Danzig

Danzig

English

Etymology

From German Danzig.

Proper noun

Danzig

1. Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).
   • 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:

     Early on that Friday morning (September 1) it was announced by the Nazi Government of the Free City of Danzig that the territory desired incorporation in the German Reich, and almost immediately afterwards the German Chancellor accepted such inclusion forthwith.

2. A surname.

Translations

the former name of Gdańsk — See also translations at Gdańsk

Arabic: دانزيغ‎ m (danzigh) Armenian: Դանցիգ (hy) (Dancʿig) Azerbaijani: Dansiq Belarusian: Данцыг (Dancyh) Bulgarian: Данциг (Dancig) Catalan: Danzig Chinese: Cantonese: 但澤, 但泽 (daan6 zaak6) Mandarin: 但澤／但泽 (zh) (Dànzé) Danish: Danzig Dutch: Danzig East Central German: Danzich n (Silesian) Esperanto: Dancigo Estonian: Danzig (et) Finnish: Danzig (fi) French: Dantzig (fr) m, Dantzick (fr) m Georgian: დანციგი (dancigi) German: Danzig (de) n Greek: Ντάντσιχ (Dántsich) Hebrew: דנציג‎ (dantsig) Hungarian: Dancka Italian: Danzica Japanese: ダンツィヒ (Dantsihi) Korean: 단치히 (danchihi) Latin: Dantiscum Latvian: Danciga Lithuanian: Dancigas Low German: German Low German: Danzig n Norwegian: Bokmål: Danzig n Nynorsk: Danzig n Persian: دانتسیش‎ (dantsash) Portuguese: Danzig, Danzigue Romanian: Danzig Russian: Данциг (ru) (Dancig) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Данциг m Roman: Danzig m Sindhi: ڊانزيگ‎ Spanish: Danzig (es) Swedish: Danzig (sv) n Thai: ดันท์ซิช (dan-sít) Turkish: Danzig Ukrainian: Данциг (Dancyh) Vietnamese: Danzig

Anagrams

• adzing, dazing

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German

Alternative forms

• Dantzig (already used in Early New High German, obsolete)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdantsiç/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdantsik/

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Proper noun

Danzig n (proper noun, genitive Danzigs or (optionally with an article) Danzig)

1. Gdańsk, Danzig (the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)

Derived terms

• Danziger

Proper noun

Danzig m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Danzigs or (with an article) Danzig, feminine genitive Danzig, plural Danzigs)

1. a surname

Further reading

• “Danzig” in Duden online

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Danzig f

1. Gdańsk, Danzig (the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)

   Synonym: Gdansk