Warsaw

See also: warsaw

English

Warsaw

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Polish Warszewa. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When first attested? Through German?”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːsɔː/

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹsɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

Proper noun

Warsaw (countable and uncountable, plural Warsaws)

2. The capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.
3. (metonymic) The Polish government.
4. A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.
5. A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.
6. A city, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, United States.
7. A village, the county seat of Wyoming County, New York, United States.
8. A town, the county seat of Richmond County, Virginia, United States.
9. A habitational surname.

Translations

capital city of Poland

• Afrikaans: Warskou
• Albanian: Varshavë f, Varshava f (definite)
• Amharic: ዋርሶው (warsow)
• Arabic: وَارْسُو f (warsō)

  Hijazi Arabic: وارسو f (wārsu)

• Armenian: Վարշավա (Varšava)
• Azerbaijani: Varşava (az)
• Basque: Varsovia (eu)
• Belarusian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)

  Roman: Varšava f (łacinka)

• Bengali: ওয়ার্সা (bn) (ōẇarśa), ভারশাভা (bharśabha)
• Breton: Varsovia f
• Bulgarian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)
• Burmese: ဝါဆော (wahcau:)
• Catalan: Varsòvia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 華沙 / 华沙 (waa⁴ saa¹)

  Mandarin: 華沙 / 华沙 (zh) (Huáshā)

• Czech: Varšava (cs) f
• Danish: Warszawa (da) n
• Dutch: Warschau (nl) n
• Esperanto: Varsovio (eo)
• Estonian: Varssavi (et)
• Faroese: Varsjava f
• Finnish: Varsova (fi)
• French: Varsovie (fr) f
• Galician: Varsovia (gl)
• Georgian: ვარშავა (ka) (varšava)
• German: Warschau (de) n
• Greek: Βαρσοβία (el) f (Varsovía)
• Gujarati: વૉર્સો (vŏrso)
• Hebrew: וורשה \ וַרְשָׁה f (vársha)
• Hindi: वारसॉ (vārsŏ)
• Hungarian: Varsó (hu)
• Icelandic: Varsjá f
• Indonesian: Warsawa
• Irish: Vársá
• Italian: Varsavia (it) f
• Japanese: ワルシャワ (ja) (Warushawa)
• Kannada: ವಾರ್ಸಾ (vārsā)
• Kashubian: Warszawa f
• Kazakh: Варшава (Varşava)
• Khmer: វ៉ាសូវី (km) (vaasouvii), វ៉ារស្សាវ៉ា (vaassaavaa)
• Korean: 바르샤바 (ko) (Bareusyaba), 와르샤와 (ko) (Wareusyawa) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Warşova (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Варшава (ky) (Varşava)
• Lao: ວໍຊໍ (wǭ sǭ)
• Latin: Varsovia (la) f
• Latvian: Varšava f
• Lithuanian: Varšuva (lt) f
• Macedonian: Варшава (mk) f (Varšava)
• Malay: Warsaw
• Malayalam: വാഴ്‌സ (vāḻ‌sa)
• Maltese: Varsavja f
• Marathi: वर्झावा (varjhāvā), वॉरसॉ n (vŏrsŏ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Варшав (Varšav)

  Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠷᠱᠠᠸᠠ (Waršawa)

• Navajo: Wóosoo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Warszawa (no) n

  Nynorsk: Warszawa n

• Old Ruthenian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)
• Ossetian: Варшавӕ (Varšavæ)
• Ottoman Turkish: وارشاوه (varşava)
• Pashto: وارسا f (wārsā)
• Pennsylvania German: Woarschau
• Persian: ورشو (fa) (varšow)
• Polish: Warszawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Varsóvia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਵਾਰਸਾ (vārsā)
• Romanian: Varșovia (ro)

  Cyrillic: Варшовия (Varșovia)

• Russian: Варша́ва (ru) f (Varšáva)
• Scottish Gaelic: Warszawa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ва̀ршава f

  Roman: Vàršava (sh) f

• Silesian: Warszawa
• Sinhalese: වෝර්සෝ (wōrsō)
• Slovak: Varšava f
• Slovene: Varšáva (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Waršawa f

  Upper Sorbian: Waršawa f

• Spanish: Varsovia (es) f
• Swedish: Warszawa (sv) n
• Tajik: Варшава (Varšava)
• Tamil: வார்சாவா (vārcāvā)
• Tatar: Варшава (Warşawa)
• Thai: วอร์ซอ (wɔɔ-sɔɔ)
• Turkish: Varşova (tr)
• Turkmen: Warşawa
• Ukrainian: Варша́ва (uk) f (Varšáva)
• Urdu: وارسا (vārsā)
• Uyghur: ۋارشاۋا (warshawa)
• Uzbek: Varshava
• Venetan: Varsavia
• Vietnamese: Vác-sa-va
• Welsh: Warsaw (cy)
• West Frisian: Warsjau
• Yiddish: וואַרשע f (varshe)

metonym for Polish government

• Finnish: Varsova (fi)
• Polish: Warszawa (pl) f

any of several localities in USA

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沃索 (Wòsuǒ)

• Finnish: Warsaw (fi)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Warsaw is the 38050^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 583 individuals. Warsaw is most common among White (81.3%) and Black/African American (14.75%) individuals.

See also

• Varsovian
• Warszawa

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Warsaw”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.