Cannes

See also: cannes and cannés

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cannes, from earlier Canois, Canua.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What language are the older forms? Occitan/Provençal? What’s the further etymology?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Homophone: can

Proper noun

Cannes

1. A city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France

Translations

a city in France

• Arabic: كَان (ar) m (kān)
• Armenian: Կանն (hy) (Kann)
• Catalan: Canes (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戛納／戛纳 (zh) (Jiánà, Gānà), 坎城 (zh) (Kǎnchéng) (Taiwan)

• Greek: Κάννες (el) f pl (Kánnes)
• Japanese: カンヌ (Kannu)
• Korean: 칸 (ko) (Kan)
• Latin: Canoē f
• Macedonian: Кан m (Kan)
• Marathi: कान (mr) n (kān)
• Occitan: Canas (oc)
• Polish: Cannes (pl) n
• Portuguese: Cannes f
• Russian: Ка́нны (ru) f pl (Kánny)

Anagrams

• Nances, nances

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Canua, possibly related to cane (“reed”). Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European substrate toponym *kan ("tall, height").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: cane

Proper noun

Cannes ?

1. Cannes (a city in France)

References

• Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

Anagrams

• scanne, scanné

Portuguese

Proper noun

Cannes f

1. Cannes (a city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France)