Berlin

See also: berlin, Berliin, berlín, Berlín, and Berlîn

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia

The location of Berlin within Germany.

The Reichstag, the seat of the German parliament, is one of the most recognisable buildings in Berlin.

Etymology

From German Berlin.

Pronunciation

(German city and state):

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈlɪn/, /bɜːˈlɪn/, (rarely) /bɛə̯ˈlɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): [bɚˈlɪn]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

(US cities and towns, and compounds derived from the German city and state):

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.lɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝ.lɪn/, enPR: bûrʹlĭn
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪn

Proper noun

Berlin (countable and uncountable, plural Berlins)

2. The capital and largest city of Germany.
3. (metonymically) The German government.
   • 2014, Christopher Simpson, “three”, in Mark Crispin Miller, editor, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy‎, New York: Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 79:

     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.

4. A state of Germany containing the capital city.
5. A surname from German.
6. A female given name from German.
7. A civil parish of the municipality of Seedorf, Segeberg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
8. The former name of Kitchener, a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
9. A village in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
10. A small town in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
11. A place in the United States
    1. The former name of Genevra, an unincorporated community in Colusa County, California, United States.
    2. A town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
    3. A small city in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States.
    4. A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
    5. A ghost town in Johnson Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
    6. An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States.
    7. An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.
    8. A town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States.
    9. A town in Worcester County, Mississippi, United States.
    10. The former name of Marne, an unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Michigan, United States.
    11. The former name of Otoe, a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
    12. A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
    13. A city in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
    14. A borough of Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
    15. A town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States.
    16. A tiny city in LaMoure County, North Dakota, United States.
    17. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States.
    18. An unincorporated community in Florence Township, Williams County, Ohio, United States.
    19. A borough of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
    20. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States.
    21. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States.
    22. A town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
    23. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
    24. A city in Green Lake County and Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States.
    25. A town in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States, mostly surrounding the city of the same name.
    26. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
12. Ellipsis of Berlin Township.

Derived terms

• berlin
• Berlin black
• Berlin blue
• berliner
• Berliner
• Berlinese
• Berlin green
• Berlin Heights
• Berlinian
• Berlin iron
• Berlin shop
• Berlin Time
• Berlin Township
• Berlin Wall
• Berlin white
• Berlin work
• East Berlin
• Little Berlin
• New Berlin
• West Berlin

 

