English
Manhattan, one of the five boroughs of New York City
Proper noun
New York City
The largest city in the United States of America , consisting of five boroughs : Manhattan , the Bronx , Brooklyn , Queens , and Staten Island . The city is situated on the Atlantic Coast at the mouth of the Hudson River in the northeastern state of New York .
Manhattan .
Usage notes
New York City alone may refer to the one borough or island of Manhattan but usually refers to the entire city spanning all five boroughs. The city’s official name is New York but it is commonly referred to as New York City (NYC), the City of New York, or New York, New York (NY, NY), in order to distinguish it from New York State.
Quotations
1971 , Carol King and Toni Stern, “Where You Lead”, Tapestry , Ode Records
I always wanted a real home with flowers on the window sill,
But if you want to live in New York City , honey, you know I will.
2007 , Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt recently described New York City as, “an urban oasis of togetherness and a beacon of man’s compassion toward fellow man.”
Synonyms
Translations
large city in the USA
Afrikaans: New York Stad
Albanian: New York City
Amharic: ኒው ዮርክ ( niw york )
Arabic: نِيُويُورْك f ( niyūyork )
Armenian: Նյու Յորք ( Nyu Yorkʻ )
Aymara: New York
Azerbaijani: Nyu-York (az)
Bashkir: Нью-Йорк ( Nʹyu-York )
Basque: York Berri
Belarusian: Нью-Ёрк m ( Nʹju-Jórk ) , Нью-Йо́рк m ( Nʹju-Jórk )
Bengali: নিউ ইয়র্ক ( niu iẏork )
Breton: New York
Bulgarian: Ню Йо́рк m ( Nju Jórk )
Burmese: နယူးယောက် ( na.yu:yauk )
Catalan: Nova York
Chechen: Нью-Йорк ( Nju-Jork )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 紐約 / 纽约 ( nau2 joek3 ) , 纽约 ( nau2 joek3 )
Mandarin: 紐約 / 纽约 (zh) ( Niǔyuē ) , 纽约 (zh) ( Niǔyuē )
Cornish: Evrek Nowydh
Crimean Tatar: Nyu York
Czech: New York (cs)
Danish: New York
Dutch: New York (nl)
Eastern Mari: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "chm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Esperanto: Novjorko (eo)
Estonian: New York (et)
Faroese: New York City , Nýjorvík
Finnish: New York (fi)
French: New York (fr) , Ville de New York f
Galician: Nova Iorque (gl)
Georgian: ნიუ-იორკი ( niu-iorḳi )
German: New York City (de) , New York (de) , Neuyork (obsolete)
Greek: Νέα Υόρκη (el) ( Néa Yórki )
Guaraní: Táva Nueva York
Gujarati: ન્યુ યોર્ક ( nyu york )
Hawaiian: Nuioka
Hebrew: נְיוּ יוֹרְק ( nyu york )
Hindi: न्यूयॉर्क ( nyūyŏrk ) , न्यू यार्क ( nyū yārk )
Hungarian: New York (hu)
Icelandic: Nýja-Jórvík f
Ido: Nova-York
Indonesian: New York
Inuktitut: ᓂᐅ ᐃᐅᕐᒃ ᓯᑎ ( nio iork siti )
Irish: Nua-Eabhrac
Italian: New York (it) f , Nuova York (it) f
Japanese: ニューヨーク (ja) ( Nyūyōku ) , 紐育 (ja) ( Nyūyōku )
Kalmyk: Шин Йорк ( Şin York )
Kannada: ನ್ಯೂ ಯಾರ್ಕ್ ( nyū yārk )
Karachay-Balkar: Нью-Йорк ( Nʹyu-York )
Kazakh: Нью-Йорк (kk) ( Nü-İork )
Khmer: ញូវយ៉ក ( ñɨw yɑɑk )
Korean: 뉴욕 ( Nyuyok )
Kurdish: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . , Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Kyrgyz: Нью-Йорк (ky) ( Nyu-York )
Lao: ນີວຢອກ ( nīu yǭk )
Latin: Novum Eboracum
Latvian: Ņujorka f
Limburgish: New York
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Lithuanian: Niujorkas (lt) m
Low German: New York
Macedonian: Њу Јорк m ( Nju Jork ) , Њујорк m ( Njujork )
Malagasy: New York
Malay: New York
Malayalam: ന്യൂയോർക്ക് ( nyūyōṟkkŭ )
Maltese: New York City
Marathi: न्यू यॉर्क ( nyū yŏrka )
Mari:
Western Mari: Нью-Йорк ( Ńju-Jork )
Mongolian: Нью-Йорк ( Nʹjü-Jork )
Nahuatl: Altepetl Yancuic York
Navajo: Nííyóó sídii , Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá
Nepali: न्यू योर्क ( nyū yorka )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: New York
Nynorsk: New York
Occitan: Nòva York (oc)
Oriya: ନ୍ୟୁ ୟୋର୍କ ( nyu yorkô )
Ossetian: Нью-Йорк ( Nʹju-Jork )
Papiamentu: New York City
Pashto: نیو یارک
Pennsylvania German: Nei Yarrick Schtadt , Nei Yarrick
Persian: نیویورک (fa) ( niyoyork )
Polish: Nowy Jork (pl)
Portuguese: Nova Iorque (pt) f
Punjabi: ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ ( niūyārak )
Quechua: New York
Romanian: New York (ro)
Russian: Нью-Йо́рк (ru) m ( Nʹju-Jórk )
Samoan: Niu Ioka
Scottish Gaelic: Eabhraig Nuadh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Њујорк m
Roman: Njujork m
Sicilian: Nova York , Nova Jorca
Sinhalese: නිව්යෝක් ( niwyōk )
Slovak: New York
Slovene: New York
Somali: New York
Spanish: Nueva York (es)
Swahili: New York
Swedish: New York (sv)
Tagalog: New York
Tahitian: New York
Tajik: Ню-Йорк (tg) ( Nyu-York )
Tamil: நியூயார்க் ( niyūyārk )
Tatar: Нью-Йорк ( N’yu-York )
Telugu: న్యూయార్క్ ( nyūyārk )
Thai: นิวยอร์กซิตี ( niu-yɔ́ɔk-sí-dtîi ) , นิวยอร์ก ( niu-yɔ̀ɔk )
Tibetan: ནེའུ་ཡོར་ཀ ( ne'u yor ka )
Turkish: New York (tr)
Turkmen: Nýu-Ýork
Udmurt: Нью-Йорк ( Ńju-Jork )
Ukrainian: Нью-Йо́рк m ( Nʹju-Jórk )
Urdu: نیویارک ( n'yūyork )
Uzbek: Nyu York
Welsh: Newydd
Yakut: Нью Йорк ( Nyu York )
Yiddish: ניו־יאָרק ( nyu-york ) , ניו יאָרק ( nyu york )