Copenhagen

English

Etymology

From Low German Kopenhagen, a calque (perhaps modified by folk etymology) of Danish København.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpənˌheɪɡən/, /ˈkoʊpənˌhɑɡən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊpənˈheɪɡən/, /ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːɡən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪɡən

Proper noun

Copenhagen

2. The capital city of Denmark.
   • 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.

3. (metonymically) The Danish government.
4. A municipality (Copenhagen Municipality) in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark.
5. One of the former counties of Denmark.
6. An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States.
7. A village in the town of Denmark, Lewis County, New York, United States.
8. A community of Malahide township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
9. A children's game in which one player is enclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

Derived terms

• Copenhagen blue
• Copenhagener
• Copenhagen interpretation
• Copenhagenism
• Copenhagenist
• Copenhagenization
• Copenhagen left

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: Copenhagen

Translations

capital of Denmark

• Afrikaans: Kopenhagen
• Albanian: Kopenhaga (sq) f, Kopenhagë f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ኮፐንሀገን (kopänhägän)
• Arabic: كُوبِنْهَاجِن f (kōbinhāgin), كُوبِنْهَاج f (kōbinhāg), كُوبِنْهَاغِن f (kōbinhāḡin), كُوبِنْهَاغ f (kōbinhāg)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوبينهاجين f (kōbinhāgin)

  Hijazi Arabic: كوبِنْهاقِن f (kōbinhāgin)

• Armenian: Կոպենհագեն (hy) (Kopenhagen)
• Asturian: Copenḥague (ast) f, Copenhague (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kopenhagen (az)
• Basque: Kopenhage (eu)
• Belarusian: Капенга́ген m (Kapjenháhjen), Капэнга́ген m (Kapenháhjen)
• Bengali: কোপেনহেগেন (bn) (kōpenhegen)
• Bulgarian: Ко́пенхаген m (Kópenhagen)
• Burmese: ကိုပင်ဟေဂင်မြို့ (kuipanghegangmrui.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ко́дань f (Kódanʹ)
• Catalan: Copenhaguen
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哥本哈根 (go¹ bun² haa¹ gan¹)

  Mandarin: 哥本哈根 (zh) (Gēběnhāgēn)

• Chuvash: Копенгаген (Kop̬engagen)
• Corsican: Copenaghen f
• Czech: Kodaň (cs) f
• Danish: København (da)
• Dutch: Kopenhagen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kopenhago (eo)
• Estonian: Kopenhaagen (et)
• Farefare: Kɔpɛnhaɣɛn
• Faroese: Keypmannahavn f, Kjøpinhavn f
• Finnish: Kööpenhamina (fi)
• French: Copenhague (fr) f
• Galician: Copenhague (gl)
• Georgian: კოპენჰაგენი (ka) (ḳoṗenhageni)
• German: Kopenhagen (de) n
• Greek: Κοπεγχάγη (el) f (Kopenchági)
• Haitian Creole: Kopènag
• Hebrew: קוֹפֶּנְהָגֶן / קופנהאגן f (kopenhagen)
• Hindi: कोपेनहेगन m (kopenhegan), कोपनहेगन m (kopanhegan)
• Hungarian: Koppenhága (hu)
• Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn f, Kaupinhafn, Köben f
• Indonesian: Kopenhagen
• Irish: Cóbanhávan m
• Italian: Copenaghen (it) f, Copenaga f
• Japanese: コペンハーゲン (ja) (Kopenhāgen)
• Kashubian: Kòpenhaga f
• Kazakh: Копенгаген (Kopeñagen)
• Khmer: កូប៉ិនហាក (km) (koupənhaak)
• Korean: 코펜하겐 (ko) (Kopenhagen)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Kopenhag (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Копенгаген (Kopengagen)
• Lao: ໂຄເປນເຮເກນ (khō pēn hē kēn)
• Latgalian: Kopenhaga f
• Latin: Hafnia
• Latvian: Kopenhāgena f
• Lithuanian: Kopenhaga f
• Macedonian: Копенха́ген m (Kopenhágen)
• Malay: Kopenhagen, Copenhagen
• Maltese: Kopenħagen
• Marathi: कोपेनहेगन n (kopenhegan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Копенхаген (Kopenxagen)

• Norman: Copèneĥague
• Northern Sami: Københápman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: København (no)

  Nynorsk: København

• Old Danish: Køpmannæhafn
• Old English: Ċēapmanna hæfen f
• Ottoman Turkish: قوپنهاغ (Kopenhag)
• Pashto: کوپن هاګن m
• Persian: کپنهاگ (kopenhâg)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Copenhagen
• Polish: Kopenhaga (pl) f
• Portuguese: Copenhague (pt) (Brazil), Copenhaga (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: Copenhaga (ro)
• Russian: Копенга́ген (ru) m (Kopengágen)
• Samogitian: Kuopenhaga f
• Scots: Colpenhaven, Copenhagen
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Копенха́ген m

  Roman: Kopenhágen (sh) m

• Silesian: Kopynhaga f
• Slovak: Kodaň f
• Slovene: København m, Kobenhaven m, Kopenhagen m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Kopenhagen m

  Upper Sorbian: Kopenhagen m

• Spanish: Copenhague (es)
• Swedish: Köpenhamn (sv) n
• Tagalog: Copenhague
• Tajik: Копенҳаген (Kopenhagen), Копенгаген (Kopengagen)
• Tamil: கோபனாவன் (kōpaṉāvaṉ)
• Tatar: Копенһаген (Qopenhağen)
• Thai: โคเปนเฮเกน (koo-bpeen-hee-gên)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་ཕེན་ཧ་ཀེན (kho phen ha ken)
• Turkish: Kopenhag (tr)
• Turkmen: Kopengagen
• Ukrainian: Копенга́ген (uk) m (Kopenháhen)
• Urdu: کوپنہیگن m (kopehegan), کوپنہیگن m (kopanhegan)
• Uyghur: كوپېنھاگېن (kopënhagën)
• Uzbek: Kopengagen
• Vietnamese: Cô-pen-ha-ghen, Cô-pen-ha-gen, Cơ-bần-hăng
• Võro: Kopõnhaagõn
• Yiddish: קאָפּענהאַגען n (kopenhagen)

former county in Denmark

• Danish: Københavns Amt
• Finnish: Kööpenhaminan lääni
• Marathi: कोपेनहेगन f (kopenhegan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: København (no)

• Swedish: Köpenhamns amt

community in Louisiana, USA

• Farefare: Kopenhegen
• Finnish: Copenhagen (fi)
• Marathi: कोपेनहेगन m (kopenhegan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Copenhagen (no)

Noun

Copenhagen (plural Copenhagens)

1. A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Translations

Translations

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

Norwegian Bokmål

Copenhagen in Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

From English Copenhagen, the English name of the capital of Denmark, from Danish København (“Copenhagen”), from Old Danish Køpmannæhafn (“Copenhagen”), literally meaning "merchants' port", from Old Norse Kaupmannahǫfn (“Copenhagen”), with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpənˌheɪɡən/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Copenhagen

1. Copenhagen (an unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States)
2. Copenhagen (a village in Denmark, Lewis County, New York, United States)
3. Copenhagen (a community of Malahide, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Copenhagen f

1. Alternative form of Copenhaga