Helsinki en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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- /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/
- hělʹsǐngʹkē
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.
Meanings
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The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.
My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.
2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 376–377:There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.
2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017:
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(metonymically) The Finnish government.
The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.
2024 July 12, “Finland approves controversial law to turn away migrants at Russian border”, in Euronews:
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Translations (92)
he הֶלְסִינְקִי (the capital city of Finland) · ja ヘルシンフォーズ (the capital city of Finland) · sh Hèlsinki (the capital city of Finland) · cmn 赫爾辛基 /赫尔辛基 (the capital city of Finland) · ka ჰელსინკი (the capital city of Finland) · kmr Helsinkî (the capital city of Finland) · pt Helsinque (the capital city of Finland) · la Helsingia (the capital city of Finland) · lo ເຮນຊິນກີ (the capital city of Finland) · yue 赫爾辛福 /赫尔辛福 (the capital city of Finland) · fa هلسینکی (the capital city of Finland) · yi העלסינקי (the capital city of Finland) · ru Хе́льсинки (the capital city of Finland) · yue 赫爾辛基 /赫尔辛基 (the capital city of Finland) · am ሄልሲንኪ (the capital city of Finland) · bo ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི (the capital city of Finland) · tt Һельсинки (the capital city of Finland) · hu Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · km ហែលស៊ិនគី (the capital city of Finland) · be Хэ́льсынкі (the capital city of Finland) · be Хе́льсінкі (the capital city of Finland) · de Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · is Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · kk Хельсинки (the capital city of Finland) · uk Гельсінгфо́рс (the capital city of Finland) · bn হেলসিঙ্কি (the capital city of Finland) · mn Хельсинки (the capital city of Finland) · af Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · vi Hen-xin-ki (the capital city of Finland) · uk Ге́льсінкі (the capital city of Finland) · eo Helsinko (the capital city of Finland) · sh Хѐлсинки (the capital city of Finland) · nb Helsingfors (the capital city of Finland) · pt Helsínquia (the capital city of Finland) · ps هلسنکي (the capital city of Finland) · nn Helsingfors (the capital city of Finland) · bg Хе́лзинки (the capital city of Finland) · fi Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · el Ελσίνκι (the capital city of Finland) · ms Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · hy Հելսինգֆորս (the capital city of Finland) · sms Heʹlssen (the capital city of Finland) · mt Ħelsinki (the capital city of Finland) · da Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · es Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · sl Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ko 헬싱키 (the capital city of Finland) · ug خېلسىنكى (the capital city of Finland) · pl Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · vro Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ro Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · gl Helsinqui (the capital city of Finland) · ur ہلسنکی (the capital city of Finland) · fr Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · sq Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · uz Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ko 헬싱포스 (the capital city of Finland) · vi Hiệu Sinh Kỳ (the capital city of Finland) · ga Heilsincí (the capital city of Finland) · ta எல்சிங்கி (the capital city of Finland) · id Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · da Helsingfors (the capital city of Finland) · hi हेलसिंकी (the capital city of Finland) · be Гельсінгфо́рс (the capital city of Finland) · lv Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ar هِلْسِنْكِي (the capital city of Finland) · cmn 赫爾辛福 /赫尔辛福 (the capital city of Finland) · vi Hiệu Sinh Kì (the capital city of Finland) · et Helsingi (the capital city of Finland) · hy Հելսինկի (the capital city of Finland) · lt Helsinkis (the capital city of Finland) · tk Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ru Гельсингфо́рс (the capital city of Finland) · nl Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · se Helsset (the capital city of Finland) · nl Elsenfors (the capital city of Finland) · tr Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · sv Helsingfors (the capital city of Finland) · kmr Helsînkî (the capital city of Finland) · ast Ḥélsinki (the capital city of Finland) · ja ヘルシンキ (the capital city of Finland) · sk Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · fr Helsingfors (the capital city of Finland) · th เฮลซิงกิ (the capital city of Finland) · cs Helsinky (the capital city of Finland) · mk Хелсинки (the capital city of Finland) · az Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · it Helsinki (the capital city of Finland) · tg Ҳелсинкӣ (the capital city of Finland) · mhr Хельсинки (the capital city of Finland) · ky Хельсинки (the capital city of Finland) · my ဟယ်လ်ဆင်ကီမြို့ (the capital city of Finland)