Timbuktu

Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• Timbouctou
• Timbuctoo
• Timbuctu
• Timbuktoo

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /tɪm.bʌkˈtuː/

Proper noun

Timbuktu

1. A city in central Mali.
2. Any proverbially distant or remote place.

   You can try every shop from here to Timbuktu, but you won't find another one like this.

Translations

city

• Finnish: Timbuktu (fi)
• French: Tombouctou (fr)

• German: Timbuktu (de)
• Russian: Тимбукту (ru) (Timbuktu)

distant place

• Finnish: Huitsin Nevada (fi)
• French: Tombouctou (fr), Pétaouchnock (fr)

• German: Buxtehude (de)
• Russian: за тридевять земель (ru) (za tridevjat' zemel')
• Turkish: Fizan (tr)