Tirana

See also: tirana, Tírana, Tîrana, Tirāna, and Tirānā

English

Alternative forms

• Tiranë

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Proper noun

Tirana

1. The capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
2. A county of Albania.
3. A municipality of Albania.

Derived terms

• Tiranan

Translations

capital and largest city of Albania

• Albanian: Tiranë f (indefinite), Tirana (sq) f (definite), Tironë f (Gheg, indefinite), Tirona f (Gheg, definite)
• Amharic: ቲራና (tirana)
• Arabic: تِيرَانَا‎ f (tirānā)
• Armenian: Տիրանա (Tirana)
• Aromanian: Tirana
• Azerbaijani: Tirana (az)
• Belarusian: Тыра́на f (Tyrána)
• Bengali: তিরানা (tirana)
• Bulgarian: Тира́на f (Tirána)
• Burmese: တီရာနာမြို့ (tiranamrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 地拉那 (dei⁶ laai¹ naa⁵)

  Mandarin: 地拉那 (zh) (Dìlānà)

  Min Nan: 地拉那 (Tē-la-nà, Tē-la-ná)

• Chuvash: Тирана (Tirana)
• Czech: Tirana (cs) f
• Danish: Tirana n
• Dutch: Tirana (nl) n
• Esperanto: Tirano (eo)
• Estonian: Tirana (et)
• Finnish: Tirana (fi)
• French: Tirana (fr) m
• Georgian: ტირანა (ṭirana)
• German: Tirana (de) n
• Greek: Τίρανα (el) (Tírana)
• Hebrew: טִירָנָה‎ f (tirana)
• Hindi: तिराना (hi) m (tirānā)
• Hungarian: Tirana (hu)
• Icelandic: Tírana
• Indonesian: Tirana
• Irish: Tiorána m
• Italian: Tirana (it)
• Japanese: ティラナ (Tirana)
• Kazakh: Тирана (Tirana)
• Khmer: ទីរ៉ាណា (km) (tiiraanaa)
• Korean: 티라나 (Tirana)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tîrana (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Тирана (Tirana)
• Lao: ຕິລານາ (ti lā nā)
• Latvian: Tirāna f
• Lithuanian: Tirana f
• Macedonian: Тира́на (mk) f (Tirána)
• Malay: Tirana
• Maltese: Tirana
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тирана (Tirana)

• Navajo: Tiwáána
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tirana n

• Ossetian: Тиранӕ (Tiranæ)
• Pashto: تيرانا‎ f (tirānā)
• Persian: تیرانا‎ (tirânâ)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tirana
• Polish: Tirana (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tirana (pt) f
• Romanian: Tirana (ro)
• Russian: Тира́на (ru) f (Tirána)
• Rusyn: Тіра́на f (Tirána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тира̀на f

  Roman: Tiràna (sh) f

• Slovak: Tirana f
• Slovene: Tirana f
• Spanish: Tirana (es) f
• Swedish: Tirana (sv) n
• Tagalog: Tirana
• Tajik: Тирана (Tirana)
• Tatar: Тирана (Tirana)
• Thai: ติรานา (dtì-raa-naa)
• Tibetan: ཐིས་རན (this ran)
• Turkish: Tiran
• Turkmen: Tirana
• Ukrainian: Тира́на f (Tyrána)
• Urdu: تیرانا‎ m (tirānā)
• Uyghur: تىرانا‎ (tirana)
• Uzbek: Tirana
• Vietnamese: Ti-ra-na
• Yiddish: טיראַנאַ‎ n (tirana)

Anagrams

• Artina, Narita, Traina, antiar

Albanian

Proper noun

Tirana

1. definite nominative singular of Tiranë

Aromanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Tirana.

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. definite nominative of Tiranã
2. definite nominative of Tirane
3. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

See also

• Curceauã

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪrana]

Proper noun

Tirana f (related adjective tiranský)

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Declension

Declension of Tirana (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Tirana
genitive	Tirany
dative	Tiraně
accusative	Tiranu
vocative	Tirano
locative	Tiraně
instrumental	Tiranou

Further reading

• Tirana in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Tirana in Internetová jazyková příručka

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Tirana, definite nominative of Tiranë.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtirɒnɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city in Albania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Tirana	—
accusative	Tiranát	—
dative	Tiranának	—
instrumental	Tiranával	—
causal-final	Tiranáért	—
translative	Tiranává	—
terminative	Tiranáig	—
essive-formal	Tiranaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Tiranában	—
superessive	Tiranán	—
adessive	Tiranánál	—
illative	Tiranába	—
sublative	Tiranára	—
allative	Tiranához	—
elative	Tiranából	—
delative	Tiranáról	—
ablative	Tiranától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Tiranáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Tiranáéi	—

Possessive forms of Tirana
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Tiranám	—
2nd person sing.	Tiranád	—
3rd person sing.	Tiranája	—
1st person plural	Tiranánk	—
2nd person plural	Tiranátok	—
3rd person plural	Tiranájuk	—

Derived terms

• tiranai

 

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈra.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Ti‧rà‧na

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Derived terms

• tiranese

Anagrams

• anatri, anitra, aranti, ratina, rinata, traina

Japanese

Romanization

Tirana

1. Rōmaji transcription of ティラナ

Norwegian Bokmål

Tirana, Albania.

Etymology

From Albanian Tirana, definite nominative form of Tiranë, from older Terrana (in Latin sources), from Proto-Albanian *Tūrsanā, possibly Ancient Greek Τυρσηνοί (Tursēnoí), Τυρσανοί (Tursanoí), an epithet used to denote the inhabitants of the Tyrrhenian Sea (cf. Latin Mare Tyrrhēnum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈrɑːna/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːna
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (a municipality and capital and largest city of Central Albania, Albania)

   Etter det kommunistiske styrets fall i 1991 opplevde Tirana dens største befolkningsvekst.

   After the fall of the communist regime in 1991, Tirana experienced its largest population growth.

Related terms

• Tiranë (“Tirana”)

References

• “Tirana” in Store norske leksikon

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Tirana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈra.na/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Declension

Declension of Tirana

	singular
nominative	Tirana
genitive	Tirany
dative	Tiranie
accusative	Tiranę
instrumental	Tiraną
locative	Tiranie
vocative	Tirano

Derived terms

adjective

• tirański

 

nouns

• tiranka
• tirańczyk

 

Further reading

• Tirana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Tirana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tiˈɾɐ.nɐ/

• Homophone: tirana
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tirǎna/
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tiràna f (Cyrillic spelling Тира̀на)

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Declension

Declension of Tirana

	singular
nominative	Tirana
genitive	Tirane
dative	Tirani
accusative	Tiranu
vocative	Tirano / Tirana
locative	Tirani
instrumental	Tiranom

Derived terms

• Tiránac
• Tìrānka

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtirana]

Proper noun

Tirana f (genitive singular Tirany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

References

• Tirana in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈɾana/ [t̪iˈɾa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana ?

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /tɪˈrana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tɪˈra(ː)na/
• Rhymes: -ana

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (a country, a Albania)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Tirana	Dirana	Nhirana	Thirana
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.