Rotterdam

Borrowed from Dutch Rotterdam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒtə(ɹ)ˌdæm/

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Rotterdam

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

• Rotterdam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Rotterdam on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

First attested as rotter dam ter haluer rotte in 1280-1287. From Middle Dutch Rotterdam, a compound of the hydronym Rotte + dam.

• IPA^(key): /ˌrɔ.tərˈdɑm/

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• Hyphenation: Rot‧ter‧dam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Rotterdam n

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

   Synonyms: R'dam (abbreviation), Roffa (slang, nickname), Rotjeknor (nickname), 010 (area code, nickname), Manhattan aan de Maas (nickname), Mokum Reisj (historical, nickname), Dwalmdam (Carnival nickname)

   Meronyms: Hoek van Holland, Hoogvliet, Pernis, Rozenburg

• Rotterdammer
• Rotterdams

• Category:Rotterdam Dutch

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “rotterdam”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Rotte +‎ dam.

Rotterdam

1. Rotterdam (a city in the modern Netherlands)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Rotterdam

• “Rotterdam”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000