Minsk

See also: Mińsk and minsk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Belarusian Мінск (Minsk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnsk/

Proper noun

Minsk

1. The capital of Belarus.

Translations

capital of Belarus

• Albanian: Minsku
• Amharic: ሚንስክ (minsək)
• Arabic: مِينْسْك f (minsk)
• Armenian: Մինսկ (Minsk)
• Azerbaijani: Minsk (az)
• Belarusian: Мінск m (Minsk), Менск m (Mjensk) (dated, Taraškievica orthography)
• Bengali: মিন্‌স্ক (min‌sko)
• Bulgarian: Минск m (Minsk)
• Burmese: မင့်စ် (mang.c)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明斯克 (zh) (Míngsīkè)

• Czech: Minsk (cs) m
• Danish: Minsk
• Dutch: Minsk
• Esperanto: Minsko (eo)
• Estonian: Minsk (et)
• Faroese: Minsk
• Finnish: Minsk (fi)
• French: Minsk (fr) m
• Galician: Minsk (gl)
• Georgian: მინსკი (minsḳi)
• German: Minsk (de) n
• Greek: Μινσκ (el) (Minsk)
• Hebrew: מִינְסְק f (minsk)
• Hindi: मिन्स्क (minsk)
• Hungarian: Minszk (hu)
• Icelandic: Minsk
• Irish: Mionsc f, Minsc f
• Italian: Minsk (it) m
• Japanese: ミンスク (Minsuku)
• Kazakh: Минск (Minsk)
• Korean: 민스크 (ko) (Minseukeu)
• Kyrgyz: Минск (Minsk)
• Latin: Minscum, Minsca
• Latvian: Minska
• Lithuanian: Minskas
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• Macedonian: Минск m (Minsk)
• Malay: Minsk
• Maltese: Minsk
• Mongolian: Минск (Minsk)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Minsk (no)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Мѣньскъ m (Měnĭskŭ)

• Old East Slavic: Мѣньскъ m (Měnĭskŭ), Мѣнескь m (Měneskĭ)
• Persian: مینسک (minsk)
• Polish: Mińsk (pl) m
• Portuguese: Minsk (pt) fMinsque f
• Romanian: Minsk (ro)
• Russian: Минск (ru) m (Minsk), Менск m (Mensk) (archaic)
• Rusyn: Мінск m (Minsk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ми̏нск m

  Roman: Mȉnsk (sh) m

• Slovak: Minsk m
• Slovene: Minsk m
• Spanish: Minsk (es) m
• Swedish: Minsk (sv)
• Tagalog: Minsk
• Tajik: Минск (Minsk)
• Tatar: Минск (Minsk)
• Thai: มินสก์ (mín)
• Turkish: Minsk (tr)
• Turkmen: Minsk
• Ukrainian: Мінськ (uk) m (Minsʹk)
• Urdu: منسک (minsk)
• Uyghur: مىنىسكى (miniski)
• Uzbek: Minsk
• Vietnamese: Minh Tư Khắc (明斯克), Minxcơ
• Yiddish: מינסק (minsk)

Anagrams

• minks

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Estonian

Proper noun

Minsk

1. Minsk (the capital of Belarus)

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Minsk n

1. Minsk (the capital of Belarus)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Minsque (rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩsk/

Proper noun

Minsk f

1. Minsk (the capital city of Belarus)

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Slovak

Declension

From Belarusian Мінск (Minsk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈminsk/

Proper noun

Minsk m (genitive singular Minska, declension pattern of dub)

1. Minsk (the capital of Belarus)

Declension

Declension of Minsk

	singulare tantum
nominative	Minsk
genitive	Minska
dative	Minsku
accusative	Minsk
locative	Minsku
instrumental	Minskom

Derived terms

• Minčan, Minčanka
• minský (adj)
• minsky (adverb)

Further reading

• “Minsk”, 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, 2024

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Swedish

Proper noun

Minsk

1. Minsk, the capital of Belarus

Anagrams

• minks