Meanings
- A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
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.
1950 April 28, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 2621 more example
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.
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, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Kikuyukĩrĩma“mountain”
- kamkii nyaa“ostrich mountain”
- Kikuyukere nyaga“white mountain”
- EnglishKenya
From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including * from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped) * from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”) * from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
Arabic كِينِيَا
- كِينِيَا (kēniyā)country in Eastern Africa
Bengali কেনিয়া
- কেনিয়া (keniẏa)country in Eastern Africa
Brazilian Portuguese Quênia
- Quêniacountry in Eastern Africa
Bulgarian Ке́ния
- Ке́ния (Kénija)country in Eastern Africa
Catalan Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Chinese Mandarin 肯尼亞 /肯尼亚, 肯亞 /肯亚
- 肯尼亞 /肯尼亚 (Kěnníyà)country in Eastern Africa
- 肯亞 /肯亚 (Kěnyà)country in Eastern Africa
Czech Keňa
- Keňacountry in Eastern Africa
Danish Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Dutch Kenia, Kenya
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Esperanto Kenjo
- Kenjocountry in Eastern Africa
Estonian Keenia, Kenya
- Keeniacountry in Eastern Africa
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
European Portuguese Quénia
- Quéniacountry in Eastern Africa
Finnish Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
French Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
German Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
Greek Κένυα
- Κένυα (Kénya)country in Eastern Africa
Hebrew קֶנְיָה
- קֶנְיָה (kenya)country in Eastern Africa
Hindi कीनिया, केन्या
- कीनिया (kīniyā)country in Eastern Africa
- केन्या (kenyā)country in Eastern Africa
- केनिया (keniyā)country in Eastern Africa
- कीनया (kīnyā)country in Eastern Africa
- कीनीया (kīnīyā)country in Eastern Africa
- केनया (kenyā)country in Eastern Africa
- कीन्या (kīnyā)country in Eastern Africa
Hungarian Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Icelandic Kenía
- Keníacountry in Eastern Africa
Indonesian Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Irish An Chéinia
- An Chéiniacountry in Eastern Africa
Italian Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Japanese ケニア
- ケニア (Kenia)country in Eastern Africa
Korean 케냐, 케니아
- 케냐country in Eastern Africa
- 케니아 (Kenia)country in Eastern Africa
Latin Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
Latvian Kenija
- Kenijacountry in Eastern Africa
Lithuanian Kenija
- Kenijacountry in Eastern Africa
Malay Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Māori Kēnia
- Kēniacountry in Eastern Africa
Norwegian Bokmål Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Persian کنیا
- کنیا (keniyâ)country in Eastern Africa
Polish Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
Punjabi ਕੀਨੀਆ
- ਕੀਨੀਆ (kīnīā)country in Eastern Africa
Romanian Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Russian Ке́ния
- Ке́ния (Kénija)country in Eastern Africa
Slovak Keňa
- Keňacountry in Eastern Africa
Spanish Kenia
- Keniacountry in Eastern Africa
Swahili Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Swedish Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Tagalog Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Tamil கென்யா
- கென்யா (keṉyā)country in Eastern Africa
Thai เคนยา
- เคนยา (ken-yâa)country in Eastern Africa
Turkish Kenya
- Kenyacountry in Eastern Africa
Ukrainian Ке́нія
- Ке́нія (Kénija)country in Eastern Africa
Urdu کینیا
- کینیا (kīniyā)country in Eastern Africa
Vietnamese Kê-ni-a
- Kê-ni-acountry in Eastern Africa
Yiddish קעניע
- קעניע (kenye)country in Eastern Africa
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Kenya
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
Kenya. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenya
“Kenya.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenya. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kenya,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenya.
Source: Kenya on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.