Kabul

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Kabul

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Kabul skyline in 2020

Former flag of Kabul, pre-2021

Map of Kabul Province

Alternative forms

Cabool, Cabul, Caubool, Caubul (all obsolete)
Kabol (from Iranian Persian)

Etymology

From Classical Persian (kābul).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːbəl/, enPR: käʹbəl
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːˌbʊl/, enPR: käʹbo͝ol^[1]
IPA^(key): /kəˈbuːl/, enPR: kə-bo͞olʹ^[1]
Rhymes: -ɑːbəl, -uːl

Proper noun

Kabul

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
A province of Afghanistan.
A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.

Derived terms

(rare) Kabulese
Kabuli

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 (kābula)
Pashto: کابل (ps) m (kābǝl)
Persian:
Classical Persian: کَابُل (kābul)

Dari: کَابُل (kābul)

Iranian Persian: کابُل (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), காபுல் (kāpul)
Tatar: Кабул (Qabul)
Telugu: కాబూల్ (kābūl), కాబూలు (kābūlu)
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)