAHN(French) ab-i-JAHN(English) ab-ə-JAHN(English) AB-ə-jahn(English) a-beed-JAN(Arabic) a-bee-JAN(Croatian, German) AW-beeg-gyawn(Hungarian) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
The largest city and economic capital of the Ivory Coast, meaning uncertain. It is traditionally believed to be derived from the Ebiré phrase min-chan m'bidjan meaning "I just cut the leaves", supposedly exclaimed by an old villager to a European explorer when asked the village's name. An alternate version of the story offers a slightly different phrase: m'bi min djan meaning "I've just been cutting the leaves".