Present day Benin was the site of Dahomey, a West African kingdom that rose to prominence in about 1600 and over the next two and a half centuries became a regional power.
Source: tatoeba (12161089)
Dahomey
//dəˈhəʊmi//
Synonyms for "dahomey" (1 found)
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Translations
56 translations across 54 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Albanian
1 entries- Dahomei name (former country in Africa)
Amharic
1 entries- ዳሆሚ name (former country in Africa)
Arabic
1 entries- دَاهُومَيّ name (former country in Africa)
Armenian
1 entries- Դահոմեայ name (former country in Africa)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- Daqomeya name (former country in Africa)
Basque
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Belarusian
1 entries- Дагаме́я name (former country in Africa)
Bengali
1 entries- দাহোমি name (former country in Africa)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Дахомей name (former country in Africa)
Catalan
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 達荷美 /达荷美 name (former country in Africa)
Czech
1 entries- Dahome name (former country in Africa)
Danish
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Dutch
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Estonian
1 entries- Dahomee name (former country in Africa)
Finnish
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
French
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Galician
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Georgian
1 entries- დაჰომეა name (former country in Africa)
German
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Greek
1 entries- Δαχομέη name (former country in Africa)
Hebrew
1 entries- דהומיי name (former country in Africa)
Hindi
1 entries- डाहोमी name (former country in Africa)
Hungarian
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Indonesian
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Italian
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Japanese
1 entries- ダホメ name (former country in Africa)
Korean
1 entries- 다호메이 name (former country in Africa)
Latvian
1 entries- Dahomeja name (former country in Africa)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Dahomėja name (former country in Africa)
Macedonian
1 entries- Дахомеј name (former country in Africa)
Malay
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Marathi
1 entries- दहोमी name (former country in Africa)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- Дагомей name (former country in Africa)
Persian
1 entries- داهومی name (former country in Africa)
Polish
1 entries- Dahomej name (former country in Africa)
Portuguese
1 entries- Daomé name (former country in Africa)
Romanian
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Russian
1 entries- Дагоме́я name (former country in Africa)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Dahomej name (former country in Africa)
- Дахомеј name (former country in Africa)
Slovak
1 entries- Dahome name (former country in Africa)
Slovene
1 entries- Dahomej name (former country in Africa)
Spanish
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Swedish
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Tamil
1 entries- டஹோமி name (former country in Africa)
Telugu
1 entries- దాహోమీ name (former country in Africa)
Thai
1 entries- ดาโฮมีย์ name (former country in Africa)
Turkish
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Дагоме́я name (former country in Africa)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Dahomey name (former country in Africa)
Yoruba
2 entries- Dàhọ̀mì name (former country in Africa)
- Ìdàhọ̀mì name (former country in Africa)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
French Dahomey achieved independence in 1960 and changed its name to the Republic of Benin in 1975.
Source: tatoeba (12161091)
The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.
Source: wiktionary
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