Barcelona

See also: Barcełona

English

Alternative forms

• Barcelonia (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑːsəˈləʊnə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑɹsəˈloʊnə/, /ˌbɑɹsɪˈloʊnə/

Proper noun

Barcelona

1. The capital city of Catalonia (Spain).
2. A province of Catalonia, Spain.

Derived terms

• Barcelonan, Barcelonian

Translations

capital of Catalonia

• Arabic: بَرْشَلُونَة f (baršalōna)
• Basque: Bartzelona
• Bulgarian: Барселона f (Barselona)
• Catalan: Barcelona (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴塞羅那／巴塞罗那 (zh) (Bāsàiluónà), 巴塞罗那 (zh) (Basèluōnà) (mainland China), ^{(please verify)} 巴塞隆納／巴塞隆纳 (Bāsàilóngnà), ^{(please verify)} 巴塞隆纳 (Bāsàilóngnà) (Taiwan)

• Czech: Barcelona (cs) f
• Danish: Barcelona
• Dutch: Barcelona (nl) n
• Esperanto: Barcelono (eo)
• Estonian: Barcelona (et)
• Finnish: Barcelona (fi)
• French: Barcelone (fr)
• Galician: Barcelona (gl) f
• Greek: Βαρκελώνη (el) f (Varkelóni)
• Hebrew: ברצלונה f (barts'lóna)
• Hindi: बार्सिलोना (bārsilonā)
• Hungarian: Barcelona (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: An Bharsalóin f
• Italian: Barcellona (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: バルセロナ (Baruserona)
• Korean: 바르셀로나 (ko) (Bareusellona)
• Latin: Barcino f
• Latvian: Barselona f
• Lithuanian: Barselona f
• Maltese: Barċellona
• Marathi: बार्सेलोना n (bārselonā)
• Norwegian: Barcelona (no)
• Persian: بارسلون (fa) (bârselon)
• Polish: Barcelona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Barcelona (pt) f
• Romanian: Barcelona f
• Russian: Барсело́на (ru) f (Barselóna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Барсело́на f (Bosnia, Serbia), Барцело́на f (Bosnia, Croatia)

  Roman: Barselóna f (Bosnia, Serbia), Barcelóna (sh) f (Bosnia, Croatia)

• Slovene: Barcelona (sl) f
• Spanish: Barcelona (es) f
• Swedish: Barcelona (sv)
• Turkish: Barselona

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Catalan

Etymology

Two predominant theories are:

• Said to be named after the Carthaginian/Punic general Hamilcar Barca, who supposedly founded it in the 3rd century BCE.
• From Iberian Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription, found in Greek Βαρκινών (Barkinṓn) and Latin Barcino, Barcelo, and Barceno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bər.səˈlo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baɾ.seˈlo.na]
• Rhymes: -ona

Proper noun

Barcelona f

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)
2. Barcelona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)

Derived terms

• barceloní, barcelonina
• barcelonès, barcelonesa
• Barcelonès
• Barça
• barcelonisme, barcelonista

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Czech

Proper noun

Barcelona f

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

Derived terms

• Barceloňan
• barcelonský

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Proper noun

Barcelona

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Barcelone (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Barcelona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑrsəˈloːnaː/
  • IPA^(key): [ˌbɑrsəˈloːna]
  • IPA^(key): [ˌbɑrsəˈloʊ̯na]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Barcelona n

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Barcelona n (proper noun, strong, genitive Barcelonas)

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒrsɛloːnɒ]
• Hyphenation: Bar‧ce‧lo‧na

Proper noun

Barcelona

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Barcelona	—
accusative	Barcelonát	—
dative	Barcelonának	—
instrumental	Barcelonával	—
causal-final	Barcelonáért	—
translative	Barcelonává	—
terminative	Barcelonáig	—
essive-formal	Barcelonaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Barcelonában	—
superessive	Barcelonán	—
adessive	Barcelonánál	—
illative	Barcelonába	—
sublative	Barcelonára	—
allative	Barcelonához	—
elative	Barcelonából	—
delative	Barcelonáról	—
ablative	Barcelonától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Barcelonáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Barcelonáéi	—

Possessive forms of Barcelona
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Barcelonám	—
2nd person sing.	Barcelonád	—
3rd person sing.	Barcelonája	—
1st person plural	Barcelonánk	—
2nd person plural	Barcelonátok	—
3rd person plural	Barcelonájuk	—

Derived terms

• barcelonai

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɾseˈluno/

Proper noun

Barcelona ?

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar.t͡sɛˈlɔ.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Barcelona f

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

Declension

Declension of Barcelona

	singular
nominative	Barcelona
genitive	Barcelony
dative	Barcelonie
accusative	Barcelonę
instrumental	Barceloną
locative	Barcelonie
vocative	Barcelono

Derived terms

• (nouns) barcelończyk m, barcelonka f
• (adjective) barceloński

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Barcelona f

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)
2. Barcelona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan Barcelona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /baɾθeˈlona/ [baɾ.θeˈlo.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /baɾseˈlona/ [baɾ.seˈlo.na]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

Proper noun

Barcelona f

1. Barcelona (a province of Catalonia, Spain; capital: Barcelona)
2. Barcelona (a city in Catalonia, Spain)
3. The letter B in the Spanish phonetic alphabet

Synonyms

• Barcino

Derived terms

• barcelonés

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʂɛ²loːna/

Proper noun

Barcelona n (genitive Barcelonas)

1. Barcelona (a city, the regional capital of Catalonia, Spain)

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Barcelona.

Proper noun

Barcelona

1. Barcelona (a city in Spain)
2. Barcelona (a municipality of Sorsogon, Philippines)
3. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Barcelona is the 448th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 19,656 individuals.