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Country Name Etymologies #3

Difficulty level: quite hard. We describe the origin of the country name. You guess the country.
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I think Bahamas's etymology is wrong in the #2....
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Last updated: May 4, 2023
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"Land of Honest Men" from Mossi and Dyula
Burkina Faso
Named after a lake, whose name means "Lake"
Chad
"Moons" from the Arabic "Jazā'ir al-Qamar", or "Islands of the Moon"
Comoros
It's name can either be Malay and Portuguese or Malay and English but in both it is "East East"
East Timor
"Land of the Red Sea" in Italicized Latinized Greek
Eritrea
Portuguese for a type of cloak whose names derives from the Arabic "Qabā"
Gabon
"Land of Many Waters" in an indigenous language.
Guyana
"King", adopted on independence only.
Ghana
Spanish for "trinity" and "tobacco"
Trinidad and Tobago
"Lion Mountains"
Sierra Leone
"Forest", from the Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān
Guatemala
"Mountainous Land" from Taíno/Arawak
Haiti
Spanish for "Depths"
Honduras
From Sanskrit for "Garland of Islands"
Maldives
"Alliance of the Ten Tribes" in Turkic, On-ogur
Hungary
Taíno/Arawak for "Land of Wood and Water"
Jamaica
"Field of Blackbird" from Serbian
Kosovo
"Fortress built near water" from Arabic. "Kut"
Kuwait
"Land of the Forty Tribes"
Kyrgyzstan
"Melita", Greek for honey
Malta
Named after a desert meaning "Area where there is Nothing"
Namibia
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Neodymium
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May 4, 2023
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