Vlaardingen

Vlaardingen

1. A city in South Holland, Netherlands.
2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

• landgravine

First attested as flardingis around 1018. Derived from the dative plural form of the hydronym Vlaarding, potentially derived in turn from Old Dutch *flard (“ragged strip”) (here referring to strips of land in the river) suffixed with the collectivising suffix -ing-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvlaːr.dɪ.ŋə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: Vlaar‧din‧gen

Vlaardingen n

1. Vlaardingen (a city and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands).

   Synonym: Buizengat (Carnival nickname)

   Meronym: Zuidbuurt

• Vlaardingenaar
• Vlaardings
• Vlaardingerambacht

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “vlaardingen”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN