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. tee-RA-na(Albanian, Arabic, German, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish) ti-RAH-nə(English) tee-RAH-nah(Eastern Armenian) dee-RAH-nah(Western Armenian) tee-RA-nə(Bulgarian) TEE-RA-NA(Burmese, French, Georgian, Korean) TI-ra-na(Czech) TEE-raw-naw(Hungarian) TYEE-RA-NA(Japanese) TEE-ra-na(Mongolian, Slovene) ti-RAH-na(Norwegian) tee-raw-NAW(Persian) tee-RU-nu(European Portuguese) chee-RU-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) tyi-RA-nə(Russian) tee-ra-NA(Thai) [key·IPA]
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.