Sydney

English

Alternative forms

• (male given name): Sidney

Etymology

For the surname and given name, see Sidney. The cities in Australia and Canada are named after British politician Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪd.ni/, enPR: sĭd'ni,

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdni
• Hyphenation: Syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney (countable and uncountable, plural Sydneys)

1. (uncountable) The state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia.
2. (uncountable) A seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.
3. (countable) A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Sidney.
4. (countable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms

• (Nova Scotia): SYD, Syd, Syd. (abbreviation)
• (given name): Syd (diminutive)

Derived terms

• (Australia, Nova Scotia): North Sydney
• (Australia): Sydneysider
• (Australia, Canada): Sydneyite
• (Nova Scotia): SYD, Syd, Syd. (abbreviation)
• (given name): Syd (diminutive)

Translations

state capital of New South Wales, Australia

• Arabic: سِيدْنِي f (sidnī), سِدْنِي f (sidnī)
• Armenian: Սիդնեյ (Sidney)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: Сі́дней m (Sídnjej), Сідне́й m (Sidnjéj)
• Bengali: সিডনি (śiḍoni)
• Bulgarian: Си́дни m (Sídni)
• Burmese: ဆစ်ဒနီမြို့ (hcacda.nimrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悉尼 (zh) (Xīní), 雪梨 (zh) (Xuělí) (Taiwan also)

• Dinka: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: Sidnejo
• Finnish: Sydney (fi)
• French: Sydney (fr) f
• Georgian: სიდნეი (sidnei)
• German: Sydney (de) n
• Greek: Σύδνεϋ n (Sýdneÿ), Σίδνεϊ n (Sídneï)
• Gujarati: સીડની (sīḍnī)
• Hawaiian: Hini
• Hebrew: סִידְנִי f (sídni)
• Hindi: सिडनी m (siḍnī)
• Hungarian: Sydney (hu)
• Irish: Sidní
• Italian: Sydney (it) f
• Japanese: シドニー (Shidonī)
• Kannada: ಸಿಡ್ನಿ (siḍni)
• Khmer: ស៊ីដនីយ៏ (siitnii)
• Korean: 시드니 (ko) (Sideuni)
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: Sidneja f
• Lithuanian: Sidnėjus m
• Macedonian: Сиднеј m (Sidnej)
• Malayalam: സിഡ്നി (siḍni)
• Maori: Poihākena
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سیدنی (sidni)
• Polish: Sydney (pl) n
• Portuguese: Sydney f, Sidney f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਡਨੀ (siḍnī)
• Rarotongan: Tene
• Russian: Си́дней (ru) m (Sídnɛj), Сидне́й (ru) m (Sidnɛ́j)
• Samoan: Sini
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сиднеј m

  Roman: Sidnej m

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: Sídney (es)
• Swedish: Sydney n
• Tamil: சிட்னி (ciṭṉi)
• Telugu: సిడ్నీ (siḍnī)
• Thai: ซิดนีย์ (sít-nîi)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: Senē
• Turkish: Sidney
• Ukrainian: Сі́дней m (Sídnej), Сідне́й m (Sidnéj)
• Urdu: سڈنی m (siḍnī)
• Vietnamese: Xích-ni

urban community in Nova Scotia, Canada

• German: Sydney (de)
• Portuguese: Sydney f
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• Russian: Си́дней (ru) m (Sídnɛj), Сидне́й (ru) m (Sidnɛ́j), Си́дни m (Sídni)

male given name

• Latvian: Sidnijs m
• Portuguese: Sidney m, Sídnei m, Sidnei m, Sydney m
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• Russian: Си́дни m (Sídni)

female given name

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Си́дни m (Sídni)
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Catalan

Proper noun

Sydney m

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsidni/, [ˈs̠idni]
• Syllabification^(key): syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney

1. Sydney (city)

Declension

Inflection of Sydney (type risti) singular plural nominative Sydney – genitive Sydneyn – partitive Sydneyä – accusative Sydney Sydneyn – inessive Sydneyssä – elative Sydneystä – illative Sydneyyn – adessive Sydneyllä – ablative Sydneyltä – allative Sydneylle – essive Sydneynä – translative Sydneyksi – abessive Sydneyttä – instructive – – comitative – –

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sid.nɛ/, /sid.ne/

Proper noun

Sydney f

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsidni]
• Hyphenation: Syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney

1. A city in Australia

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Sydney	—
accusative	Sydney-t	—
dative	Sydney-nek	—
instrumental	Sydney-vel	—
causal-final	Sydney-ért	—
translative	Sydney-vé	—
terminative	Sydney-ig	—
essive-formal	Sydney-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Sydney-ben	—
superessive	Sydney-n	—
adessive	Sydney-nél	—
illative	Sydney-be	—
sublative	Sydney-re	—
allative	Sydney-hez	—
elative	Sydney-ből	—
delative	Sydney-ről	—
ablative	Sydney-től	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Sydney-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Sydney-éi	—

Possessive forms of Sydney
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Sydney-m	—
2nd person sing.	Sydney-d	—
3rd person sing.	Sydney-je	—
1st person plural	Sydney-nk	—
2nd person plural	Sydney-tek	—
3rd person plural	Sydney-jük	—

Derived terms

• sydney-i

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsid.nej/, /ˈsid.ni/
• Rhymes: -idnej, -idni
• Hyphenation: Sỳd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney f

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Sydney.

Proper noun

Sydney n (indeclinable)

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Further reading

• Sydney in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sydney in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Sidney, Sidnei, Sidney
• Sídnei (given name)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Sydney.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsid͡ʒ.nej/

Proper noun

Sydney

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Proper noun

Sydney m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Sydney

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /síːdni/

Proper noun

Sy̑dney m inan

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nominative	Sydney
genitive	Sydneyja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sydney
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Sydneyja
dative (dajȃlnik)	Sydneyju
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Sydney
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sydneyju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Sydneyjem

Related terms

• Sydneyjčan / Sydneyjčanka
• sydneyjski

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Welsh

Proper noun

Sydney

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)