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Berlin
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berlin Berliin berlín Berlín Berlîn
English
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thumb|200px|The location of Berlin within Germany.
thumb|200px|The Reichstag, the seat of the German parliament, is one of the most recognisable buildings in Berlin.
Etymology
en :bor de:Berlin + 1
Pronunciation
German city and state
en /bəˈlɪn/ /bɜːˈlɪn/ rarely /bɛə̯ˈlɪn/ RP
en /bɚˈlɪn/ GenAm
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Zazollo-Berlin.wav GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Berlin.wav Southern England
en ɪn 2
US cities and towns, and compounds derived from the German city and state
en /ˈbɜː.lɪn/ RP
en /ˈbɝ.lɪn/ GenAm, bûrʹlĭn
en ɜː(ɹ)lɪn 2
Proper noun
~
en Q64en caplc c/Germany.
en Ara Merjian How World War I gave birth to the modern w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/merjian-art-modern-wwi/index.html 2014-10-30 Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin. https://web.archive.org/web/20210625051010/https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/merjian-art-modern-wwi/index.html
en 2020-04-12 Simon Tisdall US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/us-global-reputation-rock-bottom-donald-trump-coronavirus w:The Guardian The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427080849/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/us-global-reputation-rock-bottom-donald-trump-coronavirus
en metonym The German government.
en Christopher Simpson three Mark Crispin Miller Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ New York Open Road Media 2014 79 https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 9781497623064 The practical implication of this decision in the world of 1948 is clear: The United States would indeed support the veterans of the Vlasov Army, the eastern SS collaborators, and other groups that had permitted themselves to become pawns of Berlin during the war.
en state c/Germany containing the capital city.
en German.
en Bill Gladstone The oldest family in the world w:Jewish Telegraphic Agency https://www.jta.org/2004/10/24/lifestyle/the-oldest-family-in-the-world 2004-10-24 The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself. https://web.archive.org/web/20250517092648/https://www.jta.org/2004/10/24/lifestyle/the-oldest-family-in-the-world
en female German.
en civil parish mun:pref/Seedorf dist/Segeberg s/Schleswig-Holstein c/Germany.
en The former name of Kitchener, a <<city>> in the <<rmun/Waterloo>>, <<p/Ontario>>, <<c/Canada>>.
en village obl/Chelyabinsk c/Russia.
en small town p:suf/Eastern Cape c/South Africa.
en number of places c/USA:
en The former name of Genevra, an <<unincorporated community>> in <<c/Colusa County>>, <<s/California>>.
en Q821199en town co/Hartford County s/Connecticut. TopoZone: Berlin, Connecticut
en small city co/Colquitt County s/Georgia.
en village co/Sangamon County s/Illinois.
en ghost town twp:Suf/Johnson co/Clinton County s/Indiana.
en unincorporated community co/Bourbon County s/Kansas.
en unincorporated community co/Bracken County s/Kentucky.
en Q614184en town co/Worcester County s/Maryland.
en Q524646en town co/Worcester County s/Massachusetts. TopoZone: Berlin, Massachusetts
en The former name of Marne, an <<unincorporated community>> in <<c/Ottawa County>>, <<s/Michigan>>.
en ucomm co/Gentry County s/Missouri.
en The former name of Otoe, a <<village>> in <<c/Otoe County>>, <<s/Nebraska>>.
en ghost town co/Nye County s/Nevada.
en Q821244en city co/Coos County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Berlin, New Hampshire
en Q1086827en bor/and/twp co/Camden County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Berlin, New Jersey
en town co/Rensselaer County s/New York.
en tiny city co/LaMoure County s/North Dakota.
en unincorporated community/and/CDP twp:Suf/Berlin co/Holmes County s/Ohio.
en unincorporated community twp:Suf/Florence co/Williams County s/Ohio.
en borough co/Somerset County s/Pennsylvania.
en unincorporated community co/Marshall County s/Tennessee.
en unincorporated community co/Washington County s/Texas.
en Q821245en town co/Washington County s/Vermont.
en unincorporated community co/Lewis County s/West Virginia.
en Q1569850en city co/Green Lake County,Waushara County s/Wisconsin.
en town co/Green Lake County s/Wisconsin, mostly surrounding the city of the same name.
en town co/Marathon County s/Wisconsin.
en Berlin Township.
