Oslo

See also: oslo, osło, Ósló, and Osló

English

Etymology

From Norwegian Oslo, from Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. Another theory is that it comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely. The second element is ló f or n (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (compare the suffix -ley in English place-names).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒzləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑzloʊ/, /ˈɑsloʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Proper noun

Oslo

1. A county and municipality, the capital city of Norway. Formerly called Christiania and Kristiania.
2. A tiny city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States.

Derived terms

• Oslo syndrome
• Osloite

Translations

Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Afrikaans: Oslo
• Albanian: Oslo
• Amharic: ኦስሎ (ʾoslo)
• Arabic: أُوسْلُو f (ʔūslū)

  Hijazi Arabic: أوسلو f (ʔōslū, ʔōslō)

• Armenian: Օսլո (Ōslo)
• Azerbaijani: Oslo (az)
• Basque: Oslo (eu)
• Belarusian: О́сла m (Ósla)
• Bengali: অসলো (oslō)
• Bulgarian: О́сло n (Óslo)
• Burmese: အော့စလိုမြို့ (au.ca.luimrui.)
• Catalan: Oslo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奧斯陸／奥斯陆 (ou³ si¹ luk⁶)

  Mandarin: 奧斯陸／奥斯陆 (zh) (Àosīlù)

• Czech: Oslo (cs) n
• Danish: Oslo (da) n
• Dutch: Oslo (nl) n, Ansloo, Anslo
• Esperanto: Oslo (eo)
• Faroese: Ósló f
• Finnish: Oslo (fi)
• French: Oslo (fr) f
• Georgian: ოსლო (oslo)
• German: Oslo (de) n
• Greek: Όσλο (el) n (Óslo)
• Hebrew: אוֹסְלוֹ (he) f (oslo)
• Hindi: ओस्लो m (oslo)
• Hungarian: Oslo (hu)
• Icelandic: Ósló f, Osló f
• Indonesian: Oslo
• Irish: Osló
• Italian: Oslo (it) f
• Japanese: オスロ (ja) (Osuro)
• Kazakh: Осло (Oslo)
• Khmer: អូស្លូ (km) (ʼouslou)
• Korean: 오슬로 (Oseullo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Oslo (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Осло (Oslo)
• Lao: ອອສໂລ (ʼǭt lō)
• Latin: Ansloa f, Asloa f
• Latvian: Oslo f
• Lithuanian: Oslas m
• Macedonian: Осло n (Oslo)
• Malay: Oslo
• Maltese: Oslo
• Maori: Ōhoro
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Осло (Oslo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Oslo (no)

  Nynorsk: Oslo f

• Pashto: اوسلو f (oslo)
• Persian: اسلو (oslo)
• Polish: Oslo (pl) n
• Portuguese: Oslo (pt) f
• Romanian: Oslo (ro)
• Russian: О́сло (ru) m (Óslo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: О̏сло n

  Roman: Ȍslo (sh) n

• Slovak: Oslo n
• Slovene: Oslo n
• Spanish: Oslo (es)
• Swedish: Oslo (sv) n
• Tagalog: Oslo
• Tajik: Осло (Oslo)
• Tamil: ஒசுலோ (oculō)
• Tatar: Осло (Oslo)
• Thai: ออสโล (ɔ́ɔs-loo)
• Turkish: Oslo (tr)
• Turkmen: Oslo
• Ukrainian: О́сло m (Óslo)
• Urdu: اوسلو m (oslo)
• Uyghur: ئوسلو (oslo)
• Uzbek: Oslo
• Vietnamese: Ốt-xlô
• Yiddish: אָסלאָ n (oslo)

See also

• Oslo paper (possibly etymologically related???)

