Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
Proper noun
Tunis
- A city on the northern coast of Africa:
1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 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.
1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary:Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
- Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
- A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
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.
Proper noun
Tunis m inan (related adjective tuniský)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
Declension
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Tunis |
genitive |
Tunisu |
dative |
Tunisu |
accusative |
Tunis |
vocative |
Tunise |
locative |
Tunise, Tunisu |
instrumental |
Tunisem |
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Declension of Tunis (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “Tunis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Proper noun
Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)
- Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
Declension
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singular |
nominative |
Tunis |
genitive |
Tunisa |
dative |
Tunisu |
accusative |
Tunis |
vocative |
Tunisu |
locative |
Tunisu |
instrumental |
Tunisom |
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Proper noun
Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
References
- “Tunis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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