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Cardiff
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English
Etymology
From en wlm Caerdyf, equivalent to en cy caer fort + cy Taf (River) Taff = fortified city on the River Taff. Compare cy Caerdydd.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkaːdɪf/ Wales
en /ˈkɑːdɪf/ RP
en En-uk-Cardiff.ogg UK
en /ˈkaɾdɪf/ Scotland
en /ˈkɑɹdɪf/ GenAm
Proper noun
en city/and/county/caplc cc/Wales.
en 2024-08-01 Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil w:The Guardian Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/police-in-england-urged-to-protect-mosques-as-far-right-plans-more-rallies The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18. https://web.archive.org/web/20240824100854/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/police-in-england-urged-to-protect-mosques-as-far-right-plans-more-rallies
en metonymic The Welsh government.
en suburb of city/Newcastle in the city:Pref/Lake Macquarie s/New South Wales c/Australia.
en community twp:pref/Highlands East co/Haliburton County p/Ontario c/Canada.
en hamlet co/Sturgeon County in central p/Alberta c/Canada.
en small rural settlement r:pref/Taranaki c/New Zealand.
en place c/USA:
en tiny town co/Jefferson County s/Alabama.
en Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
en ghost town co/Livingston County s/Illinois.
en ucomm co/Harford County s/Maryland.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Egg Harbor co/Atlantic County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Cardiff, New Jersey
en small hamlet co/Onondaga County s/New York.
en ghost town co/Roane County s/Tennessee.
Derived terms
en Cardiff Bay Cardiff-by-the-Sea Cardiff Heights Cardiffian Cardiff South
Translations
The capital city of Wales
Albanian: sq Kardif
Arabic: ar كَارْدِيف m kārdif
Armenian: hy Քարդիֆ
Asturian: ast Cárdif
Bengali: bn কার্ডিফ
Breton: br Kerdiz
Bulgarian: bg Кардиф m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 加的夫 Jiādífū
Cornish: kw Kardydh
Dutch: nl Cardiff
Esperanto: eo Kardifo
Estonian: et Cardiff
Finnish: fi Cardiff
French: fr Cardiff
Georgian: ka კარდიფი
German: de Cardiff
Greek: el Κάρντιφ
Gujarati: gu કાર્ડિફ
Hindi: hi कार्डिफ़
Irish: ga Caerdydd
Japanese: ja カーディフ Kādifu
Korean: ko ^카디프
Latvian: lv Kārdifa f
Lithuanian: lt Kardifas m
Macedonian: mk Кардиф m
Maltese: mt Kardiff
Manx: gv Cayr Deeth
Marathi: mr कार्डिफ
Portuguese: pt Cardiff f
Russian: ru Ка́рдифф m
Scots: sco Cairdiff
Thai: th คาร์ดิฟฟ์
Ukrainian: uk Кардіфф m
Welsh: cy Caerdydd f
References
2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, 0198527586
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et city/and/county/caplc cc/Wales Cardiff
Portuguese
pt:
thumb|250px|Cardiff
Alternative forms
pt Cardife
pt Cardívio rare
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Cardiff + 1
Pronunciation
Cardife Càrdife,Cárdife
Proper noun
pt city/and/county/caplc cc/Wales Cardiff
See also
pt País de Gales