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Type Political Subdivision & Settlement
Usage Arabic, English, Albanian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu
Scripts دبي(Arabic) Дубай(Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Ukrainian) দুবাই(Bengali) 杜拜(Chinese) დუბაი(Georgian) דובאי(Hebrew) दुबई(Hindi, Nepali) 두바이(Korean Hangul) ດູໄບ(Lao) Дубаи(Macedonian, Serbian) ดูไบ(Thai) دبئی(Urdu)
Pronounced Pron. /du.ˈbajj/(Arabic) /duː.ˈbaɪ/(English) /dʊ.ˈbaɪ/(English) /tu.paɪ̯/(Chinese) /ˈdu.bɑi̯/(Finnish) /du.ba.i/(Georgian) /ˈduː.baɪ̯/(German) /du.ˈbaj/(Hebrew, Portuguese) /d̪ʊ.bə.ˈiː/(Hindi, Urdu) /ˈdu.bai/(Indonesian, Malay) /tu.ba̠.i/(Korean) doo-BIE(Lao) /du.ˈbai/(Macedonian) /dʊ.ˈbaj/(Russian) /duː˧.ˈbaj˧/(Thai) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain, possibly related to Arabic دَبَّ (dabba) meaning "to creep, to crawl", referring to the slow flow of a creek in the area. This is the name of an emirate of and city in the United Arab Emirates.