Copenhagen

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Etymology

From Low German Kopenhagen, a calque (perhaps modified by folk etymology) of Danish København.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpənˌheɪɡən/, /ˈkoʊpənˌhɑɡən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊpənˈheɪɡən/, /ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːɡən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪɡən

Proper noun

Copenhagen

2. The capital city of Denmark.
3. (metonymically) The Danish government.
4. A municipality (Copenhagen Municipality) in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark.
5. One of the former counties of Denmark.
6. An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States.
7. A village in the town of Denmark, Lewis County, New York, United States.
8. A community of Malahide township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
9. A children's game in which one player is enclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

Derived terms

• Copenhagen blue
• Copenhagener
• Copenhagen interpretation
• Copenhagenism
• Copenhagenist
• Copenhagenization

 

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: Copenhagen

Translations

capital of Denmark

Afrikaans: Kopenhagen Albanian: Kopenhaga (sq) f, Kopenhagë f (indefinite) Amharic: ኮፐንሀገን (kopänhägän) Arabic: كُوبِنْهَاجِن f (kōbinhāgin), كُوبِنْهَاج f (kōbinhāg), كُوبِنْهَاغِن f (kōbinhāḡin), كُوبِنْهَاغ f (kōbinhāg) Egyptian Arabic: كوبينهاجين f (kōbinhāgin) Hijazi Arabic: كوبِنْهاقِن f (kōbinhāgin) Armenian: Կոպենհագեն (hy) (Kopenhagen) Asturian: Copenḥague f Azerbaijani: Kopenhagen (az) Basque: Kopenhage (eu) Belarusian: Капенга́ген m (Kapjenháhjen), Капэнга́ген m (Kapenháhjen) Bengali: কোপেনহেগেন (bn) (kōpenhegen) Bulgarian: Ко́пенхаген m (Kópenhagen) Burmese: ကိုပင်ဟေဂင်မြို့ (kuipanghegangmrui.) Carpathian Rusyn: Ко́дань f (Kódanʹ) Catalan: Copenhaguen Chinese: Cantonese: 哥本哈根 (go1 bun2 haa1 gan1) Mandarin: 哥本哈根 (zh) (Gēběnhāgēn) Chuvash: Копенгаген (Kop̬engagen) Corsican: Copenaghen f Czech: Kodaň (cs) f Danish: København (da) Dutch: Kopenhagen (nl) n Esperanto: Kopenhago (eo) Estonian: Kopenhaagen (et) Farefare: Kɔpɛnhaɣɛn Faroese: Keypmannahavn f, Kjøpinhavn f Finnish: Kööpenhamina (fi) French: Copenhague (fr) f Galician: Copenhague (gl) Georgian: კოპენჰაგენი (ka) (ḳoṗenhageni) German: Kopenhagen (de) n Greek: Κοπεγχάγη (el) f (Kopenchági) Haitian Creole: Kopènag Hebrew: קוֹפֶּנְהָגֶן / קופנהאגן f (kopenhagen) Hindi: कोपेनहेगन m (kopenhegan), कोपनहेगन m (kopanhegan) Hungarian: Koppenhága (hu) Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn f, Kaupinhafn, Köben f Indonesian: Kopenhagen Irish: Cóbanhávan m Italian: Copenaghen (it) f, Copenaga f Japanese: コペンハーゲン (ja) (Kopenhāgen) Kashubian: Kòpenhaga f Kazakh: Копенгаген (Kopeñagen) Khmer: កូប៉ិនហាក (km) (koupənhaak) Korean: 코펜하겐 (ko) (Kopenhagen) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kopenhag (ku) Kyrgyz: Копенгаген (Kopengagen) Lao: ໂຄເປນເຮເກນ (khō pēn hē kēn) Latgalian: Kopenhaga f Latin: Hafnia Latvian: Kopenhāgena f Lithuanian: Kopenhaga f Macedonian: Копенха́ген m (Kopenhágen) Malay: Kopenhagen, Copenhagen Maltese: Kopenħagen Marathi: कोपेनहेगन n (kopenhegan) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Копенхаген (Kopenxagen) Norman: Copèneĥague Northern Sami: Københápman Norwegian: Bokmål: København (no) Nynorsk: København Old Danish: Køpmannæhafn Old English: Ċēapmanna hæfen f Ottoman Turkish: قوپنهاغ (Kopenhag) Pashto: کوپن هاګن m Persian: کپنهاگ (kopenhâg) Pitcairn-Norfolk: Copenhagen Polish: Kopenhaga (pl) f Portuguese: Copenhague (pt), Copenhaga (pt) Romanian: Copenhaga (ro) Russian: Копенга́ген (ru) m (Kopengágen) Samogitian: Kuopenhaga f Scots: Colpenhaven, Copenhagen Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Копенха́ген m Roman: Kopenhágen (sh) m Silesian: Kopynhaga f Slovak: Kodaň f Slovene: København m, Kobenhaven m, Kopenhagen m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Kopenhagen m Upper Sorbian: Kopenhagen m Spanish: Copenhague (es) Swedish: Köpenhamn (sv) n Tagalog: Copenhague Tajik: Копенҳаген (Kopenhagen), Копенгаген (Kopengagen) Tamil: கோபனாவன் (kōpaṉāvaṉ) Tatar: Копенһаген (Qopenhağen) Thai: โคเปนเฮเกน (koo-bpeen-hee-gên) Tibetan: ཁོ་ཕེན་ཧ་ཀེན (kho phen ha ken) Turkish: Kopenhag (tr) Turkmen: Kopengagen Ukrainian: Копенга́ген m (Kopenháhen) Urdu: کوپنہیگن m (kopehegan), کوپنہیگن m (kopanhegan) Uyghur: كوپېنھاگېن (kopënhagën) Uzbek: Kopengagen Vietnamese: Cô-pen-ha-ghen, Cô-pen-ha-gen, Cơ-bần-hăng Võro: Kopõnhaagõn Yiddish: קאָפּענהאַגען n (kopenhagen)

former county in Denmark

Danish: Københavns Amt Finnish: Kööpenhaminan lääni Marathi: कोपेनहेगन f (kopenhegan) Norwegian: Bokmål: København (no) Swedish: Köpenhamns amt

community in Louisiana, USA

Farefare: Kopenhegen Finnish: Copenhagen (fi) Marathi: कोपेनहेगन m (kopenhegan) Norwegian: Bokmål: Copenhagen (no)

Noun

Copenhagen (plural Copenhagens)

1. A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Translations

Translations

Norwegian: Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

Norwegian Bokmål

Copenhagen in Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

From English Copenhagen, the English name of the capital of Denmark, from Danish København (“Copenhagen”), from Old Danish Køpmannæhafn (“Copenhagen”), literally meaning "merchants' port", from Old Norse Kaupmannahǫfn (“Copenhagen”), with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpənˌheɪɡən/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Copenhagen

1. Copenhagen (an unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States)
2. Copenhagen (a village in Denmark, Lewis County, New York, United States)
3. Copenhagen (a community of Malahide, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Copenhagen f

1. Alternative form of Copenhaga