Thimphu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪmˈpuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Thimphu

1. The capital city of Bhutan.

Translations

the capital of Bhutan

• Afrikaans: Thimphu
• Albanian: Thimphu
• Amharic: ጢምጱ (ṭimp̣u)
• Arabic: تِيمْفُو f (timfū)
• Armenian: Թհիմփհու (hy) (Tʻhimpʻhu)
• Assamese: থিম্ফু (thimphu)
• Asturian: Thimphu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Thimphu (az)
• Belarusian: Тхімпху́ m (Tximpxú)
• Bengali: থিম্পু (bn) (thimpu)
• Bulgarian: Тхимпху́ m (Thimphú)
• Burmese: သင်ဖူ (sanghpu), ဆင်းဖု (hcang:hpu.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廷布 (ting⁴ bou³)

  Mandarin: 廷布 (zh) (Tíngbù)

• Czech: Thimbú n
• Danish: Thimphu n
• Dutch: Thimphu n
• Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu)
• Estonian: Thimphu
• Finnish: Thimphu
• French: Thimphou (fr) f
• Galician: Thimphu (gl)
• Georgian: თიმფუ (ka) (timpu)
• German: Thimphu (de) n
• Greek: Τιμπού n (Timpoú)
• Gujarati: થિમ્ફુ (thimphu)
• Hebrew: טְהִימְפְּהוּ f
• Hindi: थिम्फू m (thimphū), थिम्पू m (thimpū)
• Hungarian: Timpu (hu)
• Icelandic: Timfú
• Indonesian: Thimphu
• Irish: Thimphu
• Italian: Thimphu
• Japanese: ティンプー (ja) (Tinpū)
• Kannada: ಥಿಂಪು (thimpu)
• Kazakh: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Khmer: ធីមភូ (km) (thiimphuu)
• Korean: 팀부 (Timbu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Thimphou

• Kyrgyz: Тхимпху (ky) (Thimphu)
• Lao: ທິມພູ (thim phū)
• Latvian: Thimphu
• Lithuanian: Timpu
• Macedonian: Тимбу n (Timbu)
• Malay: Thimphu
• Malayalam: തിംഫു (timphu)
• Marathi: थिंफू (thimphū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Thimphu

• Odia: ଥିମ୍ପୁ (thimpu)
• Pashto: تيمفو
• Persian: تیمفو (timfu)
• Polish: Thimphu (pl) n
• Portuguese: Timfu f
• Punjabi: ਥਿੰਫੂ (thimphū)
• Romanian: Thimphu (ro)
• Russian: Тхимпху́ (ru) m (Tximpxú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тимбу n, Тимпу n

  Roman: Thimphu n, Timbu n, Timpu n

• Slovak: Thimphu n
• Slovene: Thimphu n
• Spanish: Timbu (es) m
• Swedish: Thimphu (sv) n
• Tagalog: Timbu
• Tajik: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Tamil: திம்பு (timpu)
• Tatar: Тхимпху (Tximpxu)
• Telugu: థింపూ (thimpū)
• Thai: ทิมพู (tim-puu)
• Tibetan: ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu)
• Turkish: Thimphu (tr)
• Turkmen: Thimphu
• Ukrainian: Тхімпху́ m (Tximpxú), Тхі́мпху m or n (Txímpxu)
• Urdu: تھمپھو m (thimphū), تھمپو m (thimpū)
• Uyghur: تىمپۇ (timpu)
• Uzbek: Thimphu
• Vietnamese: Thim-bu
• Yiddish: טהימפּהו n (thimphu)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Thimpu

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Proper noun

Thimphu

1. Thimphu (the capital city of Bhutan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtim.fu/
• Rhymes: -imfu
• Syllabification: Thim‧phu

Proper noun

Thimphu n (indeclinable)

1. Thimphu (the capital city of Bhutan)

Further reading

• Thimphu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Thimphu f

1. Alternative form of Timbu

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).

Proper noun

Thimphu n

1. Thimphu (the capital of Bhutan)

References

• “Thimphu”, 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, 2003–2025