Tunis

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/
    • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːnəs/
  • Rhymes: -uːnəs

Proper noun[edit]

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.
    3. The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
      • 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary[1]:
        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.
    4. Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
  2. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

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References[edit]

  • 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.

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Afrikaans[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Tunis

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

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

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Tunis ?

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

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Czech[edit]

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

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Tunis m inan (related adjective tuniský)

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

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Further reading[edit]

  • Tunis in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Tunis

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

Dutch[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Tunis n

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

French[edit]

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Tunis ?

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

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Gagauz[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Tunis

  1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

German[edit]

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

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

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Occitan[edit]

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Tunis ? (Limousin)

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

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Further reading[edit]

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

Polish[edit]

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Tunis m

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

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Further reading[edit]

  • Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

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Tunis f

  1. Alternative form of Tunes

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

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Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

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

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Slovak[edit]

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

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

References[edit]

  • 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, 2024

Swedish[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)

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

Uzbek[edit]

Other scripts
Cyrillic Тунис (Tunis)
Latin Tunis
Perso-Arabic

Proper noun[edit]

Tunis

  1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)