Malmö

See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

English

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Malmö

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Etymology

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːlmɜː/, /ˈmɑːlməʊ/, /ˈmalməʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlmʊ/, /ˈmɑlmoʊ/

Proper noun

Malmö

2. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:

     Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.

Translations

city in Sweden

Arabic: مَالْمُو m (mālmū) Armenian: Մալմյո (Malmyo) Azerbaijani: Malmö (az) Bulgarian: Малмьо n (Malmjo) Chinese: Cantonese: (please verify) 馬列麥／马列麦 (maa5 lit6 maak6) Mandarin: 馬爾默／马尔默 (zh) (Mǎ'ěrmò) Danish: Malmø (da) n Esperanto: Malmo Estonian: Malmö (et) Farefare: Malmogia Finnish: Malmö (fi) French: Malmö (fr) f, Malmoe f Georgian: მალმე (malme) German: Malmö (de) n Greek: Μάλμε n (Málme) Hungarian: Malmö (hu) Icelandic: Málmey f, Málmhaugar m Italian: Malmö f Japanese: マルメ (Marume) Korean: 말뫼 (Malmoe) Kyrgyz: Малмө (Malmö) Latin: Malmogia f Latvian: Malme f Limburgish: (please verify) Mallemsberg n, (please verify) Malmeu n Lithuanian: Malmė f Macedonian: Ма́лме n (Málme) Norwegian: Malmö n, Malmø n Persian: مالمو (mâlmo) Polish: Malmö (pl) n Portuguese: Malmo f, Malmö f, Malmoe f Russian: Ма́льмё (ru) n (Málʹmjo), Мальмё (ru) n (Malʹmjó) Spanish: Malmoe (es) f Swedish: Malmö (sv) n Ukrainian: Ма́льме n (Málʹme) Yiddish: מאַלמע n (malme)

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

Malmö

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Etymology

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlmø/, [ˈmɑlmø]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmø
• Hyphenation: Mal‧mö

Proper noun

Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

1. Malmö (a city in Scania, Sweden)
2. A street in Pärnu

Declension

Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Malmö	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Malmö
genitive			—
partitive		Malmöt	—
illative		Malmösse	—
inessive		Malmös	—
elative		Malmöst	—
allative		Malmöle	—
adessive		Malmöl	—
ablative		Malmölt	—
translative		Malmöks	—
terminative		Malmöni	—
essive		Malmöna	—
abessive		Malmöta	—
comitative		Malmöga	—

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Malmö

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalmøː/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Malmö

Wikipedia ^pl

Malmö

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.mɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -almɛ
• Syllabification: Mal‧mö

Proper noun

Malmö n (indeclinable)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading

• Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Malmö f

1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Malmö

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Gravelly/Sandy Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“gravel, sand”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. The area originally referenced in the name has not been identified.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalˌmøː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -øː

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Proper noun

Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Derived terms

• malmöisk
• malmöit
• malmöitisk

 

References

1. 2016, Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Nordic Languages at Uppsala University, Svenskt ortnamnslexikon‎, page 207:

   Stadens namn är en ursprunglig sammansättning med → hög i efterleden och dialektordet malm 'sand, grus; sandig eller grusig mark' i förleden. Det avsedda området kan idag inte utpekas.

   The city's name is an original compound with → hög in the second part and the dialect word malm, meaning 'sand, gravel; sandy or gravelly ground,' in the first part. The intended area cannot be identified today.