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Name Tunis
Type Country & Settlement
Usage Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek
Scripts تونس(Arabic, Urdu) Թունիս(Armenian) Туніс(Belarusian, Ukrainian) Тунис(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic) תוניס(Hebrew) تۋنىيس(Kazakh Arabic) تۇنىس(Uyghur)
Pronounced Pron. TOO-nees(Arabic) too-NEES(Armenian) TOO-nis(Czech, German) TYOO-nis(English) TOO-nəs(English) TUY-NEES(French) TOO-nyees(Polish) tuw-NYEES(Russian)
Other Forms FormsTūnis (Arabic), Tounis (Arabic), Toonis (Arabic)
Theme night
Edit Status Status3. usages AND description are verified

Meaning & History

Meaning uncertain, possibly from the Tamazight root ens meaning "to lie down, to pass the night" or from the name of the Phoenician goddess TANITH. This is the name of the capital city of Tunisia, though it is used to refer to both the city and country in various languages.
Added 3/6/2017 by HL