Kirkenes
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kirkenes
- A town in Norway
Translations[edit]
town in Norway
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Kirkenes
- A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway and close to the Russian border.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Newer name; from Danish Kirkenæs, from kirke (“church”) + nes (“headland”), referring to a church on the place built in 1862. Replaced the older names Pisselvnes and Håkjerringnes.
Proper noun[edit]
Kirkenes n
- A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway, close to the Russian border.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Norwegian
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Towns in Norway
- en:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Towns in Finnmark
- nb:Towns in Norway
- nb:Places in Finnmark
- nb:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Towns in Finnmark
- nn:Towns in Norway
- nn:Places in Finnmark
- nn:Places in Norway