Tbilisi

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Tbilisi

Abkhazia

Imereti

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Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti

Guria

Adjara

Samtskhe-Javakheti

Kvemo Kartli

Tbilisi

Shida Kartli

Mtskheta-Mtianeti

Kakheti

  The top-level administrative divisions (Mkhare) of the Republic of Georgia.

Etymology

From Russian Тбили́си (Tbilísi) and Georgian თბილისი (Tbilisi), variant of Old Georgian ტფილისი (Ṭpilisi), from ტფილი (ṭpili, “warm”) + -ისი (-isi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈbɪ.lɪ.si/, /tə.bɪˈliː.si/, /təˈbliː.si/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Tbilisi

2. The capital city of the country of Georgia.
3. (metonymically) The government of Georgia.
   • 2002, Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook‎^[1], page 632:

     T'bilisi said guerillas it did not control were involved in fighting on the Georgian side.

   • 2009, Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Star, The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia‎^[2], →ISBN, page 184:

     In addition, Moscow argued that Georgia had violated international law by introducing its forces into South Ossetia, a move Moscow said Tbilisi had committed itself not to do under the earlier CIS-sponsored peacekeeping arrangements.

   • 2011, Alexander Sosnowski, The Georgia Syndrome‎^[3], page 25:

     The international observers demanded that Tbilisi make the original of the order available to them so that this aspect could be investigated. But Tbilisi said it was an official military secret and refused to hand over the document...

Synonyms

• Tiflis (now chiefly historical)

Derived terms

• Tbilisoba

Translations

the capital city of the country of Georgia — see also Tiflis

• Abkhaz: Қарҭ (Kart)
• Afrikaans: Tbilisi
• Albanian: Tbilisi
• Amharic: ትብሊሲ (təblisi)
• Arabic: تِفْلِيس f (tiflīs), تِبِلِيسِي f (tibilīsī)

  Hijazi Arabic: تْبِليسي f (tbilīsi)

• Aramaic: ܛܒܝܠܝܣܝ
• Armenian: Թբիլիսի (hy) (Tʻbilisi), Թիֆլիս (hy) (Tʻiflis)

  Old Armenian: Տփղիս (Tpʻłis)

• Asturian: Tbilisi
• Avar: Тбилиси (Tbilisi), Тулпис (Tulpis)
• Azerbaijani:

  Roman: Tbilisi (az)

  Abjad: تِفلیس (Tiflîs)

• Bashkir: Тбилиси (Tbilisi)
• Basque: Tbilisi (eu)
• Bats: ქალიქ (kalik)
• Belarusian: Тбілі́сі m (Tbilísi), Тыфлі́с m (Tyflís) (historical)
• Bengali: তিবিলিসি (tibiliśi)
• Breton: Tbilisi
• Bulgarian: Тбили́си n (Tbilísi)
• Burmese: တဘီလစ်ဆီမြို့ (ta.bhilachcimrui.)
• Catalan: Tbilisi
• Chechen: Тиблиси (Tiblisi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 第比利斯 (dai⁶ bei² lei⁶ si¹)

  Mandarin: 第比利斯 (zh) (Dìbǐlìsī)

• Chuvash: Тбилиси (Tbilis̬i)
• Czech: Tbilisi (cs) n
• Danish: Tbilisi
• Dutch: Tbilisi n
• Esperanto: Tbiliso
• Estonian: Thbilisi
• Finnish: Tbilisi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Tbilisi
• French: Tbilissi (fr) f
• Galician: Tbilisi (gl)
• Georgian: თბილისი (ka) (tbilisi), ტფილისი (ka) (ṭpilisi) (archaic)
• German: Tiflis (de) n, (rare) Tbilissi (de) n
• Greek: Τιφλίδα (el) f (Tiflída)
• Haitian Creole: Tbilisi
• Hebrew: טְבִּילִיסִי f (tbilisi)
• Hindi: तिबलिसी m (tiblisī), तिफ़्लीस m (tiflīs)
• Hungarian: Tbiliszi (hu)
• Icelandic: Tbilisi, Tíblisi
• Ido: Tbilisi
• Indonesian: Tbilisi
• Ingush: Каьлаке (Kälake)
• Italian: Tbilisi
• Japanese: トビリシ (ja) (Tobirishi)
• Kazakh: Тбилиси (Tbilisi)
• Khmer: ប៊ីលីស៊ី (km) (biiliisii), ធូប៊ូលីស៊ី (thuubuuliisii)
• Korean: 트빌리시 (ko) (Teubillisi)
• Kumyk: Тюплис (Tüplis)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tiflîs (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Тбилиси (Tbilisi)
• Lak: Ттуплис (T:uplis)
• Lao: ທາບິລິຊິ (thā bi li si)
• Latin: Triphelis, Tiphlis
• Latvian: Tbilisi
• Laz: თიჶლიზი (tiflizi), თფილისი (tpilisi)
• Lezgi: Тбилиси (Tbilisi)
• Ligurian: Tiblisi
• Lithuanian: Tbilisis
• Macedonian: Тбилиси n (Tbilisi)
• Malay: Tbilisi
• Maltese: Tbilisi
• Mingrelian: ქართი (karti)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тбилис (Tbilis)

