Hamburg

See also: hamburg

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂mder.

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂méh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.?

Proto-Germanic *hammō

Old High German hammeder.?

Old High German Hamme

Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérgʰs?

Proto-Germanic *burgz

Proto-West Germanic *burg

Old High German burg

Old High German Hammaburg

German Hamburgbor.

English Hamburg

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɝɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɜːɡ/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Hamburg

1. The second largest city in, and a state of, Germany.
2. Any of various communities in the United States; named for the German city:
   1. A city, the county seat of Ashley County, Arkansas.
   2. A community in the town of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.
   3. A village in Calhoun County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Indiana.
   6. A small city in Fremont County, Iowa.
   7. An unincorporated community in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
   8. A small city in Carver County, Minnesota.
   9. A ghost town in St. Charles County, Missouri.
   10. A borough of Sussex County, New Jersey.
   11. A large town in Erie County, New York.
   12. An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporated community in Preble County, Ohio.
   14. A borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   15. A ghost town in Aiken County, South Carolina.
   16. A small town and unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
   17. A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
3. A town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa; named for the German city.
4. Hamburger SV, a German football club.

Derived terms

• black Hamburg grape
• Hamburg edging
• Hamburger
• hamburger, burger
• Hamburg lake

Translations

city and state of Germany

• Akan: Hambɔg
• Arabic: هَامْبُورْغ m (hamburḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: هامبُرْق f (hāmburg)

• Armenian: Համբուրգ (Hamburg)
• Asturian: Hamburgu (ast)
• Belarusian: Га́мбург m (Hámburh)
• Bulgarian: Ха́мбург m (Hámburg)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Га́мбург m (Hámburh), Га́мбурґ m (Hámburg)
• Catalan: Hamburg
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢堡 / 汉堡 (zh) (Hànbǎo)

• Czech: Hamburk (cs) m
• Danish: Hamborg
• Dutch: Hamburg (nl)
• Estonian: Hamburg
• Farefare: Hambʋrg
• Finnish: Hampuri (fi)
• French: Hambourg (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: (Föhr, Sylt) Hamborig, (Heligoland) Hambori, (Öömrang) Hamborag

  Saterland Frisian: Hambuurich

  West Frisian: Hamburch

• Friulian: Amburc
• Galician: Hamburgo (gl)
• Georgian: ჰამბურგი (hamburgi)
• German: Hamburg (de) n

  Central Franconian: Hamburg

• Greek: Αμβούργο (el) (Amvoúrgo)
• Hindi: हैम्बर्ग (haimbarg)
• Hungarian: Hamburg (hu)
• Icelandic: Hamborg f
• Italian: Amburgo (it) f
• Japanese: ハンブルク (Hanburuku)
• Korean: 함부르크 (ko) (Hambureukeu)
• Latin: Hamburgum n
• Latvian: Hamburga f
• Lithuanian: Hamburgas m
• Low German: Hamborg (nds)

  German Low German: Hamborg (nds) (Northern Germany), Hambuorg (nds) (Münsterland)

• Macedonian: Хамбург m (Hamburg)
• Marathi: हॅम्बर्ग n (hĕmbarga)
• Polish: Hamburg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hamburgo (pt)
• Russian: Га́мбург (ru) m (Gámburg)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хамбург m

  Latin: Hamburg (sh) m

• Spanish: Hamburgo (es) m
• Swedish: Hamburg (sv) n
• Thai: ฮัมบวร์ค (ham-bùuak)
• Turkish: Hamburg (tr)
• Ukrainian: Га́мбург m (Hámburh), Га́мбурґ m (Hámburg)
• Vietnamese: Hăm-buốc
• Welsh: Hambwrg
• Yiddish: האַמבורג (hamburg)

attributive form - relating to Hamburg

• Asturian: hamburgués (ast)
• Belarusian: га́мбургскі (hámburhski)
• Bulgarian: ха́мбургски (hámburgski)
• Catalan: hamburguès (ca)
• Czech: hamburský (cs)
• Danish: hamburgsk
• Esperanto: hamburga
• Finnish: hampurilainen (fi)
• French: hambourgeois (fr)
• Friulian: amburghês
• Galician: hamburgués (gl)
• German: hamburgisch (de), Hamburger (de)
• Hungarian: hamburgi (hu)
• Italian: amburghese (it)
• Polish: hamburski (pl)
• Portuguese: hamburguês (pt)
• Russian: га́мбургский (ru) (gámburgskij)
• Slovak: hamburský (sk)
• Slovene: hamburški
• Spanish: hamburgués (es)
• Swedish: hamburgsk (sv)
• Ukrainian: га́мбурзький (hámburzʹkyj)

Noun

Hamburg (plural Hamburgs)

1. A Hamburg chicken.
2. A variety of black grape.

Alternative forms

• Hamburgh

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əmˈburk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [amˈbuɾk]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [amˈburk]

Proper noun

Hamburg m

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Derived terms

• hamburguès

Central Franconian

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. (Kölsch) Hamburg
   • 2007, das kölsche liedbuch 2, (Lund Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln), p. 26, song Kölsche Junge bütze joot:

     [...]
     doch eines es jewess
     vun Hamburg bes Paris.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂mder.

