[Strange for foreigners] Lisbon subway stations: Free translation

Female Amateur East is by far my personal favourite.

Nice that you can take the subway to Rome :lol:

GO MEAT:dunno:

Who made up those names?

That's hysterical, thanks for showing us. Does it sound that strange to the Portuguese, too?

Oelanddk: the city of Lisbon, as you know, is very ancient. The strange names are from popular origin, many stories that were the origin of it are known, others not. For example "Olaia trees" is a zone where many decades ago possibly existed lots of olaia trees, as well as "olive tree fields" or "plum tree".
But I don´t know whats the story behind " to put fire " lol. But I think this shows up very well the complex history and diversity of an european city, new world cities are "understandable" because names were given when people were already very similar to us...

bosman: We hear of it so many times that it doesn´t sound strange anymore. But for example, when the line was expanded to " stolen sir", because it is an outskirt area I never heard of it and I laugh a lot when first saw it!

Greetings!

Strange Names. Interesting map.
But i think the most subway station names in Berlin sounds strange too translated in english.

Stolen Gentleman (translated as Stolen Sir) is odd.

yep that one os cool :lol:

some ones from leningrad, russia

obviously also free translations

- ponds
- bitter
- before the sea
- sport
- old village
- courtyard
- broken nose
- proletariat
- moscow
- park of victory
- moscovian gates
- forest (there is a break at this point in the metro line, you need to take a bus to the extension, LOL)
- black river
- pioneer
- plaza of resurrection
- guests' courtyard
- kirovskii assembly plant
- electric power
- what did you do?
- plaza of manhood
- girls
- stars

i'll do moscow in a bit

moscow: (ones with ? are ones im not sure about)

P.S. most names are possesive, so whatever name is below "owns" that station (figuratively, of course). so it would be "october field-owned", or "house-chick-owned", and ect...some stations are "owned" by famous russians like pushkin, chekhov, mayakov, ect...

- planar?
- october field
- run
- the street of the year 1905
- water stadium
- hawk
- barricade
- new cricket
- nuts
- house chicks
- the place where reds guard stuff?
- wings
- the library that is named lenin
- south-west
- clothes
- new stuff
- bratislava
- guys who type
- christian will? christian might?
- clean ponds
- automobile
- new slobodan
- dynamo
- small field
- soviet union
- granny
- seeds
- row of windows?

yin_yang said:

moscow: (ones with ? are ones im not sure about)

P.S. most names are possesive, so whatever name is below "owns" that station (figuratively, of course). so it would be "october field-owned", or "house-chick-owned", and ect...some stations are "owned" by famous russians like pushkin, chekhov, mayakov, ect...

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Basically it's October Field's, House-chick's.

damn it, Tel Aviv must have a subway system built in it soon!

Deanb said:

damn it, Tel Aviv must have a subway system built in it soon!

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tel aviv havent a subway?! thats unusual for a city of its size...

niether does mumbai but construction just began on one and the plan for the first line or something to be completed in 5 yrs

Very funny.

Here is also another one. The London Tube map translated into German ;O)

Hm... I think I might try converting Edmonton's system into German (German dictionary is by my side. So is the Ukrainian dictionary but it sucks. )

Clareview => Claresicht
Belvedere => Schloss
Coliseum => Coliseum
Stadium => Stadium
Churchill => Kirchberg
Central => Zentral
Bay = Bucht
Corona => Korona
Government Centre => Regierungsplatz
University => Universitat
Health Sciences => Poliklinik