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Turku.

Turku (a municipality, the capital city of the region of Southwest Finland)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈturku/[ˈt̪urku]
  1. Turku (a municipality, the capital city of the region of Southwest Finland)

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  2. a Finnish surname

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Where this word comes from

From turku (“market place”) (archaic) (see it for more). Originally the city was referred to as "Suomen Turku" (attested as the inessive Somen Turus in 1543), i.e. the marketplace or market city in Finland, as opposed to market cities located elsewhere around the Baltic Sea. The surname may derive from the name of the city.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.