Tirana

Tirana

See also: tirana, Tírana, Tîrana, Tirāna, and Tirānā

English

Alternative forms

• Tiranë

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Proper noun

Tirana

1. The capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
2. A county of Albania.
3. A municipality of Albania.

Derived terms

• Tiranan

Translations

capital and largest city of Albania

Albanian: Tiranë f (indefinite), Tirana (sq) f (definite), Tironë f (Gheg, indefinite), Tirona f (Gheg, definite) Amharic: ቲራና (tirana) Arabic: تِيرَانَا‎ f (tirānā) Armenian: Տիրանա (Tirana) Aromanian: Tirana Azerbaijani: Tirana (az) Belarusian: Тыра́на f (Tyrána) Bengali: তিরানা (tirana) Bulgarian: Тира́на f (Tirána) Burmese: တီရာနာမြို့ (tirana-mrui.) Chinese: Cantonese: 地拉那 (dei6 laai1 naa5) Mandarin: 地拉那 (zh) (Dìlānà) Min Nan: 地拉那 (Tē-la-nà, Tē-la-ná) Chuvash: Тирана (Tirana) Czech: Tirana (cs) f Danish: Tirana n Dutch: Tirana (nl) n Esperanto: Tirano (eo) Estonian: Tirana (et) Finnish: Tirana (fi) French: Tirana (fr) m Georgian: ტირანა (ṭirana) German: Tirana (de) n Greek: Τίρανα (el) (Tírana) Hebrew: טִירָנָה‎ f (tirana) Hindi: तिराना (hi) m (tirānā) Hungarian: Tirana (hu) Icelandic: Tírana Indonesian: Tirana Irish: Tiorána m Italian: Tirana (it) Japanese: ティラナ (Tirana) Kazakh: Тирана (Tirana) Khmer: ទីរ៉ាណា (km) (tiiraanaa) Korean: 티라나 (Tirana) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Tîrana (ku) Kyrgyz: Тирана (Tirana) Lao: ຕິລານາ (ti lā nā) Latvian: Tirāna f Lithuanian: Tirana f Macedonian: Тира́на (mk) f (Tirána) Malay: Tirana Maltese: Tirana Mongolian: Cyrillic: Тирана (Tirana) Navajo: Tiwáána Norwegian: Bokmål: Tirana n Ossetian: Тиранӕ (Tiranæ) Pashto: تيرانا‎ f (tirānā) Persian: تیرانا‎ (tirânâ) Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tirana Polish: Tirana (pl) f Portuguese: Tirana (pt) f Romanian: Tirana (ro) Russian: Тира́на (ru) f (Tirána) Rusyn: Тіра́на f (Tirána) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Тира̀на f Roman: Tiràna (sh) f Slovak: Tirana f Slovene: Tirana f Spanish: Tirana (es) f Swedish: Tirana (sv) n Tagalog: Tirana Tajik: Тирана (Tirana) Tatar: Тирана (Tirana) Thai: ติรานา (dtì-raa-naa) Tibetan: ཐིས་རན (this ran) Turkish: Tiran Turkmen: Tirana Ukrainian: Тира́на f (Tyrána) Urdu: تیرانا‎ m (tirānā) Uyghur: تىرانا‎ (tirana) Uzbek: Tirana Vietnamese: Ti-ra-na Yiddish: טיראַנאַ‎ n (tirana)

Anagrams

• Artina, Narita, Traina, antiar

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Albanian

Proper noun

Tirana

1. definite nominative singular of Tiranë

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Aromanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Tirana.

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. definite nominative of Tiranã
2. definite nominative of Tirane
3. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

See also

• Curceauã

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Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

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Czech

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Further reading

• Tirana in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈra.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Ti‧rà‧na

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Derived terms

• tiranese

Anagrams

• anatri, anitra, aranti, ratina, rinata, traina

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Japanese

Romanization

Tirana

1. Rōmaji transcription of ティラナ

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Norwegian Bokmål

Tirana, Albania.

Etymology

From Albanian Tirana, definite nominative form of Tiranë, from older Terrana (in Latin sources), from Proto-Albanian *Tūrsanā, possibly Ancient Greek Τυρσηνοί (Tursēnoí), Τυρσανοί (Tursanoí), an epithet used to denote the inhabitants of the Tyrrhenian Sea (cf. Latin Mare Tyrrhēnum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈrɑːna/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːna
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (a municipality and capital and largest city of Central Albania, Albania)

   Etter det kommunistiske styrets fall i 1991 opplevde Tirana dens største befolkningsvekst.

   After the fall of the communist regime in 1991, Tirana experienced its largest population growth.

Related terms

• Tiranë (“Tirana”)

References

• “Tirana” in Store norske leksikon

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Tirana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈra.na/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana f

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Declension

Declension of Tirana

	singular
nominative	Tirana
genitive	Tirany
dative	Tiranie
accusative	Tiranę
instrumental	Tiraną
locative	Tiranie
vocative	Tirano

Derived terms

adjective

• tirański

 

nouns

• tiranka
• tirańczyk

 

Further reading

• Tirana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Tirana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾɐ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tiˈɾɐ.nɐ/

• Homophone: tirana
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tirǎna/
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tiràna f (Cyrillic spelling Тира̀на)

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

Declension

Declension of Tirana

	singular
nominative	Tirana
genitive	Tirane
dative	Tirani
accusative	Tiranu
vocative	Tirano/ Tirana
locative	Tirani
instrumental	Tiranom

Derived terms

• Tiránac
• Tìrānka

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtirana]

Proper noun

Tirana f (genitive singular Tirany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)

References

• Tirana in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈɾana/ [t̪iˈɾa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Ti‧ra‧na

Proper noun

Tirana ?

1. Tirana (the capital and largest city of Albania)