Lübeck

See also: Lubeck

English

Proper noun

Lübeck

1. A city in Schleswig-Holstein, north-central Germany, northeast of Hamburg; a major Baltic port and industrial center, the present city dates from 1143 and was the leading town of the Hanseatic League after its designation as a free city in 1226; it retained that status until 1937.
   • 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 621:

     Lübeck alone has lost 12,000 laboring jobs in the past 15 years, many in the shipbuilding industry.

Translations

city

• Bulgarian: Лю́бек m (Ljúbek)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 呂貝克 / 吕贝克 (Leoi⁵ bui³ haak¹)

  Mandarin: 呂貝克 / 吕贝克 (zh) (Lǚbèikè), 呂北克 / 吕北克 (Lǚběikè)

• Dutch: Lübeck n
• Finnish: Lyypekki (fi)
• French: Lübeck (fr) m
• Georgian: ლიუბეკი (liubeḳi)
• German: Lübeck (de) n
• Hindi: लूबेक (lūbek)
• Italian: Lubecca f
• Kyrgyz: Лүбек (Lübek)
• Latin: Lubeca f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Lubeek

• Marathi: लुबेक (lubek)
• Polish: Lubeka (pl) f
• Russian: Лю́бек (ru) m (Ljúbek)
• Swedish: Lybeck c

Anagrams

• Buckle, buckle

German

Etymology

From Middle Low German Lǖbēke, from Polabian Liubice (literally “lovely”) (compare Slovak Ľubica (personal name)), from Proto-Slavic *ľubь (“love”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”). The latter part of the name was altered after the common Low German placename suffix +‎ -beck, from Middle Low German bēke (“brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz, whence also German Bach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlyːbɛk/, (dated) /ˈlyːbeːk/

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• Hyphenation: Lü‧beck

Proper noun

Lübeck n (proper noun, genitive Lübecks or (optionally with an article) Lübeck)

1. Lübeck (an independent city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Declension

Declension of Lübeck [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Lübeck
genitive	des	Lübecks, Lübeck1
dative	dem	Lübeck
accusative	das	Lübeck

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Lübecker
  • Lübeckerin

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Lybeck

Etymology

From German Lübeck.

Proper noun

Lübeck n (genitive Lübecks)

1. Lübeck (a city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Related terms

• lybsk