Cologne

See also: cologne

English

Alternative forms

• Collen, Cologn (obsolete)
• Köln (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English Coloyne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from verb colo, colere (“till, cultivate, worship”). Doublet of Colonia, colony, and Köln, from German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈloʊn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Rhymes: -oʊn
• (Early Modern) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊlɛn/, /ˈkʊlɪn/

Proper noun

Cologne

1. The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River.
2. A city and town in Minnesota, United States.

Derived terms

• Cologner

Translations

city in Germany

• Arabic: كولونْيَا f (kolōnya)

  Egyptian Arabic: كولونيا f (kolónya), كولون f (kolōn)

  Hijazi Arabic: كلونيا f (kulōnya)

• Armenian: Քյոլն (Kʻyoln)
• Belarusian: Кёльн m (Kjolʹn)
• Bulgarian: Кьолн (bg) m (Kjoln)
• Catalan: Colònia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科隆 (fo¹ lung⁴)

  Mandarin: 科隆 (zh) (Kēlóng)

• Czech: Kolín nad Rýnem m
• Danish: Köln, Køln
• Dutch: Keulen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kolonjo
• Estonian: Köln (et)
• Farefare: Kolon, Kɔlɔn
• Faroese: Køln f
• Finnish: Köln (fi)
• French: Cologne (fr) f

  Old French: Coloigne

• Galician: Colonia (gl)
• German: Köln (de) n

  Central Franconian: Kölle f (Kölsch)

• Greek: Κολωνία (el) f (Kolonía)
• Hebrew: קלן (Keln)
• Hindi: कोलोन (kolon)
• Hungarian: Köln (hu)
• Icelandic: Köln f, Kolni f (archaic)
• Interlingua: Colonia
• Italian: Colonia (it) f
• Japanese: ケルン (ja) (Kerun)
• Korean: 쾰른 (ko) (Koelleun)
• Kyrgyz: Көлн (Köln)
• Latin: Colōnia Agrippīna f
• Macedonian: Келн m (Keln)
• Marathi: कोलोन n (kolon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Köln (no)

  Nynorsk: Köln

• Old Norse: Kolni f
• Persian: کلن (fa) (koln)
• Polish: Kolonia (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Colônia (pt) f

  European: Colónia (pt) f

• Russian: Кёльн (ru) m (Kjolʹn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Келн m

  Roman: Köln (sh) m

• Slovak: Kolín nad Rýnom m
• Spanish: Colonia (es) f
• Swedish: Köln (sv) c
• Thai: โคโลญ (th) (koo-loon)
• Turkish: Köln (tr), Kolonya
• Ukrainian: Кельн m (Kelʹn)
• Urdu: کولَن m (kolan)
• Vietnamese: Cô-lô-nhơ
• Welsh: Cwlen f
• Yiddish: קעלן n (keln)

Anagrams

• El Congo

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Cologne, Coloigne, from Latin colōnia (“colony”) in Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔɲ/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Cologne f

1. Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)

Derived terms

• eau de Cologne