# Tunis
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
* Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
* Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtjuːnɪs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈtuːnəs/
* Rhymes: -uːnəs

### Proper noun

Tunis
* A city on the northern coast of Africa:
** 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 248:Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
** A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
** A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
** The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
*** 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary‎:Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
** Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
* A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

#### Derived terms

* Tunis cake

#### Related terms

* Tunisia

#### Translations
### References

* Rossi, Peter M.; White, Wayne Edward (1980). Articles on the Middle East, 1947–1971: A Cumulation of the Bibliographies from the Middle East Journal. Pierian Press, University of Michigan. p. 132.

### Anagrams

* suint, inust, Sintu, uints, Tsun-i, units, Nuits

## Afrikaans
### Proper noun

Tunis
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtu.nis]

### Proper noun

Tunis ?
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Related terms

* Tunísia
* tunisià

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtunɪs]

### Proper noun

Tunis m inan (relational adjective tuniský)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Related terms

* Tunisko

### Further reading

* “Tunis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Danish
### Proper noun

Tunis
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

## Dutch
### Proper noun

Tunis n
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

## French
### Alternative forms

* Tunes (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ty.nis/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Tunis ?
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Related terms

* Tunisie

## Gagauz
### Proper noun

Tunis
* Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

## German
### Alternative forms

* Tunes (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuːnɪs/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Derived terms

* Tunesien

## Occitan
### Proper noun

Tunis ? (Limousin)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Related terms

* Tunisia

### Further reading

* Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 556

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtu.ɲis/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uɲis
* Syllabification: Tu‧nis

### Proper noun

Tunis m
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Tunis f
* Alternative form of Tunes

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tǔnis/

### Proper noun

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)
* Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtuɲis]

### Proper noun

Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

### References

* “Tunis”, 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

## Swedish
### Proper noun

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)
* Tunis (The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

## Uzbek

Other scripts :
| Yangi Imlo | |
| Cyrillic | Тунис‍ |
| Latin | Tunis‍ |
| Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan) | |

### Proper noun

Tunis
* Tunisia (a country in North Africa)