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Malmö

proper noun

  1. city in southern Sweden. Use Q503361 for the administrative territorial entity.
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːlmɜː/ / /ˈmɑːlməʊ/ / /ˈmalməʊ/

name

Etymology: From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

  1. A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.

    “Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.”