Valletta

See also: valletta

English

Alternative forms

• Valetta

Etymology

Named after Jean de Valette, a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈlɛtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Valletta

1. The capital city of Malta.

Derived terms

• Vallettan

Translations

capital of Malta

• Afrikaans: Valletta
• Albanian: Valletta f
• Arabic: فَالِّيتَا f (fāllētta), فَلِّيتَا f (fallētta)
• Armenian: Վալետա (Valeta)
• Asturian: La Valeta (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Valletta (az)
• Basque: La Valeta
• Belarusian: Вале́та f (Valjéta)
• Bengali: ভাল্লেত্তা (bn) (bhalletta)
• Bulgarian: Вале́та (bg) f (Valéta)
• Burmese: ဗယ်လက်တာမြို့ (bailaktamrui.)
• Catalan: La Valletta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦萊塔 / 瓦莱塔 (zh) (Wǎláitǎ)

• Czech: Valletta (cs) f
• Danish: Valletta
• Dutch: Valletta (nl) n
• Esperanto: La-Valeto
• Estonian: Valletta (et)
• Finnish: Valletta (fi)
• French: La Valette (fr) f
• Georgian: ვალეტა (ka) (valeṭa)
• German: Valletta (de) n
• Greek: Βαλέτα (el) f (Valéta)
• Hebrew: וָלֶטָה / וולטה f (valeta)
• Hindi: वैलेटा m (vaileṭā), वालेटा m (vāleṭā)
• Hungarian: Valletta (hu)
• Icelandic: Valletta
• Indonesian: Valletta
• Irish: Vaileite f
• Italian: Valletta f, La Valletta f
• Japanese: バレッタ (ja) (Baretta)
• Kazakh: Валлетта (Valletta)
• Khmer: វ៉ាឡែត (km) (vaalaet)
• Korean: 발레타 (Balleta)
• Kyrgyz: Валлетта (ky) (Valletta)
• Latvian: Valleta f
• Lithuanian: Valeta f
• Lombard: La Valeta
• Luri:

  Northern Luri: ڤالئتا

• Macedonian: Вале́та f (Valéta)
• Malay: Valletta
• Maltese: Il-Belt Valletta
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Валлетта (Valletta)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Valletta f

  Nynorsk: Valletta f

• Persian: والتا (vâletâ)
• Piedmontese: La Valëtta
• Polish: Valletta (pl) f
• Portuguese: Valeta (pt) f
• Romanian: Valletta (ro) f
• Russian: Валле́тта (ru) f (Vallétta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Валета f

  Latin: Valletta f

• Slovak: Valletta f
• Slovene: Valletta f
• Spanish: La Valeta f
• Swedish: Valletta (sv)
• Tajik: Валлетта (tg) (Valletta)
• Tatar: Валлетта (Walletta)
• Thai: วัลเลตตา (wal-lét-dtâa)
• Turkish: Valletta (tr)
• Turkmen: Walletta
• Ukrainian: Валле́тта f (Vallétta)
• Urdu: والیٹا m (vāleṭā)
• Uyghur: ۋاللېتتا (wallëtta)
• Uzbek: Valletta
• Vietnamese: Va-lét-ta
• Yiddish: וואַלעטאַ n (valeta)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Valletta

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvalɛta]

Proper noun

Valletta f (relational adjective vallettský)

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Declension

Declension of Valletta (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Valletta
genitive	Valletty
dative	Vallettě
accusative	Vallettu
vocative	Valletto
locative	Vallettě
instrumental	Vallettou

Further reading

• “Valletta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Proper noun

Valletta n

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɑlːetːɑ/

Proper noun

Valletta

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Valletta n (proper noun, genitive Vallettas or (optionally with an article) Valletta)

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Maltese Valletta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈlɛt.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛtta
• Syllabification: Va‧llet‧ta

Proper noun

Valletta f

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Declension

Declension of Valletta

	singular
nominative	Valletta
genitive	Valletty
dative	Valletcie
accusative	Vallettę
instrumental	Vallettą
locative	Valletcie
vocative	Valletto

Further reading

• Valletta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Valletta f

1. alternative spelling of Valeta

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /valʎetːa/, (high register) [ˈʋalʎetːa], (common) [ˈʋalːetːa]
• Rhymes: -etːa
• Hyphenation: Val‧let‧ta

Proper noun

Valletta f (genitive singular Valletty, declension pattern of žena)

1. Valletta (the capital of Malta)

References

• “Valletta”, 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, 2003–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋalɛ̀ːta/

Proper noun

Vallétta f

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Vallétta
genitive	Vallétte
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Vallétta
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Vallétte
dative (dajȃlnik)	Vallétti
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Vallétto
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Vallétti
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Vallétto

Related terms

• Vallétčan / Vallétčanka
• vallétski

References

• “Valletta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Valletta”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Swedish

Proper noun

Valletta n (genitive Vallettas)

1. Valletta (the capital city of Malta)