Rotterdam

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Rotterdam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒtə(ɹ)ˌdæm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Rotterdam

1. A city in South Holland, Netherlands.
2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

Translations

city and port in the Netherlands

Chinese: Mandarin: 鹿特丹 (zh) (Lùtèdān) Dutch: Rotterdam (nl) n Esperanto: Roterdamo (eo) Farefare: Dɔtadam Georgian: როტერდამი (roṭerdami) German: Rotterdam (de) n Hindi: रॉटर्डम (rŏṭarḍam) Hungarian: Rotterdam (hu) Korean: 로테르담 (Rotereudam) Latin: Roterodamum (la) n Portuguese: Roterdão f Russian: Роттерда́м (ru) m (Rottɛrdám) Spanish: Róterdam (es) Sranan Tongo: Porifoto Turkish: Rotterdam (tr)

Further reading

• Rotterdam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Rotterdam on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Rotterdam

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

First attested as rotter dam ter haluer rotte in 1280-1287. From Middle Dutch Rotterdam, a compound of the hydronym Rotte + dam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌrɔ.tərˈdɑm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Rot‧ter‧dam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Proper noun

Rotterdam n

1. Rotterdam (a city and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands)

   Synonyms: R'dam (abbreviation), Roffa (slang, nickname), Rotjeknor (nickname), 010 (area code, nickname), Manhattan aan de Maas (nickname), Mokum Reisj (historical, nickname), Dwalmdam (Carnival nickname)

   Meronyms: Hoek van Holland, Hoogvliet, Pernis, Rozenburg

Derived terms

• Rotterdammer
• Rotterdams

See also

• Category:Rotterdam Dutch

References

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “Rotterdam”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Rotte +‎ dam.

Proper noun

Rotterdam

1. Rotterdam (a city in the modern Netherlands)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Rotterdam

Further reading

• “Rotterdam”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000