Translations

capital city of Germany

Abkhaz: Берлин (Berlin) Afrikaans: Berlyn (af) Akan: Bɛɛlin Albanian: Berlini (sq) m, Berlin m (indefinite) Amharic: በርሊን (bärlin) Antillean Creole: Belen m Arabic: بَرْلِين f (barlīn) Egyptian Arabic: برلين f (berlīn) Hijazi Arabic: بِرْلين f (birlīn) Aramaic: ܒܪܠܝܢ Armenian: Բեռլին (hy) (Beṙlin) Asturian: Berlín (ast) Azerbaijani: Berlin (az) Bashkir: Берлин (Berlin) Basque: Berlin (eu) Belarusian: Берлі́н m (Bjerlín), Бэрлі́н m (Berlín) (Taraškevica) Bengali: বার্লিন (bn) (barlin) Brahui: Barlin Breton: Berlin (br) Bulgarian: Берли́н (bg) m (Berlín) Burmese: ဘာလင် (bhalang) Catalan: Berlín (ca) Chechen: Берлин (Berlin) Chinese: Mandarin: 柏林 (zh) (Bólín) Czech: Berlín (cs) m Danish: Berlin (da) Dutch: Berlijn (nl) n Esperanto: Berlino (eo) Estonian: Berliin (et) Farefare: Bɛɛlɩn, Bɛllɩn Faroese: Berlin Finnish: Berliini (fi) French: Berlin (fr) m or f by sense Galician: Berlín (gl) Georgian: ბერლინი (ka) (berlini) German: Berlin (de) n Central Franconian: Berlin Greek: Βερολίνο (el) n (Verolíno) Gujarati: બર્લીન (barlīn) Haitian Creole: Bèlen Hawaiian: Pelelina Hebrew: בֶּרְלִין f (berlín) Hindi: बर्लिन m (barlin) Hungarian: Berlin (hu) Icelandic: Berlín f Ilocano: Berlin Indonesian: Berlin Irish: Beirlín Italian: Berlino (it) f Japanese: ベルリン (ja) (Berurin), 伯林 (ja) (ベルリン, Berurin) (obsolete) Javanese: Berlin Kalmyk: Берлин (Berlin) Kannada: ಬರ್ಲಿನ್ (barlin) Kashubian: Berlëno Kazakh: Берлин (Berlin) Khmer: ប៊ែរលីន (bɛɛliin) Korean: 베를린 (ko) (Bereullin) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: برلین (birlîn) Northern Kurdish: Berlîn (ku) Kyrgyz: Берлин (ky) (Berlin) Lao: ເບີລິນ (bœ̄ lin) Latin: Berolinum (la) n Latvian: Berlīne (lv) f Lithuanian: Berlynas m Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: Berlien German Low German: Berlin Luxembourgish: Berlin (lb) Macedonian: Берлин (mk) m (Berlin) Malay: Berlin Malayalam: ബെർലിന് (beṟliṉ) Maltese: Berlin Manx: Berleen Maori: Pearīni Marathi: बर्लिन (barlin) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Берлин (Berlin) Nahuatl: Berlin Nepali: बर्लिन (barlina) Norwegian: Bokmål: Berlin (no) Nynorsk: Berlin Ossetian: Берлин (Berlin) Pashto: برلين (ps) m (barlin) Persian: برلین (fa) (berlin), برلن (berlan) Polish: Berlin (pl) m Pontic Greek: Βερολίνον (Verolínon) Portuguese: Berlim (pt) Punjabi: ਬਰਲਿਨ (barlin) Romani: Berlin Romanian: Berlin (ro) Romansch: Berlin Russian: Берли́н (ru) m (Berlín) Scottish Gaelic: Berlin Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Бѐрлӣн m Roman: Bèrlīn (sh) m Sicilian: Birrinu m Sindhi: برلن Sinhalese: බර්ලිනය (barlinaya) Slovak: Berlín (sk) m Slovene: Berlin m Somali: Berlin Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Barliń m Upper Sorbian: Berlin m Spanish: Berlín (es) m Swahili: Berlin Swedish: Berlin (sv) n Tagalog: Berlin Tajik: Берлин (tg) (Berlin) Tamil: பெர்லின் (perliṉ) Tatar: Берлин (Berlin) Telugu: బెర్లిన్ (berlin) Tetum: Berlín Thai: เบอร์ลิน (th) (bəə-lin) Tibetan: པེ་ལིང (pe ling) Tok Pisin: Berlin Turkish: Berlin (tr) Turkmen: Berlin Ukrainian: Берлі́н (uk) m (Berlín) Urdu: برلن m (barlin) Uyghur: بېرلىن (bërlin) Uzbek: Berlin Venetan: Berlin Vietnamese: Bá Linh, Béc-lin, Béc-lanh Welsh: Berlin (cy) f West Frisian: Berlyn Wolof: Berlin Yiddish: בערלין n (berlin) Yoruba: Berlin Zulu: Berlin

attributive form - relating to Berlin

Afrikaans: Berlynse Belarusian: берлінскі (bjerlinski), бэрлінскі (berlinski) Catalan: berlinès (ca) Czech: berlínský (cs) Danish: berlinsk Esperanto: berlina Finnish: berliiniläinen (fi) French: berlinois (fr) Galician: berlinés (gl) Georgian: ბერლინელი (berlineli) German: berlinisch (de) Italian: berlinese (it) Lithuanian: Berlyno Polish: berliński (pl) Portuguese: berlinês (pt) Russian: берли́нский (ru) (berlínskij) Slovak: berlínsky (sk) Spanish: berlinés (es) Swedish: berlinsk Turkish: Berlinli Ukrainian: берлінський (berlinsʹkyj)

See also

Divisions of the Federal Republic of Germany in English (layout · text)

Area states: Baden-Württemberg · Bavaria · Brandenburg · Hesse · Lower Saxony · Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania · North Rhine-Westphalia · Rhineland-Palatinate · Saarland · Saxony · Saxony-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringia

City states: Berlin · Bremen · Hamburg

Noun

Berlin

1. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted.

