Tallinn

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Estonian Tallinn (“Tallinn”), compound of old Taani (“Denmark”) and linn ("town", originally "castle").

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɪn/^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): /ˈtælɪn/^[3]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːlɪn

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

The capital city of Estonia.

Derived terms[edit]

Tallinner

Translations[edit]

capital of Estonia

Afrikaans: Tallinn
Albanian: Talin (sq)
Amharic: ታሊን (talin)
Arabic: تَالِين‎ f (tālīn)
Aragonese: Tallinn
Armenian: Տալլին (Tallin)
Aromanian: Tallinn
Asturian: Tallinn
Azerbaijani: Tallin (az)
Basque: Tallinn (eu)
Belarusian: Та́лін m (Tálin)
Bengali: তাল্লিন (tallin)
Breton: Tallinn
Bulgarian: Та́лин m (Tálin)
Burmese: တယ်လင်း မြို့ (tailang:mrui.)
Catalan: Tallinn
Chechen: Таллин (Tallin)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 塔林 (taap³ lam⁴)

Mandarin: 塔林 (zh) (Tǎlín)
Chuvash: Таллин (Tallin)
Cornish: Tallinn
Corsican: Tallinn
Czech: Tallinn (cs) m
Danish: Tallinn (da), Reval (old name)
Dutch: Tallinn (nl) n
Eastern Mari: Таллинн (Talĺinn)
Erzya: Таллин (Talľin), Тал ош (Tal oš), Ревель (Ŕeveľ)
Esperanto: Talino (eo)
Estonian: Tallinn (et), Reval (obsolete or historical)
Faroese: Tallinn m
Finnish: Tallinna (fi), Rääveli (fi) (no longer current)
French: Tallinn (fr) m, Tallin (fr) m
Galician: Tallinn (gl), Talín (gl)
Georgian: ტალინი (ka) (ṭalini)
German: Tallinn (de) n, Reval (de) n (no longer current)
Greek: Ταλλίν (el) n (Tallín), Ταλίν (el) n (Talín)
Guaraní: Talin
Haitian Creole: Talin
Hebrew: טאלין \ טָלִין‎ f (talin)
Hindi: ताल्लिन m (tāllin)
Hungarian: Tallinn (hu)
Icelandic: Tallinn
Ido: Tallinn
Indonesian: Tallinn
Interlingua: Tallinn
Irish: Tallinn
Italian: Tallinn
Japanese: タリン (ja) (Tarin)
Kazakh: Таллин (Tallin)
Khmer: តាលិន (km) (taalɨn)
Komi-Zyrian: Таллинн (Talľinn)
Korean: 탈린 (Tallin)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Tallinn
Kyrgyz: Таллин (Tallin)
Ladino: Tallin
Lao: ຕານລີນ (tān līn)
Latin: Tallinna f, Revalia f, Castrum Danorum n
Latvian: Tallina f
Ligurian: Tallinn
Lingala: Tallinn
Lithuanian: Talinas (lt) m
Lombard: Tallinn
Low German:
German Low German: Revel
Luxembourgish: Tallinn (lb)
Macedonian: Талин m (Talin)
Malay: Tallinn
Malayalam: ടാലിൻ (ṭāliṉ)
Maltese: Talinn
Manx: Tallinn
Marathi: तालिन (tālin)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Таллин (Tallin)
Nahuatl: Tallin
Navajo: Tʼáliin
Northern Sami: Tallinn
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tallinn (no), Reval (obsolete)
Occitan: Tallinn
Ossetian: Таллин (Tallin)
Papiamentu: Tallinn
Pashto: تالين‎ m (tālín)
Pennsylvania German: Tallinn
Persian: تالین‎ (tâlin)
Piedmontese: Tallin
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tallinn
Polish: Tallinn (pl)
Portuguese: Taline
Quechua: Tallinn
Romani:
Vlax Romani: Tallinn
Romanian: Tallinn (ro)
Russian: Та́ллин (ru) m (Tállin), Та́ллинн (ru) m (Tállinn), Ре́вель m (Révelʹ) (no longer current), Колыва́нь f (Kolyvánʹ) (no longer current)
Samogitian: Talins
Saterland Frisian: Tallinn
Scottish Gaelic: Tallinn
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Талин m

Roman: Tallinn m, Tallin m
Slovak: Tallinn m
Slovene: Talin m
Sorbian: Tallinn
Lower: Tallinn m

Upper: Tallinn m
Spanish: Tallin (es)
Swahili: Tallinn
Swedish: Tallinn (sv), Reval (no longer current)
Tagalog: Tallinn
Tajik: Таллин (Tallin)
Tamil: தாலின் (tāliṉ)
Tatar: Таллинн (Tallinn), Таллин (Tallin)
Thai: ทาลลินน์ (th) (taal-lin)
Tibetan: ཏཱལ་་ལིན (tāl lin)
Tok Pisin: Talin
Turkish: Tallinn
Turkmen: Tallin
Udmurt: Таллин (Talľin)
Ukrainian: Та́ллінн (uk) m (Tállinn), Та́ллін m (Tállin)
Urdu: تالین‎ m (tālin, tallin)
Uyghur: تاللىن‎ (tallin)
Uzbek: Tallin
Vietnamese: Ta-lin
Volapük: Tallinn
Võro: Talliin
Waray-Waray: Tallinn
Welsh: Tallinn
West Frisian: Tallin
Yiddish: טאַלין‎ n (talin), רעוול‎ (revl)
Yoruba: Tallinn

