Cologne

See also: cologne

English

Alternative forms

• Cologn (obsolete)
• Köln (rare)

Etymology

From French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement founded by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈloʊn/

Proper noun

Cologne

1. A city in northwestern Germany on the Rhine River.
2. A city and town in Minnesota, United States.

Derived terms

• Cologner

Translations

city in Germany

• Arabic: كُولُونْيَا f (kulūnyā)
• Armenian: Քյոլն (Kʻyoln)
• Belarusian: Кёльн m (Kjolʹn)
• Bulgarian: Кьолн (bg) m (Kjoln)
• Catalan: Colònia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科隆 (fo¹ lung⁴)

  Mandarin: 科隆 (zh) (Kēlóng)

• Czech: Kolín nad Rýnem m
• Danish: Köln
• Dutch: Keulen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kolonjo
• Faroese: Køln f
• Finnish: Köln (fi)
• French: Cologne (fr) f

  Old French: Coloigne

• German: Köln (de) n

  Central Franconian: Kölle f (Kölsch)

• Greek: Κολωνία (el) f (Kolonía)
• Hebrew: קלן (Keln)
• Hungarian: Köln (hu)
• Icelandic: Köln f, Kolni f (archaic)
• Interlingua: Colonia
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• Italian: Colonia (it) f
• Japanese: ケルン (Kerun)
• Korean: 쾰른 (Koelleun)
• Latin: Colōnia Agrippīna f
• Macedonian: Келн m (Keln)
• Marathi: कोलोन n (kolon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Köln (no)

  Nynorsk: Köln

• Old Norse: Kolni f
• Persian: کلن (fa) (koln)
• Polish: Kolonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Colónia (pt) f (Portugal), Colônia (pt) f (Brazil), Köln f
• Russian: Кёльн (ru) m (Kjolʹn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Келн m

  Roman: Köln (sh) m

• Slovak: Kolín nad Rýnom m
• Spanish: Colonia (es) f
• Swedish: Köln (sv) c
• Turkish: Köln (tr)
• Ukrainian: Кельн m (Kelʹn)
• Yiddish: קעלן n (keln)

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French

Etymology

From Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement founded by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔɲ/

Proper noun

Cologne f

1. Cologne

Derived terms

• eau de Cologne