Tunis

See also: Túnis and Tunis.

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnəs/
• Rhymes: -uːnəs

Proper noun

Tunis

1. 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

   1. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
   2. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
   4. 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.

   5. Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
2. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

Derived terms

• Tunis cake

Related terms

• Tunisia

Translations

capital of Tunisia

• Afrikaans: Tunis
• Albanian: Tunizi m, Tunisi m
• Amharic: ቱኒስ (tunis)
• Arabic: تُونِس (ar) f (tūnis), تُونُس (ar) f (tūnus)
• Armenian: Թունիս (hy) (Tʻunis)
• Azerbaijani: Tunis (az)
• Belarusian: Туні́с m (Tunís)
• Bengali: তিউনিস (bn) (tiuniś)
• Bulgarian: Туни́с m (Tunís)
• Burmese: တူနစ်စ် (tunacc)
• Catalan: Tunis
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 突尼斯 (dat⁶ nei⁴ si¹)

  Mandarin: 突尼斯 (zh) (Tūnísī)

• Corsican: Tunisi
• Czech: Tunis (cs) m
• Danish: Tunis n
• Dutch: Tunis (nl) n
• Estonian: Tunis (et)
• Finnish: Tunis (fi)
• French: Tunis (fr) f
• Galician: Tunes (gl)
• Georgian: ტუნისი (ka) (ṭunisi)
• German: Tunis (de) n
• Greek: Τύνιδα (el) f (Týnida)
• Hebrew: תּוּנִיס f (tunis)
• Hindi: तूनिस m (tūnis), ट्यूनिस m (ṭyūnis), टुनिस m (ṭunis)
• Hungarian: Tunisz (hu)
• Icelandic: Túnis (is) n
• Indonesian: Tunis
• Irish: Túinis m
• Italian: Tunisi f
• Japanese: チュニス (ja) (Chunisu)
• Kazakh: Тунис (kk) (Tunis)
• Khmer: ទុយនីស (km) (tuyniih)
• Korean: 튀니스 (Twiniseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tûnis (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Тунис (Tunis)
• Lao: ຕູນິສ (tū nit)
• Latin: Tunes m
• Latvian: Tunisa f
• Lithuanian: Tunisas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Тунис m (Tunis)
• Malay: Tunis
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тунис (Tunis)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tunis (no)

  Nynorsk: Tunis

• Occitan: Tunis
• Ottoman Turkish: تونس (Tunus)
• Pashto: تونس (ps) m (tunés)
• Persian: تونس (tunes)
• Polish: Tunis (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tunes (pt) f (Portugal), Túnis (pt) f (Brazil), Tunis (pt) f
• Romanian: Tunis (ro)
• Russian: Туни́с (ru) m (Tunís)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ту̀нис m

  Roman: Tùnis (sh) m

• Slovak: Tunis m
• Slovene: Tunis m
• Spanish: Túnez (es)
• Swedish: Tunis (sv) n
• Tagalog: Tunis
• Tajik: Тунис (Tunis)
• Tatar: Тунис (Tunis)
• Thai: ตูนิส (dtuu-nís)
• Tibetan: ཊུ་ནིསི (ṭu nisi)
• Turkish: Tunus (tr)
• Turkmen: Tunis
• Ukrainian: Туні́с (uk) m (Tunís)
• Urdu: تونس m (tūnis)
• Uyghur: تۇنىس (tunis)
• Uzbek: Tunis (uz)
• Vietnamese: Tuy-nít, Tuy-ni
• Welsh: Tiwnis
• Yiddish: טוניס n (tunis)

References

• 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.

Anagrams

• suint, inust, Sintu, uints, Tsun-i, units, Nuits

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtu.nis]

Proper noun

Tunis ?

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunísia
• tunisià

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtunɪs]

Proper noun

Tunis m inan (related adjective tuniský)

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Tunis
genitive	Tunisu
dative	Tunisu
accusative	Tunis
vocative	Tunise
locative	Tunise, Tunisu
instrumental	Tunisem

Related terms

• Tunisko

 

Further reading

• “Tunis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Dutch

Proper noun

Tunis n

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

French

Alternative forms

• Tunes (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.nis/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Tunis ?

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunisie

Gagauz

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

German

Alternative forms

• Tunes (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnɪs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Derived terms

• Tunesien

Occitan

Proper noun

Tunis ? (Limousin)

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Related terms

• Tunisia

Further reading

• Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ɲis/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɲis
• Syllabification: Tu‧nis

Proper noun

Tunis m

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis

	singular
nominative	Tunis
genitive	Tunisu
dative	Tunisowi
accusative	Tunis
instrumental	Tunisem
locative	Tunisie
vocative	Tunisie

Further reading

• Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tunis f

1. Alternative form of Tunes

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǔnis/

Proper noun

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
2. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Declension

Declension of Tunis

	singular
nominative	Tunis
genitive	Tunisa
dative	Tunisu
accusative	Tunis
vocative	Tunisu
locative	Tunisu
instrumental	Tunisom

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuɲis]

Proper noun

Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

References

• “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

Swedish

Proper noun

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)

1. Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	Тунис‍
Latin	Tunis‍
Perso-Arabic

Proper noun

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)