Tallinn

English

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Tallinn

Etymology

Borrowed from Estonian Tallinn (“Tallinn”), compound of old Taani (“Denmark”) and linn ("town", originally "castle").

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɪn/^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): /ˈtælɪn/^[3]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːlɪn

Proper noun

Tallinn

The capital city of Estonia.

Derived terms

Tallinner

Translations

capital of Estonia

Afrikaans: Tallinn
Albanian: Talin (sq)
Amharic: ታሊን (talin)
Arabic: تَالِين f (tālīn)
Aragonese: Tallinn
Armenian: Տալլին (Tallin)
Aromanian: Tallinn
Asturian: Tallinn
Azerbaijani: Tallin (az)
Basque: Tallinn (eu)
Belarusian: Та́лін m (Tálin)
Bengali: তাল্লিন (tallin)
Breton: Tallinn
Bulgarian: Та́лин m (Tálin)
Burmese: တယ်လင်း မြို့ (tailang:mrui.)
Catalan: Tallinn
Chechen: Таллин (Tallin)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 塔林 (taap³ lam⁴)

Mandarin: 塔林 (zh) (Tǎlín)
Chuvash: Таллин (Tallin)
Cornish: Tallinn
Corsican: Tallinn
Czech: Tallinn (cs) m
Danish: Tallinn (da), Reval (old name)
Dutch: Tallinn (nl) n
Erzya: Таллин (Talľin), Тал ош (Tal oš), Ревель (Ŕeveľ)
Esperanto: Talino (eo)
Estonian: Tallinn (et), Reval (obsolete or historical)
Faroese: Tallinn m
Finnish: Tallinna (fi), Rääveli (fi) (no longer current)
French: Tallinn (fr) m, Tallin (fr) m
Galician: Tallinn (gl), Talín (gl)
Georgian: ტალინი (ka) (ṭalini)
German: Tallinn (de) n, Reval (de) n (no longer current)
Greek: Ταλλίν (el) n (Tallín), Ταλίν (el) n (Talín)
Guaraní: Talin
Haitian Creole: Talin
Hebrew: טאלין \ טָלִין f (talin)
Hindi: ताल्लिन m (tāllin)
Hungarian: Tallinn (hu)
Icelandic: Tallinn
Ido: Tallinn
Indonesian: Tallinn
Interlingua: Tallinn
Irish: Tallinn
Italian: Tallinn
Japanese: タリン (ja) (Tarin)
Kazakh: Таллин (Tallin)
Khmer: តាលិន (km) (taalɨn)
Komi-Zyrian: Таллинн (Talľinn)
Korean: 탈린 (Tallin)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Tallinn
Kyrgyz: Таллин (Tallin)
Ladino: Tallin
Lao: ຕານລີນ (tān līn)
Latin: Tallinna f, Revalia f, Castrum Danorum n
Latvian: Tallina (lv) f, Rēvele f (no longer current)
Ligurian: Tallinn
Lingala: Tallinn
Lithuanian: Talinas (lt) m
Lombard: Tallinn
Low German:
German Low German: Revel
Luxembourgish: Tallinn (lb)
Macedonian: Талин m (Talin)
Malay: Tallinn
Malayalam: ടാലിന് (ṭāliṉ)
Maltese: Talinn
Manx: Tallinn
Marathi: तालिन (tālin)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Таллинн (Talĺinn)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Таллин (Tallin)
Nahuatl: Tallin
Navajo: Tʼáliin
Northern Sami: Tallinn
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tallinn (no), Reval (obsolete)
Occitan: Tallinn
Ossetian: Таллин (Tallin)
Papiamentu: Tallinn
Pashto: تالين m (tālín)
Pennsylvania German: Tallinn
Persian: تالین (tâlin)
Piedmontese: Tallin
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tallinn
Polish: Tallinn (pl), Rewel m (no longer current)
Portuguese: Taline
Quechua: Tallinn
Romani:
Vlax Romani: Tallinn
Romanian: Tallinn (ro)
Russian: Та́ллин (ru) m (Tállin), Та́ллинн (ru) m (Tállinn), Ре́вель m (Révelʹ) (no longer current), Колыва́нь (ru) f (Kolyvánʹ) (no longer current)
Samogitian: Talins
Saterland Frisian: Tallinn
Scottish Gaelic: Tallinn
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Талин m

