Kabul

See also: kabul and Kábul

English

Alternative forms

• Cabool, Cabul, Caubool, Caubul (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Classical Persian کابل (kābul).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːbəl/, enPR: käʹbo͝ol

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːbəl

Proper noun

Kabul

1. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
2. A province of Afghanistan.

Derived terms

• Kabulese

Translations

capital and largest city of Afghanistan

• Afrikaans: Kaboel
• Albanian: Kabuli m, Kabul m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ካቡል (kabul)
• Arabic: كَابُل f (kābul)
• Armenian: Քաբուլ (Kʻabul)
• Assamese: কাবুল (kabul)
• Asturian: Kabul (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kabil
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} Kabul (eu)
• Belarusian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Bengali: কাবুল (bn) (kabul)
• Bulgarian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Burmese: ကဘူးလ် (ka.bhul:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 喀布爾／喀布尔 (haak³ bou³ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 喀布爾／喀布尔 (zh) (Kābù'ěr); 哈布爾／哈布尔 (Hābù'ěr) (historically)

• Czech: Kábul (cs) m
• Danish: Kabul n
• Dutch: Kaboel (nl) n, Kabul (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kabulo (eo)
• Estonian: Kabul (et)
• Finnish: Kabul (fi)
• French: Kaboul (fr) m
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Cabul (gl), ^{(please verify)} Kabul (gl), ^{(please verify)} Kābul
• Georgian: ქაბული (ka) (kabuli)
• German: Kabul (de) n
• Greek: Καμπούλ (el) (Kampoúl)
• Gujarati: કાબુલ (kābul)
• Hebrew: קאבול \ קָבּוּל f (kabul)
• Hindi: काबुल m (kābul), काबूल (hi) m (kābūl)
• Hungarian: Kabul (hu)
• Icelandic: Kabúl
• Indonesian: Kabul
• Irish: Cabúl m
• Italian: Kabul (it)
• Japanese: カブール (ja) (Kabūru)
• Kannada: ಕಾಬುಲ್ (kābul)
• Kazakh: Кабул (Kabul)
• Khmer: កាប៊ុល (km) (kaabul)
• Korean: 카불 (ko) (Kabul)
• Kumyk: Къабул (Qabul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kabûl (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Кабул (Kabul)
• Lao: ກາບູນ (kā būn)
• Latin: Cabura f, Cabulum n
• Latvian: Kabula f
• Limburgish: ^{(please verify)} Kaboel (li)
• Lithuanian: Kabulas m
• Macedonian: Кабул m (Kabul)
• Malay: Kabul
• Malayalam: കാബൂൾ (kābūḷ)
• Maltese: Kabul
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᠪᡠᠯ (habul)
• Marathi: काबुल (kābul)
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (kʾpwl /⁠kābul⁠/)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Кабул (Kabul)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kabul (no)

• Odia: କାବୁଲ (kabulô)
• Pashto: کابل (ps) m (kābǝl)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: کَابُل (fa) (kābul)

  Dari: کَابُل (fa) (kābul)

  Iranian Persian: کابُل (fa) (kâbol)

• Polish: Kabul (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cabul (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਾਬੁਲ (pa) (kābul)
• Romanian: Kabul (ro)
• Russian: Кабу́л (ru) m (Kabúl)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ка̀бул m

  Roman: Kàbul (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කාබුල් (kābul)
• Slovak: Kábul (sk) m
• Slovene: Kabul m
• Spanish: Kabul (es) m
• Swedish: Kabul (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠛꠥꠟ (xabul)
• Tajik: Кобул (tg) (Kobul)
• Tamil: காபூல் (ta) (kāpūl)
• Tatar: Кабул (Qabul)
• Telugu: కాబూల్ (kābūl)
• Thai: คาบูล (kaa-buul)
• Tibetan: ཁ་པུལ (kha pul)
• Turkish: Kâbil (tr)
• Turkmen: Kabul
• Ukrainian: Кабу́л m (Kabúl)
• Urdu: کابُل m (kābul)
• Uyghur: كابۇل (kabul)
• Uzbek: Kabul
• Vietnamese: Ka-bun
• Yiddish: קאַבול n (kabul)

Anagrams

• baulk, bulak

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβul]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈbul]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kaˈbul]

Proper noun

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Derived terms

• kabulí

Estonian

Proper noun

Kabul

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːbʊl/, /ˈkaːˌbuːl/, /kaˈbuːl/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Kabul n (proper noun, genitive Kabuls or (optionally with an article) Kabul)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کابل (kābul).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.bul/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Proper noun

Kabul m inan

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Declension

Declension of Kabul

	singular
nominative	Kabul
genitive	Kabulu
dative	Kabulowi
accusative	Kabul
instrumental	Kabulem
locative	Kabulu
vocative	Kabulu

Derived terms

adjective

• kabulski

 

nouns

• kabulczyk
• kabulka

 

Further reading

• Kabul in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Kabul in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Kabul m (Cyrillic spelling Кабул)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbul/ [kaˈβ̞ul]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: Ka‧bul

Proper noun

Kabul m

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)

Swedish

Proper noun

Kabul n (genitive Kabuls)

1. Kabul (the capital city of Afghanistan)