Kirkenes
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editKirkenes
- A town in Norway
Translations
edittown in Norway
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Anagrams
editNorwegian Bokmål
editProper noun
editKirkenes
- A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway and close to the Russian border.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNewer name; from Danish Kirkenæs, from kirke (“church”) + nes (“headland”), referring to a church on the place built in 1862. Replaced the older names Pisselvnes and Håkjerringnes.
Proper noun
editKirkenes n
- A town in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark, in the far north-eastern corner of Norway, close to the Russian border.
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- English terms derived from Norwegian
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Towns in Norway
- en:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Towns in Finnmark
- nb:Towns in Norway
- nb:Places in Finnmark
- nb:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Towns in Finnmark
- nn:Towns in Norway
- nn:Places in Finnmark
- nn:Places in Norway