Synonyms

• Berlin wool
• Berlin worsted

Derived terms

• Berlin shop
• Berlin work

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Berlin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Central Franconian

Proper noun

Berlin n

1. Berlin
   • 1909, Heinrich Koch, Kölsche Verzällcher. II. Bändchen, Köln, p. 38:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2007, das kölsche liedbuch, (Lund Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln), p. 32, song Hey Kölle! Do bes e Jeföhl:

     Ich han die Städte der Welt jesin,
     ich wor in Rio, in New York un Berlin!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital city of Germany)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b̥aɐ̯ˈliˀn]

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Faroese

Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^fo

Proper noun

Berlin m

1. Berlin (the capital of Germany)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛʁ.lɛ̃/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Berlin m

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Derived terms

• berlinois
• Berlinois
• mur de Berlin
• Petit Berlin

 

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: Béc-lanh
• → Persian: برلن (berlan)

See also

Divisions of the Federal Republic of Germany in French (layout · text)

États de la zone: Bade-Wurtemberg · Bavière · Brandebourg · Hesse · Basse-Saxe · Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale · Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie · Rhénanie-Palatinat · Sarre · Saxe · Saxe-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringe

cités-États: Berlin · Brême · Hambourg

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^de

The oldest seal of the city, from 1253, bears the inscription [SI]GILLVM DE BERLIN BURG[EN]S[IUM] (Siegel der Bürger von Berlin).

Alternative forms

• Berl. (abbreviation)

Etymology

The place is first mentioned by this name in the late 12th century (as Middle Low German Berlyn).

The origin is unknown. Slavic by the suffix -in.

According to (incorrect) folk etymology, the name is derived from the Bär (“bear”) that is the symbol of the city.

In a popular etymology of Germanists, it is derived from a Polabian stem *berl- ~ *birl- (“swamp”), for which lexical item there is no evidence in Polabian nor in any Slavic language. Closest to that would be an unknown simple of *bьrlogъ (“cave”).

Attested vocabulary is Polabian poro (“swamp, bog”). *bělь also meant a “swampy meadow” or “white field”, which fits the location at the märkische Streusandbüchse, the “Margraviate pounce box” notorious for its sandy soil, and is also the noun behind Belitz.

Pronunciation

• (Standard New High German) IPA^(key): [bɛʁˈliːn], [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn],
• (Berlinisch) IPA^(key): [bɐ̠liːn], [bɐ̠liːən]^[1]

• Audio (Berlin, standard):

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• Audio:

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Proper noun

Berlin n (proper noun, genitive Berlins or (optionally with an article) Berlin, plural Berlin)

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city and state of Germany)
   • 1800, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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:

     Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein.

     Berlin is a city damned forever to become, never to be.

2. (metonymically) Berlin (federal government of Germany)

Meronyms

• Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
• Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
• Lichtenberg
• Marzahn-Hellersdorf
• Mitte
• Neukölln
• Pankow
• Reinickendorf
• Spandau
• Steglitz-Zehlendorf
• Tempelhof-Schöneberg
• Treptow-Köpenick

 

Derived terms

• Alt-Berlin
• Berlin-Dahlem
• Berlin-Friedrichshain
• Berlin-Johannisthal
• Berlin-Köpenik
• Berlin-Lichtenberg
• Berlin-Marzahn
• Berlin-Mitte
• Berlin-Moabit
• Berlin-Neukölln
• Berlin-Pankow
• Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• Berlin-Reinickendorf
• Berlin-Steglitz
• Berlin-Treptow
• Berlin-Wedding
• Berlin-Wilmersdorf
• Berlin-Zehlendorf
• Berlinale
• Berline
• Berliner
• berlinfern
• berlinisch
• berlinnah
• einen Koffer in Berlin haben
• Großberlin, Groß-Berlin
• Ostberlin, Ost-Berlin
• Westberlin, West-Berlin

