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Dresden
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from en de Dresden Dresden in the 1730s, from en gmh Dresden, from a en wen source akin to dsb Drježdźany, ultimately from en sla-pro *dręzga, of which the locative case is sla-pro *dręzdzě.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdɹɛzdən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dresden.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en Q1731en capital city s/Saxony c/Germany, on the River Elbe. 1735
en village co/Kent County p/Ontario c/Canada.
en number of places c/USA, including:
en town co/Lincoln County s/Maine.
en town/county seat co/Weakley County s/Tennessee.
en history metonymically The Bombing of Dresden.
en Robin Neillands The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany https://books.google.com/books?id=_skR5ddFiWEC 2001-07-23 Barnes & Noble, Incorporated 358 9780760765302 The actual total hardly matters: if Dresden was indeed a war crime, just one death would make it so.
en John Theobald A Kingdom Falls https://books.google.com/books?id=A6ebDgAAQBAJ Head of Zeus Ltd. 2017 314 https://books.google.com/books?id=A6ebDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT314 9781784974411 ‘Father, you saw the papers, when Dresden happened. You see the papers today. People are seeing the cost of this, truly. Now that we know the consequences, countries will not use it.’
Derived terms
en Dresdenware
Translations
capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony
Arabic: ar دْرِيسْدِن f
Armenian: hy Դրեզդեն
Belarusian: be Дрэздэн m
Bengali: bn ড্রেসডেন ḍresḍen
Bulgarian: bg Дрезден m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 德累斯頓 Déléisīdùn
Czech: cs Drážďany p
Danish: da Dresden
Dutch: nl Dresden n
Esperanto: eo Dresdeno
Estonian: et Dresden
Finnish: fi Dresden
French: fr Dresde f
Georgian: ka დრეზდენი
German: de Dresden n
Greek: el Δρέσδη
Hindi: hi ड्रेसडेन m
Hungarian: hu Drezda
Italian: it Dresda f
Japanese: ja ドレスデン Doresuden
Korean: ko ^드레스덴
Latin: la Dresda f
Latvian: lv Drēzdene
Lithuanian: lt Dresdenas m
Marathi: mr ड्रेस्डेन n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Dresden n
Nynorsk: nn Dresden n
Old Church Slavonic: cu Дрєжданꙑ p
Polish: pl Drezno n
Portuguese: pt Dresden f, pt Dresdem f, pt Dresda f
Romanian: ro Dresda f
Russian: ru Дре́зден m Drɛ́zden
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Дрезден m
Latin: sh Dresden m
Slovak: sk Drážďany p
Slovene: sl Dresden m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Drježdźany p
Upper Sorbian: hsb Drježdźany p
Spanish: es Dresde f
Swedish: sv Dresden
Thai: th เดรสเดิน drèes-dəən
Turkish: tr Dresden
Ukrainian: uk Дрезден m
Vietnamese: vi Đrét-xđen
Yiddish: yi דרעזדן n
attributive form - relating to Dresden
Belarusian: be дрэ́здэнскі
Czech: cs drážďanský
French: fr dresdois
German: de dresdenerisch, de dresdnerisch
Macedonian: mk дрезденски
Polish: pl drezdeński
Russian: ru дре́зденский
Slovak: sk drážďanský
Ukrainian: uk дре́зденський
Noun
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A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century.
en Dresdenware Meissenware
References
Anagrams
en ddeenrs reddens
German
de:
Etymology
From de gmh Dresden, from a de wen source akin to dsb Drježdźany, ultimately from de sla-pro *dręzga, of which the locative case is sla-pro *dręzdzě.
Pronunciation
de /ˈdʁeːsdn̩/
de De-Dresden.oga
de De-Dresden2.oga
de Dres den
Proper noun
toponym
de Dresden Q1731
Meronyms
de Altstadt Neustadt Pieschen Klotzsche Loschwitz Blasewitz Leuben Prohlis Plauen Cotta Altfranken Cossebaude Gompitz Langebrück Mobschatz Oberwartha Schönborn Schönfeld-Weißig Weixdorf
Derived terms
de Dresdner
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt Dresdem