Lodz

See also: Lodž, Łodz, łódź, and Łódź

English

Alternative forms

Łódź

Etymology

Anglicised form of Polish Łódź.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɒdz/, /wuːt͡ʃ/^[1]
Rhymes: -ɒdz, -uːtʃ

Proper noun

Lodz

A voivodeship of Poland, Łódź Voivodeship.
The capital city of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland, also spelled Łódź.

Translations

city in Poland

Arabic: وُودْج f (wūdj)
Armenian: Լոձ (hy) (Loj)
Belarusian: Лодзь f (Lodzʹ)
Bengali: উজ (uj)
Bulgarian: Лодз f (Lodz), Лудж f (Ludž)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 羅茲 / 罗兹 (zh) (Luózī)
Czech: Lodž f
Finnish: Łódź (fi)
French: Łódź (fr) f
Georgian: ლოძი (loʒi)
German: Lodz (de) n, Łódź (de) n, (dated) Lodsch (de) n, (Nazism) Litzmannstadt n
Greek: Λοτζ (el) n (Lotz)
Hebrew: לודז׳ f (lodzh)
Hungarian: Łódź (hu)
Japanese: ウッチ (Utchi)
Kazakh: Лодзь (Lodz)
Korean: 우치 (Uchi)
Latvian: Lodza f
Lithuanian: Lodzė f
Macedonian: Лоѓ m (Loǵ)
Polish: Łódź (pl) f
Portuguese: Lodz f
Russian: Лодзь m or f (Lodzʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Лођ m

Roman: Łódź m, Lođ m
Silesian: Łůdź f pl
Slovak: Lodž f
Slovene: Lodž f
Tatar: Луҗ (Luc)
Turkish: Łódź
Ukrainian: Лодзь f (Lodzʹ)
Yiddish: לאָדזש (lodzh)

References

^ “Lodz”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

German

Alternative forms

Łódź (with Polish diacritics; learned or official)
Lodsch (phonetic spelling; dated)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɔtʃ/
Audio: (file)

Noun

Lodz n (strong, genitive Lodzs or Lodz' or (with an article) Lodz, no plural)

Lodz (a city in Poland)
Synonym: (Nazism, 1940-45) Litzmannstadt

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.d͡ʒis/, /ˈlud͡ʒs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.d͡ʒiʃ/, /ˈlud͡ʒʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlud͡ʒs/, /ˈlu.d͡ʒis/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈludʃ/ [ˈluðʃ]

Proper noun

Lodz f

Lodz, Łódź (a voivodeship of Poland)
Lodz, Łódź (the capital city of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland)