Cluj

English Etymology Borrowed from en ro Cluj; see below for more. Proper noun en informal or historical Cluj-Napoca, en a capital city co/Cluj County c/Romania. en county c/Romania. Translations Bulgarian: bg Клуж m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 克盧日 Kèlúrì Hindi: hi क्लुझ़ Hungarian: hu Kolozs Polish: pl Kluż m-in Romanian: ro Cluj m Yiddish: yi קלויזנבורג Romanian ro:Județul + thumb|ro Localizarea județului Cluj în România Alternative forms ro Cluș Etymology Compare the Hungarian name for the town, hu Kolozsvár (cp.hu vár), and the de Klausenburg (cp. de Burg). Alternative forms in older Romanian include ro Cluș. May be derived from a ro sla - diminutive of Nicholas, compare cs Mikluš, ultimately from ro grc Νικόλαος. ro Cluj Alternately, may be derived from ro la clausa, la clusa, from la clausus or la clusus through an intermediate; compare the medieval Latin name for the town, la Castrum Clus. See also sla-pro *kľũčь key. The official name of the city is ro Cluj-Napoca, with the name of the Roman settlement ro Napoca added in 1974, but this form is rarely used outside of official contexts. Pronunciation ro /kluʒ/ ro Ro-Cluj.ogg Proper noun ro proper noun ro county r/Transylvania c/Romania ro informal or historical Cluj-Napoca, ro a capital city co/Cluj County c/Romania Declension sg Derived terms ro clujean Cluj-Napoca See also