Roman: Tallinn m, Tallin m
Slovak: Tallinn m
Slovene: Talin m
Sorbian: Tallinn
Lower: Tallinn m

Upper: Tallinn m
Spanish: Tallin (es)
Swahili: Tallinn
Swedish: Tallinn (sv), Reval (no longer current)
Tagalog: Tallinn
Tajik: Таллин (Tallin)
Tamil: தாலின் (tāliṉ)
Tatar: Таллинн (Tallinn), Таллин (Tallin)
Thai: ทาลลินน์ (th) (taal-lin)
Tibetan: ཏཱལ་་ལིན (tāl lin)
Tok Pisin: Talin
Turkish: Tallinn (tr)
Turkmen: Tallin
Udmurt: Таллин (Talľin)
Ukrainian: Та́ллінн (uk) m (Tállinn), Та́ллін m (Tállin)
Urdu: تالین m (tālin, tallin)
Uyghur: تاللىن (tallin)
Uzbek: Tallin
Vietnamese: Ta-lin
Volapük: Tallinn
Võro: Talliin
Waray-Waray: Tallinn
Welsh: Tallinn
West Frisian: Tallin
Yiddish: טאַלין n (talin), רעוול (revl)
Yoruba: Tallinn

References

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^af

Proper noun

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Derived terms

Asturian

Proper noun

Tallinn m

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^cs

Alternative forms

Talin

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtalɪn]

Proper noun

Tallinn m inan (related adjective tallinnský)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Declension

Declension of Tallinn (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Tallinn
genitive	Tallinnu
dative	Tallinnu
accusative	Tallinn
vocative	Tallinne
locative	Tallinnu
instrumental	Tallinnem

Danish

Proper noun

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Tallinn n

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^et

The old town of Tallinn, in Estonia.

Etymology

The origin of the capital name is disputed:

Most likely from Old Estonian Tanin lidna (whence Tanillidna > Talilinna > Tallinna > Tallinn), equivalent to Taani (“Danish”) + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).
An alternative theory derives it from tali (“winter”), equivalent to talv (“winter”), from Proto-Finnic *talvi (“winter”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tälwä (“winter”) or from talu (“farm, farmstead”), from Proto-Finnic *talo (“farm, farmstead”), from Baltic, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *talˀa- + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).

The form Tallinn is official since 1933. Before, the official form was Tallinna, now very rare in the nominative. This makes Tallinn the only Estonian placename not to end in a vowel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲːːinː/ (Official, also Eastern Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲːin(ː)/ (Northern Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲin(ɑ)/ (Western Estonia)
IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlʲnɑ/ (Southern Estonia)
Rhymes: -ɑlːinː
Hyphenation: Tal‧linn
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Harju, Estonia)
Tallinn on Eesti suurim linn
Tallinn is the largest city in Estonia

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Declension

Declension of Tallinn (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Tallinn	—
accusative	nom.	Tallinn
accusative	gen.	Tallinna
genitive		Tallinna	—
partitive		Tallinna	—
illative		Tallinna Tallinnasse	—
inessive		Tallinnas	—
elative		Tallinnast	—
allative		Tallinnale	—
adessive		Tallinnal	—
ablative		Tallinnalt	—
translative		Tallinnaks	—
terminative		Tallinnani	—
essive		Tallinnana	—
abessive		Tallinnata	—
comitative		Tallinnaga	—

