København
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Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Danish Køpmannæhafn, equivalent to modern Danish købmænds havn (“chapmen's haven, merchants' harbor”). Compare Icelandic Kaupmannahöfn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /købənˈhɑwˀn/, [kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑwˀn], Jutlandic (used derogatorily) IPA(key): [tɕœwnˈhɑwˀn],
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
København
- Copenhagen (the capital city of Denmark)
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: Køpenhavn, Kjøpenhavn
- → Faroese: Keypmannahavn
- → Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn, Kaupinhafn, Köben
- → Low German: Kopenhagen
- → English: Copenhagen
- → French: Copenhague
- → German: Kopenhagen
- → Romanian: Copenhaga
- → Italian: Copenaghen
- → Russian: Копенгаген (Kopengagen)
- → Spanish: Copenhague
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: Kjøpenhamn, Kaupenhamn
- → Old Swedish: *Kø̄pmanhafn, *Kø̄pmanhamn
- → Swedish: Köpenhamn
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- Kjøpenhavn (inherited form)
- Kjøben
Etymology
From Danish København, from Old Danish Køpmannæhafn (“Copenhagen”), literally meaning "merchants' port". Largely replaced the inherited form Kjøpenhavn.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
København
- Copenhagen (the capital city, municipality, and former county of Denmark)
Usage notes
The former county is also referred to by its full name Københavns amt (Copenhagen's amt).
Derived terms
References
- “København” in Store norske leksikon
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Danish København, from Old Danish Køpmannæhafn (“Copenhagen”, literally “chapmen’s haven”), equivalent to Old Norse Kaupmannahǫfn. Compare Faroese Keypmannahavn and Icelandic Kaupmannahöfn.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
København ?
- Copenhagen (the capital city, municipality, and former county of Denmark)
Derived terms
Categories:
- Danish terms inherited from Old Danish
- Danish terms derived from Old Danish
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish terms with audio pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Copenhagen
- da:Cities in Denmark
- da:National capitals
- da:Places in Denmark
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/aʋn
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Copenhagen
- nb:Cities in Denmark
- nb:National capitals
- nb:Municipalities of Denmark
- nb:Historical political subdivisions
- nb:Places in Denmark
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Copenhagen
- nn:Cities in Denmark
- nn:National capitals
- nn:Municipalities of Denmark
- nn:Historical political subdivisions
- nn:Places in Denmark