Berlin Wall

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɜːˈlɪn wɔːl/, (commonly) /ˈbɜː-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɝˈlɪn wɔl/, (commonly) /ˈbɝ-/

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Proper noun

the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall separated Berlin into two parts before German reunification.

1. (history) A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.

Related terms

• fall of the wall

Translations

wall that parted Berlin

• Afrikaans: Berlynse Muur
• Albanian: Muri i Berlinit m
• Arabic: جِدَار بَرْلِين m (jidār barlīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: سور برلين m

• Armenian: Բեռլինի պատ (hy) (Beṙlini pat)
• Azerbaijani: Berlin divarı
• Bashkir: Берлин стенаһы (Berlin stenahı)
• Basque: Berlingo harresia
• Belarusian: Берлі́нская сцяна́ f (Bjerlínskaja scjaná)
• Bengali: বার্লিন প্রাচীর (barlin pracir)
• Breton: Moger Berlin m
• Bulgarian: Берлинска стена f (Berlinska stena)
• Burmese: ဘာလင် တံတိုင်း (bhalang tamtuing:)
• Catalan: mur de Berlín m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 柏林圍牆 / 柏林围墙 (paak³ lam⁴ wai⁴ coeng⁴), 柏林牆 / 柏林墙 (paak³ lam⁴ coeng⁴)

  Hokkien: Berlin Chhiûⁿ-ûi

  Mandarin: 柏林圍牆 / 柏林围墙 (zh) (Bólín Wéiqiáng), 柏林牆 / 柏林墙 (zh) (Bólínqiáng)

  Wu: 柏林墙

• Czech: Berlínská zeď f
• Danish: Berlinmuren c
• Dutch: Berlijnse Muur m
• Esperanto: Berlina muro
• Estonian: Berliini müür
• Faroese: Berlinmúrurin m
• Finnish: Berliinin muuri
• French: mur de Berlin (fr) m
• Frisian:

  Saterland Frisian: Berliner Muure

  West Frisian: Berlynske Muorre c

• Galician: muro de Berlín m
• Georgian: ბერლინის კედელი (berlinis ḳedeli)
• German: Berliner Mauer (de) f, antifaschistischer Schutzwall m (East Germany, propaganda)
• Greek: Τείχος του Βερολίνου n (Teíchos tou Verolínou)
• Hebrew: חוֹמַת בֶּרְלִין f (khomát Berlín)
• Hindi: बर्लिन की दीवार f (barlin kī dīvār)
• Hungarian: berlini fal
• Icelandic: Berlínarmúrinn m
• Ido: Murego di Berlin
• Indonesian: Tembok Berlin
• Irish: Balla Bheirlín m
• Italian: Muro di Berlino m
• Japanese: ベルリンの壁 (ベルリンのかべ, Berurin no Kabe)
• Javanese: témbok Berlin
• Kannada: ಬರ್ಲಿನ್ ಗೋಡೆ (barlin gōḍe)
• Kazakh: Берлин қабырғасы (Berlin qabyrğasy)
• Khmer: ជញ្ជាំង ប៊ែរឡាំង (cŭəñcĕəng bɛɛlang)
• Korean: 베를린 장벽 (Bereullin jangbyeok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hêta Berlînê

• Latin: mūrus Berolīnēnsis m, vallum Berolīnēnse n
• Latvian: Berlīnes mūris m
• Limburgish: Moeër
• Lithuanian: Berlyno siena f
• Lombard: (modern orthography) mür de Berlin m, (classical orthography) mur de Berlin m
• Macedonian: Берлински ѕид m (Berlinski dzid)
• Malagasy: rindrin'i Berlin
• Malay: Tembok Berlin
• Malayalam: ബെർലിൻ മതിൽ (beṟliṉ matil)
• Maltese: ħajt ta’ Berlin m
• Manx: Boalley Verleen
• Marathi: बर्लिनची भिंत (barlincī bhinta)
• Mongolian: Берлиний хана (Berlinii xana)
• Neapolitan: muro 'e Berlino m
• Nepali: बर्लिन पर्खाल (barlina parkhāl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Berlinmuren m

  Nynorsk: Berlinmuren m

• Occitan: mur de Berlin m
• Papiamentu: Muraya di Berlin
• Persian: دیوار برلین (divâr berlin)
• Polish: Mur Berliński m, mur berliński m
• Portuguese: Muro de Berlim m
• Punjabi: ਬਰਲਿਨ ਦੀ ਕੰਧ (barlin dī kandh)
• Quechua: Berlin pirqa
• Romanian: Zidul Berlinului n
• Russian: Берли́нская стена́ (ru) f (Berlínskaja stená)
• Sardinian: muru de Berilinu m
• Scots: Berlin Waw
• Scottish Gaelic: Balla Bherlin m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бѐрлӣнскӣ зи̑д m

  Latin: Bèrlīnskī zȋd m

• Sicilian: muru di Birlinu m
• Sinhalese: බර්ලින් තාප්පය (barlin tāppaya)
• Slovak: Berlínsky múr m
• Slovene: Berlinski zid m
• Spanish: muro de Berlín m
• Swahili: ukuta wa Berlin
• Swedish: Berlinmuren c
• Tagalog: Pader ng Berlin
• Tajik: девори Берлин (devor-i Berlin)
• Tamil: பெர்லின் சுவர் (perliṉ cuvar)
• Tatar: Берлин дивары (Berlin diwarı)
• Telugu: బెర్లిన్ గోడ (berlin gōḍa)
• Thai: กำแพงเบอร์ลิน (gam-peeng bəə-lin)
• Tibetan: པེར་ལིན་ལྕགས (per lin lcags)
• Turkish: Berlin Duvarı (tr)
• Turkmen: Berlin diwarı
• Ukrainian: Берлі́нська стіна́ f (Berlínsʹka stiná), Берлі́нський мур m (Berlínsʹkyj mur)
• Urdu: دیوار برلن f (dīvār barlin)
• Uzbek: Berlin divari
• Venetan: muro de Berlin m
• Vietnamese: Bức tường Berlin
• Waray-Waray: Bungbong han Berlin
• Welsh: Mur Berlin m
• Yiddish: בערלינער וואַנט f (berliner vant)
• Zazaki: Dêsê Berlini

Noun

Berlin Wall (plural Berlin Walls)

1. (politics) Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
2. (chess) The Berlin Defence.

Translations

barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border

• Georgian: ბერლინის კედელი (berlinis ḳedeli)
• Icelandic: Berlínarmúrinn m
• Portuguese: muro de Berlim m