limousine

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /lɪm.əˈziːn/
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Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Afrikaans: limo — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Arabic: لِيمُوزِين (limuzīn) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Armenian: լիմուզին (limuzin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Belarusian: лімузін (limuzin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Bulgarian: лимузи́на (limuzína) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Catalan: limusina — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Chinese Mandarin: 豪華轎車 /豪华轿车 (háohuá jiàochē) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Chinese Mandarin: 加長轎車 /加长轿车 (jiācháng jiàochē) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Czech: limuzína — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Danish: limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Dutch: limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Dutch: limo — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Finnish: limusiini — luxury sedan/saloon car
• French: limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Georgian: ლიმუზინი (limuzini) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• German: Limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• German: Stretchlimousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Greek: λιμουζίνα (limouzína) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Hebrew: לימוזינה (limuzína) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Hindi: लिमोसिन (limosin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Hungarian: limuzin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Icelandic: limmósína — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Icelandic: glæsivagn — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Icelandic: eðalvagn — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Indonesian: limusin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Indonesian: limosin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Italian: limousine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Japanese: リムジン (rimujin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Japanese: リモ (rimo) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Kazakh: өкілеттік лимузин (ökılettık limuzin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Korean: 리무진 (rimujin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Korean: 리모 (rimo) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Latvian: limuzīns — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Lithuanian: limuzinas — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Macedonian: лимузи́на (limuzína) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Malay: limusin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Mongolian: лимузин (limuzin) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Norwegian: limousin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Norwegian: limo — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Persian: لیموزین — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Polish: limuzyna — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Portuguese: limusine — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Portuguese: limusina — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Romanian: limuzină — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Serbo-Croatian: limuzina — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Slovak: limuzína — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Spanish: limusina — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Swedish: limousin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Tagalog: limusina — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Tagalog: limo — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Thai: ลีมูซีน (lee-moo-seen) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Thai: ลีโม (līmo) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Turkish: limuzin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Ukrainian: лімузин (limuzyn) — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Uzbek: limuzin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Vietnamese: li-mô-xin — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Vietnamese: li-mô-din — luxury sedan/saloon car
• Vietnamese: li-mô — luxury sedan/saloon car