• Navajo: Tibilíísii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tbilisi

• Occitan: Tbilissi
• Ossetian: Калак (Kalak), Тбилис (Tbilis)
• Ottoman Turkish: تفلیس (Tiflis)
• Pashto: تبليسي f (tbilisi), طفلس m (Tefles), تفليس m (Teflis)
• Persian: تفلیس (Teflis), تبیلیسی (Tebilisi)
• Piedmontese: Tbilisi
• Polish: Tbilisi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Tiblíssi (pt)
• Romanian: Tbilisi (ro)
• Russian: Тбили́си (ru) m (Tbilísi), Тифли́с (ru) m (Tiflís) (obsolete)
• Scots: Tbilisi
• Scottish Gaelic: Tbilisi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тбилиси n

  Roman: Tbilisi n

• Sicilian: Tbilisi
• Sinhalese: ටිබිලිසි (ṭibilisi)
• Slovak: Tbilisi (sk) n
• Slovene: Tbilisi
• Spanish: Tiflis (es)
• Svan: ქა̈რთ (kärt)
• Swahili: Tbilisi
• Swedish: Tbilisi (sv)
• Tajik: Тбилисӣ (Tbilisi), Тифлис (Tiflis)
• Tamil: திபிலீசி (tipilīci)
• Tatar: Тбилиси (Tbilisi)
• Thai: ทบิลีซี (tá-bì-lii-sii)
• Tibetan: ཁྲེ་བྷི་ལི་སི (khre bhi li si)
• Turkish: Tiflis (tr)
• Turkmen: Tiflis, Tbilisi
• Ukrainian: Тбілі́сі (uk) m (Tbilísi), Тифлі́с m (Tyflís) (historical)
• Urdu: تبلیسی m (tiblisī), طفلس m (tiflis), تفلیس m (tiflīs)
• Uyghur: تبىلىسى (tbilisi)
• Uzbek: Tbilisi, Tiflis
• Vietnamese: Tbi-li-xi
• Volapük: Tbilisi
• West Frisian: Tbilisi
• Yiddish: טביליסי n (tbilisi)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tbilisi

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of Georgia)

Derived terms

• Tbilisiër
• Tbilisies

Asturian

Proper noun

Tbilisi ?

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of the country of Georgia)

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Tbilisi

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of the country of Georgia)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdbɪlɪsɪ]

Proper noun

Tbilisi n (indeclinable, relational adjective tbiliský)

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of the country of Georgia)

Further reading

• “Tbilisi”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latvian

Proper noun

Tbilisi m pl (1st declension)

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of the country of Georgia)

Declension

Declension of Tbilisi (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	—	Tbilisi
genitive (ģenitīvs)	—	Tbilisu
dative (datīvs)	—	Tbilisiem
accusative (akuzatīvs)	—	Tbilisus
instrumental (instrumentālis)	—	Tbilisiem
locative (lokatīvs)	—	Tbilisos
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	Tbilisi

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Тбили́си (Tbilísi), from Georgian თბილისი (tbilisi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dbiˈli.si/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -isi
• Syllabification: Tbi‧li‧si

Proper noun

Tbilisi n (indeclinable)

1. Tbilisi (the capital city of Georgia)

   Synonym: Tyflis

Derived terms

(adjective):

• tbiliski

Further reading

• Tbilisi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃbiˈli.si/, /t͡ʃi.biˈli.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃbiˈli.si/, /t͡ʃi.biˈli.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃbiˈli.si/

Proper noun

Tbilisi

1. Alternative form of Tiblíssi

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtbiʎisi]

Proper noun

Tbilisi n (genitive singular Tbilisi)

1. Tbilisi (the capital of Georgia)

References

• “Tbilisi”, 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, 2003–2025