"Tartu" meaning in English

See Tartu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈtɑɹtu/
Etymology: From Estonian Tartu, from earlier Tarbatu, ultimately from tarvas (“aurochs”), qv. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|et|Tartu}} Estonian Tartu Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tartu
  1. The second-largest city in Estonia. Wikipedia link: Tartu Categories (place): Cities in Estonia, Places in Estonia Synonyms (former names): Dorpat Translations (second-largest city in Estonia): Տարտու (Tartu) (Armenian), Tartu (Catalan), 塔爾圖 /塔尔图 (Tǎ'ěrtú) (Chinese Mandarin), Tartu (Danish), Tartu (Dutch), Tartu (Estonian), Tartto (Finnish), Tartu (French), Tartu (German), Dorpat (German), Dörpt [historical] (German), טרטו (Hebrew), Tartu (Hungarian), Tartu (Italian), タルトゥ (Tarutu) (Japanese), Tarbatum (Latin), Tērbata (Latvian), Tartu (Lithuanian), Tartu (Norwegian Bokmål), Tartu [neuter] (Polish), Tartu [feminine] (Portuguese), Tártu [feminine] (Portuguese), Та́рту (Tártu) [masculine] (Russian), Ю́рьев (Júrʹjev) [historical, masculine] (Russian), Дерпт (Derpt) [masculine] (Russian), До́рпат (Dórpat) [historical, masculine] (Russian), Tarto (South Estonian), Tartu (Spanish), Tartu (Swedish), Dorpat (Swedish), Tarto (Võro), דערפּט (derpt) (Yiddish), דערפּעט (derpet) (Yiddish), דאָרפּאַט (dorpat) (Yiddish), טאַרטו (tartu) (Yiddish)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). 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.