Meanings
- The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN1 more example
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.
2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 139
Translations
Afrikaans Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Arabic أَبُوجَا
- أَبُوجَا (ʔabūjā)The capital city of Nigeria
Bengali আবুজা
- আবুজা (abuja)The capital city of Nigeria
Bulgarian Абу́джа
- Абу́джа (Abúdža)The capital city of Nigeria
Catalan Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Chinese Mandarin 阿布賈 /阿布贾
- 阿布賈 /阿布贾 (Ābùjiǎ)The capital city of Nigeria
Czech Abuja, Abudža
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
- AbudžaThe capital city of Nigeria
Danish Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Esperanto Abuĝo
- AbuĝoThe capital city of Nigeria
Estonian Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Finnish Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Greek Αμπούζα, Αμπούτζα
- Αμπούζα (Ampoúza)The capital city of Nigeria
- Αμπούτζα (Ampoútza)The capital city of Nigeria
Hebrew אַבּוּגָ׳ה
- אַבּוּגָ׳ה (abúja)The capital city of Nigeria
Hindi अबुजा
- अबुजा (abujā)The capital city of Nigeria
Irish Abúise
- AbúiseThe capital city of Nigeria
Italian Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Japanese アブジャ
- アブジャ (Abuja)The capital city of Nigeria
Korean 아부자
- 아부자 (Abuja)The capital city of Nigeria
Latvian Abudža
- AbudžaThe capital city of Nigeria
Persian آبوجا
- آبوجا (âbujâ)The capital city of Nigeria
Polish Abudża
- AbudżaThe capital city of Nigeria
Portuguese Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Russian Абу́джа
- Абу́джа (Abúdža)The capital city of Nigeria
Spanish Abuya
- AbuyaThe capital city of Nigeria
Swedish Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Thai อาบูจา
- อาบูจา (aa-buu-jaa)The capital city of Nigeria
Turkish Abuja
- AbujaThe capital city of Nigeria
Ukrainian Абу́джа
- Абу́джа (Abúdža)The capital city of Nigeria
Urdu ابوجا
- ابوجا (abujā)The capital city of Nigeria
Vietnamese A-bu-gia
- A-bu-giaThe capital city of Nigeria
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
Abuja. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Abuja
“Abuja.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Abuja. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Abuja,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Abuja.
Source: Abuja on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.