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂méh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.?

Proto-Germanic *hammō

Old High German hammeder.?

Old High German Hamme

Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérgʰs?

Proto-Germanic *burgz

Proto-West Germanic *burg

Old High German burg

Old High German Hammaburg

German Hamburg

From Hammaburg, the first permanent building on the site, which the Emperor Charlemagne ordered constructed in 808 CE. The name is from Hamme, of uncertain origin (possibly Old High German hamme (“bend, angle”)), + burg (“castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhambʊɐ̯k/, (locally) [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç]

• Audio (Germany):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio (Hamburg):

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Proper noun

Hamburg n (proper noun, genitive Hamburgs or (optionally with an article) Hamburg)

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in and simultaneously a state of Germany)

Derived terms

• Hamburger
  • Hamburger Schule
  • Hamburgerin
  • hamburgerisch
• hamburgisch

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒmburɡ]
• Hyphenation: Ham‧burg
• Rhymes: -urɡ

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Hamburg	—
accusative	Hamburgot	—
dative	Hamburgnak	—
instrumental	Hamburggal	—
causal-final	Hamburgért	—
translative	Hamburggá	—
terminative	Hamburgig	—
essive-formal	Hamburgként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Hamburgban	—
superessive	Hamburgon	—
adessive	Hamburgnál	—
illative	Hamburgba	—
sublative	Hamburgra	—
allative	Hamburghoz	—
elative	Hamburgból	—
delative	Hamburgról	—
ablative	Hamburgtól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Hamburgé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Hamburgéi	—

Possessive forms of Hamburg

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Hamburgom	—
2nd person sing.	Hamburgod	—
3rd person sing.	Hamburgja	—
1st person plural	Hamburgunk	—
2nd person plural	Hamburgotok	—
3rd person plural	Hamburgjuk	—

Derived terms

• hamburgi

Related terms

• hamburger

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂mder.

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂méh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.?

Proto-Germanic *hammō

Old High German hammeder.?

Old High German Hamme

Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérgʰs?

Proto-Germanic *burgz

Proto-West Germanic *burg

Old High German burg

Old High German Hammaburg

German Hamburgbor.

Polish Hamburg

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxam.burk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -amburk
• Syllabification: Ham‧burg

Proper noun

Hamburg n (related adjective hamburski)

1. Hamburg (a city in Hamburg, Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany)

Declension

Declension of Hamburg

	singular
nominative	Hamburg
genitive	Hamburga
dative	Hamburgowi
accusative	Hamburg
instrumental	Hamburgiem
locative	Hamburgu
vocative	Hamburgu

Related terms

• hamburczyk
• hamburger
• hamburka

Further reading

• “Hamburg”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂mder.

Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂méh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.?

Proto-Germanic *hammō

Old High German hammeder.?

Old High German Hamme

Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰs?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérgʰs?

Proto-Germanic *burgz

Proto-West Germanic *burg

Old High German burg

Old High German Hammaburg

German Hamburgbor.

Slovak Hamburg

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦamburk/, [ˈɦamburk]
• Rhymes: -amburk
• Hyphenation: Ham‧burg

Proper noun

Hamburg m inan (relational adjective hamburský, demonym Hamburčan, female demonym Hamburčanka)

1. Hamburg (the capital city of the state of Hamburg, Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany)

   Synonym: Slobodné a hanzové mesto Hamburg

Declension

Declension of Hamburg
(pattern dub)

	singular
nominative	Hamburg
genitive	Hamburgu
dative	Hamburgu
accusative	Hamburg
locative	Hamburgu
instrumental	Hamburgom

Proper noun

Hamburg m pers (female equivalent Hamburgová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Hamburg
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Hamburg	Hamburgovia	Hamburgovci
genitive	Hamburga	Hamburgov	Hamburgovcov
dative	Hamburgovi	Hamburgom	Hamburgovcom
accusative	Hamburga	Hamburgov	Hamburgovcov
locative	Hamburgovi	Hamburgoch	Hamburgovcoch
instrumental	Hamburgom	Hamburgmi	Hamburgovcami

Further reading

• “Hamburg”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Proper noun

Hamburg n (genitive Hamburgs)

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Related terms

• hamburgare
• hamburgsk

Turkish

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)