Turku

Turku

See also: turku

English

Etymology

From Finnish Turku, from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “market place”).

Proper noun

Turku

1. A city in Finland.

Synonyms

• Åbo

Translations

A city in Finland

Arabic: تُورْكُو‎ (turkū) Chinese: Mandarin: 圖爾庫／图尔库 (Tú'ěrkù) Czech: Turku (cs) n Danish: Turku Estonian: Turu (et) Finnish: Turku (fi) French: Turku (fr) German: Turku (de) Greek: Τούρκου (el) n (Toúrkou) Hebrew: טורקו‎ m (turqu) Japanese: トゥルク (Turuku) Korean: 투르쿠 (Tureuku) Latin: Aboa Norwegian: Bokmål: Åbo Nynorsk: Åbo Portuguese: Turku f, Abo f Russian: Ту́рку (ru) m (Túrku) Spanish: Turku, Abo Swedish: Åbo (sv) Turkish: Turku (tr)

Anagrams

• Truku

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Finnish

Etymology

From turku (“(archaic) marketplace”), borrowed from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “market place”), from Proto-Slavic *tъrgъ. Cognate to Swedish torg and Estonian turg. Doublet of tori.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturku/, [ˈt̪urku]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urku
• Syllabification^(key): Tur‧ku

Proper noun

Turku

1. Turku (a city in Finland)

Declension

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Turku" is Turussa.

Inflection of Turku (Kotus type 1*D/valo, k- gradation)
nominative		Turku	—
genitive		Turun	—
partitive		Turkua	—
illative		Turkuun	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Turku	—
accusative	nom.	Turku	—
	gen.	Turun
genitive		Turun	—
partitive		Turkua	—
inessive		Turussa	—
elative		Turusta	—
illative		Turkuun	—
adessive		Turulla	—
ablative		Turulta	—
allative		Turulle	—
essive		Turkuna	—
translative		Turuksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Turutta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Turku (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Turkuni	Turkumme
2nd person	Turkusi	Turkunne
3rd person	Turkunsa

Anagrams

• kurut

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ.ku/

Proper noun

Turku ?

1. Turku (a city in Finland)

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German

Proper noun

Turku n (proper noun, genitive Turkus or (optionally with an article) Turku)

1. Turku (a city in Finland)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ku/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -urku
• Syllabification: Tur‧ku

Proper noun

Turku n (indeclinable)

1. Turku (a city in Finland)

Noun

Turku

1. locative singular of Turek

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Turku.

Proper noun

Turku f

1. Turku (a city in Finland)

   Synonym: Abo

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Spanish

Proper noun

Turku ?

1. Turku