Cardiff

English

Etymology

From Middle Welsh Caerdyf, equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort”) + Taf (“(River) Taff”) = fortified city on the River Taff. Compare Welsh Caerdydd.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdɪf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹdɪf/

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Proper noun

Cardiff

1. A city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales.
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     The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18.

2. (metonymic) The Welsh government.
3. A suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
4. A community in the township of Highlands East, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
5. A hamlet in Sturgeon County, in central Alberta, Canada.
6. A small rural settlement in the region of Taranaki, New Zealand.
7. A place in the United States:
   1. A tiny town in Jefferson County, Alabama.
   2. Synonym of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
   3. A ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
   5. An unincorporated community in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
   6. A small hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.
   7. A ghost town in Roane County, Tennessee.

Derived terms

• Cardiff Bay
• Cardiff-by-the-Sea
• Cardiffian

Translations

The capital city of Wales

• Albanian: Kardif
• Arabic: كَارْدِيف m (kārdif)
• Armenian: Քարդիֆ (Kʻardif)
• Asturian: Cárdif (ast)
• Bengali: কার্ডিফ (karḍiph)
• Breton: Kerdiz (br)
• Bulgarian: Кардиф m (Kardif)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加的夫 (zh) (Jiādífū)

• Cornish: Kardydh
• Dutch: Cardiff
• Esperanto: Kardifo
• Estonian: Cardiff (et)
• Finnish: Cardiff (fi)
• French: Cardiff (fr)
• Georgian: კარდიფი (ḳardipi)
• German: Cardiff (de)
• Greek: Κάρντιφ (el) (Kárntif)
• Gujarati: કાર્ડિફ (kārḍiph)
• Hindi: कार्डिफ़ (kārḍif)
• Irish: Caerdydd
• Japanese: カーディフ (ja) (Kādifu)
• Korean: 카디프 (Kadipeu)
• Latvian: Kārdifa f
• Lithuanian: Kardifas m
• Macedonian: Кардиф m (Kardif)
• Maltese: Kardiff
• Manx: Cayr Deeth
• Marathi: कार्डिफ (kārḍiph)
• Portuguese: Cardiff (pt) f
• Russian: Ка́рдифф (ru) m (Kárdiff)
• Scots: Cairdiff
• Thai: คาร์ดิฟฟ์ (kaa-dìf)
• Ukrainian: Кардіфф m (Kardiff)
• Welsh: Caerdydd (cy) f

References

• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Estonian

Proper noun

Cardiff

1. Cardiff (a city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales)

Portuguese

Cardiff

Alternative forms

• Cardife
• Cardívio (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Cardiff.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈd͡ʒi.fi/ [kaɦˈd͡ʒi.fi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈd͡ʒi.fi/ [kaɦˈd͡ʒi.fi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈd͡ʒi.fi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈd͡ʒi.fi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻˈd͡ʒi.fe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈdi.fɨ/ [kaɾˈði.fɨ], /ˈkaɾ.di.fɨ/ [ˈkaɾ.ði.fɨ]

Proper noun

Cardiff ?

1. Cardiff (a city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales)

See also

• País de Gales