Hamburg

See also: hamburg

English

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɝɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɜːɡ/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Hamburg

1. The second largest city in, and a state of, Germany.
2. Any of various communities in the United States; named for the German city:
   1. A city, the county seat of Ashley County, Arkansas.
   2. A community of the town of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut.
   3. A village in Calhoun County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Indiana.
   6. A small city in Fremont County, Iowa.
   7. An unincorporated community in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
   8. A small city in Carver County, Minnesota.
   9. A ghost town in St. Charles County, Missouri.
   10. A borough of Sussex County, New Jersey.
   11. A large town in Erie County, New York.
   12. An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporated community in Preble County, Ohio.
   14. A borough of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   15. A ghost town in Aiken County, South Carolina.
   16. A small town and unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
   17. A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
3. A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa; named for the German city.
4. Hamburger SV, a German football club.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• black Hamburg grape
• Hamburg edging
• Hamburger
• hamburger, burger
• Hamburg lake

Translations

city and state of Germany

• Akan: Hambɔg
• Arabic: هَامْبُورْغ m (hamburḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: هامبُرْق f (hāmburg)

• Armenian: Համբուրգ (Hamburg)
• Asturian: Hamburgu (ast)
• Belarusian: Га́мбург m (Hámburh)
• Bulgarian: Ха́мбург m (Hámburg)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Га́мбург m (Hámburh), Га́мбурґ m (Hámburg)
• Catalan: Hamburg
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢堡 / 汉堡 (zh) (Hànbǎo)

• Czech: Hamburk (cs) m
• Danish: Hamborg
• Dutch: Hamburg (nl)
• Estonian: Hamburg
• Farefare: Hambʋrg
• Finnish: Hampuri (fi)
• French: Hambourg (fr) m
• Friulian: Amburc
• Galician: Hamburgo (gl)
• Georgian: ჰამბურგი (hamburgi)
• German: Hamburg (de) n

  Central Franconian: Hamburg

• Greek: Αμβούργο (el) (Amvoúrgo)
• Hungarian: Hamburg (hu)
• Icelandic: Hamborg f
• Italian: Amburgo (it) f
• Japanese: ハンブルク (Hanburuku)
• Korean: 함부르크 (ko) (Hambureukeu)
• Latin: Hamburgum n
• Latvian: Hamburga f
• Lithuanian: Hamburgas m
• Low German: Hamborg (nds)

  German Low German: Hamborg (nds) (Northern Germany), Hambuorg (nds) (Münsterland)

• Macedonian: Хамбург m (Hamburg)
• Marathi: हॅम्बर्ग n (hĕmbarga)
• North Frisian: Hamborig (Föhr)
• Polish: Hamburg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hamburgo (pt)
• Russian: Га́мбург (ru) m (Gámburg)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хамбург m

  Roman: Hamburg (sh) m

• Spanish: Hamburgo (es) m
• Swedish: Hamburg (sv) n
• Turkish: Hamburg (tr)
• Ukrainian: Га́мбург m (Hámburh), Га́мбурґ m (Hámburg)
• Vietnamese: Hăm-buốc
• Yiddish: האַמבורג (hamburg)

attributive form - relating to Hamburg

• Asturian: hamburgués (ast)
• Belarusian: га́мбургскі (hámburhski)
• Bulgarian: ха́мбургски (hámburgski)
• Catalan: hamburguès (ca)
• Czech: hamburský (cs)
• Danish: hamburgsk
• Esperanto: hamburga
• Finnish: hampurilainen (fi)
• French: hambourgeois (fr)
• Friulian: amburghês
• Galician: hamburgués (gl)
• German: hamburgisch (de), Hamburger (de)
• Hungarian: hamburgi (hu)
• Italian: amburghese (it)
• Polish: hamburski (pl)
• Portuguese: hamburguês (pt)
• Russian: га́мбургский (ru) (gámburgskij)
• Slovak: hamburský (sk)
• Slovene: hamburški
• Spanish: hamburgués (es)
• Swedish: hamburgsk (sv)
• Ukrainian: га́мбурзький (hámburzʹkyj)

Noun

Hamburg (plural Hamburgs)

1. A Hamburg chicken.
2. A variety of black grape.

Alternative forms

• Hamburgh

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əmˈburk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [amˈbuɾk]

Proper noun

Hamburg m

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Derived terms

• hamburguès

Central Franconian

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. (Kölsch) Hamburg
   • 2007, das kölsche liedbuch 2, (Lund Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln), p. 26, song Kölsche Junge bütze joot:

     [...]
     doch eines es jewess
     vun Hamburg bes Paris.

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German

Etymology

From the name of a fortress in the area, Hammaburg, first element of uncertain origin (possibly Old High German Hamme (“bend, angle”)) + -burg (“castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhambʊʁk/, (locally) [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Hamburg):

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Proper noun

Hamburg n (proper noun, genitive Hamburgs or (optionally with an article) Hamburg)

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in and simultaneously a state of Germany)

Derived terms

• Hamburger
  • Hamburger Schule f
• hamburgisch

Related terms

• hamburgerisch

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒmburɡ]
• Hyphenation: Ham‧burg
• Rhymes: -urɡ

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Hamburg	—
accusative	Hamburgot	—
dative	Hamburgnak	—
instrumental	Hamburggal	—
causal-final	Hamburgért	—
translative	Hamburggá	—
terminative	Hamburgig	—
essive-formal	Hamburgként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Hamburgban	—
superessive	Hamburgon	—
adessive	Hamburgnál	—
illative	Hamburgba	—
sublative	Hamburgra	—
allative	Hamburghoz	—
elative	Hamburgból	—
delative	Hamburgról	—
ablative	Hamburgtól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Hamburgé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Hamburgéi	—

Possessive forms of Hamburg
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Hamburgom	—
2nd person sing.	Hamburgod	—
3rd person sing.	Hamburgja	—
1st person plural	Hamburgunk	—
2nd person plural	Hamburgotok	—
3rd person plural	Hamburgjuk	—

Derived terms

• hamburgi

Related terms

• hamburger

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxam.burk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -amburk
• Syllabification: Ham‧burg

Proper noun

Hamburg n (related adjective hamburski)

1. Hamburg (a city in Hamburg, Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany)

Declension

Declension of Hamburg

	singular
nominative	Hamburg
genitive	Hamburga
dative	Hamburgowi
accusative	Hamburg
instrumental	Hamburgiem
locative	Hamburgu
vocative	Hamburgu

Related terms

• hamburczyk
• hamburger
• hamburka

 

Further reading

• Hamburg in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hamburg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦamburk]

Proper noun

Hamburg m inan (related adjective hamburský, demonym Hamburčan, female demonym Hamburčanka)

1. Hamburg (the capital city of the state of Hamburg, Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany)

   Synonym: Slobodné a hanzové mesto Hamburg

Declension

Declension of Hamburg (pattern dub)

	singular
nominative	Hamburg
genitive	Hamburgu
dative	Hamburgu
accusative	Hamburg
locative	Hamburgu
instrumental	Hamburgom

Proper noun

Hamburg m pers (female equivalent Hamburgová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Hamburg (pattern chlap)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Hamburg	Hamburgovia	Hamburgovci
genitive	Hamburga	Hamburgov	Hamburgovcov
dative	Hamburgovi	Hamburgom	Hamburgovcom
accusative	Hamburga	Hamburgov	Hamburgovcov
locative	Hamburgovi	Hamburgoch	Hamburgovcoch
instrumental	Hamburgom	Hamburgmi	Hamburgovcami

Further reading

• “Hamburg”, 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, 2003–2024

Swedish

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Proper noun

Hamburg n (genitive Hamburgs)

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)

Related terms

• hamburgare
• hamburgsk

Turkish

Etymology

From German Hamburg.

Proper noun

Hamburg

1. Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)
2. Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)