Vilnius

See also: Vilníus

English

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vìlnius, after the Vilnia River, from vilnis (“wave”).

Vilnius

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlni.əs/, /ˈvɪlnjəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Vilnius

2. The capital city of Lithuania.
3. (metonymically) The Lithuanian government.
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Translations

capital of Lithuania

• Afrikaans: Vilnius
• Albanian: Vilnius (sq) m
• Amharic: ቪልኒውስ (vilniws)
• Arabic: فِيلْنْيُوس f (filnyūs)
• Armenian: Վիլնյուս (Vilnyus)
• Azerbaijani: Vilnüs (az)
• Belarusian: Ві́льнюс m (Vílʹnjus), Ві́льня f (Vílʹnja) (dated)
• Bengali: ভিলনিউস (bn) (bhilonius), ভিলনিয়াস (bn) (bhilniẏaś)
• Bulgarian: Ви́лнюс m (Vílnjus)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ві́льно n (Vílʹno)
• Catalan: Vílnius
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 維爾紐斯／维尔纽斯 (wai⁴ ji⁵ nau² si¹)

  Mandarin: 維爾紐斯／维尔纽斯 (zh) (Wéi'ěrniǔsī)

• Czech: Vilnius (cs) m
• Danish: Vilnius (da) n
• Dutch: Vilnius n
• Esperanto: Vilno (eo)
• Estonian: Vilnius (et)
• Faroese: Vilnius m
• Finnish: Vilna (fi)
• French: Vilnius (fr) m
• Georgian: ვილნიუსი (ka) (vilniusi)
• German: Vilnius (de) n, Wilna (de) n
• Greek: Βίλνιους (el) f (Vílnious)
• Hebrew: וִילְנָה f (vílna)
• Hindi: विल्नुस m (vilnus), विल्नियस m (vilniyas)
• Hungarian: Vilnius (hu)
• Icelandic: Vilníus n
• Indonesian: Vilnius
• Irish: Vilnias m
• Italian: Vilnius m, Vilna f
• Japanese: ビリニュス (ja) (Birinyusu)
• Kashubian: Wilno n
• Kazakh: Вильнюс (Vilnüs)
• Khmer: វីលនីស (viilniih), វីលីនីស (viiliiniih)
• Korean: 빌뉴스 (Billyuseu), 윌뉴스 (ko) (willyuseu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Vilnius

• Kyrgyz: Вильнюс (Vilnyus)
• Lao: ວີນນີອຸສ (wīn nī ʼut)
• Latvian: Viļņa f
• Lithuanian: Vilnius (lt) m
• Macedonian: Вилнус m (Vilnus)
• Malay: Vilnius
• Maltese: Vilnjus
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Вильнюс (Vilʹnjüs)

• Navajo: Bílnios
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vilnius (no)

• Pashto: وېلنيوس m (welnyus)
• Persian: ویلنیوس (vilnyus)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Vilnius
• Polish: Wilno (pl) n
• Portuguese: Vílnius, Vilna (dated)
• Romanian: Vilnius (ro)
• Russian: Ви́льнюс (ru) m (Vílʹnjus), Ви́льна f (Vílʹna) (dated), Ви́льно (ru) n (Vílʹno) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Виљњус m

  Roman: Vilnius m

• Silesian: Vilnius m
• Slovak: Vilnius m
• Slovene: Vilna f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Vilnius m

• Spanish: Vilna (es) f
• Swedish: Vilnius (sv) n
• Tajik: Вилнюс (Vilnyus)
• Tamil: வில்னியஸ் (vilṉiyas)
• Tatar: Вильнюс (Wil’nyus)
• Thai: วิลนีอุส (wil-nii-ús)
• Turkish: Vilnüs (tr)
• Turkmen: Wilnius
• Ukrainian: Ві́льнюс (uk) m (Vílʹnjus); Ві́льно n (Vílʹno), Ви́льно n (Výlʹno), Ві́льна f (Vílʹna) (dated)
• Urdu: ویلنیوس m (vilnyus)
• Uyghur: ۋىلنيۇس (wilnyus)
• Uzbek: Vilnyus
• Vietnamese: Vin-ni-út
• Yiddish: ווילנע n (vilne)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Derived terms

