Berlin

See also berlin, Berlín, and Berliin

English

Wikipedia

The location of Berlin within Germany.

The Reichstag, the seat of the German parliament, is one of the most recognisable buildings in Berlin.

Etymology

From the German Berlin.

Pronunciation

(German city and state):

• (UK) IPA: /bəˈlɪn/
• (GenAm): IPA: [bɚˈlɪn]

(US cities and towns):

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɜːlɪn/
• (GenAm): IPA: /ˈbɝlɪn/, enPR: bûrʹlĭn
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Proper noun

Berlin

1. The capital city of Germany.
2. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
3. A surname.
4. Any of a number of cities and towns in the United States, of which the largest are Berlin, Connecticut, and Berlin, New Hampshire.

Derived terms

• berlin
• Berlin blue
• Berliner
• Berlin green
• Berlin iron
• Berlin work
• East Berlin
• West Berlin

Translations

capital city of Germany

• Abkhaz: Берлин (ab) (Berlin)
• Afrikaans: Berlyn (af)
• Albanian: Berlini (sq)
• Amharic: በርሊን (am)
• Arabic: برلين (ar) (barlīn) m
• Aramaic: ܒܪܠܝܢ
• Armenian: Բեռլին (hy) (Beṙlin)
• Azeri: Berlin (az)
• Basque: Berlin (eu)
• Belarusian: Берлін (be) (Berlín) m, Бэрлін (be) (Bèrlín) m (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bengali: বার্লিন (bn) (barlin)
• Breton: Berlin (br)
• Bulgarian: Берлин (bg) (Berlin) m
• Burmese: ဘာလင်မြို့ (my) (balinmyo.), ဘာလင် (my) (balin)
• Catalan: Berlín (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏林 (cmn) (Bólín)

• Czech: Berlín (cs) m
• Danish: Berlin (da)
• Dutch: Berlijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: Berlino (eo)
• Estonian: Berliin (et)
• Faroese: Berlin (fo)
• Finnish: Berliini (fi)
• French: Berlin (fr) m
• Galician: Berlín (gl)
• Georgian: ბერლინი (ka) (berlini)
• German: Berlin (de) n
• Greek: Βερολίνο (el) (Verolíno) n
• Haitian Creole: Bèlen (ht)
• Hawaiian: Pelelina (haw)
• Hebrew: ברלין (he) (berlin) f
• Hindi: बर्लिन (hi) (barlin)
• Hungarian: Berlin (hu)
• Icelandic: Berlín (is)
• Ilocano: Berlin (ilo)
• Indonesian: Berlin (id)
• Irish: Beirlín (ga)
• Italian: Berlino (it) f
• Japanese: ベルリン (ja) (Berurin)
• Javanese: Berlin (jv)
• Kannada: ಬರ್ಲಿನ್ (kn) (barlin)
• Kashubian: Berlëno (csb)
• Kazakh: Берлин (kk) (Berlïn)
• Khmer: ប៊ែរលីន (km) (bəəliin)
• Korean: 배를린 (ko) (Baereullin)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برلین (ckb)

  Kurmanji: Berlîn (kmr)

• Kyrgyz: Берлин (ky) (Berlin)
• Kölsch: Bälliin
• Lao: ເບີລິນ (lo) (bœ̄ lin)
• Latin: Berolinum (la) n
• Latvian: Berlīne (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Berlynas (lt) m

• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Berlien

  German Low German: Berlin

• Luxembourgish: Berlin (lb)
• Macedonian: Берлин (mk) (Berlin) m
• Malay: Berlin (ms)
• Malayalam: ബെര്‍ലിന്‍ (ml) (berlin)
• Maltese: Berlin (mt)
• Manx: Berleen (gv)
• Marathi: बर्लिन (mr) (barlin)
• Mongolian: Берлин (mn) (Berlin)
• Nahuatl: Berlin (nah)
• Norwegian: Berlin (no)
• Ossetian: Берлин (Berlin)
• Persian: برلین (fa) (Berlin)
• Polish: Berlin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Berlim (pt)
• Romani: Berlin
• Romanian: Berlin (ro)
• Romansch: Berlin (rm)
• Russian: Берлин (ru) (Berlín) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Berlin (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Берлин (sh) m

  Roman: Berlin (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බර්ලිනය (si) (barlinaya)
• Slovak: Berlín (sk) m
• Slovene: Berlin (sl) m
• Somali: Berlin (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Barliń m

