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Beijing

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  • From Mandarin reading Běijīng - 北京: Béyjing - بېيجىڭ Бейҗиң (Uighur), Bêjing - པེ་ཅིང (Tibetan), Beežin - Бээжин / Bejžin - Бэйжин (Mongolian), Béising, Péicing (Irish), Beijing (Romanian, Welsh)
  • From Cantonese reading Bākgìng - 北京 (Cantonese): Baekging (Zhuang), Pekin - 北京 {ペキン}, Pekin (Turkish), Pechino (Italian), Pékin (French), Pekín (Spanish), Peking (Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish), Pequim (Portuguese), Pecin (Romanian, Welsh), Pechinum (Latin)
  • By reading characters 北京 in other languages: Pak-kiaⁿ - 北京 (Minnan / Taiwanese), Bukgyeong - 북경 {北京} (Korean), Bắc Kinh (Vietnamese)
  • From obsolete Republican-era Chinese name Běipíng - 北平: Bākpìhng - 北平 (Cantonese [archaic])

Damascus

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Full indigeneous name: دمشق الشام Dimashq ash-Sham (Arabic), possibly from דרמשק Darmeśeq (Aramaic).

  • From Arabic Dimašq - دمشق: Dımeşk (Turkish), Dammeseq - דַּמֶּשֶׂק (Hebrew), Damask - Дамаск (Russian, Bulgarian), Dimaşq˙ (Chechen), Damesek (Karaim), Damašek (Czech) Damaszek (Polish), Damask (Albanian, Slovenian), Damaisc (Irish), Dimshek (Somali), Dameski (Swahili), Damashƙa (Hausa), Damaxk - دهمهشق (Uighur), Dàmǎshìgé - 大馬士革 (Chinese), Dàmǎshìgé - 大马士革 (Simplified Chinese), Damsyek (Malay), Dameshk - দামেস্ক (Bengali)
  • From Arabic by way of Greek Δαμασκός: Damaskos - Դամասկոս (Armenian), Damas (French), Damasco (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Damascus (Dutch, Latin, Welsh), Damaskus (German, Estonian), Damaszkusz (Hungarian), Damaskos (Finnish, Northern Lapp), Damasukasu - ダマスカス (Japanese), Damasikusi - 다마스쿠스 (Korean)
  • From Arabic Ash-Shām - الشام: Şam (Kurdish, Crimean Tatar), Šam - Շամ (Armenian), ¯Sam - Щам (Kabardian [Circassian]), Şam (Turkish)
  • From Arabic Jilliq - جلق: No known borrowings

Tbilisi

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  • From Turkish/Azeri Tiflis: Tiflis (English [archaic]) Tiflis - Тифлис (Russian), Τίφλις / Τιφλίδα (Greek), Tiflīs (Arabic), Tífúlìsī - 提弗利司 / Tífúlǐsī - 梯弗裡斯 (Chinese [archaic])
  • From Georgian Tbilisi - თბილისი or archaic form Ţpilisi - ტფილისი: Tbilisi - Тбилиси(Russian), Tbili (Svan), Tbîlîsî (Kurdish), Dìbǐlìsī - 第比利斯 (Chinese, Simplified Chinese), Tíbǐlǐxī - 提比里西 (Chinese [Taiwan]), Tobirishi - トビリシ (Japanese), Teubillisi - 트빌리시 (Korean)
  • From other sources: Tp'xis - Տփխիս (Armenian), , Kalak - Калак (Ossetian), Kart - Қарҭ (Abkhaz), Gürƶex - Гуьржех (Chechen), Guržeğe - ГуржегӀе (Ingush), Kwrdžy - Курджы (Kabardian [Circassian])