Chișinău
See also: Chisinau
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɪʃɪˈnaʊ/
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Translations
capital city and a municipality of Moldova
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Estonian
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiʃinɑu/, [ˈk̟iʃiˌnɑ̝u]
Usage notes
- When correct special characters are not available, the simplified spelling Chisinau is used.
Declension
| Inflection of Chișinău (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Chișinău | — | ||
| genitive | Chișinăun | — | ||
| partitive | Chișinăuta | — | ||
| illative | Chișinăuhun | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Chișinău | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Chișinău | — | |
| gen. | Chișinăun | |||
| genitive | Chișinăun | — | ||
| partitive | Chișinăuta | — | ||
| inessive | Chișinăussa | — | ||
| elative | Chișinăusta | — | ||
| illative | Chișinăuhun | — | ||
| adessive | Chișinăulla | — | ||
| ablative | Chișinăulta | — | ||
| allative | Chișinăulle | — | ||
| essive | Chișinăuna | — | ||
| translative | Chișinăuksi | — | ||
| abessive | Chișinăutta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
- Kishinev (dated)
Romanian
Alternative forms
- Кишинэу (Chișinău) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
- From Hungarian Kisjenő, derived from kis (“small”) + Jenő (“Hungarian tribe”), compare the town of Chișineu-Criș in Romania. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
- Possibly from (Cuman) Kipchak kešene (“burial mound”), Karachay-Balkar kešene (“graveyard, cemetery”), ultimately from Persian کاشانه (kâšâne).[1] Compare Bashkir кәшәнә (kəşənə, “grave memorial”) and Kazakh кесене (kesene, “mausoleum”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kiʃiˈnəu̯]
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Chișinău n (definite nominative/accusative Chișinăul, definite genitive/dative Chișinăului)
- Chișinău (a municipality, the capital city of Moldova)
Declension
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References
- Lajos Kiss (Q1111850). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (’An Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names / Toponyms’). Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. →ISBN, entry: Kisinyov.
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