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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
German Frankfurt
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt
- Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
- (metonymically) The German financial industry.
1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.
- (metonymically) The European Central Bank.
- Frankfurt an der Oder, a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.
Derived terms
Translations
Frankfurt-am-Main
- Afrikaans: Frankfurt
- Albanian: Frankfurti
- Arabic: فَرَانْكْفُورْت m (farānkfūrt)
- Armenian: Ֆրանկֆուրտ (Frankfurt)
- Azerbaijani: Frankfurt-Mayn, Frankfurt
- Basque: Frankfurt (eu)
- Belarusian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt)
- Bengali: ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট (phraṅkophurṭo)
- Bulgarian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt)
- Catalan: Frankfurt f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 法蘭克福/法兰克福 (zh) (Fǎlánkèfú)
- Czech: Frankfurt (cs) m
- Danish: Frankfurt
- Dutch: Frankfurt n
- Esperanto: Frankfurto
- Estonian: Frankfurt (et)
- Finnish: Frankfurt (fi)
- French: Francfort (fr) f, Francfort-sur-le-Main (fr) f
- Galician: Frankfurt (gl)
- Georgian: მაინის ფრანკფურტი (mainis pranḳpurṭi), ფრანკფურტი (pranḳpurṭi)
- German: Frankfurt am Main (de) n
- Rhine Franconian: Frangford am Maa (Palatine)
- Greek: Φραγκφούρτη f (Fragkfoúrti)
- Hebrew: פרנקפורט m (frankfurt)
- Hindi: फ़्रैंकफ़र्ट (fra͠ikfarṭ)
- Hungarian: Frankfurt (hu)
- Icelandic: Frankfurt
- Ido: Frankfurt
- Indonesian: Frankfurt
- Italian: Francoforte (it) f, Francoforte sul Meno f
- Japanese: フランクフルト (Furankufuruto)
- Kazakh: Майндағы Франкфурт (Maindağy Frankfurt), Франкфурт (Frankfurt)
- Korean: 프랑크푸르트 (ko) (peurangkeupureuteu)
- Latvian: Frankfurte f
- Lithuanian: Frankfurtas m
- Macedonian: Франкфурт m (Frankfurt)
- Malay: Frankfurt
- Malayalam: ഫ്രാങ്ക്ഫർട്ട് (phrāṅkphaṟṭṭŭ)
- Marathi: फ्रांक्फुर्ट n (phrāṅkphurṭa)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Frankfurt
- Nynorsk: Frankfurt
- Persian: فرانکفورت
- Polish: Frankfurt (pl) m, Frankfurt nad Menem (pl)
- Portuguese: Francoforte, Frankfurt
- Punjabi: ਫ਼ਰਾਂਕਫ਼ੁਰਟ (farāṅkfuraṭ)
- Romanian: Frankfurt
- Russian: Фра́нкфурт (ru) m (Fránkfurt), Фра́нкфурт-на-Ма́йне (ru) m (Fránkfurt-na-Májne)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Франкфурт m
- Roman: Frankfurt m
- Slovak: Frankfurt m
- Slovene: Frankfurt m
- Spanish: Fráncfort (es) f, Fráncfort del Meno (es) f
- Swedish: Frankfurt (sv)
- Tamil: பிராங்க்ஃபுர்ட் (pirāṅkfurṭ)
- Thai: ฟรังค์ฟวร์ท (frang-fwart)
- Turkish: Frankfurt
- Ukrainian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt), Фрáнкфурт-на-Мáйні m (Fránkfurt-na-Májni)
- Vietnamese: Frankfurt, Phrăng-phuốc
- Yiddish: פֿראַנקפֿורט (frankfurt)
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Proper noun
Frankfurt m
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Derived terms
German
Etymology
Literally "ford of the Franks," from Franke and Furt (“ford”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Usage notes
- In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.
Quotations
1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Frankfurt.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt
- Frankfurt (the largest city in Hesse, Germany)
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt f
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Synonym: Francoforte
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Frankfurt m (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Swedish
Proper noun
Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)