Anagrams

• Loos, OOLs, loos, sloo, solo, sool

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Derived terms

• Osloër
• Osloos

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɔz.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɔz.lu]

Proper noun

Oslo m

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈoslo]

• audio

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Proper noun

Oslo n (related adjective osloský or oselský) or less commonly
Oslo n (indeclinable, related adjective osloský or oselský, demonym Oslan)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Declension

Declension of Oslo (sg-only hard neuter // indeclinable neuter)

	singular
nominative	Oslo
genitive	Osla, Oslo
dative	Oslu, Oslo
accusative	Oslo
vocative	Oslo
locative	Osle, Oslo
instrumental	Oslem, Oslo

Further reading

• Oslo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Oslo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Oslo in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Ansloo, Anslo, Ansloe

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.loː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo n

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

See also

• Christiania

Anagrams

• loos

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈoslo]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: O‧slo

Proper noun

Oslo (accusative Oslon)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Holonyms

• Norvegio

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Faroese

Proper noun

Oslo ?

1. (official) alternative form of Ósló

Finnish

Etymology

From Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/, [ˈo̞s̠lo̞]
• Rhymes: -oslo
• Syllabification^(key): Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Declension

Inflection of Oslo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Oslo	—
genitive		Oslon	—
partitive		Osloa	—
illative		Osloon	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Oslo	—
accusative	nom.	Oslo	—
	gen.	Oslon
genitive		Oslon	—
partitive		Osloa	—
inessive		Oslossa	—
elative		Oslosta	—
illative		Osloon	—
adessive		Oslolla	—
ablative		Oslolta	—
allative		Oslolle	—
essive		Oslona	—
translative		Osloksi	—
abessive		Oslotta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Oslo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Osloni — accusative nom. Osloni — gen. Osloni genitive Osloni — partitive Osloani — inessive Oslossani — elative Oslostani — illative Oslooni — adessive Oslollani — ablative Osloltani — allative Oslolleni — essive Oslonani — translative Oslokseni — abessive Oslottani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Oslosi — accusative nom. Oslosi — gen. Oslosi genitive Oslosi — partitive Osloasi — inessive Oslossasi — elative Oslostasi — illative Osloosi — adessive Oslollasi — ablative Osloltasi — allative Oslollesi — essive Oslonasi — translative Osloksesi — abessive Oslottasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Oslomme — accusative nom. Oslomme — gen. Oslomme genitive Oslomme — partitive Osloamme — inessive Oslossamme — elative Oslostamme — illative Osloomme — adessive Oslollamme — ablative Osloltamme — allative Oslollemme — essive Oslonamme — translative Osloksemme — abessive Oslottamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Oslonne — accusative nom. Oslonne — gen. Oslonne genitive Oslonne — partitive Osloanne — inessive Oslossanne — elative Oslostanne — illative Osloonne — adessive Oslollanne — ablative Osloltanne — allative Oslollenne — essive Oslonanne — translative Osloksenne — abessive Oslottanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Oslonsa — accusative nom. Oslonsa — gen. Oslonsa genitive Oslonsa — partitive Osloaan Osloansa — inessive Oslossaan Oslossansa — elative Oslostaan Oslostansa — illative Osloonsa — adessive Oslollaan Oslollansa — ablative Osloltaan Osloltansa — allative Oslolleen Oslollensa — essive Oslonaan Oslonansa — translative Oslokseen Osloksensa — abessive Oslottaan Oslottansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• oslolainen (“Osloite”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.slo/

Proper noun

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔsloː/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Oslo n (proper noun, genitive Oslos or (optionally with an article) Oslo)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈosloː]
• Hyphenation: Os‧lo
• Homophone: oszló
• Rhymes: -loː

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Oslo	—
accusative	Oslót	—
dative	Oslónak	—
instrumental	Oslóval	—
causal-final	Oslóért	—
translative	Oslóvá	—
terminative	Oslóig	—
essive-formal	Osloként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Oslóban	—
superessive	Oslón	—
adessive	Oslónál	—
illative	Oslóba	—
sublative	Oslóra	—
allative	Oslóhoz	—
elative	Oslóból	—
delative	Oslóról	—
ablative	Oslótól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Oslóé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Oslóéi	—

