Ugandan

How to spell ugandan

7 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce ugandan

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does ugandan mean?

1. adjectiveRelating to Uganda, its people, or its culture.
2. nounA person from Uganda or a citizen of Uganda.

Ugandan in a sentence

• adjective

  The restaurant serves a traditional ugandan stew with peanuts and beans.

• noun

  The visa allows any ugandan to stay in the country for ninety days.

• adjective

  She studied the ugandan economy for her dissertation on East African trade.

• noun

  As a ugandan living abroad, he sends money home each month.

Where does ugandan come from?

Language of origin: Other

This word is formed from Uganda, the name of the East African nation, plus the suffix -an, a productive English ending taken from Latin -anus that turns a place name into a word for its people or its character. The country itself is named after the historic Kingdom of Buganda, whose name comes from the Ganda people and their Luganda language; early British administrators in the late nineteenth century reshaped Buganda into the colonial label Uganda. The word entered English around the 1890s as Britain established its protectorate in the region, and it took its modern national meaning when the country became independent in 1962. The spelling trap is purely in the start: there is a single g, no doubling, and the unstressed second syllable can tempt writers toward an extra vowel. Because the root is a proper name, the U and the capital remain fixed even though the stored form here is lowercase.

How the word is built

• Uganda (the country name)
• -an (adjective/noun suffix meaning 'belonging to or originating from')