フィラデルフィア

Japanese

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) フィラデルフィ​ア [fìrádérúfíꜜà] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɸʲiɾa̠de̞ɾɯ̟ᵝɸʲia̠]

Etymology 1
Alternative spellings
費拉特費 (obsolete)
費府 (obsolete)

Borrowed from English Philadelphia.[2]

Proper noun

フィラデルフィア • (Firaderufia) 

  1. Philadelphia (a city in Pennsylvania)
  2. Philadelphia (a city in Mississippi)
  3. Philadelphia (a town in New York)
  4. Philadelphia (a city in Tennessee)
  5. Philadelphia (a village in England)
  6. Philadelphia (a town in South Africa)

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φιλαδέλφεια (Philadélpheia).

Proper noun

フィラデルフィア • (Firaderufia) 

  1. (historical) Philadelphia (a city of the Decapolis; modern Amman, Syria)
  2. (historical) Philadelphia (a city in Lydia; modern Alaşehir, Turkey)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian Filadelfia.

Proper noun

フィラデルフィア • (Firaderufia) 

  1. Filadelfia (a town in Italy)

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Spanish Filadelfia.

Proper noun

フィラデルフィア • (Firaderufia) 

  1. Filadelfia (a city in Paraguay)
  2. Filadelfia (a town in Colombia)
  3. Filadelfia (a town in Costa Rica)

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Portuguese Filadélfia.

Proper noun

フィラデルフィア • (Firaderufia) 

  1. Filadélfia (a town in Bahia, Brazil)
  2. Filadélfia (a town in Tocantins, Brazil)
  3. Filadélfia (a town in Amazonas, Brazil)

References
  1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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