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Malmö

See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

English

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Etymology

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From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːlmɜː/, /ˈmɑːlməʊ/, /ˈmalməʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑlmʊ/, /ˈmɑlmoʊ/

Proper noun

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Malmö

  2. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:
      Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.

Translations

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑlmø/, [ˈmɑlmø]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlmø
  • Hyphenation: Mal‧mö

Proper noun

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Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

  1. Malmö (a city in Scania, Sweden)
  2. A street in Pärnu

Declension

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Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative Malmö —
accusative nom.
gen. Malmö
genitive —
partitive Malmöt —
illative Malmösse —
inessive Malmös —
elative Malmöst —
allative Malmöle —
adessive Malmöl —
ablative Malmölt —
translative Malmöks —
terminative Malmöni —
essive Malmöna —
abessive Malmöta —
comitative Malmöga —

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmalmøː/
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Proper noun

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Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Polish

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Malmö

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Malmö n (indeclinable)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading

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  • Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Proper noun

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Malmö f

  1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Gravelly/Sandy Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“gravel, sand”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. The area originally referenced in the name has not been identified.[1]

Pronunciation

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Particularly: “I think it is pronounced with a short ö in some lects.”

Proper noun

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Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^
    2016, Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Nordic Languages at Uppsala University, Svenskt ortnamnslexikon‎[1], page 207:
    Stadens namn är en ursprunglig sammansättning med → hög i efterleden och dialektordet malm 'sand, grus; sandig eller grusig mark' i förleden. Det avsedda området kan idag inte utpekas.
    The city's name is an original compound with → hög in the second part and the dialect word malm, meaning 'sand, gravel; sandy or gravelly ground,' in the first part. The intended area cannot be identified today.
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