Derived terms
en Berlin School Little Berlin berlin Berliner berlinite Berlinize berliner Berlinese Berlinian Berlin black Berlin blue Berlin Heights Berlin green Berlin iron Berlin shop Berlin Township Berlin Wall Berlin work East Berlin New Berlin South Berlin West Berlin Berlin Time Berlin white
Translations
capital city of Germany
Abkhaz: ab Берлин
Afrikaans: af Berlyn
Akan: ak Bɛɛlin
Albanian: sq Berlini m, sq Berlin m indefinite
Amharic: am በርሊን
Antillean Creole: gcf Belen m
Arabic: ar بَرْلِين f
Egyptian Arabic: arz برلين f berlīn
Hijazi Arabic: acw بِرْلين f birlīn
Aramaic: arc ܒܪܠܝܢ
Armenian: hy Բեռլին
Asturian: ast Berlín
Azerbaijani: az Berlin
Bashkir: ba Берлин
Basque: eu Berlin
Belarusian: be Берлі́н m, be Бэрлі́н m Taraškevica
Bengali: bn বার্লিন
Brahui: brh Barlin
Breton: br Berlin
Bulgarian: bg Берли́н m
Burmese: my ဘာလင်
Catalan: ca Berlín
Chechen: ce Берлин
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 柏林 Bólín
Czech: cs Berlín m
Danish: da Berlin
Dutch: nl Berlijn n
Esperanto: eo Berlino
Estonian: et Berliin
Farefare: gur Bɛɛlɩn, gur Bɛllɩn
Faroese: fo Berlin
Finnish: fi Berliini
French: fr Berlin mfbysense
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Berlyn
Galician: gl Berlín
Georgian: ka ბერლინი
German: de Berlin n
Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Berlin
Greek: el Βερολίνο n
Pontic Greek: pnt Βερολίνον
Gujarati: gu બર્લીન
Haitian Creole: ht Bèlen
Hawaiian: haw Pelelina
Hebrew: he בֶּרְלִין f berlín
Hindi: hi बर्लिन m
Hungarian: hu Berlin
Icelandic: is Berlín f
Ilocano: ilo Berlin
Indonesian: id Berlin
Irish: ga Beirlín
Italian: it Berlino f
Japanese: ja ベルリン Berurin, ja 伯林 ベルリン, Berurin obsolete
Javanese: jv Berlin
Kalmyk: xal Берлин
Kannada: kn ಬರ್ಲಿನ್
Kashubian: csb Berlëno
Kazakh: kk Берлин
Khmer: km ប៊ែរលីន
Korean: ko ^베를린
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb برلین
Northern Kurdish: kmr Berlîn
Kyrgyz: ky Берлин
Lao: lo ເບີລິນ
Latin: la Berolinum n
Latvian: lv Berlīne f
Lithuanian: lt Berlynas m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Berlien
German Low German: nds-de Berlin
Luxembourgish: lb Berlin
Macedonian: mk Берлин m
Malay: ms Berlin
Malayalam: ml ബെര്ലിന്
Maltese: mt Berlin
Manx: gv Berleen
Māori: mi Pearīni
Marathi: mr बर्लिन
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Берлин
Nahuatl: nah Berlin
Nepali: ne बर्लिन
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Berlin
Nynorsk: nn Berlin
Ossetian: os Берлин
Pashto: ps برلين m barlin
Persian: fa برلین berlin, fa برلن berlan
Polish: pl Berlin m
Portuguese: pt Berlim
Punjabi: pa ਬਰਲਿਨ
Romani: rom Berlin
Romanian: ro Berlin
Romansh: rm Berlin
Russian: ru Берли́н m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Berlin
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бѐрлӣн m
Latin: sh Bèrlīn m
Sicilian: scn Birrinu m
Sindhi: sd برلن
Sinhalese: si බර්ලිනය
Slovak: sk Berlín m
Slovene: sl Berlin m
Somali: so Berlin
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Barliń m
Upper Sorbian: hsb Berlin m
Spanish: es Berlín m
Swahili: sw Berlin
Swedish: sv Berlin n
Tagalog: tl Berlin
Tajik: tg Берлин
Tamil: ta பெர்லின்
Tatar: tt Берлин
Telugu: te బెర్లిన్
Tetum: tet Berlín
Thai: th เบอร์ลิน
Tibetan: bo པེ་ལིང
Tok Pisin: tpi Berlin
Turkish: tr Berlin
Ottoman Turkish: ota برلین berlin
Turkmen: tk Berlin
Ukrainian: uk Берлі́н m
Urdu: ur برلن m barlin
Uyghur: ug بېرلىن
Uzbek: uz Berlin
Venetan: vec Berlin
Vietnamese: vi Bá Linh, vi Béc-lin, vi Béc-lanh
Welsh: cy Berlin f
Wolof: wo Berlin
Yiddish: yi בערלין n
Zulu: zu Berlin
attributive form – relating to Berlin
Afrikaans: af Berlynse
Belarusian: be берлінскі, be бэрлінскі
Catalan: ca berlinès
Czech: cs berlínský
Danish: da berlinsk
Esperanto: eo berlina
Finnish: fi berliiniläinen
French: fr berlinois
Galician: gl berlinés
Georgian: ka ბერლინელი
German: de berlinisch
Italian: it berlinese
Korean: ko 베를린 bereullin
Lithuanian: lt Berlyno
Polish: pl berliński
Portuguese: pt berlinês
Russian: ru берли́нский
Slovak: sk berlínsky
Spanish: es berlinés
Swedish: sv berlinsk
Turkish: tr Berlinli
Ukrainian: uk берлінський
See also
Noun
~
en Berlin worsted
en 1812 Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 96 Are you not aware that the single worsted that Berlin is made of, is very different from that that is made into stockings?
en 1843 Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy 5 Berlin and other kinds of Lamb's Wool and Worsted of the finest colours and in the brightest shades;
1912, United States. Tariff Board, Wool and Manufactures of Wool (page 71)
Fine mixed "Berlins" shoddy
Derived terms
en Berlin shop
en Berlin work
Berlin wool
References
Berlin wool work
Central Franconian
Proper noun
gmw-cfr proper noun n
en Berlin
1909, Heinrich Koch, Kölsche Verzällcher. II. Bändchen, Köln, p. 38:
gmw-cfr Der ganze Dag hat se mem Annche gesprov, un dat Vüggelche hatt esu staats gesunge, dat ald Mutter un Doochter üvverlaht hatte, ov de Huhzicksreis no Berlin ov no Italie gemaht sollt wähde.
2007, das kölsche liedbuch, (Lund Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln), p. 32, song Hey Kölle! Do bes e Jeföhl:
gmw-cfr Ich han die Städte der Welt jesin, ich wor in Rio, in New York un Berlin!
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhn proper noun
nhn capital city c/Germany Berlin
Danish
Pronunciation
da [b̥aɐ̯ˈliˀn]
Proper noun
da caplc c/Germany Berlin
da state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Faroese
fo:
Proper noun
fo proper noun m
fo capital c/Germany Berlin
French
fr:
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Fhala.K-Berlin.wav
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Berlin.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Berlin.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Berlin.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
Proper noun
m
fr caplc c/Germany Berlin
fr state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Derived terms
fr berlinois Berlinois mur de Berlin Petit Berlin
Descendants
vi Béc-lanh 1
fa برلن berlan 1
See also
German
de:
thumb|de Lage von Berlin in Deutschland
right|thumb|The oldest seal of the city, from 1253, bears the inscription [SI]GILLVM DE BERLIN BURG[EN]S[IUM] ("seal of the burghers of Berlin").
Alternative forms
de Berl. abbreviation
Etymology
de qfa-sub
The place is first mentioned by this name in the late 12th century (as de gml Berlyn).
The origin is de 1. de sla - by the suffix de -in toponymy.
According to (incorrect) folk etymology, the name is derived from the de Bär bear that is the symbol of the city.
In a popular etymology of Germanists, it is derived from a de pox - stem pox *berl- ~ pox *birl- swamp, for which lexical item there is no evidence in Polabian nor in any Slavic language. Closest to that would be an unknown simpler relative of sla-pro *bьrlogъ cave.
Attested vocabulary is pox poro swamp, bog. sla-pro *bělь also meant a “swampy meadow” or “white field”, which fits the location at the Margraviate of Brandenburg märkische Streusandbüchse, the “Margraviate pounce box” notorious for its sandy soil, and is also the noun behind de Belitz Belitz.
Pronunciation
de /bɛrˈliːn/ [bɛʁˈliːn] [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]
de [bɐˈliːn]<qq:variant in Berlin dialect, but far from general><ref:Peter Schlobinski: Zur r-Vokalisierung im Berlinischen. — Archived copy https://www.germanistik.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/deutsches_seminar/publikationen/64.pdf 5 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20170705180553/https://www.germanistik.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/deutsches_seminar/publikationen/64.pdf 5 July 2017 >
de De-Berlin.ogg [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]
de De-Berlin-2.ogg Berlin [bɛˈlin]
de De-Berlin2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) [b̥ɛɐ̯ˈliːn]
Proper noun
toponym,,Berlin
de caplc/and/state c/Germany Berlin
de 1800 Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Berlin ist mehr ein Weltteil als eine Stadt. Berlin is more a part of a world than a city.
1910, Karl Scheffler, author of Berlin: Ein Stadtschicksal:
de Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein. Berlin is a city damned forever to become, never to be.
de metonymically Berlin federal government of Germany
Meronyms
de Mitte Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Pankow Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Spandau Steglitz-Zehlendorf Tempelhof-Schöneberg Neukölln Treptow-Köpenick Marzahn-Hellersdorf Lichtenberg Reinickendorf
Derived terms
de Alt-Berlin Berlinale Berlin-Dahlem Berline Berliner berlinfern Berlin-Friedrichshain berlinisch Berlin-Johannisthal Berlin-Köpenik Berlin-Lichtenberg Berlin-Marzahn Berlin-Mitte Berlin-Moabit berlinnah Berlin-Neukölln Berlin-Pankow Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg Berlin-Reinickendorf Berlin-Steglitz Berlin-Treptow Berlin-Wedding Berlin-Wilmersdorf Berlin-Zehlendorf einen Koffer in Berlin haben Großberlin,Groß-Berlin Ostberlin,Ost-Berlin Westberlin,West-Berlin
Related terms
de Berliner Blau
de Berolina
de Berolinismus
Descendants
nl Berlijn 1 1
nb Berlin 1
vi Béc-linh 1
See also
References
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
hu Ber lin
hu in 2
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu caplc c/Germany Berlin
hu state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
Berline e - sgBerlin j jei sg
Derived terms
hu berlini
Norwegian Bokmål
no:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb caplc c/Germany Berlin
nb state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn caplc c/Germany Berlin
nn state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Polish
Pronunciation
Pl-Berlin.ogg
Proper noun
m-in berliński
pl caplc c/Germany Berlin
pl state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
Berlin Berlina Berlinowi Berlin Berlinem Berlinie Berlinie
Derived terms
pl nouns berlińczyk berlinianka berlinka
See also
Further reading
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt Berlim
Romanian
Pronunciation
ro /ber.ˈlin/
Proper noun
ro proper noun n
ro caplc c/Germany Berlin
ro state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
sg
Derived terms
ro berlinez m, ro berlineză f
adjective: ro berlinez
Serbo-Croatian
sh:
Pronunciation
sh /běrliːn/
sh Ber lin
Proper noun
Bèrlīn m-in
sh caplc c/Germany Berlin
sh state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
Bèrlīn Berlína Berlinu Berlin Berline Berlinu Berlinom
Slovene
sl:
Pronunciation
Berlín
Proper noun
Berlín m-in
sl caplc c/Germany Berlin
sl state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
Berlín sg
Derived terms
sl Berlínčan / sl Berlínčanka
sl berlínski
References
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv /berˈliːn/
Proper noun
n
sv caplc c/Germany Berlin
sv state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
References
saol
Svensk MeSH
Tatar
Proper noun
proper noun l
tt caplc c/Germany Berlin
tt state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Declension
nıñ ga nı da dan
Turkish
Etymology
tr :inh ota:برلین<tr:berlin> 2 1
Proper noun
tr caplc c/Germany Berlin
tr state c/Germany containing the capital city Berlin
Welsh
cy:
Pronunciation
cy /bɛrˈlɪn/
cy ɪn 2
Proper noun
f 1
cy capital city c/Germany Berlin