Toulouse

Borrowed from French Toulouse. Compare Welsh twl (tumulus), Irish tulach, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

• IPA^(key): /təˈluːz/, /tuːˈluːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːz
• Hyphenation: Tou‧louse

Toulouse

2. The capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France.
   • 2012 March 22, “Mohamed Merah: Who was Toulouse gunman?”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 July 2019:

     Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse. […] Mohamed Merah was from Toulouse where he grew up on a housing estate in Les Izards, a troubled district in the north-east of the city with a large North African population.

3. A surname from French

• Capitol; capitoul; capitoulate, capitoulat

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Toulouse”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

• Thoulouse

Borrowed from Old Occitan Tolosa, from Latin Tolōsa.

• IPA^(key): /tu.luz/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Homophones: Thoulouse, Thoulouze, Toulouze

Toulouse f

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: ville rose

• → English: Toulouse

Toulouse m or f by sense

1. a surname

• → Arabic: تُولُوز (tūlūz)
• → English: Toulouse
• → Persian: تُولُوز

• Le Nom de Toulouse, Pierre Moret, 1996, Université Toulouse le Mirail – Toulouse II, p. 11; Histoire de Toulouse, 1974, p. 11.

Unadapted borrowing from French Toulouse.

Toulouse f

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: Tolosa

Unadapted borrowing from French Toulouse.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈlus/ [t̪uˈlus]
• Rhymes: -us

Toulouse m

1. Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department and of the larger Occitania region, France)

   Synonym: Tolosa