Warsaw

See also: warsaw

English

Warsaw

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Polish Warcisław

Old Polish -sz

Old Polish Warsz

Proto-Indo-European *-usder.

Proto-Indo-European *-osder.

Proto-Slavic *-ovъ

Old Polish -owy

Old Polish *warszewy

Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-der.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *wiśis

Proto-Slavic *vь̀sь

Old Polish wieś

Old Polish *warszewa wieśellip.

Old Polish Warszewa

Polish Warszawabor.

English Warsaw

Ultimately from Old Polish Warszewa. Doublet of Warszawa. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When first attested? Through German?”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːsɔː/

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• (US, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹsɔ/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹsɑ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɾsɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɔː

Proper noun

Warsaw (countable and uncountable, plural Warsaws)

2. The capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.

   Synonym: Warszawa

   • 2023 April 19, Lianne Kolirin, “One of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance tells of the bravery of those who dared to stand up against the Nazis”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 April 2023:

     Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.

3. (metonymic) The Polish government.
4. A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.
5. A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.
6. A city, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, United States.
7. A town and village therein, in Wyoming County, New York, United States, the village is the county seat.
8. A town, the county seat of Richmond County, Virginia, United States.
9. A habitational surname.

Translations

capital city of Poland

• Afrikaans: Warskou
• Albanian: Varshavë f, Varshava f (definite)
• Amharic: ዋርሶው (warsow)
• Arabic: وَارْسُو f (warsō), فَرْصُوفِيَا f (farṣūfiyā), فَارْسُوفِيَا f (fārsūfiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: وارسو f (wārsu)

• Armenian: Վարշավա (Varšava)
• Aromanian: Varsuvii f Vãrsuvii f, (indefinite), Varsuvia f, Vãrsuvia f (definite)
• Asturian: Varsovia (ast), Varxava (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Varşava (az)
• Basque: Varsovia (eu)
• Belarusian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)

  Latin: Varšava f (łacinka)

• Bengali: ওয়ার্সা (bn) (ōẇarśa), ভারশাভা (bharśabha)
• Breton: Varsovia f
• Bulgarian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)
• Burmese: ဝါဆော (wahcau:)
• Catalan: Varsòvia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 華沙 / 华沙 (waa⁴ saa¹)

  Mandarin: 華沙 / 华沙 (zh) (Huáshā)

• Chuvash: Варшав (Varš̬av)
• Czech: Varšava (cs) f
• Danish: Warszawa (da) n
• Dutch: Warschau (nl) n
• Esperanto: Varsovio (eo)
• Estonian: Varssavi (et)
• Faroese: Varsjava f
• Finnish: Varsova (fi)
• French: Varsovie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Warsjau

• Galician: Varsovia (gl)
• Georgian: ვარშავა (ka) (varšava)
• German: Warschau (de) n
• Greek: Βαρσοβία (el) f (Varsovía)
• Gujarati: વૉર્સો (vŏrso)
• Hebrew: וורשה \ וַרְשָׁה f (vársha)
• Hindi: वारसॉ (vārsŏ)
• Hungarian: Varsó (hu)
• Icelandic: Varsjá f
• Indonesian: Warsawa
• Irish: Vársá
• Italian: Varsavia (it) f
• Japanese: ワルシャワ (ja) (Warushawa)
• Kannada: ವಾರ್ಸಾ (vārsā)
• Kashubian: Warszawa f
• Kazakh: Варшава (Varšava)
• Khmer: វ៉ាសូវី (km), វ៉ារស្សាវ៉ា
• Korean: 바르샤바 (ko) (Bareusyaba), 와르샤와 (ko) (Wareusyawa) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Warşova (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Варшава (ky) (Varşava)
• Lao: ວໍຊໍ (wǭ sǭ)
• Latin: Varsovia (la) f
• Latvian: Varšava f
• Lithuanian: Varšuva (lt) f
• Macedonian: Варшава (mk) f (Varšava)
• Malay: Warsaw
• Malayalam: വാഴ്‌സ (vāḻ‌sa)
• Maltese: Varsavja f
• Marathi: वर्झावा (varjhāvā), वॉरसॉ n (vŏrsŏ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Варшав (Varšav)

  Mongolian script: ᠸᠠᠷᠱᠠᠸᠠ (Waršawa)

• Navajo: Wóosoo
• Nogai: Аршав (Arşav)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Warszawa (no) n

  Nynorsk: Warszawa n

• Old Ruthenian: Варша́ва f (Varšáva)
• Ossetian: Варшавӕ (Varšavæ)
• Pashto: وارسا f (wārsā)
• Pennsylvania German: Woarschau
• Persian: ورشو (fa) (varšow)
• Polish: Warszawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Varsóvia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਵਾਰਸਾ (vārsā)
• Romanian: Varșovia (ro)

  Cyrillic: Варшовия (Varșovia)

• Russian: Варша́ва (ru) f (Varšáva)
• Scottish Gaelic: Warszawa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ва̀ршава f

  Latin: Vàršava (sh) f

• Silesian: Warszawa
• Sinhalese: වෝර්සෝ (wōrsō)
• Slovak: Varšava f
• Slovene: Varšáva (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Waršawa f

  Upper Sorbian: Waršawa f

• Spanish: Varsovia (es) f
• Swedish: Warszawa (sv) n
• Tagalog: Barsobya
• Tajik: Варшава (Varšava)
• Tamil: வார்சாவா (vārcāvā)
• Tatar: Варшава (Warşawa)
• Thai: วอร์ซอ (wɔɔ-sɔɔ)
• Turkish: Varşova (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: وارشاوه (varşava)

• Turkmen: Warşawa
• Ukrainian: Варша́ва (uk) f (Varšáva)
• Urdu: وارسا (vārsā)
• Uyghur: ۋارشاۋا (warshawa)
• Uzbek: Varshava
• Venetan: Varsavia
• Vietnamese: Vác-sa-va
• Volapük: Warszawa
• Welsh: Warsaw (cy)
• Yiddish: וואַרשע f (varshe)

metonym for Polish government

• Finnish: Varsova (fi)
• Polish: Warszawa (pl) f
• Russian: Варшава (ru) f (Varšava)

any of several localities in USA

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沃索 (Wòsuǒ)

• Finnish: Warsaw (fi)
• Russian: Уорсо m (Uorso)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Warsaw is the 38050^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 583 individuals. Warsaw is most common among White (81.3%) and Black/African American (14.75%) individuals.

See also

• Varsovian

References

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Warsaw”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.