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ASHGABAT (Settlement) English, Yoruba, Scots, Occitan, Malay, Swahili, Irish, Indonesian, Welsh, ShonaMeans "city of love", "city of devotion" from Persian عشقآباد
(ešq-âbâd), a combination of Persian عشق
('ešq) meaning "love" and آباد
(âbâd) "city". This is the name of the capital city of
Turkmenistan.
BRUNEI (Country) Malay, English, Indonesian, Catalan, Finnish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Tagalog, Dutch, TurkishProbably derived from
Borneo, the name of an island, which in turn is most likely from Sanskrit वरुण
(váruṇa) meaning "ocean, water". A local legend suggests that the name may be derived from the phrase
baru nah meaning "there!" or "that's it!", which was supposedly declared by Muhammad Shah, Brunei's first sultan...
[more] BUKITTINGGI (Settlement) Indonesian, MinangkabauMeans "tall hill", from Indonesian
bukit "hill" and
tinggi "high, tall". This is the name of a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia.
BURUNDI (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, UkrainianThe name of the Country in East Africa. Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
JAKARTA (Settlement) Indonesian, Malay, English, Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Acehnese, French, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Romanian, Finnish, CroatianDerived from Sanskrit जयकर्त
(jayakarta) meaning "that which causes victory", from जय
(jayá) "victory, triumph" and कृत
(kṛtá) "done, made, accomplished"...
[more] KUALA LUMPUR (Settlement) Malay, English, Indonesian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, DutchMeans "muddy confluence" from Malay
kuala meaning "confluence" and
lumpur "mud". This is the name of the capital and largest city of
Malaysia.
LIVONIA (Region) History, Albanian, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, English, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Romanian, SpanishLivonia was a historic region in the Baltic, located approximately in present-day southern
Estonia and northern
Latvia. The name is derived from the name of the indigenous people living in the area, the Livonians.
MALAYSIA (Country) Malay, English, Indonesian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, RomanianFrom
Malay, which refers to the Malay Peninsula and the Malay people, combined with the Greek suffix -σία
(síā). The name
Malay is from
Melayu or
Malayu, the name of a Sumatran kingdom, which is probably derived from Tamil மலை
(malai) or Malayalam മല
(mala) meaning "hill, mountain"...
[more] MEDAN (Settlement) Indonesian, EnglishMeaning uncertain. According to the diary of a Portuguese merchant, the name is derived from Tamil
மைதானம் (Maidhāṉam) meaning "ground" (or Hindi
मैदान (Maidan)), adopted from Malay...
[more] SUMATRA (Island) Indonesian, English, Javanese, Sundanese, Acehnese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Croatian, Dutch, Russian, Serbian, BulgarianDerived from Sanskrit समुद्र
(samudrá) meaning "sea, ocean". This has been one of the names for the largest island of western
Indonesia since the 14th century.