Bologna

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• General-American: /bəˈloʊnjə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈləʊnjə/
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• General-American: /bəˈloʊni/
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• General-American: /bəˈloʊnə/
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From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boleyn and Boulogne.

From the Italian city of Bologna.

Probably from the Polari slang word balonie, respelled under the influence of the preceding homophonous word bologna (“sausage”); alternatively, perhaps simply an extended use of bologna (“sausage”). See baloney for more.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: Боло́ня (Bolónja) — province
• Corsican: Bulogna — province
• Emilian: Bulåggna — province
• Finnish: Bologna — province
• French: Bologne — province
• Galician: Boloña — province
• German: Bologna — province
• Hindi: बोलोनिया (boloniyā) — province
• Italian: Bologna — province
• Latvian: Boloņa — province
• Marathi: बोलोन्न्या (bolonnyā) — province
• Polish: Bolonia — province
• Russian: Боло́нья (Bolónʹja) — province
• Turkish: Bolonya — province
• Arabic: بُولُونْيَا (būlūnyā) — city
• Armenian: Բոլոնիա (Bolonia) — city
• Basque: Bolonia — city
• Bulgarian: Боло́ня (Bolónja) — city
• Catalan: Bolonya — city
• Chinese Mandarin: 博洛尼亞 /博洛尼亚 (Bóluòníyà) — city
• Corsican: Bulogna — city
• Czech: Bologna — city
• Czech: Boloňa — city
• Emilian: Bulåggna — city
• Esperanto: Bulonjo — city
• Etruscan: 𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌋𐌄𐌚 (anislef) — city
• Faroese: Bologna — city
• Finnish: Bologna — city
• French: Bologne — city
• Friulian: Bologne — city
• Galician: Boloña — city
• German: Bologna — city
• Greek: Μπολόνια (Bolónia) — city
• Ancient Greek: Βονωνία (Bonōnía) — city
• Hindi: बोलोनिया (boloniyā) — city
• Italian: Bologna — city
• Japanese: ボローニャ (Borōnya) — city
• Korean: 볼로냐 (Bollonya) — city
• Latin: Bonōnia — city
• Latin: Bolōnia — city
• Latvian: Boloņa — city
• Lithuanian: Bolonija — city
• Maltese: Bolonja — city
• Marathi: बोलोन्न्या (bolonnyā) — city
• Occitan: Bolonha — city
• Picard: Bolonne — city
• Polish: Bolonia — city
• Portuguese: Bolonha — city
• Romanian: Bologna — city
• Romanian: Bolonia — city
• Russian: Боло́нья (Bolónʹja) — city
• Sardinian: Bologna — city
• Serbo-Croatian: Болоња — city
• Serbo-Croatian: Bolonja — city
• Sicilian: Bulogna — city
• Slovak: Bologna — city
• Spanish: Bolonia — city
• Swedish: Bologna — city
• Ukrainian: Боло́нья (Bolónʹja) — city
• Venetan: Boƚògna — city
• Venetan: Buƚògna — city