English

Bergen city

Proper noun

Bergen

1. A port city in Norway

   Bergen, in Hordaland county, is Norway's second-largest city.‎

2. A Catholic diocese named after the above see.
3. A city/hamlet in North Dakota.

Translations

See also

• Bergen, Norway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Bergen

1. A town and village in New York.
2. One of two towns in Wisconsin.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Plural of berg ‎(“mountain”).

Proper noun

Bergen n

1. Mons city, in Hainaut, Belgium

Derived terms

• Bergenaar m
• Bergens (adjective)

Etymology 2

From Norwegian Bergen, from Old Norse Bjǫrgvin ‎(“meadow between the mountains”), cognate with Dutch berg ‎(“mountain”) [cfr. etymology 1], German Berg ‎(“mountain”), etc.

Proper noun

Bergen n

1. Bergen, a port city in Norway

Derived terms

• Bergenaar m
• Bergens (adjective)

Anagrams

• brenge

French

Etymology

From Norwegian Bergen, from Old Norse Bjǫrgvin ‎(“meadow between the mountains”).

Proper noun

Bergen

1. Bergen, a port city in Norway

German

Etymology 1

Cognate with Dutch berg ‎(“mountain”) [cfr. etymology 2], German Berg ‎(“mountain”), etc.

Proper noun

Bergen n

1. A city in Hesse
2. A town on Rügen island in the Ostsee
3. The Belgian city Mons, in the former countship Hennegau (and modern Hainaut province)

Etymology 2

From Norwegian Bergen, from Old Norse Bjǫrgvin ‎(“meadow between the mountains”), cognate with Dutch berg ‎(“mountain”) [cfr. etymology 1], German Berg ‎(“mountain”), etc.

Proper noun

Bergen n ‎(genitive Bergens)

1. Bergen, a port city in Norway

Etymology 3

Noun

Bergen

1. dative plural of Berg

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse Bjǫrgvin ‎(“meadow between the mountains”), cognate with Dutch berg ‎(“mountain”), German Berg ‎(“mountain”), etc.

Proper noun

Bergen

1. A port city and municipality in Hordaland, Norway

Related terms

• bergensar (Nynorsk)
• bergenser (Bokmål)
• bergensk (Bokmål), bergensk (Nynorsk)

English

Noun

bergen ‎(plural bergens)

1. (Britain, military) A large rucksack.
   • 2012, Peter Ratcliffe, Eye of the Storm

     Their bergens were already stuffed almost to bursting point, as were their belt kits, with rations, water, radios and spare batteries, ammunition, personal equipment, sleeping bags, waterproofs, medical packs, survival kits, and much more.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛrɣə(n)/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bergen, from Old Dutch bergan, from Proto-Germanic *berganą.

Verb

bergen

1. (transitive) to store, to stash away
2. (transitive) to salvage (a vessel)

Inflection

Related terms

• opbergen
• verbergen
• wegbergen

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Noun

bergen

1. Plural form of berg

Anagrams

• brenge

German

Etymology

From Old High German bergan, from Proto-Germanic *berganą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɐ̯ɡŋ̩/, /ˈbɛɐ̯ɡən̪/

Verb

bergen ‎(class 3 strong, third-person singular simple present birgt, past tense barg, past participle geborgen, past subjunctive bärge, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to save (someone); to rescue
2. (transitive) to salvage; to recover
3. (transitive) to conceal; shelter; to contain
4. (transitive, naval) to take in (a sail); to shorten (a sail)

   die Segel bergen — “to shorten the sail”

Conjugation

Derived terms

• geborgen adj

Related terms

• Bergegut, Berglohn, Bergung

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch bergan, from Proto-Germanic *berganą.

Verb

bergen

1. to get to safety, to keep safe
2. to stash away, to hide
3. to store, to keep

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: bergen

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛrjɛn/

Noun

bergen

1. definite plural of berg