Possessive forms of Oslo
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Oslóm	—
2nd person sing.	Oslód	—
3rd person sing.	Oslója	—
1st person plural	Oslónk	—
2nd person plural	Oslótok	—
3rd person plural	Oslójuk	—

Derived terms

• oslói

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.zlo/
• Rhymes: -ɔzlo
• Hyphenation: Ò‧slo

Proper noun

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Anagrams

• solo

Latvian

Proper noun

Oslo ? ({{{2}}} declension)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Norwegian Bokmål

Oslo, Norway. View from Ekeberg toward Grefsen.

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló, first part from áss (“a god in Norse mythology”) + last part from ló (“meadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊslʊ/, /ˈʊʃlʊ/, [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊ]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊslʊ, -ʊʃlʊ
• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
2. Oslo (a city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States)
3. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States)
4. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States)

Derived terms

• oslodame
• oslodialekt
• osloenser
• Oslofeltet
• Oslofjorden
• oslofolk
• oslofrokost
• oslogutt
• oslokvinne
• oslolos
• oslomann
• Oslomarka
• oslomenneske
• oslomål
• oslopike
• Osloregionen
• Osloriften
• oslosildre
• oslosk
• Osloskolen
• oslotrygden
• Oslotunnelen

 

Related terms

• Christiania, Kristiania (“Former names of the capital of Norway”)

References

• “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• solo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Bjørvika in Oslo, with the opera house and Barcode.

Alternative forms

• Åslo (obsolete)
• Ósló (nonstandard spelling, dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. The name Ósló then comes from older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo and Latin Ansloa), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.

Another theory is that the first part comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for ó- found in Ósló. The geologist Tom V. Segalstad has claimed that it comes from Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), based on the Danicised spelling Opsloe. However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have -n- to signify a nasal vowel, which ufs would not have.

Cognates include Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, Dutch Ansloo and (also Low German) Anslo, and Latin Ansloa, Asloa, Osloa (Latinisations).

Between 1624 and 1925, Oslo referred to the old town of Oslo, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king Christian IV of Denmark named the new city Christiania (later spelling: Kristiania) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to Oslo in 1925. The location of the old town got the name Gamlebyen (literally “Old Town”), now a neighbourhood in the modern city.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²uslu/, [ˈǔ̞s.lû̞], (Rogaland) [ˈû̞s.lû̞], (parts of Trøndelag) [ˈú̞s.lǔ̞]
• (East Norway) IPA^(key): /²uʂlu/, [ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞], [ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞] (phonemic respelling: Orslo)

  • Audio

    (file)

• (Setesdal) IPA^(key): [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]
• Rhymes: -slu, -ʃlu
• Hyphenation: Ós‧ló, Ó‧sló

Proper noun

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
   • 1912, Ivar Aasen, “Um Namnet Oslo”, in Skrifter i samling, page 204:

     Han berre klagar paa det, at Namnet sidan vardt burtskutlat, med di at Kong Kristian IV i Aaret 1624 «hadde det uheppne Innfallet at umbyta det eldgamle ærverdige Namnet Oslo med det nye, sjølvuppfundne og halvbarbariske Namn Christiania». […] Og detta er vel ogso den rettaste Synsmaaten.

     His [P. A. Munch’s] only complaint was that the name was later thrown away, as king Christian IV in the year 1624 “had the unfortunate idea of switching out the old honourable name Oslo with the new, self-invented and half-barbaric name Christiania”. […] And this is probably also the most correct way to look at it.

   • 2000, “Hytta I Oslo [Cabin In oslo]”:

     Folk kjøper seg hytta på Geilo og Gol. Dei vil stå litt på slalåm og slikka litt sol. Eg kjenne det krible, eg har eit begjær: Eg vil ha hytta i Oslo; det er der eg vil vær.

     People buy cabins in Geilo and Gol. They want to stand on slalom and lick some sun. I feel it tingle, I have a lust: I want a cabin in Oslo; there is where I want to be.

