Kuala Lumpur

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /ˈkuala ˈlumpʊr/, /ˈkuala ˈlumpʊə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kuˈɑːlə ˈlʊmpə(ɹ)/, /kuˈɑːlə ˈlʊmpʊə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur

2. A federal territory in western Malaysia, in which the country’s current capital of the same name is located.
4. The capital city of Malaysia, located in the federal territory of the same name.

Synonyms

• (all senses): KL

Related terms

• KLite

Translations

capital of Malaysia

Afrikaans: Koeala Loempoer, Kuala Lumpur Albanian: Kuala Lumpur m Amharic: ኩዋላ ሉምፑር (kuwala lumpur) Arabic: كْوَالَا لُمْبُور f (kwālā lumbūr) Armenian: Կուալա Լումպուր (hy) (Kuala Lumpur) Assamese: কুৱালালামপুৰ (kualalampur) Azerbaijani: Kuala Lumpur (az) Belarusian: Куала-Лу́мпур m (Kuala-Lúmpur) Bengali: কুয়ালালামপুর (bn) (kuẏalalampur) Bulgarian: Куала Лу́мпур m (Kuala Lúmpur) Burmese: ကွာလာလမ်ပူမြို့ (kwalalampumrui.) Catalan: Kuala Lumpur m Chinese: Cantonese: 吉隆坡 (gat1 lung4 bo1) Hokkien: 吉隆坡 (Kiat-liông-pho) Mandarin: 吉隆坡 (zh) (Jílóngpō) Czech: Kuala Lumpur (cs) m Danish: Kuala Lumpur n Dutch: Kuala Lumpur n Esperanto: Kuala-Lumpuro (eo) Estonian: Kuala Lumpur (et) Farefare: Kuala Lumpuu Finnish: Kuala Lumpur (fi) French: Kuala Lumpur (fr) f Georgian: კუალა-ლუმპური (ka) (ḳuala-lumṗuri) German: Kuala Lumpur (de) n Greek: Κουάλα Λουμπούρ (el) (Kouála Loumpoúr) Hebrew: קוּאלה לוּמפּוּר f (kuala lumpur) Hindi: कुआला लमपुर m (kuālā lampur) Hungarian: Kuala Lumpur (hu) Icelandic: Kúala Lúmpúr Indonesian: Kuala Lumpur Irish: Cuala-Lumpair Italian: Kuala Lumpur f Japanese: クアラルンプール (ja) (Kuararunpūru) Kazakh: Куала-Лумпур (Kuala-Lumpur) Khmer: កូឡាឡាំពួរ (koulaalampuə) Korean: 쿠알라룸푸르 (ko) (Kuallarumpureu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kuala Lumpur Kyrgyz: Куала-Лумпур (ky) (Kuala-Lumpur) Lao: ກົວລາລຳເປີ (kūa lā lam pœ̄), ກົວລະລຳເປີ (kūa la lam pœ̄) Latin: Cuala Lumpuria f Latvian: Kualalumpūra f Lithuanian: Kvala Lumpūras m Macedonian: Куа́ла Лу́мпур (Kuála Lúmpur) Malay: Jawi: کوالا لومڤور Rumi: Kuala Lumpur (ms) Maltese: Kwala Lumpur Marathi: कुआला लुंपूर (kuālā lumpūr) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Куала Лумпур (Kuala Lumpur) Navajo: Kʼoala Lompo Norwegian: Bokmål: Kuala Lumpur Odia: କୁଆଲାଲୁମ୍ପୁର (kuālālumpura) Pashto: کوالالمپور m (kwālālampúr) Persian: کوالالامپور (kuâlâlâmpur) Polish: Kuala Lumpur (pl) m Portuguese: Kuala Lumpur f, Kuala Lampur f, Cuala Lumpur f Romanian: Kuala Lumpur (ro) Russian: Куала-Лу́мпур (ru) m (Kuala-Lúmpur) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Куа̀ла Лу̀мпур m Roman: Kuàla Lùmpur (sh) m Slovak: Kuala Lumpur m Slovene: Kuala Lumpur m Spanish: Kuala Lumpur (es) m Swedish: Kuala Lumpur (sv) n Sylheti: ꠇꠥꠀꠟꠣꠟꠣꠝ꠆ꠙꠥꠞ (kualalamfur) Tajik: Куала-Лумпур (Kuala-Lumpur) Tamil: கோலாலம்பூர் (kōlālampūr) Tatar: Куала-Лумпур (Quwala-Lumpur) Telugu: కౌలాలంపూరు (kaulālampūru) Thai: กัวลาลัมเปอร์ (guua-laa-lam-bpəə) Turkish: Kuala Lumpur (tr) Turkmen: Kuala Lumpur Ukrainian: Куала-Лу́мпур m (Kuala-Lúmpur) Urdu: کوالا لمپور m (kuālā lampur) Uyghur: كۇئالالۇمپۇر (ku'alalumpur) Uzbek: Kuala Lumpur Vietnamese: Cát Long Pha, Cu-a-la Lăm-pơ Yiddish: קואַלאַ לומפּור n (kuala lumpur)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur

1. Alternative spelling of Koeala Loempoer

Derived terms

• Kuala Lumpurs

Catalan

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈa.lə ˈlum.pu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kuˈa.lə ˈlum.po]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈa.la ˈlum.poɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈa.lə ˈlum.pu]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈa.la ˈlum.puɾ]

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur m

1. Kuala Lumpur

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuala lumpur]

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur m inan (related adjective kualalumpurský)

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Kuala Lumpur
genitive	Kuala Lumpuru
dative	Kuala Lumpuru
accusative	Kuala Lumpur
vocative	Kuala Lumpure
locative	Kuala Lumpuru
instrumental	Kuala Lumpurem

Declension of Kuala Lumpur (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

Further reading

• “Kuala Lumpur”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa.la lum.puʁ/

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur m

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur n (proper noun, genitive Kuala Lumpurs or (optionally with an article) Kuala Lumpur)

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Compound of kuala (“confluence”) +‎ lumpur (“mud”), from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkua̯la ˈlʊmpʊr/

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur f

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^ms

Alternative forms

• KL

Etymology

kuala (“confluence”) +‎ lumpur (“mud”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kualə lumpo(r)/
• (Bahasa Baku) IPA^(key): /kuala lumpʊ(r)/

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur (Jawi spelling کوالا لمڤور)

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Kuala Lampur, Cuala Lumpur (rare)

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur f

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)

Romanian

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur f

1. Kuala Lumpur

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuala lumpur]

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur m inan (genitive singular Kuala Lumpuru, declension pattern of dub)

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital of Malaysia)

References

• “Kuala Lumpur”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkwala lumˈpuɾ/ [ˌkwa.la lũmˈpuɾ]
• Syllabification: Kua‧la Lum‧pur

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur m

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)

Related terms

• lumpureño

 

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kuala Lumpur

Wikipedia ^tr

Etymology

From English Kuala Lumpur, from Malay Kuala Lumpur.

Proper noun

Kuala Lumpur

1. Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)
2. Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)