Tunis
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
- Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
- Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.
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Tunis
- A city on the northern coast of Africa:
- 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 248:
- Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
- A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
- A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
- The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
- 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary[1]:
- Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
- Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
- A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
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capital of Tunisia
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References edit
- Rossi, Peter M.; White, Wayne Edward (1980). Articles on the Middle East, 1947–1971: A Cumulation of the Bibliographies from the Middle East Journal. Pierian Press, University of Michigan. p. 132.
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Tunis
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).
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Tunis ?
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).
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Tunis m inan (related adjective tuniský)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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- Tunis in Internetová jazyková příručka
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Tunis
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Tunis n
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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- Tunes (obsolete)
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Tunis ?
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Tunis
- Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
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- Tunes (obsolete)
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Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Tunis ? (Limousin)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Further reading edit
- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556
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Tunis m
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Declension of Tunis
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- Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Tunis f
- Alternative form of Tunes
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Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)
- Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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- “Tunis”, 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
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Tunis n (genitive Tunis)
- Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)
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Proper noun edit
Tunis
- Tunisia (a country in North Africa)