Type Settlement
Usage Albanian, English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkmen, Uzbek
Scripts تيرانا(Arabic) Տիրանա(Armenian) তিরানা(Bengali) Тирана(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian, Tajik) တီရာနာ(Burmese) ტირანა(Georgian) Τίρανα(Greek) טירנה(Hebrew) तिराना(Hindi) ティラナ(Japanese Katakana) 티라나(Korean Hangul) تیرانا(Persian) ติรานา(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. /ti.ˈɾa.na/(Albanian, Spanish) /tɪ.ˈɹɑː.nə/(English) /tiː.ˈraː.naː/(Arabic) /ti.ˈɾɑ.nɑ/(Eastern Armenian) /di.ˈɾɑ.nɑ/(Western Armenian) /ti.ˈra.nə/(Bulgarian) /tì.ɹà.nà/(Burmese) /ˈtɪ.ra.na/(Czech) /ti.ʁa.na/(French) /tʼi.ra.na/(Georgian) /ti.ˈʁaː.na/(German) /ˈti.rɒ.nɒ/(Hungarian) /ti.ˈra.na/(Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian) /tʲi.ɾä.nä/(Japanese) /tʰi.ɾa.na/(Korean) /ˈtʰi.ra.na/(Mongolian) /tɪ.ˈrɑː.na/(Norwegian) /tiː.ɾɒː.ˈnɒː/(Persian) /ti.ˈɾɐ.nɐ/(European Portuguese) /t͡ʃi.ˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/(Brazilian Portuguese) /tʲɪ.ˈra.nə/(Russian) /ˈti.ra.na/(Slovene) /ti˨˩.raː˧.ˈnaː˧/(Thai) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
Perhaps derived from Doric Greek Τυρσανοί (Tursanoi) meaning "Tyrrhenians", which was an exonym for non-Greek inhabitants of the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is the name of the capital city of Albania.