Bab el Mandeb

See also: Bab-el-Mandeb and Bab el-Mandeb

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Arabic بَاب اَلْمَنْدَب (bāb al-mandab) means "Gateway (Bab) of anguish", or "Gateway of tears"; the strait derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab legend, from the numbers who were drowned by the earthquake which separated Asia and Africa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːb ɛl ˈmændɛb/, /ˈbɑːb ɛl ˈmɑndɛb/

Proper noun

Bab el Mandeb

a strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden

Synonyms

Mandab Strait

Translations

strait

Afrikaans: Bab-el-Mandeb
Albanian: Bab el Mandeb
Arabic: بَاب اَلْمَنْدَب (bāb al-mandab)
Armenian: Բաբելմանդեբի նեղուց (Babelmandebi neġucʿ)
Azerbaijani: Babül-Məndəb boğazı
Basque: Bab el-Mandeb
Belarusian: Баб-эль-Мандэбскі праліў m (Bab-elʹ-Mandebski praliŭ)
Bengali: বাব এল মান্দেব (bbo el mandeb)
Bulgarian: Бабелмандебски проток m (Babelmandebski protok), Баб ел Мандеб m (Bab el Mandeb)
Catalan: Bab el-Mandeb m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曼德海峡 (zh) (màndéhǎixiá)
Czech: Báb-al-Mandab m, Mandeb m
Danish: Bab el-Mandeb c
Dutch: Bab el Mandeb
Esperanto: Bab al-Mandab
Estonian: Bab el Mandeb
Finnish: Bab el Mandeb
French: Bab-el-Mandeb (fr) m
Galician: Bab el-Mandeb m
Georgian: ბაბ-ელ-მანდების სრუტე (bab-el-mandebis sruṭe)
German: Bab al-Mandab (de) m
Greek: Μπαμπ ελ Μαντέμπ (el) n (Bamp el Mantémp)
Gujarati: બાબ અલ-મન્દેવ જળમરુમધ્ય (bāb ala-mandev jaḷmarumadhya)
Hebrew: באב אל-מנדב m (bab el-mandeb)
Hindi: बाब अल-मन्देब जलसन्धि (bāb al-mandeb jalsandhi), बाब अल-मन्देब (bāb al-mandeb)
Hungarian: Báb el-Mandeb (hu)
Icelandic: Bab-el-Mandeb n
Indonesian: Bab-el-Mandeb
Italian: Bab el-Mandeb m
Japanese: バブ・エル・マンデブ海峡 (Babu eru Mandebu-kaikyō)
Kannada: ಬಾಬ್ ಎಲ್ ಮಾನ್‌ಡೆಬ್ (bāb el mān‌ḍeb)
Kazakh: Баб әл-Мандеб (Bab äl-Mandeb)
Korean: 바브엘만데브 해협 (babeuelmandebeu haehyeop)
Kyrgyz: Баб-эль-Мандеб кысыгы (Bab-el-Mandeb kısıgı)
Latvian: Bābelmandebs m
Lithuanian: Bab el Mandebas m
Macedonian: Баб-ел-Mандеб m (Bab-el-Mandeb)
Malay: Bab-el-Mandeb
Malayalam: ബാബ്-എൽ-മൻഡേബ് (bāb-el-maṉḍēbŭ)
Maltese: Bab el Mandeb m
Marathi: बाब-अल-मांदेब (bāb-al-māndeb)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Bab el-Mandeb

Nynorsk: Bab el-Mandeb
Odia: ବାବଲ୍ ମାଣ୍ଡବ୍ (or) (babôl maṇḍôb), ବାବେଲ୍ ମାଣ୍ଡେବ୍ (or) (babel maṇḍeb)
Persian: باب المندب (bâb-al-mandab)
Polish: Bab al-Mandab (pl) m
Portuguese: Babelmândebe m
Punjabi: ਬਬ ਅਲ ਮੰਦੇਬ ਪਣਜੋੜ (bab ala mandeb paṇjoṛ)
Romanian: Strâmtoarea Bab el-Mandeb f
Russian: Баб-эль-Манде́бский проли́в (ru) m (Bab-elʹ-Mandébskij prolív)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Баб ел Мандеб m

Roman: Bab-el-Mandeb m
Slovak: Báb el-Mandeb m
Slovene: Bab-el-Mandeb m
Spanish: Bab el-Mandeb m
Swedish: Bab el-Mandeb c
Tajik: Бобулмандаб (Bobulmandab)
Tamil: பாபுல் மந்தபு (pāpul mantapu)
Telugu: బాబ్-ఎల్-మండేబ్ (bāb-el-maṇḍēb)
Thai: บาบุลมันดับ (baa-bul-man-dàp)
Turkish: Babülmendep Boğazı
Turkmen: Bab-el-Mandeb
Ukrainian: Баб-ель-Манде́бська прото́ка f (Bab-elʹ-Mandébsʹka protóka)
Urdu: آبنائے باب المندب m (ābnāe bāb al-mandab)
Uzbek: Bob ul-Mandab boʻgʻozi
Vietnamese: Bab-el-Mandeb

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