Oslo

Etymology
From, from ,. The first element is disputed, but is likely from, , from. Another theory is that it comes from, from , but this is unlikely. The second element is, from , (compare the suffix - in English place-names).

Proper noun

 * 1) . Formerly called Christiania and Kristiania.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Oslo
 * Albanian: Oslo
 * Amharic: ኦስሎ
 * Arabic: أُوسْلُو
 * Hijazi Arabic: أوسلو
 * Armenian: Օսլո
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: О́сла
 * Bengali: অসলো
 * Bulgarian: О́сло
 * Burmese: အော့စလိုမြို့
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 奧斯陸
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, Ansloo, Anslo
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: Ósló
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ოსლო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ओस्लो
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Ósló, Osló
 * Indonesian: Oslo
 * Irish: Osló
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Осло
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ^오슬로
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: Осло
 * Lao: ອອສໂລ
 * Latin: Ansloa, Asloa
 * Latvian: Oslo
 * Lithuanian: Oslas
 * Macedonian: Осло
 * Malay: Oslo
 * Maltese: Oslo
 * Maori: Ōhoro
 * Marathi: ऑस्लो
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Осло
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: Oslo
 * Pashto: اوسلو
 * Persian: اسلو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: О̏сло
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Oslo
 * Slovene: Oslo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Oslo
 * Tajik: Осло
 * Tamil: ஒசுலோ
 * Tatar: Осло
 * Thai: ออสโล
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Oslo
 * Ukrainian: О́сло
 * Urdu: اوسلو
 * Uyghur: ئوسلو
 * Uzbek: Oslo
 * Vietnamese: Ốt-xlô
 * Yiddish: אָסלאָ

Proper noun
or less commonly



Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, , first part from + last part from.

Etymology
From,. The first element is disputed, but is likely from, , from. The name then comes from older  where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), from, from  + ,. According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.

Another theory is that the first part comes from, from , but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for found in. The geologist has claimed that it comes from, based on the Danicised spelling. However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have to signify a nasal vowel, which  would not have.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and (also 🇨🇬), and 🇨🇬, ,.

Between 1624 and 1925, referred to the, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king of Denmark named the new city  (later spelling: ) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to in 1925. The location of the old town got the name, now a neighbourhood in the modern city.

Pronunciation

 * (phonemic respelling: Orslo )
 * (phonemic respelling: Orslo )

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
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Usage notes

 * It is sometimes also undeclined.