Malmö

See also: Malmo, Malmø, and Malmoe

English

Etymology

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːlmɜː/, /ˈmɑːlməʊ/, /ˈmalməʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlmʊ/, /ˈmɑlmoʊ/

Proper noun

Malmö

2. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:

     Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.

Translations

city in Sweden

• Arabic: مَالْمُو m (mālmū)
• Armenian: Մալմյո (Malmyo)
• Azerbaijani: Malmö (az)
• Bulgarian: Малмьо n (Malmjo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 馬列麥／马列麦 (maa⁵ lit⁶ maak⁶)

  Mandarin: 馬爾默／马尔默 (zh) (Mǎ'ěrmò)

• Danish: Malmø (da) n
• Esperanto: Malmo
• Estonian: Malmö (et)
• Farefare: Malmogia
• Finnish: Malmö (fi)
• French: Malmö (fr) f, Malmoe f
• Georgian: მალმე (malme)
• German: Malmö (de) n
• Greek: Μάλμε n (Málme)
• Hungarian: Malmö (hu)
• Icelandic: Málmey f, Málmhaugar m
• Italian: Malmö f
• Japanese: マルメ (Marume)
• Korean: 말뫼 (Malmoe)
• Kyrgyz: Малмө (Malmö)
• Latin: Malmogia f
• Latvian: Malme f
• Limburgish: ^{(please verify)} Mallemsberg n, ^{(please verify)} Malmeu n
• Lithuanian: Malmė f
• Macedonian: Ма́лме n (Málme)
• Norwegian: Malmö n, Malmø n
• Persian: مالمو (mâlmo)
• Polish: Malmö (pl) n
• Portuguese: Malmo f, Malmö f, Malmoe f
• Russian: Ма́льмё (ru) n (Málʹmjo), Мальмё (ru) n (Malʹmjó)
• Spanish: Malmoe (es) f
• Swedish: Malmö (sv) n
• Ukrainian: Ма́льме n (Málʹme)
• Yiddish: מאַלמע n (malme)

Estonian

Etymology

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlmø/, [ˈmɑlmø]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmø
• Hyphenation: Mal‧mö

Proper noun

Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)

1. Malmö (a city in Scania, Sweden)
2. A street in Pärnu

Declension

Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Malmö	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Malmö
genitive			—
partitive		Malmöt	—
illative		Malmösse	—
inessive		Malmös	—
elative		Malmöst	—
allative		Malmöle	—
adessive		Malmöl	—
ablative		Malmölt	—
translative		Malmöks	—
terminative		Malmöni	—
essive		Malmöna	—
abessive		Malmöta	—
comitative		Malmöga	—

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalmøː/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Polish

Malmö

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.mɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -almɛ
• Syllabification: Mal‧mö

Proper noun

Malmö n (indeclinable)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Further reading

• Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Malmö f

1. Alternative spelling of Malmo

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Gravelly/Sandy Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“gravel, sand”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. The area originally referenced in the name has not been identified.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalˌmøː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -øː

Proper noun

Malmö n (genitive Malmös)

1. Malmö (a city in Sweden)

Derived terms

• malmöisk
• malmöit
• malmöitisk