Tunis

Uncertain, but some possibilities are:

• Berber آنس, ber, meaning to rest or lie down
• Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːnəs/

Tunis

1. City on the northern coast of Africa
   • 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248:

     Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring

   1. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage
   2. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD
   3. Capital, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia
   • 1827, “Tunis” in Richard Brookes, The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary:

     Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.

2. City state centered in the city of Tunis

• Tunis cake

• Tunisia

• Rossi, Peter M.; White, Wayne Edward (1980). Articles on the Middle East, 1947–1971: A Cumulation of the Bibliographies from the Middle East Journal. Pierian Press, University of Michigan. p. 132.

• Sintu, inust, suint, units

• IPA^(key): [ˈtunɪs]

Tunis m

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Tunis

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Tunis (n)

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

• IPA^(key): /ty.nis/

Tunis

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

• Tunisie

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuːnɪs]

Tunis n

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ɲis/

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Tunis m

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Tunis f

1. Alternative form of Tunes

• IPA^(key): /tǔnis/

Tùnis m (Cyrillic spelling Ту̀нис)

1. Tunisia
2. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)

Tunis

1. Tunis (capital of Tunisia)