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Bloemfontein

Today it means: A major city, the capital of the Free State province, and judicial capital of South Africa. Full definition →

Afrikaans Bloemfontein ← Dutch Bloemfontein

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Dutch · derived fromBloemfontein
Afrikaans · borrowed fromBloemfontein
English todayBloemfontein

Borrowed from Afrikaans Bloemfontein, from Dutch Bloemfontein.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.