Maputo

See also: maputo

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ngunider.

Portuguese Maputobor.

English Maputo

Borrowed from Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈpuːtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Maputo

2. The capital and largest city of Mozambique.
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 114:

     Then came a rough exultant voice, ‘This is the Voice of Zimbabwe broadcasting from Maputo!’

4. A province of Mozambique. Capital: Matola.
6. A river in Eswatini, Mozambique and South Africa, in southeastern Africa.

Synonyms

• Lourenço Marques (pre-independence), City of Acacias, Pearl of the Indian Ocean (nicknames)

Translations

capital of Mozambique

• Afrikaans: Maputo
• Arabic: مَابُوتُو m (maputū)
• Asturian: Maputu (ast)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬普托 / 马普托 (zh) (Mǎpǔtuō)

• Czech: Maputo (cs) n
• Danish: Maputo
• Dutch: Maputo n
• Esperanto: Maputo (eo)
• German: Maputo (de) n
• Irish: Mapútó m
• Japanese: マプト (ja) (Maputo)
• Korean: 마푸토 (Maputo)
• Polish: Maputo (pl) n
• Portuguese: Maputo (pt) m
• Russian: Мапу́ту (ru) m (Mapútu)
• Spanish: Maputo (es)

Anagrams

• map out

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Maputo

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaputo]

Proper noun

Maputo n (relational adjective maputský)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Maputo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Maputo
genitive	Maputa
dative	Maputu
accusative	Maputo
vocative	Maputo
locative	Maputu
instrumental	Maputem

Further reading

• “Maputo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ngunider.

Portuguese Maputobor.

Esperanto Maputo

Borrowed from Portuguese Maputo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈputo/
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo (accusative Maputon)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Holonyms

• Mozambiko (“Mozambique”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈpu.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utɔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo n (indeclinable, related adjective maputański)

1. Maputo (the capital city of Mozambique)
2. Maputo (a river in southeastern Africa)

Derived terms

nouns

• maputanka
• maputańczyk

References

• “Maputo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

The river was named after king of the Tembe Kingdom Mabudu Tembe. The city was renamed to Maputo after Mozambique's independence.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈpu.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈpu.tu/

• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo m (demonym maputense)

1. Maputo (the capital and largest city of Mozambique)

   Synonym: (former name) Lourenço Marques

2. Maputo (a river in Eswatini, Mozambique and South Africa, in southeastern Africa)

Usage notes

• When referring to the city, Maputo is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Related terms

• Maputalândia

Proper noun

Maputo f (demonym maputense)

1. Maputo (a province of Mozambique; capital: Matola)

See also

provinces of Mozambique: províncias de Moçambiqueedit

• Cabo Delgado
• Gaza
• Inhambane
• Manica
• Maputo
• Nampula
• Niassa
• Sofala
• Tete
• Zambézia

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maputɔ/, [ˈmaputɔ]
• Rhymes: -utɔ
• Hyphenation: Ma‧pu‧to

Proper noun

Maputo n (genitive singular Maputa, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Maputo (the capital of Mozambique)

References

• “Maputo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026