Capernaum

See also: Capernaüm

English

Capernaum.

Etymology

From Late Latin Capharnaum, from Ancient Greek Καπερναούμ (Kapernaoúm), from Biblical Hebrew כְּפַר נַחוּם (Kfar Nahum, “Nahum's Village”).

Proper noun

Capernaum

1. An ancient town in Galilee, Israel, a biblical and archaeological site.

Translations

The biblical town

• Afrikaans: Kapernaüm
• Arabic: كفرناحوم m
• Aragonese: Cafarnaum
• Basque: Kfar Nahum
• Bulgarian: Капернаум (Kapernaum)
• Catalan: Cafarnaüm
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迦百農／迦百农 (Jiābǎinóng), 葛法翁 (zh) (Gěfǎwēng) (Catholic)

• Coptic: ⲕⲁⲫⲁⲣⲛⲁⲟⲩⲙ (kapharnaoum)
• Danish: Kapernaum
• Dutch: Kafarnaüm
• Esperanto: Kafarnao
• Finnish: Kapernaum
• French: Capharnaüm f, Capernaüm f
• Galician: Cafarnaún
• German: Kafarnaum, Kapernaum
• Greek: Καπερναούμ (el) f (Kapernaoúm)
• Hawaiian: Kaperenauma
• Hebrew: כפר נחום
• Hungarian: Kapernaum (hu), Kafarnaum (hu)
• Indonesian: Kapernaum
• Italian: Cafarnao (it) f
• Japanese: カペナウム
• Javanese: Kapernaum
• Kazakh: Қапарнаум (Qaparnaum)
• Korean: 카파르나움 (kapareunaum)
• Latin: Capharnaum n
• Maori: Kaperenauma
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kapernaum

  Nynorsk: Kefár Nahúm

• Occitan: Cafarnaom
• Plautdietsch: Kapernaum
• Polish: Kafarnaum (pl) n
• Portuguese: Cafarnaum (pt) f
• Romanian: Capernaum
• Russian: Капернаум (ru) m (Kapernaum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ка̀фарна̄ум m

  Roman: Kafarnaum (sh) m

• Slovene: Kafarnaum
• Spanish: Cafarnaúm (es) f
• Swedish: Kafarnaum
• Tagalog: Kapernaum
• Tamil: கப்பர்நாகும் (kapparnākum)
• Ukrainian: Капернаум (Kapernaum)
• Urdu: کفر نحوم
• Vietnamese: Caphácnaum
• West Frisian: Kafarnaüm