Amman

See also: ämmän and Ammán

English

Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمَّان‎ (ʿammān).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmɑːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈmɑːn/

Proper noun

Amman

1. The capital city of Jordan.

Related terms

• Ammani

Translations

the capital of Jordan

• Albanian: Amani m
• Amharic: አማን (ʾäman)
• Arabic: عَمَّان‎ (ar) f (ʿammān)
• Armenian: Ամման (hy) (Amman)
• Azerbaijani: Amman (az)
• Belarusian: Ама́н m (Amán)
• Bengali: আম্মান (amman)
• Bulgarian: Ама́н m (Amán)
• Burmese: အမ်မန်မြို့ (ammanmrui.)
• Catalan: Amman m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安曼 (on¹ maan⁶)

  Mandarin: 安曼 (zh) (Ānmàn)

• Czech: Ammán (cs) m
• Danish: Amman n
• Dutch: Amman (nl) n
• Esperanto: Amano (eo)
• Estonian: Amman (et)
• Finnish: Amman (fi)
• French: Amman (fr) f
• Galician: Amán
• Georgian: ამანი (amani)
• German: Amman (de) n
• Greek: Αμμάν (el) (Ammán)

  Ancient: Φιλαδέλφεια f (Philadélpheia)

• Hebrew: רבת עמון‎ (rabat amon), עַמָּאן‎ f (amman)
• Hindi: अम्मान m (ammān)
• Hungarian: Ammán (hu)
• Icelandic: Amman
• Indonesian: Amman
• Italian: Amman m
• Japanese: アンマン (Anman)
• Kazakh: Амман (Amman)
• Khmer: អាម៉ាន់ (km) (ʼaaman), អាំម៉ាន (ʼammaan), អាំម៉ាន់ (ʼamman)
• Korean: 암만 (ko) (Amman)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Emman (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Амман (Amman)

• Lao: ອຳມານ (ʼam mān)
• Latvian: Ammāna f
• Lithuanian: Amanas m
• Macedonian: Аман m (Aman)
• Malay: Amman
• Malayalam: അമ്മാൻ (ml) (ammān)
• Maltese: Amman
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Амман (Amman)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amman

  Nynorsk: Amman

• Pashto: عمان‎ m ('amān)
• Persian: عمان‎ (fa) ('ammân), امان‎ (fa) (amân)
• Polish: Amman (pl) m
• Portuguese: Amã (pt)
• Rohingya: Ammán
• Romanian: Amman (ro) m
• Russian: Амма́н (ru) m (Ammán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аман m, Амман m

  Roman: Aman m, Amman (sh) m

• Slovak: Ammán (sk) m
• Slovene: Aman m
• Spanish: Amán (es), Ammán (es)
• Swedish: Amman (sv) n
• Tagalog: Aman
• Tajik: Аммон (Ammon)
• Tatar: Амман (Amman)
• Thai: อัมมาน (th) (ammaan)
• Turkish: Amman (tr)
• Turkmen: Amman
• Ukrainian: Амма́н m (Ammán)
• Urdu: عمان‎ m ('ammān)
• Uyghur: ئاممان‎ (amman)
• Uzbek: Amman, Ammon
• Vietnamese: Am-man
• Yiddish: אַמאַן‎ n (aman)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Amman

1. A river in Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, which joins the River Loughor at Pantyffynnon.

Derived terms

• Brynamman

Anagrams

• Manam

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Finnish

Proper noun

Amman

1. Amman (the capital city of Jordan)

Declension

Inflection of Amman (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Amman	—
genitive		Ammanin	—
partitive		Ammania	—
illative		Ammaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Amman	—
accusative	nom.	Amman	—
	gen.	Ammanin
genitive		Ammanin	—
partitive		Ammania	—
inessive		Ammanissa	—
elative		Ammanista	—
illative		Ammaniin	—
adessive		Ammanilla	—
ablative		Ammanilta	—
allative		Ammanille	—
essive		Ammanina	—
translative		Ammaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Ammanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Amman (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Ammanini	Ammanimme
2nd person	Ammanisi	Ammaninne
3rd person	Ammaninsa

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Amman f

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of Amã

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Amman m (Cyrillic spelling Амман)

1. Amman (the capital city of Jordan)