 

Related terms

• Berliner Blau
• Berolina
• Berolinismus

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: Berlin
• → Vietnamese: Béc-linh

See also

Divisions of the Federal Republic of Germany in German (layout · text)

Flächenländer: Baden-Württemberg · Bayern · Brandenburg · Hessen · Niedersachsen · Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · Nordrhein-Westfalen · Rheinland-Pfalz · Saarland · Sachsen · Sachsen-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thüringen

Stadtstaaten: Berlin · Bremen · Hamburg

References

1. “Peter Schlobinski: Zur r-Vokalisierung im Berlinischen. — Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2016 February 5 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 July 2017

Hungarian

 Berlin on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrlin]
• Hyphenation: Ber‧lin
• Rhymes: -in

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Berlin	—
accusative	Berlint	—
dative	Berlinnek	—
instrumental	Berlinnel	—
causal-final	Berlinért	—
translative	Berlinné	—
terminative	Berlinig	—
essive-formal	Berlinként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Berlinben	—
superessive	Berlinen	—
adessive	Berlinnél	—
illative	Berlinbe	—
sublative	Berlinre	—
allative	Berlinhez	—
elative	Berlinből	—
delative	Berlinről	—
ablative	Berlintől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Berliné	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Berlinéi	—

Possessive forms of Berlin
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Berlinem	—
2nd person sing.	Berlined	—
3rd person sing.	Berlinje	—
1st person plural	Berlinünk	—
2nd person plural	Berlinetek	—
3rd person plural	Berlinjük	—

Derived terms

• berlini

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^no

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛr.lin/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrlin
• Syllabification: Ber‧lin

Proper noun

Berlin m inan (related adjective berliński)

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Berlin
genitive	Berlina
dative	Berlinowi
accusative	Berlin
instrumental	Berlinem
locative	Berlinie
vocative	Berlinie

Declension of Berlin

Derived terms

nouns

• berlinianka
• berlinka
• berlińczyk

 

See also

Divisions of the Federal Republic of Germany in Polish (layout · text)

Area states: Badenia-Wirtembergia · Bawaria · Brandenburgia · Hesja · Dolna Saksonia · Meklemburgia-Pomorze Przednie · Nadrenia Północna-Westfalia · Nadrenia-Palatynat · Saara · Saksonia · Saksonia-Anhalt · Szlezwik-Holsztyn · Turyngia

City states: Berlin · Brema · Hamburg

Further reading

• Berlin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Berlin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Berlin f

1. Alternative form of Berlim

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ber.ˈlin/

Proper noun

Berlin n

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Declension

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) Berlin	Berlinul
genitive/dative	(unui) Berlin	Berlinului
vocative	Berlinule

declension of Berlin (singular only)

Derived terms

• berlinez m, berlineză f
• adjective: berlinez

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^sh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běrliːn/
• Hyphenation: Ber‧lin

Proper noun

Bèrlīn m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐрлӣн)

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Bèrlīn
genitive	Berlína
dative	Berlinu
accusative	Berlin
vocative	Berline
locative	Berlinu
instrumental	Berlinom

Declension of Berlin

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /berˈliːn/

Proper noun

Berlin n (genitive Berlins)

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

References

• Berlin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Tatar

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Declension

Nominative	Berlin
Genitive	Berlinnıñ
Dative	Berlinga
Accusative	Berlinnı
Locative	Berlinda
Ablative	Berlindan

    declension of Berlin

Turkish

Proper noun

Berlin

1. Berlin (the capital and largest city of Germany)
2. Berlin (a state of Germany, containing the capital city)

Welsh

Welsh Wikipedia has an article on:

Berlin

Wikipedia ^cy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛrˈlɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Proper noun

Berlin f

1. Berlin (the capital city of Germany)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Berlin	Ferlin	Merlin	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.