English
Proper noun
Versailles
- A suburb of Paris, formerly the capital of France.
- The Palace of Versailles.
- The Treaty of Versailles.
Translations
suburb of Paris
- Arabic: فرساي
- Armenian: Վերսալ (Versal)
- Breton: Versailhez
- Bulgarian: Версай m (Versaj)
- Catalan: Versalles f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凡爾賽 (zh), 凡尔赛 (zh) (Fán'ěrsài)
- Esperanto: Versajlo
- French: Versailles (fr) f pl
- German: Versailles (de) n
- Greek: Βερσαλλίες (el) f pl (Versallíes)
- Hebrew: ורסאי
- Hindi: वर्साय (varsāy)
- Icelandic: Versalir m pl
- Italian: Versailles f
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- Japanese: ヴェルサイユ (Verusaiyu)
- Korean: 베르사유 (bereusayu)
- Latin: Versaliae (la) f pl
- Latvian: Versaļa f
- Ligurian: Versagge f
- Lithuanian: Versalis
- Macedonian: Верса́ј m (Versáj)
- Marathi: व्हर्साय (vharsāy)
- Persian: ورسای
- Polish: Wersal (pl) m
- Portuguese: Versalhes f
- Russian: Верса́ль (ru) m (Versálʹ)
- Spanish: Versalles (es) f
- Thai: แวร์ซาย
- Turkish: Versay
- Uyghur: Wérsayl
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French
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛʁsaj/, /vɛʁsɑj/
Proper noun
Versailles f pl
- Versailles, a suburb of Paris, formerly the capital of France
- Versailles, the Palace of Versailles
References
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↑ Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.