Cluj

Borrowed from Romanian Cluj; see below for more.

Cluj

1. (informal or historical) Cluj-Napoca, a capital city of Cluj County, Romania.
2. A county of Romania.

• Cluș

Compare the Hungarian name for the town, Hungarian Kolozsvár (cp.vár), and the German Klausenburg (cp. Burg). Alternative forms in older Romanian include Cluș.

May be derived from a Slavic diminutive of Nicholas, compare Czech Mikluš, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Cluj”)

Alternately, may be derived from Latin clausa, clusa, from clausus or clusus through an intermediate; compare the medieval Latin name for the town, Castrum Clus. See also Proto-Slavic *kľũčь (“key”).

The official name of the city is Cluj-Napoca, with the name of the Roman settlement Napoca added in 1974, but this form is rarely used outside of official contexts.

• IPA^(key): /kluʒ/

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Cluj

1. a county of Transylvania, Romania
2. (informal or historical) Cluj-Napoca, a capital city of Cluj County, Romania