Lake Victoria

English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton.

Proper noun

Lake Victoria

1. The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.

   Synonym: Nalubaale

Translations

African lake

• Afrikaans: Victoriameer
• Albanian: Liqeni Viktoria
• Amharic: ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ (viktoriya häyḳ)
• Arabic: بُحَيْرَة فِيكْتُورِيَا f (buḥayra(t) fīktūriyā)
• Armenian: Վիկտորիա լիճ (Viktoria lič)
• Azerbaijani: Viktoriya gölü (az)
• Belarusian: Вікторыя f (Viktóryja)
• Bengali: ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ (bhikṭōriẏa hrod)
• Breton: Lenn Victoria m
• Bulgarian: Виктория f (Viktorija)
• Burmese: ဝိတိုရိယအိုင် (wi.tuiri.ya.uing)
• Catalan: llac Victòria m
• Chechen: Викто́ри (Viktóri)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維多利亞湖／维多利亚湖 (zh) (Wéiduōlìyà Hú)

• Czech: Viktoriino jezero n
• Danish: Victoriasøen c
• Dutch: Victoriameer n
• Esperanto: Viktoria lago
• Estonian: Victoria järv
• Faroese: Viktoriavatn n
• Finnish: Victorianjärvi
• French: lac Victoria (fr) m
• Galician: Lago Vitoria m
• Georgian: ვიქტორიას ტბა (vikṭorias ṭba)
• German: Victoriasee m
• Greek: Λίμνη Βικτόρια f (Límni Viktória)
• Gujarati: વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ (vikṭoriyā taḷāv)
• Hebrew: אגם ויקטוריה m (agám viktória)
• Hindi: विक्टोरिया झील (vikṭoriyā jhīl)
• Hungarian: Viktória-tó (hu)
• Icelandic: Viktoríuvatn n
• Ido: Lago Viktoria
• Indonesian: Danau Victoria
• Irish: Loch Victoria m
• Italian: lago Vittoria m
• Japanese: ヴィクトリア湖 (Vikutoria-ko)
• Kannada: ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ (vikṭōriyā sarōvara)
• Kazakh: Виктория көлі (Viktoriä kölı)
• Khmer: បឹងវិចតូរីយ៉ា (bəngvɨctouriiyaa)
• Korean: 빅토리아호 (biktoriaho)
• Kyrgyz: Виктория көлү (Viktoriya kölü)
• Latvian: Viktorijas ezers m
• Lithuanian: Viktorijos ežeras m
• Luganda: Nnalubaale
• Macedonian: Викториино Езеро n (Viktoriino Ezero)
• Malay: Tasik Victoria
• Malayalam: വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം (vikṭōṟiya taṭākaṁ)
• Marathi: व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर (vhikṭoriyā sarovar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Victoriasjøen m

  Nynorsk: Victoriasjøen m

• Occitan: lac Victòria m
• Oromo: Hara Viktooriyaa
• Ossetian: Виктори (Viktori)
• Persian: دریاچه ویکتوریا (daryâče viktôriyâ)
• Polish: Jezioro Wiktorii n
• Portuguese: Lago Vitória m
• Punjabi: ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ (pa) (vikṭorīā jhīl)
• Romanian: Lacul Victoria n
• Russian: Викто́рия (ru) f (Viktórija), озеро Викто́рия n (ozero Viktórija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Nyanza
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Викторијино језеро n

  Roman: Viktorijino jezero (sh) n

• Slovak: Viktóriino jazero n
• Slovene: Viktorijino jezero (sl) n
• Somali: Harta Fiktooriya
• Spanish: Lago Victoria m
• Swahili: Ziwa Victoria
• Swedish: Victoriasjön c
• Tagalog: Lawa ng Victoria
• Tajik: кӯли Виктория (kül-i Viktoriya)
• Tamil: விக்டோரியா ஏரி (vikṭōriyā ēri)
• Telugu: విక్టోరియా సరస్సు (te) (vikṭōriyā sarassu)
• Thai: ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย (tá-lee-sàap wík-dtɔɔ-riia)
• Turkish: Victoria Gölü
• Turkmen: Wiktoriýa köli
• Ukrainian: Вікто́рія (uk) f (Viktórija), озеро Вікто́рія n (ozero Viktórija)
• Uzbek: Viktoriya
• Vietnamese: hồ Victoria
• Welsh: Llyn Victoria m
• West Frisian: Fiktoariamar

Further reading

• “Lake Victoria”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Lake Victoria, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Lake Victoria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Lake Victoria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Lake Victoria” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.