Type Country
Usage English, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Albanian, Georgian, Armenian, Eastern African, Swahili, Indonesian, Malay, Japanese, Korean
Pronounced Pron. nə-MI-bee-ə(English) na-MYEE-bya(Polish) na-MEE-bya(Spanish) NAH-MEE-BEE-AH(Georgian) nah-MEE-byah(Armenian) NA-MEE-BEE-A(Japanese, Korean) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
From the name of the Namib Desert, meaning "desert, vast place" in Khoekhoe. This is a country in southwestern Africa.
Related Names
VariantNamib(English)
Other Languages & CulturesNamibië(Afrikaans) Namibiya(Arabic) Namibiya(Azerbaijani) Namibiya(Belarusian) Namibiya(Bengali) Namibija(Bosnian) Namibiya(Bulgarian) Namíbia(Catalan) Namibija(Croatian) Namibie(Czech) Namibië(Dutch) Namibie(French) Namibiya(Hindi) Namíbia(Hungarian) Namibiya(Kazakh) Namib(Khoekhoe) Namibiya(Kyrgyz) Namībija(Latvian) Namibija(Lithuanian) Namibija(Macedonian) Namibiya(Persian) Namíbia(Portuguese) Namibiya(Russian) Namibija(Serbian) Namíbia(Slovak) Namibija(Slovene) Namibiya(Tajik) Namibiya(Ukrainian) Namibiya(Uzbek)
Same SpellingNamíbia