Tunis

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnəs/
• Rhymes: -uːnəs

Tunis

1. 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

   1. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
   2. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
   4. The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
      • 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary‎^[1]:

        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.

   5. Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
2. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

• Tunis cake

• Tunisia

• 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.

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

Tunis

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtu.nis]

Tunis ?

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunísia
• tunisià

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

• Hyphenation: Tu‧nis

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

• “Tunis”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtunɪs]

Tunis m inan (relational adjective tuniský)

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• “Tunis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Tunis

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Tunis n

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunes (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ty.nis/

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Tunis ?

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunisie

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)

• Tunes (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnɪs/

• Audio:

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Tunis n (proper noun, genitive Tunis' or (with an article) Tunis)

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunesien

Tunis ? (Limousin)

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunisia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ɲis/

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• Rhymes: -uɲis
• Syllabification: Tu‧nis

Tunis m

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• Tunis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tunis f

1. alternative form of Tunes

• IPA^(key): /tǔnis/

Tùnis m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)
2. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuɲis]

Tunis m inan (genitive singular Tunisu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

• “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

• IPA^(key): /tùːnis/

Túnis m inan

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Túnis
genitive	Túnisa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Túnis
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Túnisa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Túnisu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Túnis
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Túnisu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Túnisom

• Tunižàn / Tunižánka
• túniški

• “Tunis”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Tunis”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Tunis n (genitive Tunis)

1. Tunis (the capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia)

Tunis

1. Tunisia (a country in North Africa)