Toulouse

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aquitanianbor.?

Iberianbor.?

Gaulishbor.?

Latin Tolōsa

Old Occitan Tolosabor.

French Toulousebor.

English Toulouse

Borrowed from French Toulouse. Compare Welsh twl (tumulus), Irish tulach, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈluːz/, /tuːˈluːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːz
• Hyphenation: Tou‧louse

Proper noun

Toulouse

2. The capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France.
   • 2012 March 22, “Mohamed Merah: Who was Toulouse gunman?”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 July 2019:

     Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse. […] Mohamed Merah was from Toulouse where he grew up on a housing estate in Les Izards, a troubled district in the north-east of the city with a large North African population.

3. A surname from French.

Translations

a city in France

• Afrikaans: Toulouse
• Amharic: ቶሎዛ (toloza), ቱሉዝ (tuluz)
• Arabic: تُولُوز f (tuluz), (archaic) طُلُوشَة f (ṭulūša)
• Armenian: Թուլուզ (hy) (Tʻuluz)
• Basque: Tolosa (eu)
• Belarusian: Тулу́за f (Tulúza)
• Breton: Toloza
• Catalan: Tolosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖盧茲 / 图卢兹 (zh) (Túlúzī)

• Corsican: Tolosa f, Tolusa f, Tulusa f
• Dutch: Toulouse n
• Finnish: Toulouse (fi)
• French: Toulouse (fr) f
• Galician: Tolosa f
• German: Toulouse (de) n
• Greek: Τουλούζη (el) f (Touloúzi), Τουλούζ (Touloúz)

  Ancient Greek: Τολῶσσα f (Tolôssa)

• Hindi: तुलूज़ (tulūz)
• Italian: Tolosa f
• Japanese: トゥールーズ (Tūrūzu)
• Korean: 툴루즈 (Tullujeu)
• Latin: Tolōsa f
• Macedonian: Тулу́з m (Tulúz)
• Occitan: Tolosa (oc) f

  Old Occitan: Tolosa f, Tholosa f

• Persian: تولوز (tuluz)
• Polish: Tuluza (pl) f
• Portuguese: Toulouse f, Tolosa f
• Romanian: Toulouse (ro) f
• Russian: Тулу́за (ru) f (Tulúza)
• Sicilian: Tulusa f
• Spanish: Toulouse (es) m or f, Tolosa (es) f, (traditional)
• Tagalog: Tolosa
• Turkish: Toulouse (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: تولوزه (tuluze)

• Ukrainian: Тулу́за f (Tulúza)

See also

• Capitol; capitoul; capitoulate, capitoulat

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Toulouse”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

French

Alternative forms

• Thoulouse

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aquitanianbor.?

Iberianbor.?

Gaulishbor.?

Latin Tolōsa

Old Occitan Tolosabor.

French Toulouse

Borrowed from Old Occitan Tolosa, from Latin Tolōsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.luz/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

  (file)

• Homophones: Thoulouse, Thoulouze, Toulouze

Proper noun

Toulouse f

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: ville rose

Descendants

• → English: Toulouse

Proper noun

Toulouse m or f by sense

1. a surname

Descendants

• → Arabic: تُولُوز (tūlūz)
• → English: Toulouse
• → Persian: تُولُوز

References

• Le Nom de Toulouse, Pierre Moret, 1996, Université Toulouse le Mirail – Toulouse II, p. 11; Histoire de Toulouse, 1974, p. 11.

Paronyms

• tarlouse
• Tholose
• Tholoze
• Toulouges

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aquitanianbor.?

Iberianbor.?

Gaulishbor.?

Latin Tolōsa

Old Occitan Tolosabor.

French Toulouseubor.

Portuguese Toulouse

Unadapted borrowing from French Toulouse.

Proper noun

Toulouse f

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: Tolosa

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aquitanianbor.?

Iberianbor.?

Gaulishbor.?

Latin Tolōsa

Old Occitan Tolosabor.

French Toulouseubor.

Spanish Toulouse

Unadapted borrowing from French Toulouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈlus/ [t̪uˈlus]
• Rhymes: -us

Proper noun

Toulouse m

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: Tolosa