Tunis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
- Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
- Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.
Proper noun
Tunis
- A city on the northern coast of Africa:
- 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248:
- Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
- A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
- A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
- The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
- 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248:
- A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
capital of Tunisia
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References
- Rossi, Peter M.; White, Wayne Edward (1980). Articles on the Middle East, 1947–1971: A Cumulation of the Bibliographies from the Middle East Journal. Pierian Press, University of Michigan. p. 132.
Catalan
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtunɪs]
Declension
Declension of Tunis (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Tunis |
| genitive | Tunisu |
| dative | Tunisu |
| accusative | Tunis |
| vocative | Tunise |
| locative | Tunise, Tunisu |
| instrumental | Tunisem |
Related terms
Further reading
- Tunis in Internetová jazyková příručka
Danish
Dutch
French
Alternative forms
- Tunes (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ty.nis/
Audio (file)
Related terms
German
Alternative forms
- Tunes (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuːnɪs/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)
- Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)
Derived terms
Occitan
Related terms
Further reading
- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtu.ɲis/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uɲis
- Syllabification: Tu‧nis
Declension
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tǔnis/
Proper noun
Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)
- Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
- Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)
Declension
Declension of Tunis
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Tunis |
| genitive | Tunisa |
| dative | Tunisu |
| accusative | Tunis |
| vocative | Tunisu |
| locative | Tunisu |
| instrumental | Tunisom |
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtunis]
Proper noun
Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)
References
- Tunis in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Swedish
Uzbek
| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic | Тунис (Tunis) |
| Latin | Tunis |
| Perso-Arabic | |
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