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PRONUNCIATION OF DUALA

Duala  [dʊˈɑːlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUALA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Duala is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUALA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Duala in the English dictionary

The definition of Duala in the dictionary is -la, -las. a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Cameroon. Other definition of Duala is the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUALA


Ambala
əmˈbɑːlə
Douala
dʊˈɑːlə
gala
ˈɡɑːlə
Guatemala
ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlə
impala
ɪmˈpɑːlə
kabbalah
kəˈbɑːlə
kamala
kəˈmɑːlə
Kampala
kæmˈpɑːlə
koala
kəʊˈɑːlə
Lingala
ˌlɪŋˈɡɑːlə
Mahler
ˈmɑːlə
Marsala
mɑːˈsɑːlə
masala
mɑːˈsɑːlə
nyala
ˈnjɑːlə
parlour
ˈpɑːlə
Patiala
ˌpʌtɪˈɑːlə
tala
ˈtɑːlə
taler
ˈtɑːlə
thaler
ˈtɑːlə
Uppsala
ˈʌpsɑːlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUALA

Dual Alliance
dual carriageway
dual controls
dual heritage
Dual Monarchy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUALA

Agartala
ala
amygdala
Bala
garam masala
Gujranwala
hawala
Karbala
Kerala
La Scala
Lala
Makhachkala
mala
mancala
mandala
nala
polygala
Scala
Tlaxcala
Upsala

Synonyms and antonyms of Duala in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Duala» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUALA

Find out the translation of Duala to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Duala from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Duala» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Duala
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Duala
570 millions of speakers

English

Duala
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

DUALA
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دوالا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дуала
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Duala
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুয়ালা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Douala
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Duala
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Duala
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Duala
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Duala
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Duala
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Duala
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துவாலா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुआला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Duala
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Duala
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Duala
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дуала
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Duala
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Duala
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Duala
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Duala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Duala
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Duala

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUALA»

The term «Duala» is normally little used and occupies the 118.798 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Duala
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Duala».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUALA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Duala» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Duala» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Duala

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUALA»

Discover the use of Duala in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Duala and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their ...
In tracing these changing economic and political roles, this 1999 book also examines the growing consciousness of the Duala as an ethnic group and uses their history to shed light on the history of 'middleman' communities in surrounding ...
Ralph A. Austen, Jonathan Derrick, 1999
2
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
challenges the contention that slavery, even in an African context, need necessarily be classified as an institution out of step with economic modernization.26 The eclipse of the Duala middleman role in Cameroon history was due not only to a ...
Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff, 1979
3
The Rulers of German Africa, 1884-1914
22 At the opposite end of the spectrum were the Duala, a coastal people in Cameroun who had engaged in overseas commerce since the seventeenth century and had established a local monopoly over the transit trade to the interior .
Peter Duignan, 1979
4
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the ...
That description is pretty well what it is: the list contains a mixture of Bantu words, many now visibly of Duala type, and some Efik-type non-Bantu words, together with their meanings in Dutch (or possibly Flemish). The two languages are clearly  ...
Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener, 1996
5
Dictionary of African Biography
Westholme, 2009 . james allan evans Bell, Rudolf Duala Manga (1873 or 1875– 1914), paramount chief and anticolonial protest leader in present-day Cameroon, was born in Douala, Cameroon, the eldest son of chief Manga Ndumbe Bell ...
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates, 2012
6
Violence and Non-Violence in Africa
Histories not written: the strangers of New Bell As seen above, the expropriation of Duala lands in the city center has been a major focal point for historians of the colonial city, but the existing narrative of this event and its aftermath portrays the ...
Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethleham, Ruth Ginio, 2007
7
The German Colonial Experience: Select Documents on German ...
use of corporal punishment by Europeans seemed unbearable, the Duala submitted petitions to the Reichstag for an amelioration of their condition. One of the most famous of these was the one of June 19, 1905. Thus, the Duala sought to ...
Arthur J. Knoll, Hermann J. Hiery, 2010
8
Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Dual BT Water-Distribution Duala (African people) (May Subd Geog) [DT5 71 ‚ 0831 UF Deido (African people) Diwala (African people) Douala (African people) Duala (Bantu people) [Former heading] Dualla (African people) Dwala (African ...
Library of Congress, 2006
9
Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa
All in all there is very little evidence available to reconstruct in detail the slow death of Duala slavery and the shift from slave labour to other forms of labour in the Duala agrarian enterprise. In theory there should have been competition for ...
Martin A. Klein, Suzanne Miers, 2013
10
Encyclopedia of Africa
Ethnic group of southern Cameroon. The Bantu-speaking Duala migrated to the coastal areas of what is now southern Cameroon from the Congo River Basin during the sixteenth century, and were among the first Africans in the region to come ...
Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUALA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Duala is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Afro-centric boys charter school proposed
The word means "gift" in Duala, a language spoken in Cameroon, where prospective school founder Jane EwaneSobe was born. She was a ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Unprecedented Abandonment Engulfs Logan Town - Mombo Town …
The project was to be implemented during a ten (10) month period aimed at easing the huge traffic congestion around the Duala Market thus ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
3
5 weird fertility rituals that still exist all over the world
In return for this wish, they agree to give away their first child as “the rat child of Shah Duala” to serve this shrine. These children are said to ... «India.com, Jun 15»
4
Gabonese Beatmaker Engone Endong Blends Traditional Samples …
we can hear Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III (highly-esteemed pan-Africanist academic, prolific writer and important traditional leader of the Duala ... «Okayafrica, Jun 15»
5
Trio Charged For Allegedly Diverting $14K WFP Food Items
... there was a call from the warehouse supervisor Hasipha Tarpeh to divert the food items to the Duala Market where the items were sold. «Front Page Africa, Jun 15»
6
Logan, Mombo Towns Road Abandoned Over Two Years
The road project was intended to ease the huge traffic congestion around the Duala Market thus giving commuters an alternative route. «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
7
Passing On Running
Now, we all know that "dual threat" is an English derivation of the Latin term "duala threatis" which, literally translated means, "Can't throw worth ... «BC Interruption, Jun 15»
8
Post Ebola - Liberian Bush Meat Sellers Want Ban Lifted
Morris, who sold bush meat in the populated Duala Market, suggested further that since the government announced that the bush meat is a ... «AllAfrica.com, May 15»
9
It's Palindrome Week — 8 Craziest Palindromes to Celebrate the …
... Nihon, O'Kelley, Nadabas, Tanga, Duala, a raj, Sassan, a moor, Basov, Lassus, Sybaris, BEM, Anatol, MiNE, Dam, Bharat, Sachi, Happ, Hojo ... «Mic, May 15»
10
Memo To President-elect On Fire Disasters
A handful of them, with aviation fire-fighting training, were trained in Duala, in the republic of Cameroon. Current mode of training for firefighters ... «The News, May 15»

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