Louvain

English

Alternative forms

• Leuven (borrowed from Dutch)

Etymology

Borrowed from French Louvain.

Proper noun

Louvain

1. The capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium.

Translations

Belgian city

• Arabic: لوفان
• Armenian: Լուվեն (Luven)
• Bulgarian: Льовен (Ljoven)
• Catalan: Lovaina (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魯汶 / 鲁汶 (zh) (Lǔwèn), 勒芬 (Lèfēn), 勒文 (Lèwén), 盧萬 / 卢万 (Lúwàn)

• Czech: Lovaň (cs)
• Dutch: Leuven (nl) n
• Esperanto: Loveno
• Finnish: Leuven
• French: Louvain (fr) m
• German: Löwen (de) n
• Greek: Λέουβεν (Léouven)
• Hebrew: לוון
• Italian: Lovanio
• Japanese: ルーヴェン (Rūven)
• Latin: Lovanium
• Limburgish: Leuve
• Lithuanian: Leuvenas
• Luxembourgish: Léiwen
• Marathi: लुवें (luvẽ)
• Occitan: Lovaina
• Polish: Lowanium
• Portuguese: Lovaina
• Romanian: Louvain
• Russian: Лёвен (Ljóven)
• Serbo-Croatian: Лувен
• Spanish: Lovaina (es)
• Swedish: Leuven
• Walloon: Lovin
• West Flemish: Leuven

Anagrams

• Luviano

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Luvanium, Latinized from a Viking/North Germanic or Frankish name *Loven, composed of *lo (“forest, clearing”) + *hvein (“swamp, marsh”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”), thus meaning "swamp near the forest."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.vɛ̃/
• Hyphenation: Lou‧vain
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Proper noun

Louvain ?

1. Capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium

Derived terms

• Louvain-la-Neuve
• louvaniste

See also

• Leuven (in Dutch)