Bloemfontein

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans Bloemfontein, from Dutch Bloemfontein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluːmfɒnˌteɪn/

Proper noun

Bloemfontein

1. A major city, the capital of the Free State province, and judicial capital of South Africa.

   Synonyms: Bloem, Mangaung

   Coordinate terms: Cape Town, Pretoria

Translations

city

• Afrikaans: Bloemfontein (af)
• Asturian: Bloemfontein
• Bulgarian: Блу́мфонтейн m (Blúmfontejn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布隆方丹 (zh) (Bùlóngfāngdān)

• Danish: Bloemfontein
• Dutch: Bloemfontein (nl) n
• French: Bloemfontein (fr) m
• German: Bloemfontein (de) n
• Greek: Μπλουμφοντέιν (el) n (Bloumfontéin)
• Indonesian: Bloemfontein
• Japanese: ブルームフォンテーン (ja) (Burūmufontēn)
• Korean: 블룸폰테인 (ko) (Beullumpontein)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Блумфонтейн m (Blumfontejn)
• Polish: Bloemfontein (pl) n
• Portuguese: Bloemfontein (pt) f
• Russian: Блу́мфонте́йн m (Blúmfontɛ́jn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Блумфонтејн m

  Latin: Blumfontejn m

• Sotho: Mangaung (st)
• Spanish: Bloemfontein (es)
• Zulu: IBloemfontein

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Bloemfontein; equivalent to blom +‎ fontein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblumfɔntəi̯n/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bloemfontein

1. Bloemfontein (the judicial capital of South Africa)

Dutch

Etymology

From bloem +‎ fontein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblum.fɔnˌtɛi̯n/
• Hyphenation: Bloem‧fon‧tein

Proper noun

Bloemfontein

1. Bloemfontein (a city in South Africa)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Bloemfontein

Polish

Bloemfontein

Etymology

Etymology tree

Afrikaans Bloemfonteinubor.

Polish Bloemfontein

Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans Bloemfontein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blumˈfɔn.tɛjn/
• Rhymes: -ɔntɛjn
• Syllabification: Bloem‧fon‧tein

Proper noun

Bloemfontein n (indeclinable)

1. Bloemfontein (a city, the judicial capital of South Africa)

Further reading

• “Bloemfontein”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• Bloemfontein in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Proper noun

Bloemfontein f

1. Bloemfontein (the judicial capital of South Africa)