2. (historical) a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway

   Synonym: (modern name) Gamlebyen

   • 1900, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Steinar Schjøtt, Kongesogur [Kings’ sagas]:

     Kong Harald lét byggja ein kaupstad aust i Oslo, og sat der tidt; for de var godt for tilførst der, og de var rike bygdir umkring.

     King Harald had built a merchant town in the East at Oslo, where he often resided; for there was good supply from the extensive cultivated district wide around.

3. ellipsis of Oslo bispedøme (“Diocese of Oslo”).

   bisp i Oslo ― bishop in (the Diocese of) Oslo

Derived terms

• (demonyms): osloborgar, oslobu, osloensar, osloværing

• oslobisp, oslobiskop (“bishop in the Diocese of Oslo”)
• Oslobyen
• Oslobygda
• Oslofeltet
• Oslofjorden (“the Oslo Fjord”)
• oslofolk (“people from Oslo”)
• Oslogryta
• oslogut (“boy from Oslo”)
• Osloherad
• oslojente (“girl from Oslo”)
• oslokvinne (“woman from Oslo”)
• oslomann (“man from Oslo”)
• Oslomarka
• oslomål, oslodialekt (“Oslo dialect”)
• Oslonamnet (“the name of the city Oslo”)
• oslosildre (“Saxifraga osloensis”)
• oslosk (“of or pertaining to Oslo”)
• Osloskulen
• Oslotunnelen (“the Oslo Tunnel”)

 

Related terms

• Christiania, Kristiania (former names of Norway’s capital city)
• lo (“a meadow, often by the water”)
• ås (“a god, one of the Æsir”)

Further reading

• “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• solo

Polish

Oslo

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.lɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔslɔ
• Syllabification: Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo n (indeclinable, related adjective oslowski)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital and largest city of Norway)

Derived terms

nouns

• oslowianin
• oslowianka

 

Further reading

• Oslo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Oslo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oslo in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔz.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔz.lu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʒ.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔz.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʒ.lu/

• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôslo/

Proper noun

Ȍslo n (Cyrillic spelling О̏сло)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Declension

Declension of Oslo

	singular
nominative	Oslo
genitive	Osla
dative	Oslu
accusative	Oslo
vocative	Oslo
locative	Oslu
instrumental	Oslom

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔslɔ]

Proper noun

Oslo n (genitive singular Osla, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Usage notes

• It is sometimes also undeclined.

Declension

Declension of Oslo

	singulare tantum
nominative	Oslo
genitive	Osla
dative	Oslu
accusative	Oslo
locative	Osle
instrumental	Oslom

Derived terms

• Osločan m
• Osločanka f
• osloský

References

• “Oslo”, 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/ [ˈos.lo]
• Rhymes: -oslo
• Syllabification: Os‧lo

Proper noun

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Related terms

• oslense

 

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊslʊ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Oslo n (genitive Oslos)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osɫo/

Proper noun

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Declension

    declension of Oslo

	singular	plural
nominative	Oslo	Oslolar / Oslo'lar
accusative	Oslo'yu	Osloları / Oslo'ları
dative	Oslo'ya	Oslolara / Oslo'lara
locative	Oslo'da	Oslolarda / Oslo'larda
ablative	Oslo'dan	Oslolardan / Oslo'lardan
genitive	Oslo'nun	Osloların / Oslo'ların

    possessive of Oslo

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Oslo'm	Oslolarım / Oslo'larım
senin (your)	Oslo'n	Osloların / Oslo'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Oslo'su	Osloları / Oslo'ları
bizim (our)	Oslo'muz	Oslolarımız / Oslo'larımız
sizin (your)	Oslo'nuz	Oslolarınız / Oslo'larınız
onların (their)	Oslo'su / Osloları / Oslo'ları	Osloları / Oslo'ları

Derived terms

• Oslolu (“a person from Oslo”)