  Upper Sorbian: Berlin (hsb) m

• Spanish: Berlín (es) m
• Swahili: Berlin (sw)
• Swedish: Berlin (sv)
• Tagalog: Berlin (tl)
• Tajik: Берлин (tg) (Berlin)
• Tamil: பெர்லின் (ta) (perlin)
• Tatar: Берлин (tt) (Berlin)
• Telugu: బెర్లిన్ (te) (berlin)
• Tetum: Berlín (tet)
• Thai: เบอร์ลิน (th) (ber-lin)
• Tibetan: པེ་ལིང་ (bo)
• Tok Pisin: Berlin (tpi)
• Turkish: Berlin (tr)
• Turkmen: Berlin (tk)
• Ukrainian: Берлін (uk) (Berlín) m
• Urdu: برلن (ur) (barlin)
• Uzbek: Berlin (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bá-linh (vi), Berlin (vi)
• Welsh: Berlin (cy) f
• West Frisian: Berlyn (fy)
• Wolof: Berlin (wo)
• Yiddish: בערלין (yi) (berlin) n
• Yoruba: Berlin (yo)
• Zulu: Berlin (zu)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɛʁlɛ̃/, X-SAMPA: /bERlE~/

Proper noun

Berlin m

1. Berlin, the capital city of Germany
2. Berlin, a state in Germany

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

Possibly from the Polabian stem berl- / birl- (“swamp”) + suffix -in. The place is first mentioned by this name in the late 12th century (as Berlyn). According to (incorrect) folk etymology, the name is derived from the Bär (“bear”) that is the symbol of the city.

Pronunciation

• (Standard New High German) IPA: [bɛɐˈliːn], [bɛʁˈliːn],
• (Berlinisch) IPA: [baliːn], [baliːən]

• Audio (Berlin)

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Proper noun

Berlin n

1. Berlin, the capital city of Germany.
   • 1800, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:

     Berlin ist mehr ein Weltteil als eine Stadt.

     Berlin is more a part of a world than a city.

   • 1910, Karl Scheffler, author of Berlin: Ein Stadtschicksal:

     Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein.

     Berlin is a city damned forever to become, never to be.

2. Berlin, one of the current component states of Germany.

Related terms

• einen Koffer in Berlin haben

References

• de:Berlin
• 1999, Dieter Berger, Geographische Namen in Deutschland, Bibliographisches Institut (ISBN 3-411-06252-5)

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛrlin/
• Hyphenation: Ber‧lin

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin

Declension

declension of Berlin singular plural nominative Berlin Berlinek accusative Berlint Berlineket dative Berlinnek Berlineknek instrumental Berlinnel Berlinekkel causal-final Berlinért Berlinekért translative Berlinné Berlinekké terminative Berlinig Berlinekig essive-formal Berlinként Berlinekként essive-modal - - inessive Berlinben Berlinekben superessive Berlinen Berlineken adessive Berlinnél Berlineknél illative Berlinbe Berlinekbe sublative Berlinre Berlinekre allative Berlinhez Berlinekhez elative Berlinből Berlinekből delative Berlinről Berlinekről ablative Berlintől Berlinektől

possessives of Berlin possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. Berlinem Berlinjeim 2nd person sing. Berlined Berlinjeid 3rd person sing. Berlinje Berlinjei 1st person plural Berlinünk Berlinjeink 2nd person plural Berlinetek Berlinjeitek 3rd person plural Berlinjük Berlinjeik

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɛrlin̪/

• audio

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Proper noun

Berlin m

1. Berlin, the capital city of Germany

Declension

    declension of Berlin

	singular only
nominative	Berlin
genitive	Berlina
dative	Berlinowi
accusative	Berlin
instrumental	Berlinem
locative	Berlinie
vocative	Berlinie

Derived terms

• berlińczyk m, berlinianka f (rare: berlinka)
• adjective: berliński

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /běrliːn/
• Hyphenation: Ber‧lin

Proper noun

Bèrlīn m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐрлӣн)

1. (uncountable) Berlin

Declension

    declension of Berlin

	singular
nominative	Bèrlīn
genitive	Berlína
dative	Berlinu
accusative	Berlin
vocative	Berline
locative	Berlinu
instrumental	Berlinom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin, the capital of Germany

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Tatar

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin

Declension

    declension of Berlin

Nominative	Berlin
Genitive	Berlinnıñ
Dative	Berlinga
Accusative	Berlinnı
Locative	Berlinda
Ablative	Berlindan

References

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Turkish

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin