Tunis

Tunis

See also: Túnis and Tunis.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس‎ (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:

• Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
• Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnəs/
• Rhymes: -uːnəs

Proper noun

Tunis

1. A city on the northern coast of Africa:
   • 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248:

     Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring

   1. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
   2. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
   3. The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
      • 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary‎:

        Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.

2. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

Derived terms

• Tunis cake

Related terms

• Tunisia

Translations

capital of Tunisia

Albanian: Tunizi m, Tunisi m Amharic: ቱኒስ (tunis) Arabic: تُونِس‎ (ar) f (tūnis), تُونُس‎ (ar) f (tūnus) Armenian: Թունիս (hy) (Tʿunis) Azerbaijani: Tunis (az) Belarusian: Туні́с m (Tunís) Bengali: তিউনিস (tiunis) Bulgarian: Туни́с m (Tunís) Burmese: တူနစ်စ် (tunacc) Catalan: Tunis Chinese: Cantonese: 突尼斯 (dat6 nei4 si1) Mandarin: 突尼斯 (zh) (Tūnísī) Corsican: Tunisi Czech: Tunis (cs) m Danish: Tunis n Dutch: Tunis (nl) n Estonian: Tunis (et) Finnish: Tunis (fi) French: Tunis (fr) f Galician: Tunes (gl) Georgian: ტუნისი (ṭunisi) German: Tunis (de) n Greek: Τύνιδα (el) f (Týnida) Hebrew: תּוּנִיס‎ f (tunis) Hindi: तूनिस m (tūnis), ट्यूनिस m (ṭyūnis), टुनिस m (ṭunis) Hungarian: Tunisz (hu) Icelandic: Túnis (is) n Indonesian: Tunis Irish: Túinis m Italian: Tunisi f Japanese: チュニス (Chunisu) Kazakh: Тунис (Tunis) Khmer: ទុយនីស (km) (tuyniih) Korean: 튀니스 (Twiniseu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Tûnis (ku) Kyrgyz: Тунис (Tunis) Lao: ຕູນິສ (tū nit) Latin: Tunes m Latvian: Tunisa f Lithuanian: Tunisas (lt) m Macedonian: Тунис m (Tunis) Malay: Tunis Mongolian: Cyrillic: Тунис (Tunis) Norwegian: Bokmål: Tunis (no) Nynorsk: Tunis Occitan: Tunis Ottoman Turkish: طونوس‎ (tunus) Pashto: تونس‎ (ps) m (tunés) Persian: تونس‎ (tunes) Polish: Tunis (pl) m Portuguese: Tunes (pt) f (Portugal), Túnis (pt) f (Brazil), Tunis (pt) f Romanian: Tunis (ro) Russian: Туни́с (ru) m (Tunís) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ту̀нис m Roman: Tùnis (sh) m Slovak: Tunis m Slovene: Tunis m Spanish: Túnez (es) Swedish: Tunis (sv) n Tagalog: Tunis Tajik: Тунис (Tunis) Tatar: Тунис (Tunis) Thai: ตูนิส (dtuu-nís) Tibetan: ཊུ་ནིསི (ṭu nisi) Turkish: Tunus (tr) Turkmen: Tunis Ukrainian: Туні́с (uk) m (Tunís) Urdu: تونس‎ m (tūnis) Uyghur: تۇنىس‎ (tunis) Uzbek: Tunis (uz) Vietnamese: Tuy-nít, Tuy-ni Welsh: Tiwnis Yiddish: טוניס‎ n (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

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس‎ (tūnis).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.nis/

Proper noun

Tunis ?

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunísia
• tunisià

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Czech

Etymology

From Arabic تونس‎.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtunɪs]

Proper noun

Tunis m inan

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunisko

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Danish

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

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Dutch

Proper noun

Tunis n

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

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French

Alternative forms

• Tunes (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.nis/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Tunis ?

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunisie

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Gagauz

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in Africa)

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuːnɪs]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

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Occitan

Proper noun

Tunis ? (Limousin)

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunisia

Further reading

• Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ɲis/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɲis
• Syllabification: Tu‧nis

Proper noun

Tunis m

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis

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

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Tunis f

1. Alternative form of Tunes

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǔnis/

Proper noun

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
2. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis

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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtunis]

Proper noun

Tunis m (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Tunis (the capital of Tunisia)

References

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

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Swedish

Proper noun

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)

1. Tunis (the capital city of Tunisia)

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Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	Тунис (Tunis)‍
Latin	Tunis‍
Perso-Arabic

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)