English
Tanzania
Blend of Tanganyika + Zanzibar + -ia, combining the names of the former countries that merged to form Tanzania in 1964.
A blend of Tanganyika + Zanzibar
Classical Persian زنگبار
English Zanzibar
The story
Blend of Tanganyika + Zanzibar + -ia, combining the names of the former countries that merged to form Tanzania in 1964.
Today it means
name A country in East Africa. Official name: United Republic of Tanzania.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tanzania