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Toulouse

proper noun

  1. French commune in the Haute-Garonne department, Occitania
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /təˈluːz/ / /tuːˈluːz/

name

Etymology: Etymology tree Aquitanianbor.? Iberianbor.? Gaulishbor.? Latin Tolōsa Old Occitan Tolosabor. French Toulousebor. English Toulouse Borrowed from French Toulouse. Compare Welsh twl (tumulus), Irish tulach, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

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

    “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.”

  2. A surname from French.