See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

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Etymology edit

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally Ore Hill), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (ore) + høj (hill); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːlmɜː/, /ˈmɑːlməʊ/, /ˈmalməʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑlmʊ/, /ˈmɑlmoʊ/

Proper noun edit

Malmö

  1. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:
      Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.

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Estonian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑlmø/, [ˈmɑlmø]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlmø
  • Hyphenation: Mal‧mö

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Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

  1. Malmö (a city in Scania, Sweden)
  2. A street in Pärnu

Declension edit

Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative Malmö
accusative nom.
gen. Malmö
genitive
partitive Malmöt
illative Malmösse
inessive Malmös
elative Malmöst
allative Malmöle
adessive Malmöl
ablative Malmölt
translative Malmöks
terminative Malmöni
essive Malmöna
abessive Malmöta
comitative Malmöga

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally Ore Hill), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (ore) + høj (hill); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmalmøː/
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Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Polish edit

 
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Malmö

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.

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Malmö n (indeclinable)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading edit

  • Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Malmö f

  1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally Ore Hill), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (ore) + høj (hill); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation edit

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Proper noun edit

Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

  1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

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