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Genoa
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genoa
English
en
Republic of +
Etymology
en :bor la:Genua :der it:Genova
Borrowed from en la Genua (with influence from en it Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the en xlg - word for “knee”, from en ine-pro *ǵénw-eh₂ knee, a thematic derivative of en ine-pro *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to en Geneva.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdʒɛn.əʊ.ə/ /dʒɛnˈəʊ.ə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Genoa.wav Southern England
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Genoa2.wav Southern England
en /ˈd͡ʒɛn.oʊ.ə/ /d͡ʒɛnˈoʊ.ə/ US
Proper noun
en Q1449en port city/and/comune/capital metcity:Pref/Genoa and the r:also:pref/Liguria c/Italy.
en Q18288152en metropolitan city r/Liguria established in 2015 the Metropolitan City of Genoa.
en historical en former province r/Liguria.
en town lgarea/Shire of East Gippsland s/Victoria c/Australia.
en number of places c/USA:
en unincorporated community co/Miller County s/Arkansas.
en small statutory town co/Lincoln County s/Colorado.
en city co/DeKalb County s/Illinois.
en unincorporated community co/Olmsted County s/Minnesota.
en small city co/Nance County s/Nebraska.
en unincorporated town co/Douglas County s/Nevada.
en town co/Cayuga County s/New York.
en village co/Ottawa County s/Ohio.
en The former name of Perry Heights, an <<unincorporated community>> in <<co/Stark County>>, <<s/Ohio>>.
en neighbourhood city:pref/Houston s/Texas.
en town/and/village therein, in co/Vernon County s/Wisconsin. Former name of village: en Bad Axe.
en Four <<townships>>, in <<s/Illinois>>, <<s/Michigan>>, <<s/Nebraska>> and <<s/Ohio>>, listed under Genoa Township.
en Q174306en historical a maritime republic in northwestern Italy that existed from the 11th century until its disestablishment in 1797 when Napoleon formed the Ligurian Republic, a client state; Genoa briefly regained independence in 1814 before becoming quickly annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815.
Usage notes
The pronunciations with the stress on the second syllable are considered nonstandard.
Derived terms
en gold of Genoa Genoan Genoese
Translations
metropolitan city
Bulgarian: bg Ге́нуа f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 熱那亞 Rènàyà
Dutch: nl Genua n
Esperanto: eo Ĝenovo
Estonian: et Genova
Finnish: fi Genova
French: fr Gênes f
German: de Genua n
Greek: el Γένοβα f
Hungarian: hu Genova
Indonesian: id Genoa
Italian: it Genova f
Japanese: ja ジェノヴァ jenova
Ligurian: lij Zêna f
Lithuanian: lt Genuja f
Macedonian: mk Џенова f
Polish: pl Genua f
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt Gênova f
European Portuguese: pt Génova f
Russian: ru Ге́нуя f
Spanish: es Génova f
Swedish: sv Genua
Tagalog: tl Henoba
Turkish: tr Cenova
Italian city
Afrikaans: af Genua
Albanian: sq Gjenova f, sq Xhenova f
Amharic: am ጄኖቫ
Arabic: ar جِنُوَى f jinowā, ar جِنْوَة f
Hijazi Arabic: acw جِنُوة f jinuwa
Aragonese: an Chenova f
Armenian: hy Ջենովա, hy Ճենովա
Asturian: ast Xénova f
Aymara: ay Genova
Azerbaijani: az Genuya
Bashkir: ba Генуя
Basque: eu Genova
Belarusian: be Ге́нуя f
Bengali: bn জেনোভা
Breton: br Genova f
Bulgarian: bg Ге́нуа f
Burmese: my ဂျီနိုအာမြို့
Catalan: ca Gènova f
Chechen: ce Генуя
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 熱那亞 Rènàyà
Corsican: co Genuva f
Czech: cs Janov m
Danish: da Genova
Dutch: nl Genua n
Esperanto: eo Ĝenovo
Estonian: et Genova
Extremaduran: ext Génova
Farefare: gur Genoa, gur Genova, gur Genua
Finnish: fi Genova
French: fr Gênes f
Frisian:
North Frisian: frr Genua
West Frisian: fy Genua
Friulian: fur Gjenue f
Galician: gl Xénova f
Georgian: ka გენუა
German: de Genua n
Alemannic German: gsw Genua n
Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Jenua f
Greek: el Γένοβα f
Gujarati: gu જેનોઆ
Hebrew: he גנואה
Hindi: hi जेनोआ
Hungarian: hu Genova
Icelandic: is Genúa f
Ido: io Genova
Indonesian: id Genoa
Interlingua: ia Genua
Irish: ga Genova f
Italian: it Genova f
Japanese: ja ジェノヴァ Jenova, ja ジェノア Jenoa
Kannada: kn ಜಿನೋವಾ
Kazakh: kk Генуя
Komi:
Komi-Zyrian: kpv Генуя
Korean: ko ^제노바
Kyrgyz: ky Генуя
Latin: la Genua f
Latvian: lv Dženova f
Ligurian: lij Zêna f
Limburgish: li Genoewa
Lithuanian: lt Genuja f
Lombard: lmo Genua f
Luxembourgish: lb Genua f
Macedonian: mk Џенова f
Maltese: mt Ġenova f
Marathi: mr जेनोवा
Mingrelian: xmf გენუა
Mongolian: mn Женова
Neapolitan: nap Genova f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Genova
Nynorsk: nn Genova
Occitan: oc Gènoa f
Ossetian: os Генуя
Papiamentu: pap Genova
Persian: fa جنوآ jeno-â
Piedmontese: pms Génoa f
Polish: pl Genua f
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt Gênova f
European Portuguese: pt Génova f
Punjabi: pa ਜੇਨੋਆ
Quechua: qu Genova
Romanian: ro Genova f
Russian: ru Ге́нуя f
Sardinian: sc Gènova f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Genova f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ђенова f
Latin: sh Genova f
Sicilian: scn Gènuva f
Silesian: szl Genova f
Slovak: sk Janov m
Slovene: sl Genova f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Genua f
Spanish: es Génova f
Swahili: sw Genova
Swedish: sv Genua
Tagalog: tl Henoba
Tajik: tg Ге́нуя
Tamil: ta செனோவா
Tarantino: roa-tar Genova
Tatar: tt Җенова
Thai: th เจนัว jee-nuua, th เจโนวา jee-noo-waa
Turkish: tr Cenova
Ottoman Turkish: ota جنوه Cenova, ota جنویز Cenoviz
Ukrainian: uk Ге́нуя f
Venetan: vec Gènoa f
Veps: vep Genui
Volapük: vo Genova
Waray-Waray: war Genova
Welsh: cy Genova f
placename
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 熱那亞 Rènàyà
Finnish: fi Genoa
Italian: it Genoa f
Spanish: es
Noun
~
Genoa cake.
Translations
Genoa cake
Further reading
Genoa (disambiguation)
Anagrams
en aegno Ganoe Genao Onega agone
en Former polities
en exonyms
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
roa-opt Ginova Genua Jenoa Jenua Jenuva
Etymology
roa-opt :inh la:Genua ++
Proper noun
f
roa-opt maritime republic region/Liguria northwestern c/Italy w:Republic of Genoa
Derived terms
roa-opt genoês
Descendants
gl Italia
pt Itália
References
[gj][eijy]n[uov]+a[[:>:]]
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