Oresund

See also: Öresund

English

Oresund

Alternative forms

• Öresund
• Øresund

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Øresund, Swedish Öresund, from Old Norse Eyrarsund.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːsʊnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɝsʊnd/

Proper noun

Oresund

2. A strait in Northern Europe, which separates Denmark and Sweden.

Derived terms

• Oresund Bridge

Translations

strait

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厄勒海峽 / 厄勒海峡 (Èlè Hǎixiá), 松德海峡 (Sōngdé Hǎixiá)

• Danish: Øresund, Sundet n (definite form; colloquial)
• Faroese: Oyrarsund n
• Finnish: Juutinrauma (fi)
• German: Öresund m
• Icelandic: Eyrarsund n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Øresund

  Nynorsk: Øresund

• Old Norse: ura suti
• Polish: Sund (pl) m
• Russian: Э́ресунн (ru) m (Érɛsunn)
• Spanish: Øresund m, Öresund m, Sund m
• Swahili: Oresund
• Swedish: Öresund (sv), Sundet n (colloquial)

Anagrams

• undoers, re-sound, resound, Duerson, sounder, enduros, unsored