placename

See also: place-name and place name

English

Alternative forms

• place-name
• place name

Etymology

From place +‎ name.

Pronunciation

• enPR: plās'nām
• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪsneɪm/

Noun

placename (plural placenames)

1. The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.
   • 2012, Nick Thieberger, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork (page 401)

     With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.

   Synonyms: toponym, nomen loci, geographic name, geographical name

Translations

the name of a place — See also translations at toponym

• Armenian: տեղանուն (hy) (tełanun)
• Bashkir: топоним (toponim), ер-һыу атамаһы (yer-hïw atamahï)
• Bulgarian: географско наименование n (geografsko naimenovanie)
• Catalan: topònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地名 (zh) (dìmíng)

• Danish: stednavn (da) n
• Dutch: plaatsnaam (nl) c
• Estonian: kohanimi
• Faroese: staðarnavn n
• Finnish: paikannimi (fi)
• French: toponyme (fr) m
• German: Ortsname (de) m, Toponym (de) n
• Greek: τοπωνύμιο (el) n (toponýmio), τοπωνυμία (el) f (toponymía)
• Hungarian: (in a narrow sense) helységnév (hu), helynév (hu), (in a broad sense) földrajzi név (hu)
• Icelandic: örnefni (is) n, staðarheiti n
• Inari Sami: sajenommâ

• Irish: logainm m
• Italian: toponimo (it) m
• Japanese: 地名 (ja) (ちめい, chimei)
• Korean: 지명 (ko) (jimyeong)
• Latin: nomen loci m
• Lithuanian: vietóvardis (lt), toponi̇̀mas
• Malay: nama tempat
• Maori: ingoa wāhi
• Northern Sami: báikenamma
• Portuguese: topónimo (pt) m (Portugal), topônimo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: toponim (ro) n
• Russian: топо́ним (ru) m (topónim)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainm àite m
• Spanish: topónimo (es) m
• Swedish: ortsnamn (sv) n, ortnamn (sv) n, toponym (sv) c
• Telugu: స్థలనామము (sthalanāmamu)
• Turkish: yer adı (tr)
• Udmurt: интыним (intynim)
• Vietnamese: địa danh
• Walloon: no d' plaece (wa) m
• Welsh: enw lle m