Edinburgh

English

Etymology

From Middle English Edynburgh, from Old Welsh Eidyn, a Celtic/Brythonic region of uncertain origin (possibly a personal name; compare Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”)) + Old English burg (“castle, stronghold”). More at Eidyn and Etymology of Edinburgh.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪn.bə.ɹə/, IPA^(key): [ˈɛd.n̩.bə.ɹə], IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪn.bɹə/ (usual pronunciation in England and Scotland)

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• (US, Canada) enPR: ĕdʹĭn-bŭr-ə IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɪn.bʌɹ.ə/, enPR: ĕdʹən-bŭr-ə IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ən.bʌɹ.ə/, enPR: ĕdʹən-bər-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ənˌbɝ.ə/

Proper noun

Edinburgh

1. The capital city of Scotland.
2. A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
3. A town in Bartholomew County, Johnson County and Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
4. A ghost town in Scioto Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States.
5. A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
6. An outer northern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
7. A royal dukedom.

Derived terms

• Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
• New Edinburgh

Translations

capital of Scotland

• Afrikaans: Edinburg
• Albanian: Edinburg m
• Amharic: ኤዲንቦሮ (ʾedinboro)
• Arabic: إِدِنْبُرَة f (ʔidinbura), إِدِنْبْرَة f (ʔidinbra), أَدِنْبُرَة f (ʔadinbura), أَدِنْبْرَة f (ʔadinbra)
• Armenian: Էդինբուրգ (hy) (Ēdinburg)
• Asturian: Edimburgu m
• Azerbaijani: Edinburq
• Basque: Edinburgh
• Belarusian: Эдынбу́рг (Edynbúrh)
• Bengali: এডিনবরা (eḍinbora)
• Breton: Dinedin
• Bulgarian: Е́динбург m (Édinburg)
• Burmese: အက်ဒင်ဗာရာ (akdangbara)
• Catalan: Edimburg
• Chechen: Эдинбург (Edinburg)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 愛丁堡／爱丁堡 (oi³ ding¹ bou²)

  Mandarin: 愛丁堡／爱丁堡 (zh) (Àidīngbǎo)

• Cornish: Karedin
• Corsican: Edimburgu f
• Czech: Edinburgh (cs) m
• Danish: Edinburgh n
• Dutch: Edinburgh n
• Esperanto: Edinburgo
• Estonian: Edinburgh (et)
• Faroese: Edinburgh
• Finnish: Edinburgh (fi)
• French: Édimbourg (fr) f
• Galician: Edimburgo (gl)
• Georgian: ედინბურგი (edinburgi)
• German: Edinburg n, Edinburgh (de) n (from English)
• Greek: Εδιμβούργο (el) n (Edimvoúrgo)
• Hawaiian: Ekinipāla
• Hebrew: אֶדִינְבּוֹרוֹ f (edinboro)
• Hindi: एडिनबर्ग m (eḍinbarg)
• Hungarian: Edinburgh (hu)
• Icelandic: Edinborg f
• Ido: Edinburgh
• Indonesian: Edinburgh
• Irish: Dún Éideann m
• Italian: Edimburgo f
• Japanese: エディンバラ (ja) (Edinbara)
• Kannada: ಎಡಿನ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್ (eḍin‌barg‌‌)
• Kashubian: Edinburgh m
• Kazakh: Эдинбург (Édinburg)
• Khmer: អេឌីនបួរ (ʼeediinbuə)
• Korean: 에든버러 (Edeunbeoreo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Edinburgh

• Kyrgyz: Эдинбург (Edinburg)
• Lao: ເອແດມບວກ (ʼē dǣm būak)
• Latin: Edinburgum n, Edenburgum n
• Latvian: Edinburga f
• Lithuanian: Edinburgas m
• Macedonian: Единбург m (Edinburg)
• Malay: Edinburgh
• Malayalam: എഡിൻബറോ (eḍiṉbaṟō)
• Maltese: Edimbera
• Manx: Doon Edin
• Maori: Edinburgh
• Marathi: एडिनबरा (eḍinabrā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Эдинбург (Edinburg)

• Nepali: एडिनवर्ग (eḍinavarga)
• Norman: Êdîmbourg (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Edinburgh

  Nynorsk: Edinburgh

• Old Norse: Edinborg
• Ossetian: Эдинбург (Èdinburg)
• Persian: ادینبرو (edinborô)
• Polish: Edynburg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Edimburgo (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਐਡਿਨਬਰਾ (aiḍinbarā)
• Romanian: Edinburgh
• Russian: Э́динбург (ru) m (Édinburg)
• Scots: Edinburgh, Embra, Edinburrie
• Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann m, Dùn Éideann m (superseded spelling)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Единбург m

  Roman: Edinburgh (sh) m, Edinburg m

• Sicilian: Edimburgu m
• Slovak: Edinburgh m
• Slovene: Edinburg m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Edinburgh

  Upper Sorbian: Edinburgh

• Spanish: Edimburgo (es) m
• Swahili: Edinburgh
• Swedish: Edinburgh (sv) n
• Tagalog: Edimburgo, Edinburgh
• Tajik: Единбург (Yedinburg)
• Tamil: எடின்பரோ (eṭiṉparō)
• Tatar: Эдинбург (Edinburg)
• Telugu: ఎడిన్‌బరా (eḍin‌barā)
• Thai: เอดินบะระ (ee-din-bà-rá)
• Turkish: Edinburgh
• Turkmen: Edinburg
• Ukrainian: Единбу́рг m (Edynbúrh)
• Urdu: اِیڈِنْبْرا m (īḍinbrā), اِیڈِن٘بْرا m (īḍimbrā), اَیڈِنْبْرا m (aiḍinbrā)
• Uzbek: Edinburg
• Vietnamese: Ê-đin-brơ
• Welsh: Caeredin (cy) f
• West Frisian: Edinburch
• Yiddish: עדינבורג n (edinburg)

See also

• Edinburg

Czech

Alternative forms

• Edinburk

Proper noun

Edinburgh m inan

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Declension

Declension of Edinburgh (sg-only velar masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Edinburgh
genitive	Edinburghu
dative	Edinburghu
accusative	Edinburgh
vocative	Edinburghu
locative	Edinburghu
instrumental	Edinburghem

Danish

Proper noun

Edinburgh

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Dutch

Proper noun

Edinburgh n

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Estonian

Proper noun

Edinburgh

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪnˌbaɹə/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Edinburgh n (proper noun, genitive Edinburghs or (optionally with an article) Edinburgh)

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Edinburgh

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Edinburgh

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)

Swedish

Proper noun

Edinburgh n (genitive Edinburghs)

1. Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
2. Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh (a council area of Scotland)