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Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɜːˈlɪn wɔːl/, (commonly) /ˈbɜː-/
- (US) IPA(key): /bɝˈlɪn wɔl/, (commonly) /ˈbɝ-/
Proper noun
the Berlin Wall
- (history) A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.
Translations
wall that parted Berlin
- Afrikaans: Berlynse Muur
- Albanian: Muri i Berlinit m
- Arabic: جِدَار بَرْلِين m (jidār barlīn)
- Egyptian Arabic: سور برلين m
- Armenian: Բեռլինի պատ (hy) (Beṙlini pat)
- Azerbaijani: Berlin divarı
- Bashkir: Берлин стенаһы (Berlin stenahı)
- Basque: Berlingo harresia
- Belarusian: Берлі́нская сцяна́ f (Bjerlínskaja scjaná)
- Bengali: বার্লিন প্রাচীর (barlin pracir)
- Breton: Moger Berlin m
- Bulgarian: Берлинска стена f (Berlinska stena)
- Burmese: ဘာလင် တံတိုင်း (bhalang tamtuing:)
- Catalan: mur de Berlín m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 柏林圍牆 / 柏林围墙 (paak3 lam4 wai4 coeng4), 柏林牆 / 柏林墙 (paak3 lam4 coeng4)
- Hokkien: Berlin Chhiûⁿ-ûi
- Mandarin: 柏林圍牆 / 柏林围墙 (zh) (Bólín Wéiqiáng), 柏林牆 / 柏林墙 (zh) (Bólínqiáng)
- Wu: 柏林墙
- Czech: Berlínská zeď f
- Danish: Berlinmuren c
- Dutch: Berlijnse Muur m
- Esperanto: Berlina muro
- Estonian: Berliini müür
- Faroese: Berlinmúrurin m
- Finnish: Berliinin muuri
- French: mur de Berlin (fr) m
- Galician: muro de Berlín m
- Georgian: ბერლინის კედელი (berlinis ḳedeli)
- German: Berliner Mauer (de) f, antifaschistischer Schutzwall m (East Germany, propaganda)
- Greek: Τείχος του Βερολίνου n (Teíchos tou Verolínou)
- Hebrew: חוֹמַת בֶּרְלִין f (khomát Berlín)
- Hindi: बर्लिन की दीवार f (barlin kī dīvār)
- Hungarian: berlini fal
- Icelandic: Berlínarmúrinn m
- Ido: Murego di Berlin
- Indonesian: Tembok Berlin
- Irish: Balla Bheirlín m
- Italian: Muro di Berlino m
- Japanese: ベルリンの壁 (ベルリンのかべ, Berurin no Kabe)
- Javanese: témbok Berlin
- Kannada: ಬರ್ಲಿನ್ ಗೋಡೆ (barlin gōḍe)
- Kazakh: Берлин қабырғасы (Berlin qabyrğasy)
- Khmer: ជញ្ជាំង ប៊ែរឡាំង (cŭəñcĕəng bɛɛlang)
- Korean: 베를린 장벽 (Bereullin jangbyeok)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hêta Berlînê
- Latin: mūrus Berolīnēnsis m, vallum Berolīnēnse n
- Latvian: Berlīnes mūris m
- Limburgish: Moeër
- Lithuanian: Berlyno siena f
- Lombard: (modern orthography) mür de Berlin m, (classical orthography) mur de Berlin m
- Macedonian: Берлински ѕид m (Berlinski dzid)
- Malagasy: rindrin'i Berlin
- Malay: Tembok Berlin
- Malayalam: ബെർലിൻ മതിൽ (beṟliṉ matil)
- Maltese: ħajt ta’ Berlin m
- Manx: Boalley Verleen
- Marathi: बर्लिनची भिंत (barlincī bhinta)
- Mongolian: Берлиний хана (Berlinii xana)
- Neapolitan: muro 'e Berlino m
- Nepali: बर्लिन पर्खाल (barlina parkhāl)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Berlinmuren m
- Nynorsk: Berlinmuren m
- Occitan: mur de Berlin m
- Papiamentu: Muraya di Berlin
- Persian: دیوار برلین (divâr berlin)
- Polish: Mur Berliński m, mur berliński m
- Portuguese: Muro de Berlim m
- Punjabi: ਬਰਲਿਨ ਦੀ ਕੰਧ (barlin dī kandh)
- Quechua: Berlin pirqa
- Romanian: Zidul Berlinului n
- Russian: Берли́нская стена́ (ru) f (Berlínskaja stená)
- Sardinian: muru de Berilinu m
- Saterland Frisian: Berliner Muure
- Scots: Berlin Waw
- Scottish Gaelic: Balla Bherlin m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Бѐрлӣнскӣ зи̑д m
- Roman: Bèrlīnskī zȋd m
- Sicilian: muru di Birlinu m
- Sinhalese: බර්ලින් තාප්පය (barlin tāppaya)
- Slovak: Berlínsky múr m
- Slovene: Berlinski zid m
- Spanish: muro de Berlín m
- Swahili: ukuta wa Berlin
- Swedish: Berlinmuren c
- Tagalog: Pader ng Berlin
- Tajik: девори Берлин (devor-i Berlin)
- Tamil: பெர்லின் சுவர் (perliṉ cuvar)
- Tatar: Берлин дивары (Berlin diwarı)
- Telugu: బెర్లిన్ గోడ (berlin gōḍa)
- Thai: กำแพงเบอร์ลิน (gam-peeng bəə-lin)
- Tibetan: པེར་ལིན་ལྕགས (per lin lcags)
- Turkish: Berlin Duvarı (tr)
- Turkmen: Berlin diwarı
- Ukrainian: Берлі́нська стіна́ f (Berlínsʹka stiná), Берлі́нський мур m (Berlínsʹkyj mur)
- Urdu: دیوار برلن f (dīvār barlin)
- Uzbek: Berlin divari
- Venetan: muro de Berlin m
- Vietnamese: Bức tường Berlin
- Waray-Waray: Bungbong han Berlin
- Welsh: Mur Berlin m
- West Frisian: Berlynske Muorre c
- Yiddish: בערלינער וואַנט f (berliner vant)
- Zazaki: Dêsê Berlini
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Noun
Berlin Wall (plural Berlin Walls)
- (politics) Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
- (chess) The Berlin Defence
Translations
barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border