"Dunfermline" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /dʌnˈfɜːɹmlɪn/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phàrlain, the first element being from dùn (“fortification”), and the rest of uncertain origin, possibly from an alteration of the river Lyne Burn, from linne (“waterfall, pool”) + bùrn (“water”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|gd|Dùn Phàrlain}} Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phàrlain, {{m|gd|dùn|t=fortification}} dùn (“fortification”), {{m|en|Lyne}} Lyne, {{m|en|Burn}} Burn, {{m|gd|linne|t=waterfall, pool}} linne (“waterfall, pool”), {{m|gd|bùrn|t=water}} bùrn (“water”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Dunfermline
  1. A city and former royal burgh of Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0987); The former capital of Scotland. Categories (place): Cities in Fife, Scotland, Cities in Scotland, Historical capitals, Historical political subdivisions, Historical settlements, Places in Fife, Scotland, Places in Scotland
    Sense id: en-Dunfermline-en-name-xZ9xv3QK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 36 20
  2. A former local government district in Fife Region (which superseded the historic county) between 1975 and 1996. Categories (place): Historical political subdivisions
    Sense id: en-Dunfermline-en-name-qdp4tiMc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 36 20
  3. A village in Fulton County, Illinois, United States, first settled by people from Dunfermline, Fife. Categories (place): Places in Illinois, USA, Places in the United States, Villages in Illinois, USA, Villages in the United States Related terms: Dunfaurlin
    Sense id: en-Dunfermline-en-name-ztN1VZJL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 36 20
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (town in Fife): Դանֆերմլին (Danfermlin) (Armenian), Данфе́рмлін (Danfjérmlin) [masculine] (Belarusian), Дънфъ́рмлин (Dǎnfǎ́rmlin) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 鄧弗姆林 (Chinese Mandarin), 邓弗姆林 (Dèngfúmǔlín) (Chinese Mandarin), Dún Phárlain (Irish), ダンファームリン (Danfāmurin) (Japanese), Данфермлин (Danfermlin) (Kazakh), 던펌린 (deonpeomnin) (Korean), Danfermlinas [masculine] (Lithuanian), डनफर्मलिन (ḍanpharmalin) (Marathi), Данфе́рмлин (Danférmlin) [masculine] (Russian), Dunfaurlin (Scots), Dùn Phàrlain (Scottish Gaelic), Данфермлин (Danfermlin) (Tatar), ดันเฟิร์มลิน (dan ferm-lin) (Thai), Данфе́рмлін (Danférmlin) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'town in Fife': 29 38 33

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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Danférmlin",
      "sense": "town in Fife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Данфе́рмлін"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Dunfermline"
  ],
  "word": "Dunfermline"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.