Amiens

English

Etymology

From French Amiens.

Proper noun

Amiens

1. The capital city of the Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France.

Translations

a large city in The Somme

• Armenian: Ամյեն (Amyen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞眠 / 亚眠 (zh) (Yàmián)

• French: Amiens (fr)
• Georgian: ამიენი (amieni)
• Greek: Αμιένη (el) f (Amiéni)
• Latin: Samarobriva f
• Marathi: आम्यें (āmyẽ)
• Middle French: Amiens
• Occitan: Amians
• Old English: Embene m pl
• Old French: Amiens
• Picard: Anmyin, Anmiens
• Portuguese: Amiens f
• Russian: Амье́н (ru) m (Amʹjén)

Anagrams

• Iseman, animes, manies, animés, Sinema, maines, mesian, Emsian, inseam, Eisman, Siamen, amines

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French Amiens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mjɛ̃/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Amiens ?

1. Amiens (the capital city of the Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France)

Derived terms

• amiénois, Amiénois

Anagrams

• animes, animés, ensima, manies, maniés, menais, niâmes

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French Amiens.

Proper noun

Amiens

1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)
   • 1360s, Jean Froissart, Chroniques de J. Froissart, 1870 ed., Paris: Jules Renoir, book I, p. 96

     Depuis se jeua, esbati et demora li rois d'Engleterre avoecques le roy de France en le cité d'Amiens.

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Descendants

• French: Amiens

Old French

Etymology

From the Roman praenomen Ambianum, from Latin Ambiani (“Celtic tribe in northern Gaul”), possibly from Gaulish ambe (“river”), from Proto-Celtic *abū, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”).

Proper noun

Amiens

1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)

Descendants

• English: Amiens
• Middle French: Amiens

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.ẽj̃s/ [aˈmi.ẽɪ̯̃s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.ẽj̃s/ [aˈmi.ẽɪ̯̃s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈmi.ẽj̃ʃ/ [aˈmi.ẽɪ̯̃ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈmi.ɐ̃j̃ʃ/

Proper noun

Amiens f

1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)