Sydney

See also: Sidney

English

Alternative forms

• (male given name): Sidney

Etymology

For the surname and given name, see Sidney. The cities in Australia and Canada are named after British politician Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪd.ni/, enPR: sĭd'ni,

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɪdni
• Hyphenation: Syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney (countable and uncountable, plural Sydneys)

2. (uncountable) A major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia.
4. The City of Sydney, the local government area for central Sydney, New South Wales.
6. (uncountable) A seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.
8. (uncountable) An unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
9. (countable) A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Sidney.
10. (countable) A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms

• (Nova Scotia): SYD, Syd, Syd. (abbreviation)
• (given name): Syd (diminutive)

Derived terms

• (Australia, Nova Scotia): North Sydney
• (Australia): Sydneysider
• (Australia, Canada): Sydneyite
• (Nova Scotia): SYD, Syd, Syd. (abbreviation)
• (given name): Syd (diminutive)

Translations

state capital of New South Wales, Australia

• Afrikaans: Sydney
• Arabic: سِيدْنِي f (sidnī), سِدْنِي f (sidnī)
• Armenian: Սիդնեյ (Sidney)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: Сі́дней m (Sídnjej), Сідне́й m (Sidnjéj)
• Bengali: সিডনি (śiḍoni)
• Bulgarian: Си́дни m (Sídni)
• Burmese: ဆစ်ဒနီမြို့ (hcacda.nimrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悉尼 (zh) (Xīní), 雪梨 (zh) (Xuělí) (Taiwan also)

• Dinka: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Sydney (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sidnejo
• Finnish: Sydney (fi)
• French: Sydney (fr) f
• Georgian: სიდნეი (sidnei)
• German: Sydney (de) n
• Greek: Σύδνεϋ n (Sýdneÿ), Σίδνεϊ n (Sídneï)
• Gujarati: સીડની (sīḍnī)
• Hawaiian: Hini
• Hebrew: סִידְנִי (he) f (sídni)
• Hindi: सिडनी m (siḍnī)
• Hungarian: Sydney (hu)
• Irish: Sidní
• Italian: Sydney (it) f
• Japanese: シドニー (Shidonī)
• Kannada: ಸಿಡ್ನಿ (siḍni)
• Khmer: ស៊ីដនីយ៏ (siitnii)
• Korean: 시드니 (ko) (Sideuni)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: Sidneja f
• Lithuanian: Sidnėjus m
• Macedonian: Сиднеј m (Sidnej)
• Malayalam: സിഡ്നി (siḍni)
• Maori: Poihākena
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سیدنی (sidni)
• Polish: Sydney (pl) n
• Portuguese: Sydney f, Sidney f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਡਨੀ (siḍnī)
• Rarotongan: Tene
• Russian: Си́дней (ru) m (Sídnɛj), Сидне́й (ru) m (Sidnɛ́j)
• Samoan: Sini
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сиднеј m

  Roman: Sidnej m

• Sinhalese: සිඩ්නි (siḍni)
• Spanish: Sídney (es)
• Swedish: Sydney n
• Tamil: சிட்னி (ciṭṉi)
• Telugu: సిడ్నీ (siḍnī)
• Thai: ซิดนีย์ (sít-nîi)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: Senē
• Turkish: Sidney
• Ukrainian: Сі́дней m (Sídnej), Сідне́й m (Sidnéj)
• Urdu: سڈنی m (siḍnī)
• Vietnamese: Xích-ni

urban community in Nova Scotia, Canada

• German: Sydney (de)
• Portuguese: Sydney f
• Russian: Си́дней (ru) m (Sídnɛj), Сидне́й (ru) m (Sidnɛ́j), Си́дни m (Sídni)

male given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悉尼 (zh) (Xīní), 西德尼 (zh) (Xīdéní)

• Latvian: Sidnijs m
• Portuguese: Sidney m, Sídnei m, Sidnei m, Sydney m
• Russian: Си́дни m (Sídni)

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悉妮 (Xīní), 西德妮 (Xīdéní)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Си́дни m (Sídni)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Sydney

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Derived terms

• Sydneyer
• Sydneys

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsid.ni]

Proper noun

Sydney m

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Finnish

Etymology

From English Sydney.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsidni/, [ˈs̠idni]
• Syllabification^(key): syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Declension

Declension of Sydney (type risti) singular plural nominative Sydney – genitive Sydneyn – partitive Sydneyä – accusative Sydney Sydneyn – inessive Sydneyssä – elative Sydneystä – illative Sydneyyn – adessive Sydneyllä – ablative Sydneyltä – allative Sydneylle – essive Sydneynä – translative Sydneyksi – abessive Sydneyttä – instructive – – comitative – –

Derived terms

• sydneyläinen

 

compounds

• sydneynsuppilohämähäkki
• sydneyntunneliverkkohämähäkki

 

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sid.nɛ/, /sid.ne/

Proper noun

Sydney f

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsidni]
• Hyphenation: Syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Sydney	—
accusative	Sydney-t	—
dative	Sydney-nek	—
instrumental	Sydney-vel	—
causal-final	Sydney-ért	—
translative	Sydney-vé	—
terminative	Sydney-ig	—
essive-formal	Sydney-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Sydney-ben	—
superessive	Sydney-n	—
adessive	Sydney-nél	—
illative	Sydney-be	—
sublative	Sydney-re	—
allative	Sydney-hez	—
elative	Sydney-ből	—
delative	Sydney-ről	—
ablative	Sydney-től	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Sydney-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Sydney-éi	—

Possessive forms of Sydney
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Sydney-m	—
2nd person sing.	Sydney-d	—
3rd person sing.	Sydney-je	—
1st person plural	Sydney-nk	—
2nd person plural	Sydney-tek	—
3rd person plural	Sydney-jük	—

Derived terms

• sydney-i

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Sydney.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsid.nej/, /ˈsid.ni/
• Rhymes: -idnej, -idni
• Hyphenation: Sỳd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney f

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Polish

Sydney

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Sydney.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɨd.ni/, (nonstandard but common) /ˈsɨd.nɛj/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɨdni
• Syllabification: Syd‧ney

Proper noun

Sydney n (indeclinable)

1. Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia)
2. Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Further reading

• Sydney in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sydney in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Sidney, Sidnei, Sidney
• Sídnei (given name)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Sydney.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.d͡ʒi.nej/ [ˈsi.d͡ʒi.neɪ̯], /ˈsid͡ʒ.nej/ [ˈsid͡ʒ.neɪ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.d͡ʒi.nej/ [ˈsi.d͡ʒi.neɪ̯], /ˈsid͡ʒ.nej/ [ˈsid͡ʒ.neɪ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsid͡ʒ.nej/ [ˈsid͡ʒ.neɪ̯], /ˈsi.d͡ʒi.nej/ [ˈsi.d͡ʒi.neɪ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dnɐj/ [ˈsi.ðnɐj]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dnɐj/ [ˈsi.ðnɐj]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dnej/ [ˈsi.ðnej]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dnej/ [ˈsi.ðnej]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.dne/ [ˈsi.ðne]

Proper noun

Sydney

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Proper noun

Sydney m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Sydney

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /síːdni/

Proper noun

Sy̑dney m inan

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)

Inflection

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., soft o-stem
nominative	Sydney
genitive	Sydneyja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sydney
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sydneyju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Sydneyjem

Related terms

• Sydneyjčan / Sydneyjčanka
• sydneyjski

Welsh

Proper noun

Sydney

1. (uncountable) Sydney (a major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia)
2. (uncountable, uncountable) Sydney (a seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island)