Podgorica

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Pòdgorica / По̀дгорица (literally “under the Gorica”), from pȍd / по̏д (“under”) + Gorica / Горица (“little mountain”), the name of a hill which overlooks the city, from gòra / го̀ра (“mountain”) + -ica / -ица (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒdɡəɹɪtsa/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Podgorica

1. The capital and largest city of Montenegro.

   Synonym: (former name) Titograd

Translations

capital and largest city of Montenegro

• Afrikaans: Podgoritsa
• Albanian: Podgoricë f, Podgorica (sq) f
• Arabic: بُودْغُورِيتْشَا f (budḡūritšā)
• Armenian: Պոդգորիցա (Podgoricʻa)
• Azerbaijani: Podqoritsa (az)
• Belarusian: Падго́рыца f (Padhóryca)
• Bengali: পোদগোরিচা (pōdgōrica)
• Bulgarian: Подго́рица f (Podgórica)
• Burmese: ပေါ့ဒ်ဂိုရစ်ဆာမြို့ (paud.guirachcamrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 波德戈里察 (bo¹ dak¹ gwo¹ lei⁵ caat³)

  Mandarin: 波德戈里察 (zh) (Bōdégēlǐchá)

• Chuvash: Подгорица (Podgoritsa)
• Czech: Podgorica (cs) f
• Danish: Podgorica
• Dutch: Podgorica n
• Esperanto: Podgorico (eo)
• Estonian: Podgorica
• Finnish: Podgorica (fi)
• French: Podgorica (fr) f
• Georgian: პოდგორიცა (ka) (ṗodgorica)
• German: Podgorica (de) n
• Greek: Ποντγκόριτσα (el) f (Pontgkóritsa)
• Hebrew: פודגוריצה f (podgoritsa)
• Hindi: पोडगोरिका m (poḍgorikā), पोडगोरित्सा m (poḍgoritsā), पोदगोरित्सा m (podgoritsā)
• Hungarian: Podgorica (hu)
• Icelandic: Podgorica
• Irish: Podgairítse m
• Italian: Podgorica (it) f
• Japanese: ポドゴリツァ (ja) (Podogoritsa)
• Kazakh: Подгорица (Podgorisa)
• Khmer: ប៉ូដហ្គោរីកា (poutgooriikaa)
• Korean: 포드고리차 (Podeugoricha)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Podgorica

• Kyrgyz: Подгорица (Podgoritsa)
• Lao: ພອດໂກຣິຊາ (phǭt kō ri sā)
• Latvian: Podgorica f
• Lithuanian: Podgorica f
• Macedonian: Подгорица (mk) f (Podgorica)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Подгорица (Podgorica)

• Navajo: Podgówitsʼa
• Norwegian: Podgorica

  Bokmål: Podgorica

• Ottoman Turkish: پودغوریچه (podğoriça)
• Pashto: پودګوريڅه f (podgoriča)
• Persian: پودگوریتسا (podgoritsâ)
• Polish: Podgorica (pl) f
• Portuguese: Podgorica (pt) f, Titogrado f
• Romanian: Podgorița f
• Russian: Подго́рица (ru) f (Podgórica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: По̀дгорица f

  Roman: Pòdgorica (sh) f

• Slovak: Podgorica f
• Slovene: Podgorica f
• Spanish: Podgorica (es) f
• Swedish: Podgorica (sv)
• Tajik: Подгоритса (Podgoritsa)
• Tatar: Подгорица (Podgoritsa)
• Thai: พอดกอรีตซา (pɔ́t-gɔɔ-ríit-sâa)
• Turkish: Podgorica (tr)
• Turkmen: Podgoritsa
• Ukrainian: Подго́риця (uk) f (Podhórycja)
• Urdu: پودگوریتسا m (podgoritsā)
• Uzbek: Podgoritsa
• Vietnamese: Pốt-gô-ri-xa
• Yakut: Подгорица (Podgoritsa)
• Yiddish: פּאָדגאָריצע n (podgoritse)

Albanian

Proper noun

Podgorica f

1. definite nominative of Podgoricë

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpodɡorɪt͡sa]

Proper noun

Podgorica f (relational adjective podgorický)

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Declension

Declension of Podgorica (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Podgorica
genitive	Podgorici
dative	Podgorice, Podgorici
accusative	Podgoricu
vocative	Podgorico
locative	Podgorice, Podgorici
instrumental	Podgoricou

Estonian

Proper noun

Podgorica

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pòdgorica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpodɡorit͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: Pod‧go‧ri‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

Proper noun

Podgorica

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Podgorica	—
accusative	Podgoricát	—
dative	Podgoricának	—
instrumental	Podgoricával	—
causal-final	Podgoricáért	—
translative	Podgoricává	—
terminative	Podgoricáig	—
essive-formal	Podgoricaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Podgoricában	—
superessive	Podgoricán	—
adessive	Podgoricánál	—
illative	Podgoricába	—
sublative	Podgoricára	—
allative	Podgoricához	—
elative	Podgoricából	—
delative	Podgoricáról	—
ablative	Podgoricától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Podgoricáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Podgoricáéi	—

Possessive forms of Podgorica

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Podgoricám	—
2nd person sing.	Podgoricád	—
3rd person sing.	Podgoricája	—
1st person plural	Podgoricánk	—
2nd person plural	Podgoricátok	—
3rd person plural	Podgoricájuk	—

Derived terms

• podgoricai

Icelandic

Proper noun

Podgorica n (proper noun, genitive singular Podgorica)

1. Podgorica (the capital of Montenegro)

Declension

Declension of Podgorica (sg-only neuter)

indefinite singular
nominative	Podgorica
accusative	Podgorica
dative	Podgorica
genitive	Podgorica

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔd.ɡɔˈri.t͡sa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: Pod‧go‧ri‧ca

Proper noun

Podgorica f (related adjective podgoricki)

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Declension

Declension of Podgorica

	singular
nominative	Podgorica
genitive	Podgoricy
dative	Podgoricy
accusative	Podgoricę
instrumental	Podgoricą
locative	Podgoricy
vocative	Podgorico

Derived terms

(nouns):

• podgoriczanin
• podgoriczanka

References

• Podgorica in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pòdgorica.

Proper noun

Podgorica f

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

   Synonym: (historical) Titogrado

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒdɡorit͡sa/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Pòdgorica f (Cyrillic spelling По̀дгорица)

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Declension

Declension of Podgorica

	singular
nominative	Pòdgorica
genitive	Pòdgoricē
dative	Pòdgorici
accusative	Pòdgoricu
vocative	Pòdgorico / Pòdgorica
locative	Pòdgorici
instrumental	Pòdgoricom

References

• “Podgorica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔdɡɔrit͡sa]

Proper noun

Podgorica f

1. Podgorica (the capital city of Montenegro)

Declension

Declension of Podgorica (pattern ulica)

	singular
nominative	Podgorica
genitive	Podgorice
dative	Podgorici
accusative	Podgoricu
locative	Podgorici
instrumental	Podgoricou

Further reading

• “Podgorica”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025