Submitted Name
Type Country
Usage Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish
Scripts Габон(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. gə-BAWN(English) GA-BAWN(French) GAW-bon(Hungarian) GA-bawn(Polish) gu-BON(Russian) [key·IPA]
Other Forms FormsCzech variant: Gabun
[Meaning & History
Derived from Portuguese gabão meaning "cloak, overcoat", used to refer to the shape of the estuary of the Komo River by Libreville. This is the name of a country in Central Africa along the Atlantic coast.