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say it: nahy-ROH-bee
nairobi is a noun meaning "the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris". It is pronounced /ˌnaɪˈɹoʊbi/ — nahy-ROH-bee. It carries one recorded sense.
the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nairobi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.