Rwanda

专有名词
/ɹuˈændə/|/ɹəˈwændə/|/ɹəˈwɒndə/    /ɹuˈɑndə/|/ɹəˈwɑndə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A country in East Africa.
    — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.
  2. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
  3. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
    — VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

词源

Etymology tree
Rwanda-Rundi -anda
Rwanda-Rundi u Rwāndabor.
English Rwanda
From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).
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