Tunis

See also: Túnis and Tunis.

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but some possibilities are:

Berber آنس, ber, meaning to rest or lie down
Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnəs/

Proper noun

Tunis

The capital of Tunisia.

Derived terms

Tunis cake

Related terms

Tunisia

Translations

capital of Tunisia

Arabic: تُونِس‎‎ (ar) f (tūnis)
Armenian: Թունիս (Tʿunis)
Belarusian: Туні́с m (Tunís)
Bulgarian: Туни́с m (Tunís)
Catalan: Tunis
Chinese:
Mandarin: 突尼斯 (zh) (Tūnísī)
Czech: Tunis (cs) m
Danish: Tunis
Dutch: Tunis (nl)
Finnish: Tunis (fi)
French: Tunis (fr) m
Georgian: ტუნისი (ṭunisi)
German: Tunis (de) n
Greek: Τύνιδα (el) f (Týnida)
Hebrew: תוניס‎‎ (tunis)
Hindi: तूनिस (tūnis), ट्यूनिस (ṭyūnis), टुनिस (ṭunis)
Hungarian: Tunisz (hu)
Icelandic: Túnis (is) n
Indonesian: Tunis
Irish: Túinis m
Italian: Tunisi f

Japanese: チュニス (Chunisu)
Korean: 튀니스 (Twiniseu)
Latin: Tunes m
Malay: Tunis
Norwegian: Tunis (no)
Ottoman Turkish: طونوس‎‎ (tunus)
Persian: تونس‎‎ (tunes)
Polish: Tunis (pl) m
Portuguese: Tunes (pt) f (Portugal), Túnis (pt) f (Brazil), Tunis (pt) f
Russian: Туни́с (ru) m (Tunís)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ту̀нис m

Roman: Tùnis (sh) m
Spanish: Túnez (es)
Swedish: Tunis (sv)
Tagalog: Tunis
Thai: ตูนิส (dtoo-nít)
Turkish: Tunus (tr)
Ukrainian: Туні́с (uk) m (Tunís)
Urdu: تونس‎‎ (tūnis)
Welsh: Tiwnis
Yiddish: טוניס‎‎ (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.

Anagrams

Sintu, inust, suint, units

Czech

Proper noun

Tunis m

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Danish

Proper noun

Tunis

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Dutch

Proper noun

Tunis (n)

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ty.nis/

Proper noun

Tunis

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Related terms

Tunisie

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtuːnɪs]

Proper noun

Tunis n

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Polish

Pronunciation

audio (file)

Proper noun

Tunis m

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Declension

declension of Tunis

	singular
nominative	Tunis
genitive	Tunisu
dative	Tunisowi
accusative	Tunis
instrumental	Tunisem
locative	Tunisie
vocative	Tunisie

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tunis f

Alternative form of Tunes

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tǔnis/

Proper noun

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

Tunisia
Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis

	singular
nominative	Tunis
genitive	Tunisa
dative	Tunisu
accusative	Tunis
vocative	Tunisu
locative	Tunisu
instrumental	Tunisom

Swedish

Proper noun

Tunis

Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

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