Malmö

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See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

Malmö

  1. 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[edit]

Estonian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑlmø/, [ˈmɑlmø]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlmø
  • Hyphenation: Mal‧mö

Proper noun[edit]

Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

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

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmalmøː/
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Proper noun[edit]

Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Malmö

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Malmö n (indeclinable)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading[edit]

  • Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Malmö f

  1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Derived terms[edit]