• Vilniusse
• Vilniusser

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Lithuanian Vilnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlnɪjus]

Proper noun

Vilnius m inan (related adjective vilniuský)

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Declension

Declension of Vilnius (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Vilnius
genitive	Vilniusu
dative	Vilniusu
accusative	Vilnius
vocative	Vilniuse
locative	Vilniusu
instrumental	Vilniusem

Further reading

• “Vilnius”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Dutch

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius n

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Synonyms

• Wilnioes (obsolete)

Estonian

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Faroese

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius m

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Vilnius
Accusative	Vilnius
Dative	Vilniusi
Genitive	Vilnius

French

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vil.njys/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Vilnius ?

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

German

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius n (proper noun, genitive Vilnius' or (with an article) Vilnius)

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvilnijus]
• Hyphenation: Vil‧ni‧us
• Rhymes: -us

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Vilnius	—
accusative	Vilniust	—
dative	Vilniusnak	—
instrumental	Vilniusszal	—
causal-final	Vilniusért	—
translative	Vilniusszá	—
terminative	Vilniusig	—
essive-formal	Vilniusként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Vilniusban	—
superessive	Vilniuson	—
adessive	Vilniusnál	—
illative	Vilniusba	—
sublative	Vilniusra	—
allative	Vilniushoz	—
elative	Vilniusból	—
delative	Vilniusról	—
ablative	Vilniustól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Vilniusé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Vilniuséi	—

Possessive forms of Vilnius
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Vilniusom	—
2nd person sing.	Vilniusod	—
3rd person sing.	Vilniusa	—
1st person plural	Vilniusunk	—
2nd person plural	Vilniusotok	—
3rd person plural	Vilniusuk	—

Derived terms

• vilniusi

Italian

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvil.njus/
• Rhymes: -ilnjus
• Hyphenation: Vìl‧nius

Proper noun

Vilnius ?

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

   Synonym: Vilna

Lithuanian

Etymology

After the Vilnia River, from vilnis (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Vil‧nius

Proper noun

Vìlnius m (uncountable, related adjective vilnìškis, demonym vilniẽtis, female demonym vilniẽtė) stress pattern 1

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)
   1. Vilnius (a county of Lithuania)

      Vilniaus apskritis

      Vilnius County

   2. Vilnius (a city municipality of Lithuania)

      Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė

      Vilnius City Municipality

   3. Vilnius (a district municipality of Lithuania)

      Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė

      Vilnius District Municipality

2. Vilnius (a village in Kupiškis District Municipality, Panevėžys County, Lithuania)

Declension

    Declension of Vìlnius

nominative	Vìlnius
genitive	Vìlniaus
dative	Vìlniui
accusative	Vìlnių
instrumental	Vìlniumi
locative	Vìlniuje
vocative	Vìlniau

Further reading

• Vilnius in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Lithuanian Vilnius.

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvil.niwʃ/ [ˈviɫ.niwʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvil.niwʃ/ [ˈviɫ.niwʃ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbil.niwʃ/ [ˈbiɫ.niwʃ]

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Alternative spelling of Vílnius

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Lithuanian Vìlnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɫɲi̯us/

Proper noun

Vilnius m inan (genitive singular Vilniusu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Declension

Declension of Vilnius

	singular
nominative	Vilnius
genitive	Vilniusu
dative	Vilniusu
accusative	Vilnius
locative	Vilniuse
instrumental	Vilniusom

Derived terms

• Vilniusan
• Vilniusanka
• vilniusky

Further reading

• “Vilnius”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius n (genitive Vilnius)

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)