Derived terms

Tallinna laht (“Tallinn bay”), tallinna keel (“North Estonian”), tallinnakeelne (“North Estonian”)
tallinnlane (“Tallinner; inhabitant of Tallinn”), tallinlanna (“(female) Tallinner”)

Descendants

→ English: Tallinn
→ Norwegian Bokmål: Tallinn, Tallin
→ Polish: Tallinn

References

Tallinn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
“Tallinn”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ta.lin/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Tallinn f

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

German

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Tallinn n (proper noun, genitive Tallinns or (optionally with an article) Tallinn)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Hungarian

Tallinn on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɒlːinː]
Hyphenation: Tal‧linn
Rhymes: -inː

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Proper noun

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Declension

Inflection of Tallinn
	singular	plural
nominative	Tallinn	—
accusative	Tallinnt	—
dative	Tallinn-nak	—
instrumental	Tallinn-nal	—
causal-final	Tallinnért	—
translative	Tallinn-ná	—
terminative	Tallinnig	—
essive-formal	Tallinnként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Tallinnban	—
superessive	Tallinnon	—
adessive	Tallinn-nál	—
illative	Tallinnba	—
sublative	Tallinnra	—
allative	Tallinnhoz	—
elative	Tallinnból	—
delative	Tallinnról	—
ablative	Tallinntól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Tallinné	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Tallinnéi	—

Possessive forms of Tallinn
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Tallinnom	—
2nd person sing.	Tallinnod	—
3rd person sing.	Tallinnja	—
1st person plural	Tallinnunk	—
2nd person plural	Tallinnotok	—
3rd person plural	Tallinnjuk	—

Derived terms

tallinni

Icelandic

Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^is

Proper noun

Tallinn ?

Tallinn (the capital of Estonia)

Italian

Proper noun

Tallinn m

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^nb

View of Tallinn from St. Olaf's church, Estonia.

Etymology

From Estonian Tallinn (“Tallinn”), where the origin is disputed:

Possibly from Old Estonian Tanin lidna, equivalent to Taani (“Danish”) + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).
Possibly from tali (“winter”), equivalent to talv (“winter”), from Proto-Finnic *talvi (“winter”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tälwä (“winter”) or from talu (“farm, farmstead”), from Proto-Finnic *talo (“farm, farmstead”), from Baltic, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *talˀa- + linn (“city; fortress, castle”), from Proto-Finnic *litna (“town, city; fortification, fortress”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtalːɪn/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɪn
Hyphenation: Tal‧linn
Homophone: Tallin

Proper noun

Tallinn

Tallinn (the capital city of Harju, Estonia)
Tallinn har både landets hovedflyplass og hovedhavn.
Tallinn has both the country's main airport and main port.

Synonyms

Reval (“Tallinn”) (obsolete)
Tallin (“Tallinn”) (obsolete, used mainly between 1944 and 1991)

References

“Tallinn” in Store norske leksikon

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^pl

Tallinn

Alternative forms

Tallin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Estonian Tallinn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtal.lin/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -allin
Syllabification: Tal‧linn

Proper noun

Tallinn m inan (related adjective talliński)

Tallinn (the capital and largest city of Estonia)
Synonym: (historical) Rewel

Declension

Declension of Tallinn

	singular
nominative	Tallinn
genitive	Tallinna
dative	Tallinnowi
accusative	Tallinn
instrumental	Tallinnem
locative	Tallinnie
vocative	Tallinnie

Derived terms

nouns

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tallinn

Alternative form of Taline

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Tallinn

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtalin]

Proper noun

Tallinn m inan (genitive singular Tallinnu, declension pattern of dub)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

References

“Tallinn”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Proper noun

Tallinn n (genitive Tallinns)

Tallinn (the capital city of Estonia)

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English

Etymology

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Translations

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Derived terms

Asturian

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Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Further reading

Danish

Proper noun

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Estonian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Derived terms

Icelandic

Proper noun

Italian

Proper noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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Proper noun

Synonyms

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Proper noun

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

References

Swedish

Proper noun