Suva

See also: suva, süvä, šuva, and sůva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːvə/
• Rhymes: -uːvə

Proper noun

Suva

1. The capital city of Fiji.

Translations

capital of Fiji

• Afrikaans: Suva
• Amharic: ሱቫ (suva)
• Arabic: سُوفَا f (sūfā)
• Armenian: Սուվա (Suva)
• Azerbaijani: Suva (az)
• Belarusian: Су́ва f (Súva)
• Bengali: সুভা (śubha)
• Bulgarian: Су́ва f (Súva)
• Burmese: ဆူးဗားမြို့ (hcu:ba:mrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇瓦 / 苏瓦 (zh) (Sūwǎ)

• Czech: Suva f
• Danish: Suva
• Fiji Hindi: सुवा
• Finnish: Suva
• French: Suva (fr) f
• Georgian: სუვა (suva)
• German: Suva (de) n
• Greek: Σούβα f (Soúva)
• Hebrew: סובה f (suva)
• Hindi: सुवा (hi) (suvā)
• Indonesian: Suva
• Japanese: スバ (ja) (Suba)
• Kazakh: Сува (Suva)
• Khmer: ស៊ូវ៉ា (km) (suuvaa)
• Korean: 수바 (ko) (Suba)
• Kyrgyz: Сува (Suva)
• Macedonian: Су́ва f (Súva)
• Malay: Suva
• Marathi: सुवा (suvā)
• Mongolian: Сува (Suva)
• Ossetian: Сувӕ (Suvæ)
• Persian: سووا (suvâ)
• Polish: Suva (pl) f
• Portuguese: Suva f
• Russian: Су́ва (ru) f (Súva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сува f

  Roman: Suva f

• Slovak: Suva (sk) f
• Slovene: Suva f
• Spanish: Suva (es) f
• Tagalog: Suva
• Tajik: Сува (Suva)
• Tamil: சுவா (ta) (cuvā)
• Thai: ซูวา
• Tibetan: སུ་ཝ། (su wa)
• Tongan: Suva
• Turkish: Süva
• Turkmen: Suwa
• Ukrainian: Су́ва f (Súva)
• Uzbek: Suva
• Vietnamese: Xu-va

Anagrams

• UV-As, UAVs, AUVs, UV As, VUSA, vaus, Uvas, Vasu

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Suva

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)

Related terms

• Suvaan
• Suvaans

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuva]

Proper noun

Suva f (related adjective suvský)

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)

Declension

Declension of Suva (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Suva
genitive	Suvy
dative	Suvě
accusative	Suvu
vocative	Suvo
locative	Suvě
instrumental	Suvou

Fijian

Etymology

From suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuβa/

Proper noun

Suva

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.va/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uva
• Syllabification: Su‧va

Proper noun

Suva f (related adjective suwański)

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)

Declension

Declension of Suva

	singular
nominative	Suva
genitive	Suvy
dative	Suvie
accusative	Suva
instrumental	Suvę
locative	Suvie
vocative	Suvo

Derived terms

nouns

• suwanka
• suwańczyk

 

References

• Suva in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.

Proper noun

Suva f

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)

Samoan

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.

Proper noun

Suva

1. The capital city of Fiji.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuba/ [ˈsu.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Su‧va

Proper noun

Suva ?

1. Suva (the capital city of Fiji)