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Image:Deutschland Lage Berlins.svg|thumb|200px|The location of Berlin within [[Germany.]]

Image:Berlin reichstag CP.jpg|thumb|200px|The [(building)|Reichstag, the seat of the German parliament, is one of the most recognisable buildings in Berlin.]

Etymology
From the German Berlin#German|Berlin.

Pronunciation
w:General American|GenAm?: IPA|[b��lɪn]
Received Pronunciation|RP: IPA|[b��lɪn]
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪn|-ɪn

Proper noun
en-proper noun

1. The capital city of Germany.
2. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.

Derived terms
Berliner
East Berlin
West Berlin

Translations
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Afrikaans: Berlyn
Albanian: Berlini
Arabic: ARchar|بر��� (Barlīn)
Bosnian: Berlin#Bosnian|Berlin m
Chinese: �� (Bólín)
Czech: Berlín m
Dutch: Berlijn n
Esperanto: Berlino
Estonian: Berliin
Finnish: Berliini
French: Berlin#French|Berlin
German: Berlin#German|Berlin n
Greek: �ε�ολίνο (Verolíno) n
Hebrew: �ר��� (Berlin) f
Hungarian: Berlin#Hungarian|Berlin
Italian: Berlino f
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Japanese: ���� (Berurin)
Kashubian: Berlëno
Korean: 배를린 (Baereullin)
Latin: Berolinum n
Latvian: Berlīne f
Lithuanian: Berlynas
Maltese: Berlin#Maltese|Berlin
Polish: Berlin#Polish|Berlin
Russian: �е�лин (Berlín) m
Serbian
:Cyrillic: �е�лин#Serbian|�е�лин m
:Roman: Berlin#Serbian|Berlin m
Spanish: Berlín m
Swedish: Berlin#Swedish|Berlin
Tatar: Berlin#Tatar|Berlin
Vietnamese: Bá-linh
Welsh: Berlin#Welsh|Berlin f
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Category:Capital cities

Bosnian

Proper noun
Berlin m

1. Berlin

Category:bs:Cities

German

Etymology
Possibly from the w:Polabian language|Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- (swamp) + suffix -in. The place is first mentioned by this name in the late 12th century (as Berlyn). According to (incorrect) folk etymology, the name is derived from the Bär (bear) that is the symbol of the city.

Pronunciation
(Standard New High German) IPA|[b���li�n], IPA|[b���li�n],
(Berlinisch) IPA|[bali�n], IPA|[bali��n]
Audio|De-Berlin-pronunciation.ogg|Berlin

Proper noun
Berlin n

1. Berlin#English|Berlin, the capital city of Germany.

#:Berlin ist mehr ein Weltteil als eine Stadt. — Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1800.
#::Berlin is more a part of a world than a city.
#:Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein. — Karl Scheffler, author of Berlin: Ein Stadtschicksal, 1910.
#::Berlin is a city damned forever to become, never to be.

1. Berlin#English|Berlin, one of the current component states of Germany.

Related terms
einen Koffer in Berlin haben

References
:de:Berlin
1999: Dieter Berger, Geographische Namen in Deutschland, Bibliographisches Institut. ISBN 3-411-06252-5.

Category:German States
Category:de:Capital cities

Serbian

Proper noun
Berlin m

1. Berlin

See also
�е�лин#Serbian|�е�лин

Category:sr:Cities

Tatar

Proper noun
Berlin

1. Berlin#English|Berlin

Declension
tt-latin-noun|nıñ|ga|nı|da|dan

References
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