Tallinn

English

Etymology

Compound of old Estonian Taani (“Denmark”) and linn ("town", originally "castle").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɪn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtælɪn/

Proper noun

Tallinn

1. The capital of Estonia.

Derived terms

• Tallinner

Translations

Capital of Estonia

• Afrikaans: Tallinn
• Albanian: Talin (sq)
• Amharic: ታሊን (talin)
• Arabic: تَالِين m (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)
• Catalan: Tallinn
• Chechen: Таллин (Tallin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塔林 (taap³ lam⁴)

  Mandarin: 塔林 (zh) (Tǎlín)

  Min Nan: Tallinn

• Chuvash: Таллин (Tallin)
• Cornish: Tallinn
• Corsican: Tallinn
• Czech: Tallinn (cs) m
• Danish: Tallinn (da), Reval (old name)
• Dutch: Tallinn (nl)
• Eastern Mari:
• Erzya: Таллин ош (Talľin oš)
• 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• Finnish: Tallinna (fi), Rääveli (fi) (no longer current)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 (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• German: Tallinn (de) n, Reval (de) n (no longer current)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 (talin)
• Hindi: ताल्लिन (tāllin)
• Hungarian: Tallinn (hu)
• Icelandic: Tallinn
• Ido: Tallinn
• Indonesian: Tallinn
• Interlingua: Tallinn
• Interlingue:
• Irish: Tallinn
• Italian: Tallinn
• Japanese: タリン (Tarin)
• Komi-Zyrian: Таллинн (Talľinn)
• Korean: 탈린 (Tallin)
• Ladino: Tallin
• Latin: Castrum Danorum
• Latvian: Tallina
• Ligurian: Tallinn
• Lingala: Tallinn
• Lithuanian: Talinas (lt)
• Lombard: Tallinn
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Low German:

  German Low German: Revel

• Lower Sorbian: Tallinn
• Luxembourgish: Tallinn (lb)
• Macedonian: Та́лин m (Tálin)
• Malay: Tallinn
• Malayalam: ടാലിന് (ṭāliṉ)
• Maltese: Talinn
• Manx: Tallinn
• Marathi: तालिन (tālin)
• Nahuatl: Tallin
• Navajo: Tʼáliin
• Northern Sami: Tallinn
• Norwegian: Tallinn (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: Tallinn
• Ossetian: Таллин (Tallin)
• Papiamentu: Tallinn
• Pennsylvania German: Tallinn
• Persian: تالین
• Piedmontese: Tallin
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tallinn
• Polish: Tallinn (pl)
• Portuguese: Tallinn (pt)
• 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
• Spanish: Tallin (es)
• Swahili: Tallinn
• Swedish: Tallinn (sv), Reval (no longer current)
• Tagalog: Tallinn
• Tajik: Таллин (Tallin)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: Tallinn
• Thai: ทาลลินน์ (taal-lin)
• Tok Pisin: Talin
• Turkish: Tallinn
• Udmurt: Таллин (Talľin)
• Ukrainian: Та́ллінн m (Tállinn), Та́ллін m (Tállin)
• Upper Sorbian: Tallinn
• Uyghur: تاللىن (tallin)
• Vietnamese: Tallinn
• Volapük: Tallinn
• Võro: Talliin
• Waray-Waray: Tallinn
• Welsh: Tallinn
• West Frisian: Tallin
• Yiddish: טאַלין (talin)
• Yoruba: Tallinn

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Asturian

Proper noun

Tallinn ?

1. Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

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Czech

Proper noun

1. Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

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Danish

Proper noun

Tallinn

1. Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tallinn n

1. Tallinn

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Estonian

Etymology

From Old Estonian Tanin lidna, equivalent to Taani (“Danish”) +‎ linn (“city (originally "fortress, castle")”). An alternative theory derives it from tali (“winter”) +‎ linn.

Until 1933 both the forms Tallinn and Tallinna were in official use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲlːinː/, [ˈtɑlʲlʲːinː] (Official, also Eastern Estonia)
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲlin(ː)/, [ˈtɑlʲlʲin(ː)] (Northern Estonia)
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲin(ɑ)/, [ˈtɑlʲin(ɑ)] (Western Estonia)
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲnɑ/, [ˈtɑlʲnɑ] (Southern Estonia)

Proper noun

Tallinn

1. Tallinn

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.lin/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tallinn f

1. Tallinn

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tallinn n (proper noun, strong, genitive Tallinns)

1. Tallinn

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒlːinː]
• Hyphenation: Tal‧linn

Proper noun

Tallinn

1. Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Tallinn	—
accusative	Tallinnt	—
dative	Tallinnak	—
instrumental	Tallinnal	—
causal-final	Tallinnért	—
translative	Tallinná	—
terminative	Tallinnig	—
essive-formal	Tallinnként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Tallinnban	—
superessive	Tallinnon	—
adessive	Tallinnál	—
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

• tallinni

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Italian

Proper noun

Tallinn m

1. Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ˈtal.lin//

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tallinn m inan

1. Tallinn, capital city of Estonia

Declension

Declension of Tallinn

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

Derived terms

• (nouns) tallińczyk, tallinka
• (adjective) talliński

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tallin, Talin, Talim (uncommon)

Proper noun

Tallinn f

1. Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Tallinn n (genitive Tallinns)

1. Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)