Corfu

Corfu

See also: corfu, Corfú, and Corfù

English

Etymology

From Italian Corfù, from Ancient Greek Κορυφώ (Koruphṓ), from κορυφή (koruphḗ) ("summit", "mountain peak"). Named after the twin peaks of the Old Fortress of Corfu.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹ.fju/

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Proper noun

Corfu

1. An island in Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκυρα), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα).
2. The capital of Corfu.

Translations

island

Albanian: Korfuz (indefinite), Korfuzi (definite) Arabic: كُورْفُو‎ (kūrfū) Armenian: Կերկիրա (hy) (Kerkira) Aromanian: Cãrfus m (indefinite), Cãrfusu m (definite) Basque: Korfu Belarusian: Керкіра (Kjerkira), Корфу (Kórfu) Bulgarian: Корфу (Korfu) Catalan: Corfú Chinese: Mandarin: 克基拉島 (zh) (Kèjīlā dǎo) Czech: Korfu (cs) Danish: Korfu Dutch: Korfoe, Corfu Esperanto: Korfuo Estonian: Korfu, Kérkyra Finnish: Korfu (fi) French: Corfou (fr) Galician: Corfú m Georgian: კერკირა (ḳerḳira) German: Korfu (de) f Greek: Κέρκυρα (el) f (Kérkyra) Hebrew: קורפו‎ (qurfu) Hungarian: Korfu Irish: Corfú Italian: Corfù m Japanese: ケルキラ島 (Kerukira-tō) Korean: 케르키라 섬 (kereukira seom) Latin: Corcyra Latvian: Kerkīra, Korfu Lithuanian: Kerkyra Macedonian: Крф (Krf) Norwegian: Bokmål: Korfu Nynorsk: Kérkyra Persian: کورفو‎ Polish: Korfu (pl) Portuguese: Corfu f Romanian: Corfu Russian: Ко́рфу m (Kórfu), Керкира (Kerkira) Serbo-Croatian: Krf (sh) Cyrillic: Крф m Roman: Krf (sh) m Slovak: Korfu Slovene: Krf (sl) Spanish: Corfú m Swedish: Korfu Turkish: Korfu Ukrainian: Керкіра (Kerkira) Vietnamese: Kérkyra

city

Finnish: Korfu (fi), Kerkyra French: Corfou (fr) Greek: Κέρκυρα (el) f (Kérkyra) Italian: Corfù m Portuguese: Corfu f Russian: Ко́рфу m (Kórfu) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Крф m Roman: Krf (sh) m Spanish: Corfú m

Further reading

• Corfu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Corfu

1. Corfu (an island and regional unit of the Ionian Islands, Greece)
2. Corfu (a city in Corfu, Greece)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Greek Κόρφου (Kórfou).

Proper noun

Corfu m (genitive/dative lui Corfu)

1. a surname from Greek

References

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎, Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică