Canberra

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Most commonly said to be from Ngunawal kamberra (“meeting place”). See more theories on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkænbɹə/, /ˈkænbəɹə/, /ˈkæmbɹə/,
• (US, also) IPA^(key): /ˈkænˌbɛɹə/
• Hyphenation: Can‧berra
• Hyphenation: Can‧ber‧ra

Proper noun

Canberra

2. The capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory.
3. (colloquial, metonymically) The Australian federal government.

   A new tax policy was announced by Canberra today.

Translations

capital city of Australia

• Afrikaans: Canberra
• Albanian: Canberra f
• Amharic: ካንበራ (kanbära), ካንቤራ (kanbera)
• Arabic: كَانْبِرَا f (kānbirā), كَانْبَيرَا f (kānbīrā)
• Armenian: Կանբեռա (hy) (Kanbeṙa)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܢܒܪܐ (qanberā)
• Asturian: Canberra (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kanberra (az)
• Belarusian: Канбе́ра f (Kanbjéra), Канбэ́ра f (Kanbéra)
• Bengali: ক্যানবেরা (kênbera)
• Bulgarian: Ка́нбера f (Kánbera)
• Burmese: ကင်ဘာရာမြို့ (kangbharamrui.)
• Catalan: Canberra f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 堪培拉 (ham¹ pui⁴ laai¹)

  Mandarin: 堪培拉 (zh) (Kānpéilā)

• Czech: Canberra (cs) f
• Danish: Canberra
• Dinka: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Canberra (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kanbero
• Estonian: Canberra (et)
• Finnish: Canberra (fi)
• French: Canberra (fr) f
• Galician: Canberra, Camberra (gl)
• Georgian: კანბერა (ḳanbera)
• German: Canberra (de) n
• Greek: Καμπέρα (el) f (Kampéra)
• Hebrew: קַנְבֶּרָה f (kanbera)
• Hindi: कैनबरा m (kainbarā)
• Hungarian: Canberra (hu)
• Ido: Canberra
• Indonesian: Canberra
• Italian: Canberra (it) f
• Japanese: キャンベラ (ja) (Kyanbera), カンベラ (Kanbera)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾನ್ಬೆರ್ರಾ (kyānberrā)
• Kazakh: Канберра (Kanberra)
• Khmer: កង់បេរ៉ា (km) (kɑngbeeraa)
• Korean: 캔버라 (ko) (Kaenbeora)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kanberra

• Kyrgyz: Канберра (Kanberra)
• Lao: ແຄນເບີຣາ (khǣn bœ̄ rā)
• Latvian: Kanbera f
• Lithuanian: Kanbera f
• Macedonian: Канбера f (Kanbera)
• Malay: Canberra
• Malayalam: കാന്ബെറ (kānbeṟa), കാന്ബറ (kānbaṟa)
• Maltese: Kanberra
• Maori: Kānapera
• Marathi: कॅनबेरा (kĕnberā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Канберра (mn) (Kanberra)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Canberra

• Occitan: Canberra f
• Odia: କାନବେରା (kānaberā)
• Ossetian: Канберрӕ (Kanberræ)
• Pashto: کنبرا f (kanbərā)
• Persian: کانبرا (kânbarâ)
• Polish: Canberra (pl) f
• Portuguese: Camberra
• Romanian: Canberra (ro)
• Russian: Канбе́рра (ru) f (Kanbérra), Ка́нберра (ru) f (Kánberra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Канбера f, Канберра f

  Roman: Canberra f, Kanberra f, Kanbera f

• Sinhalese: කැන්බරා (kænbarā)
• Slovak: Canberra f
• Slovene: Canberra f
• Spanish: Canberra (es), Camberra (es)
• Tajik: Канберра (Kanberra)
• Tamil: கான்பரா (kāṉparā)
• Tatar: Канберра (Qanberra)
• Telugu: కాన్బెర్రా (kānberrā)
• Thai: แคนเบอร์รา (kɛɛn-bəə-râa)
• Tibetan: ཁན་པེ་ར། (khan pe ra)
• Turkmen: Kanberra
• Ukrainian: Канбе́рра f (Kanbérra)
• Urdu: کینبرا m (kainbarā), کینبیرا m (kainberā)
• Uyghur: كانبېررا (kanbërra)
• Uzbek: Kanberra
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: Canberra n, Kanberra n
• Yiddish: קאַנבעראַ (kanbera)

Anagrams

• Carn Brea

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Canberra

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛnbɛra]

Proper noun

Canberra f (related adjective canberrský)

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

Declension

Declension of Canberra (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Canberra
genitive	Canberry
dative	Canbeře
accusative	Canberru
vocative	Canberro
locative	Canbeře
instrumental	Canberrou

Further reading

• “Canberra”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.bɛ.ʁa/ ~ /kɑ̃.be.ʁa/, /kan.bɛ.ʁa/ ~ /kan.be.ʁa/

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

Italian

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

Anagrams

• brancare

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Canberra, from Ngunawal kamberra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈbɛ.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: Can‧be‧rra

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

Declension

Declension of Canberra

	singular
nominative	Canberra
genitive	Canberry
dative	Canberrze
accusative	Canberrę
instrumental	Canberrą
locative	Canberrze
vocative	Canberro

Derived terms

adjective

• canberski

 

nouns

• canberczyk
• canberka

 

Further reading

• Canberra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Canberra.

Proper noun

Canberra

1. Alternative form of Camberra

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkenbera]

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)

References

• “Canberra”, 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, 2024

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Camberra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamˈbera/ [kãmˈbe.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: Can‧be‧rra

Proper noun

Canberra ?

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory)