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Frankfurt
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frankfurt
English
Alternative forms
en Francfort Frankfort obsolete
Etymology
en :bor de:Frankfurt + 1
Pronunciation
en non-rhotic
en /ˈfɹæŋkfɜːt/ [ˈfɹæŋkfɜːt] RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Frankfurt.wav Southern England
en rhotic
en /ˈfɹæŋkfɝt/ [ˈfɹæŋkfɝt] GA,non-æ-tensing
en /ˈfɹeɪ̯ŋkfɝt/ [ˈfɹeɪ̯ŋkfɝt] ; /ˈfɹɛ̃ŋkfɝt/ [ˈfɹɛ̃ŋkfɝt] US,CA,æ-tensing
en Frank furt
en Frankfort sometimes
Proper noun
en largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt am Main.
en Zoe Sottile He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/jamaica-deportation-migrant-ice-us 2025-07-08 Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters. https://web.archive.org/web/20250817025253/https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/jamaica-deportation-migrant-ice-us 17 August 2025
en metonymically The German financial industry.
en 1998 Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services German Brief 10 The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.
en metonymically The European Central Bank.
en 2014-05-09 Dan O'Brien Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/trichet-like-a-broken-record-when-what-we-need-is-fresh-thinking-30258327.html Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor. https://web.archive.org/web/20140717165858/http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/trichet-like-a-broken-record-when-what-we-need-is-fresh-thinking-30258327.html
en sizable town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt an der Oder.
Derived terms
en frank Frankfurt case Frankfurt kitchen Frankfurt School frankfurter Frankfurtian
Translations
Frankfurt-am-Main
Afrikaans: af Frankfurt
Albanian: sq Frankfurti
Arabic: ar فَرَانْكْفُورْت m
Armenian: hy Ֆրանկֆուրտ
Azerbaijani: az Frankfurt-Mayn, az Frankfurt
Basque: eu Frankfurt
Belarusian: be Фра́нкфурт m
Bengali: bn ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট
Bulgarian: bg Фра́нкфурт m
Catalan: ca Frankfurt f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 法蘭克福 Fǎlánkèfú
Czech: cs Frankfurt m
Danish: da Frankfurt
Dutch: nl Frankfurt n
Esperanto: eo Frankfurto
Estonian: et Frankfurt
Finnish: fi Frankfurt
French: fr Francfort f, fr Francfort-sur-le-Main f
Galician: gl Frankfurt
Georgian: ka მაინის ფრანკფურტი, ka ფრანკფურტი
German: de Frankfurt am Main n
Rhine Franconian: gmw-rfr Frangford am Maa Palatine
Greek: el Φραγκφούρτη f
Hebrew: he פרנקפורט m frankfurt
Hindi: hi फ़्रैंकफ़र्ट
Hungarian: hu Frankfurt
Icelandic: is Frankfurt
Ido: io Frankfurt
Indonesian: id Frankfurt
Italian: it Francoforte f, it Francoforte sul Meno f
Japanese: ja フランクフルト Furankufuruto
Kazakh: kk Майндағы Франкфурт, kk Франкфурт
Korean: ko 프랑크푸르트
Latvian: lv Frankfurte f
Lithuanian: lt Frankfurtas m
Macedonian: mk Франкфурт m
Malay: ms Frankfurt
Malayalam: ml ഫ്രാങ്ക്ഫർട്ട്
Marathi: mr फ्रांकफुर्ट n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Frankfurt
Nynorsk: nn Frankfurt
Persian: fa فرانکفورت
Polish: pl Frankfurt m, pl Frankfurt nad Menem
Portuguese: pt Francoforte, pt Frankfurt
Punjabi: pa ਫ਼ਰਾਂਕਫ਼ੁਰਟ
Romanian: ro Frankfurt
Russian: ru Фра́нкфурт m, ru Фра́нкфурт-на-Ма́йне m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Франкфурт m
Latin: sh Frankfurt m
Slovak: sk Frankfurt m
Slovene: sl Frankfurt m
Spanish: es Fráncfort f, es Fráncfort del Meno f
Swedish: sv Frankfurt
Tamil: ta பிராங்க்ஃபுர்ட்
Thai: th ฟรังค์ฟวร์ท frang-fwart
Turkish: tr Frankfurt
Ukrainian: uk Фра́нкфурт m, uk Фрáнкфурт-на-Мáйні m
Vietnamese: vi Frankfurt, vi Phrăng-phuốc
Yiddish: yi פֿראַנקפֿורט
Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
French: fr Francfort f, fr Francfort-sur-l'Oder f
Georgian: ka ოდერის ფრანკფურტი, ka ფრანკფურტი
German: de Frankfurt an der Oder n
Greek: el Φραγκφούρτη f
Hungarian: hu Frankfurt
Italian: it Francoforte f, it Francoforte sull'Oder f
Japanese: ja フランクフルト Furankufuruto
Macedonian: mk Франкфурт m
Marathi: mr फ्रांक्फुर्ट n
Polish: pl Frankfurt m, pl Frankfurt nad Odrą
Portuguese: pt Frankfurt f
Russian: ru Фра́нкфурт m, ru Фра́нкфурт-на-О́дере m Fránkfurt-na-Ódɛre
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Франкфурт m
Latin: sh Frankfurt m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Frankobrod m
Spanish: es Fráncfort f, es Fráncfort del Óder f
Ukrainian: uk Фра́нкфурт m, uk Фра́нкфурт-на-О́дері m
Vietnamese: vi Phrăng-phuốc
Catalan
Etymology
ca :bor de:Frankfurt
From ca de Frankfurt.
Proper noun
m
ca largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-am-Main
ca Frankfurt del Main
ca sizable town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
ca Frankfurt de l'Oder
Derived terms
ca frankfurt
ca salsitxa de Frankfurt
German
Etymology
ford of the Franks, from de Franke and de Furt ford.
Pronunciation
de /ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt/ [ˈfʁ̞aŋkfʊɐt]
de De-Frankfurt.OGG
de De-Frankfurt2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Frank furt
Proper noun
toponym,,Frankfurt:e:s
de largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main
de town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt an der Oder
Usage notes
In former West Germany, de Frankfurt invariably refers to de Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.
Quotations
de 1858 Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band. Wien 365 Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.
Derived terms
de Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt an der Oder Frankfurter frankfurterisch
Hungarian
hu:
Etymology
From hu de Frankfurt.
Pronunciation
hu urt 2
hu Frank furt
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Frankfurt largest city state/Hesse c/Germany
Declension
Frankfurto o sgFrankfurt j jai sg
Synonyms
hu Frankfurt am Main
hu Majna-Frankfurt rare
Derived terms
hu frankfurti
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :ubor de:Frankfurt + 1
Pronunciation
pt /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/ /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/ BR
Proper noun
f
pt largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-am-Main
pt Francoforte
pt sizable town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
Serbo-Croatian
sh:
Proper noun
m-in
sh largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-am-Main
sh sizable town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
Swedish
sv:
Proper noun
n
sv largest city s/Hesse in central c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-am-Main
sv sizable town s/Brandenburg in eastern c/Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt-an-der-Oder