References[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^af

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Derived terms[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn m

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Czech[edit]

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^cs

Alternative forms[edit]

Talin

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈtalɪn]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn m inan (related adjective tallinnský)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Declension[edit]

Declension of Tallinn (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Tallinn
genitive	Tallinnu
dative	Tallinnu
accusative	Tallinn
vocative	Tallinne
locative	Tallinnu
instrumental	Tallinnem

Danish[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation[edit]

Audio (file)

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn n

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Estonian[edit]

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^et

Etymology[edit]

The origin of the capital name is disputed:

Most likely from Old Estonian Tanin lidna (whence Tanillidna > Talilinna > Tallinna > Tallinn), equivalent to Taani (“Danish”) + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).
An alternative theory derives it from tali (“winter”), equivalent to talv (“winter”), from Proto-Finnic *talvi (“winter”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tälwä (“winter”) or from talu (“farm, farmstead”), from Proto-Finnic *talo (“farm, farmstead”), from Baltic, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *talˀa- + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲːːinː/ (Official, also Eastern Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲːin(ː)/ (Northern Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲin(ɑ)/ (Western Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲnɑ/ (Southern Estonia)
Rhymes: -ɑlːinː
Hyphenation: Tal‧linn
Audio (file)

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Harju, Estonia)
Tallinn on Eesti suurim linn
Tallinn is the largest city in Estonia

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Declension[edit]

Declension of Tallinn (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	Tallinn	—
accusative	Tallinna	—
genitive	Tallinna	—
partitive	Tallinna	—
illative	Tallinna Tallinnasse	—
inessive	Tallinnas	—
elative	Tallinnast	—
allative	Tallinnale	—
adessive	Tallinnal	—
ablative	Tallinnalt	—
translative	Tallinnaks	—
terminative	Tallinnani	—
essive	Tallinnana	—
abessive	Tallinnata	—
comitative	Tallinnaga	—
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

Derived terms[edit]

Tallinna laht (“Tallinn bay”), tallinna keel (“North Estonian”), tallinnakeelne (“North Estonian”)
tallinnlane (“Tallinner; inhabitant of Tallinn”), tallinlanna (“(female) Tallinner”)

Descendants[edit]

→ English: Tallinn
→ Norwegian Bokmål: Tallinn, Tallin
→ Polish: Tallinn

References[edit]

Tallinn in Sõnaveeb
Tallinn in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN

French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ta.lin/
Audio (file)

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn f

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Audio (file)

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn n (proper noun, genitive Tallinns or (optionally with an article) Tallinn)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Hungarian[edit]

Tallinn on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈtɒlːinː]
Hyphenation: Tal‧linn
Rhymes: -inː

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Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Declension[edit]

Inflection of Tallinn
	singular	plural
nominative	Tallinn	—
accusative	Tallinnt	—
dative	Tallinn-nak	—
instrumental	Tallinn-nal	—
causal-final	Tallinnért	—
translative	Tallinn-ná	—
terminative	Tallinnig	—
essive-formal	Tallinnként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Tallinnban	—
superessive	Tallinnon	—
adessive	Tallinn-nál	—
illative	Tallinnba	—
sublative	Tallinnra	—
allative	Tallinnhoz	—
elative	Tallinnból	—
delative	Tallinnról	—
ablative	Tallinntól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Tallinné	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Tallinnéi	—

Possessive forms of Tallinn
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Tallinnom	—
2nd person sing.	Tallinnod	—
3rd person sing.	Tallinnja	—
1st person plural	Tallinnunk	—
2nd person plural	Tallinnotok	—
3rd person plural	Tallinnjuk	—

Derived terms[edit]

tallinni

Icelandic[edit]

Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^is

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn ?

Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

Italian[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn m

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^nb

Etymology[edit]

From Estonian Tallinn (“Tallinn”), where the origin is disputed:

Possibly from Old Estonian Tanin lidna, equivalent to Taani (“Danish”) + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).
Possibly from tali (“winter”), equivalent to talv (“winter”), from Proto-Finnic *talvi (“winter”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tälwä (“winter”) or from talu (“farm, farmstead”), from Proto-Finnic *talo (“farm, farmstead”), from Baltic, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *talˀa- + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtalːɪn/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɪn
Hyphenation: tal‧linn
Homophone: Tallin

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Harju, Estonia)
Tallinn har både landets hovedflyplass og hovedhavn.
Tallinn has both the country's main airport and main port.

Synonyms[edit]

Reval (“Tallinn”) (obsolete)
Tallin (“Tallinn”) (obsolete, used mainly between 1944 and 1991)

References[edit]

“Tallinn” in Store norske leksikon

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Estonian Tallinn.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈtal.lin/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -allin
Syllabification: Tal‧linn

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn m inan

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)
Synonym: Rewel

Declension[edit]

Declension of Tallinn

	singular
nominative	Tallinn
genitive	Tallinna
dative	Tallinnowi
accusative	Tallinn
instrumental	Tallinnem
locative	Tallinnie
vocative	Tallinnie

Derived terms[edit]

adjective

talliński

nouns

Portuguese[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn

Alternative form of Taline

Slovak[edit]

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈtalin]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn m inan (genitive singular Tallinnu, declension pattern of dub)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

References[edit]

Tallinn in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Tallinn n (genitive Tallinns)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

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