hometown

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• General-American: /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH OW1 M T AW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home Proto-Indo-European *dewh2- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *duh2-nós? Proto-Celtic *dūnombor. Proto-Germanic *tūną Proto-West Germanic *tūn Old English tūn Middle English toun English town English hometown From home + town.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَسْقَط اَلرَّأْس (masqaṭ ar-raʔs) — place of birth or residence
• Arabic: وَطَن الأُمّ (waṭan al-ʔumm) — place of birth or residence
• Arabic: بَلْدَةْ اَلْمَسْكَن (baldat al-maskan) — place of birth or residence
• Arabic: مَسْقَط (masqaṭ) — place of birth or residence
• Belarusian: ро́дны го́рад (ródny hórad) — place of birth or residence
• Bengali: দেশের বাড়ি (deśer baṛi) — place of birth or residence
• Central Bikol: dagang tinubuan — place of birth or residence
• Bulgarian: ро́ден град (róden grad) — place of birth or residence
• Burmese: ဇာတိမြို့ (jati.mrui.) — place of birth or residence
• Chinese Mandarin: 家鄉 /家乡 (jiāxiāng) — place of birth or residence
• Chinese Mandarin: 故鄉 /故乡 (gùxiāng) — place of birth or residence
• Chinese Mandarin: 老家 (lǎojiā) — place of birth or residence
• Czech: rodné město — place of birth or residence
• Danish: hjemby — place of birth or residence
• Dutch: vaderstad — place of birth or residence
• Dutch: geboorteplaats — place of birth or residence
• Dutch: woonplaats — place of birth or residence
• Esperanto: naskiĝurbo — place of birth or residence
• Esperanto: hejmurbo — place of birth or residence
• Esperanto: patrurbo — place of birth or residence
• Estonian: kodulinn — place of birth or residence
• Finnish: kotipaikka — place of birth or residence
• Finnish: kotikaupunki — place of birth or residence
• Finnish: kotikylä — place of birth or residence
• French: ville natale — place of birth or residence
• Galician: cidade natal — place of birth or residence
• German: Heimat — place of birth or residence
• German: Heimatort — place of birth or residence
• Hebrew: עיר מגורים (ir m'gurim) — place of birth or residence
• Hindi: गृहनगर (gŕhnagar) — place of birth or residence
• Hungarian: szülőváros — place of birth or residence
• Indonesian: kampung halaman — place of birth or residence
• Italian: città di origine — place of birth or residence
• Japanese: 故郷 (furusato) — place of birth or residence
• Japanese: 故郷 (kokyō) — place of birth or residence
• Korean: 고향 (gohyang) — place of birth or residence
• Latin: patria — place of birth or residence
• Macedonian: роден град — place of birth or residence
• Manx: balley dooghys — place of birth or residence
• Ngarrindjeri: ngatjurtul — place of birth or residence
• Persian: زادگاه (zâd-gâh) — place of birth or residence
• Polish: rodzinne miasto — place of birth or residence
• Polish: rodzinne miasteczko — place of birth or residence
• Polish: rodzinna miejscowość — place of birth or residence
• Portuguese: cidade natal — place of birth or residence
• Russian: родно́й го́род (rodnój górod) — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: родно место — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: родно мјесто — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: родни град — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: rodno mesto — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: rodno mjesto — place of birth or residence
• Serbo-Croatian: rodni grad — place of birth or residence
• Slovak: rodné mesto — place of birth or residence
• Slovene: rojstno mesto — place of birth or residence
• Spanish: patria chica — place of birth or residence
• Swedish: hemstad — place of birth or residence
• Telugu: స్వగ్రామం (svagrāmaṁ) — place of birth or residence
• Thai: บ้านเกิด (bâan gèrt) — place of birth or residence
• Turkish: yurt — place of birth or residence
• Turkish: memleket — place of birth or residence
• Ukrainian: рі́дне мі́сто (rídne místo) — place of birth or residence
• Urdu: آبائی شہر (ābāī śahr) — place of birth or residence
• Uyghur: يۇرت (yurt) — place of birth or residence
• Vietnamese: quê hương — place of birth or residence
• Vietnamese: cố hương — place of birth or residence
• Yiddish: היימשטאָט (heymshtot) — place of birth or residence