Mogadishu

//ˌmoʊ.ɡəˈdi.ʃu// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The capital city of Somalia.

    "Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of fighting between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed at least 230 people."

Example

More examples

"Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia."

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو (maqadīšū).

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