Kenya

From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including

• from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped)^[1]
• from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”)
• from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.jə/, (dated) /ˈkiːn.jə/
• (Kenya) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -ɛnjə, (dated) -iːnjə
• Hyphenation: Ke‧n‧ya

Kenya

2. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.

   • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.

• Subsahara

• Countries of the world

• Hinde, H.B. Vocabularies of the Kamba amd Kikuyu languages of East Afica
• Kenya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kenya on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Kenya on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Kenya on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Kanye, Yanke, nakey

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɛ.ni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɛ.ni.a]

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• Hyphenation: Kè‧ni‧a

Kenya m or f

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyà

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

From English Kenya.

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Borrowed from English Kenya.

• IPA^(key): /ke.nja/

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Kenya m

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa; official name: Kenyai Köztársaság)

• kenyai

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyan, kenyanar
• kenyansk

Kenya m

1. alternative spelling of Quénia: Kenya (a country in East Africa)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kenya) IPA^(key): /kɛ.ɲɑ/

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Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

   Synonym: Jamhuri ya Kenya

• Mkenya

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːnʏa/

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Kenya n (genitive Kenyas)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyan
• kenyansk
• kenyanska

• Kenya in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from English Kenya or Spanish Kenia (“Kenya”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛː.ɲɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛn̪.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: Ken‧ya

Kenya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈ᜔ᜌ)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

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Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)