Tunis

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See also: Túnis and Tunis.

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis

  1. A city on the northern coast of Africa:
    • 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 248:
      Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
    1. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
    2. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
    4. The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
      • 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary‎:
        Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
    5. Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
  2. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • Rossi, Peter M.; White, Wayne Edward (1980). Articles on the Middle East, 1947–1971: A Cumulation of the Bibliographies from the Middle East Journal. Pierian Press, University of Michigan. p. 132.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

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Proper noun

Tunis

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis ?

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis m inan (related adjective tuniský)

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
singular
nominative Tunis
genitive Tunisu
dative Tunisu
accusative Tunis
vocative Tunise
locative Tunise, Tunisu
instrumental Tunisem

Further reading

  • “Tunis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

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Proper noun

Tunis

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Dutch

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Proper noun

Tunis n

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis ?

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Gagauz

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Proper noun

Tunis

  1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

German

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Derived terms

Occitan

Proper noun

Tunis ? (Limousin)

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Further reading

  • Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556

Polish

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis m

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis
singular
nominative Tunis
genitive Tunisu
dative Tunisowi
accusative Tunis
instrumental Tunisem
locative Tunisie
vocative Tunisie

Further reading

  • Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tunis f

  1. Alternative form of Tunes

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

  1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
  2. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis
singular
nominative Tunis
genitive Tunisa
dative Tunisu
accusative Tunis
vocative Tunisu
locative Tunisu
instrumental Tunisom

Slovak

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

References

  • “Tunis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

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Proper noun

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)

  1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic Тунис‍
Latin Tunis‍
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)

Proper noun

Tunis

  1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
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