Krakow

See also: Kraków

English

Alternative forms

• Cracow, Kraków (common variants)
• Cracov, Krakau (rare or obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English crakou, crawcow.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹækaʊ/, /ˈkɹɑkaʊ/, /ˈkɹækoʊ/, /ˈkɹɑkoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹækaʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Krakow

2. A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.

Derived terms

• Krakovian

Translations

city

• Arabic: كْرَاكُوف m (krakuf), كراكوفيا f, إِقْرَاقُو m (ʔiqrāqū)
• Armenian: Կրակով (hy) (Krakov)
• Azerbaijani: Krakov (az)
• Basque: Krakovia
• Belarusian: Кра́каў m (Krákaŭ)
• Bulgarian: Кра́ков (bg) m (Krákov)
• Catalan: Cracòvia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克拉科夫 (zh) (Kèlākēfū)

• Corsican: Cracuvia f
• Czech: Krakov (cs) m
• Danish: Krakow
• Dutch: Krakau (nl) n
• Esperanto: Krakovo
• Estonian: Kraków
• Farefare: Karakovia
• Finnish: Krakova (fi)
• French: Cracovie (fr) f
• Galician: Cracovia (gl)
• Georgian: კრაკოვი (ḳraḳovi)
• German: Krakau (de) n
• Greek: Κρακοβία (el) (Krakovía)
• Hebrew: קראקוב f (krákov)
• Hungarian: Krakkó (hu)
• Icelandic: Kraká f
• Irish: Kraków
• Italian: Cracovia (it) f
• Japanese: クラクフ (Kurakufu)
• Korean: 크라쿠프 (keurakupeu)
• Latin: Cracōvia (la) f
• Latvian: Krakova
• Lithuanian: Krokuva
• Low German:

  German Low German: Krakau

• Macedonian: Кра́ков m (Krákov)
• Marathi: क्राकोव (krākov)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kraków

  Nynorsk: Kraków

• Occitan: Cracòvia f
• Old Ruthenian: Кра́ковъ m (Krákov)
• Persian: کراکوف (krâkuv)
• Polish: Kraków (pl)
• Portuguese: Cracóvia
• Romanian: Cracovia f
• Russian: Кра́ков (ru) m (Krákov)
• Scots: Kraków, Cracow
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кра̏ков m

  Roman: Krȁkov (sh) m

• Slovak: Krakov m
• Slovene: Krakov m
• Spanish: Cracovia (es)
• Swedish: Kraków (sv)
• Thai: กรากุฟ (graa-gùf)
• Turkish: Kraków
• Ukrainian: Кра́ків (uk) m (Krákiv)
• Uzbek: Krakov
• Vilamovian: Krök
• West Frisian: Krakau n
• Yiddish: קראָקע f (kroke)