Malmö

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See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

English

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Etymology

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

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

Proper noun

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

Estonian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

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

Declension

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

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈmalmøː/
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Proper noun

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

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Malmö n (indeclinable)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading

  • Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Malmö f

  1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish

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Etymology

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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Proper noun

Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

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