Tsjad.
Chad; a country in Central Africa, Africa, a landlocked country with Ndjamena as its capital.
Meaning & usage
Chad; a country in Central Africa, Africa, a landlocked country with Ndjamena as its capital.
Tsjad har store klimatiske forskjeller mellom Sahara i nord og savanneområdene i sør.
Where this word comes from
A 1995 respelling of Tchad, the former standard Norwegian spelling. The older form is ultimately from French Tchad, the French name of the country, which takes its name from Lake Chad. The lake name is traditionally connected with Kanuri tsade (“lake; large expanse of water”). However, Gustav Nachtigal recorded the Kanuri name of the lake as Tsâd and reported that the name appeared to mean “large body of water” in the dialect of the earlier inhabitants of the western shore, the Sô and related peoples. The deeper linguistic origin is therefore uncertain. Modern Kanuri has Sádǝ for “Chad”. Compare the parallel adaptations Norwegian Nynorsk Tsjad, Danish Tchad, Swedish Tchad, German Tschad and English Chad.
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