In 1971, the RDC was renamed Zaire.
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Zaire
//zɑːˈɪəɹ//
Synonyms for "zaire" (5 found)
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Related words (2)
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45 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- زَئِير name (former name of DR of Congo)
- زَائِير name (former name of DR of Congo)
Armenian
1 entries- Զաիր name (former name of DR of Congo)
Bengali
1 entries- জায়ার name (former name of DR of Congo)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Заи́р name (former name of DR of Congo)
Catalan
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 扎伊爾 name (former name of DR of Congo)
- 薩伊 /萨伊 name (former name of DR of Congo)
Czech
1 entries- Zair name (former name of DR of Congo)
Danish
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Dutch
1 entries- Zaïre name (former name of DR of Congo)
Estonian
2 entries- Sair name (former name of DR of Congo)
- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Faroese
1 entries- Sair name (former name of DR of Congo)
Finnish
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
French
2 entries- Zaïre name (former name of DR of Congo)
- zaïre noun (currency)
Galician
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Georgian
1 entries- ზაირი name (former name of DR of Congo)
German
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Greek
1 entries- Ζαΐρ name (former name of DR of Congo)
Hausa
1 entries- Zàyâr̃ name (former name of DR of Congo)
Hebrew
1 entries- זאיר name (former name of DR of Congo)
Irish
1 entries- An tSáír name (former name of DR of Congo)
Italian
2 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
- zaire noun (currency)
Japanese
1 entries- ザイール name (former name of DR of Congo)
Korean
1 entries- 자이르 name (former name of DR of Congo)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Zairas name (former name of DR of Congo)
Maltese
1 entries- iż-Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Persian
1 entries- زئیر name (former name of DR of Congo)
Polish
1 entries- Zair name (former name of DR of Congo)
Portuguese
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Romanian
1 entries- Zair name (former name of DR of Congo)
Russian
1 entries- Заи́р name (former name of DR of Congo)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Zair name (former name of DR of Congo)
- Заир name (former name of DR of Congo)
Spanish
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Swedish
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Thai
1 entries- ซาอีร์ name (former name of DR of Congo)
Turkish
1 entries- Zaire name (former name of DR of Congo)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Заїр name (former name of DR of Congo)
Uyghur
1 entries- زايىر name (former name of DR of Congo)
Welsh
1 entries- Saïr name (former name of DR of Congo)
Sample sentences
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Ebola got its name from the first documented outbreak, which occurred along the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, in 1976. Since then, there have been two dozen outbreaks of Ebola in Africa, including a current one that has infected nine people in the DRC. Three people have died.
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