Kirkenes

English

Etymology

From Norwegian Kirkenes.

Proper noun

Kirkenes

1. A town in Norway

Translations

town in Norway

• Danish: Kirkenes
• Finnish: Kirkkoniemi (fi)
• Kven: Kirkkoniemi
• Northern Sami: Girkonjárga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kirkenes n

  Nynorsk: Kirkenes n, Kyrkjenes n

• Russian: Ки́ркенес m (Kírkenes)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Kirkenes

1. A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway and close to the Russian border.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Kyrkjenes

Etymology

Newer name; from Danish Kirkenæs, from kirke (“church”) +‎ nes (“headland”), referring to a church on the place built in 1862. Replaced the older names Pisselvnes and Håkjerringnes.

Proper noun

Kirkenes n

1. A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway, close to the Russian border.