Târgu Mureș

English

Etymology

From Romanian Târgu Mureș

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌtɜːrɡuː ˈmʊərɛʃ/

Proper noun

Târgu Mureș

  1. A city in Mureș, Romania.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

târgu(l) (market) + Mureș, or "market(place) on the Mureș river". Known as Marosvásárhely in Hungarian, with the same meaning, named so in the early 17th century. Also known as Neumarkt am Mieresch in German (local Transylvanian Saxon Nai Mark or Nai Muark), and documented in Medieval Latin as Novum Forum Siculorum, from the name of the Székely people.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɨrɡu ˈmureʃ/
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Proper noun

Târgu Mureș

  1. A city in Mureș, in north-central Romania in Transylvania.

Declension

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