Genoa

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Genua, as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians; probably from Ligurian word for "knee", from Proto-Indo-European *genu, knee, i.e., angle, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdʒɛn.əʊ.ə/, /dʒɛnˈəʊ.ə/, X-SAMPA: /"dZEn.@U.@/, /dZEn"@U.@/
• (US) IPA: /ˈdʒɛn.ou.ə/, /dʒɛnˈou.ə/, X-SAMPA: /"dzEn.oU.@/, /dZEn"oU.@/

Usage notes

The pronunciations with the stress on the second syllable are considered nonstandard.

Proper noun

Genoa

1. A province of Liguria, Italy.
2. A city and the capital of the province of Genoa, and also the capital of Liguria.
3. A placename.

Translations

province

• Dutch: Genua (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĝenovo
• Estonian: Genova (et)
• French: Gênes (fr)
• German: Genua (de)
• Greek: Γένοβα f
• Hungarian: Genova (hu)
• Japanese: ジェノヴァ

• Ligurian: Zêna
• Macedonian: Џенова (mk) (Dženóva) f
• Polish: Genua (pl)
• Russian: Генуя (ru) (Génuja) f
• Spanish: Génova (es)
• Swedish: Genua (sv)
• Turkish: Cenova

Italian city

• Arabic: جنوى (ar) (jinowaa) f
• Armenian: Ճենովա (hy) (Č̣enova)
• Belarusian: Генуя (be) (Hénuja) f
• Bulgarian: Генуа (bg) (Génua) f
• Catalan: Gènova (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱那亞 (cmn), 热那亚 (cmn) (Rènàyà)

• Czech: Janov (cs) m
• Danish: Genova (da)
• Dutch: Genua (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĝenovo
• Estonian: Genova (et)
• Finnish: Genova (fi)
• French: Gênes (fr) m
• Friulian: Gjenue
• Georgian: გენუა (ka) (genua)
• German: Genua (de) n
• Greek: Γένοβα (el) (Génova) f
• Hebrew: גנואה (he)

• Hindi: जेनोआ (hi) (jēnō'ā)
• Italian: Genova (it) f
• Japanese: ジェノヴァ (ja) (Jenova), ジェノア (ja) (Jenoa)
• Korean: 제노아 (ko) (Jenoa)
• Latin: Genua (la)
• Ligurian: Zêna
• Macedonian: Џенова (mk) (Dženóva) f
• Occitan: Gènoa (oc)
• Polish: Genua (pl) f
• Portuguese: Génova (pt) f
• Romanian: Genova (ro)
• Russian: Генуя (ru) (Génuja) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ђенова (sh) f

  Roman: Genova (sh) f

• Sicilian: Gènuva (scn)
• Slovak: Janov (sk) m
• Slovene: Genova (sl) f
• Spanish: Génova (es) f
• Swedish: Genua (sv)
• Turkish: Cenova
• Ukrainian: Генуя (uk) (Hénuja) f

in US

• Italian: Genoa (it)

football team

• Italian: Genoa (it)

• Ligurian: Zêna

See also

• Wikipedia article on Genoa, the Italian city
• Wikipedia disambiguation page on the places called Genoa in the US

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