Holland

See also holland

English

Etymology

From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈhɑlənd/

Proper noun

Holland

1. The Netherlands.
2. A region of the Netherlands formed by two provinces: North Holland and South Holland.
3. An English habitational surname​ for someone from the Netherlands, or from any of the various places in England named Holland.

Translations

the Netherlands

• Afrikaans: Holland (af), Nederland (af)
• Arabic: هولندا (ar) (hulánda) f
• Armenian: Հոլանդիա (hy) (Holandia), Նիդերլանդներ (hy) (Niderlandner)
• Belarusian: Галандыя (be) (Halándyja) f, Нідэрланды (be) (Niderlándy) m pl
• Bengali: হল্যান্ড (bn) (hôlyanḑ), নেদারল্যান্ডস (bn) (nedarlyanḑôs)
• Bulgarian: Холандия (bg) (Holándija) f, Нидерландия (bg) (Niderlándija) f
• Burmese: နယ္သာလန္ (my) (nɛṯalã)
• Catalan: (els) Països Baixos m pl, Holanda f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荷蘭 (cmn), 荷兰 (cmn) (Hélán)

• Crimean Tatar: Felemenk
• Czech: Holandsko (cs) n
• Danish: Holland (da)
• Dutch: Nederland (nl) n
• Estonian: Holland (et)
• Finnish: Hollanti (fi)
• French: Hollande (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰოლანდია (ka) (holandia)
• German: Holland (de) n, Niederlande (de) n pl
• Greek: Ολλανδία (el) (Ollandía) f, Κάτω Χώρες (el) (Káto Chóres) f pl
• Hindi: हॉलैंड (hi) (holaiṇḍ), नीदरलैण्ड (hi) (nīdarlaiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: Hollandia (hu)
• Icelandic: Holland (is) n
• Indonesian: Holandia (id)
• Irish: An Ollainn (ga) f
• Italian: Olanda (it) f
• Japanese: オランダ (ja) (Oranda), (rare) 蘭国 (ja) (らんこく, Rankoku)
• Khmer: ហូឡង់ (km) (hoolɑng), ហូល (km) (hool)
• Korean: 네델란드 (ko) (Nedellandeu)

• Lao: ໂຮນລັງ (lo) (hōnlâṅ)
• Latvian: Holande (lv) f
• Livonian: Holand
• Macedonian: Холандија (mk) (Holándija) f
• Malay: Holland (ms)
• Maltese: l-Olanda (mt) f
• Norwegian: Holland (no)
• Persian: هلند (fa) (Holand)
• Polish: Holandia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Holanda (pt) f
• Romanian: Olanda (ro) f
• Russian: Голландия (ru) (Gollándija) f, Нидерланды (ru) (Niderlándy) pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хола̀ндија (sh) f, Ни̏зозе̄мска̄ (sh) f

  Roman: Holàndija (sh) f, Nȉzozēmskā (sh) f

• Slovak: Holandsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Holandija (sl) f, Nizozemska (sl) f
• Spanish: Holanda (es) f, (los) Países Bajos (es) m pl
• Swedish: Holland (sv)
• Tagalog: Olanda (tl)
• Tatar: Нидерландлар (tt) (Niderlandlar), Голландия (tt) (Gollandiä, Hollandiä)
• Tetum: Belanda
• Thai: ฮอลแลนด์ (th) (honlaen), ฮอลันดา (th) (horlandaa), เนเธอร์แลนด์ (th) (nayterlaen)
• Turkish: Hollanda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Голландія (uk) (Hollándija) f, Нідерланди (uk) (Niderlándy) m pl
• Urdu: ہالینڈ (ur) (holaiṇḍ), نیدرلینڈ (ur) (nīdarlaiṇḍ)
• Vietnamese: Hà Lan (vi) (荷蘭 (vi))

a region of The Netherlands

• Catalan: Holanda f
• Dutch: Holland (nl) n
• French: Hollande (fr) f
• German: Holland (de) n
• Greek: Ολλανδία (el) (Ollandía) f
• Hungarian: Hollandia (hu)
• Irish: An Ollainn (ga) f

• Khmer: ហូឡង់ (km) (hoolɑng)
• Latvian: Holande (lv) f
• Russian: Голландия (ru) (Gollándija) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хола̀ндија (sh) f

  Roman: Holàndija (sh) f

• Spanish: Holanda (es) f

Related terms

• New Holland

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Holland

1. Netherlands (country in northwestern Europe)

Synonyms

• Kongeriget Nederlandene
• Nederland
• Nederlandene

Related terms

• hollandsk
• hollænder
• nederlandsk
• nederlænder

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɦɔlɑnt/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Holland n

1. Holland (traditional region, the modern provinces North Holland and South Holland)
2. (mostly in Belgium, proscribed) Holland (alternative name for the Netherlands)

Derived terms

• Noord-Holland
• Zuid-Holland

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German

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɔlant/

Proper noun

Holland

1. Netherlands (country in northwestern Europe)

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɔl.lant/

Proper noun

Holland n

1. Holland, the Netherlands

Declension

declension of Holland

n-s	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Holland
accusative	Holland
dative	Hollandi
genitive	Hollands

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Dutch Holland.

Proper noun

Holland n

1. the Netherlands, Holland

Synonyms

• Nidderlande

Derived terms

• hollännesch/Hollännesch

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Holland

1. (archaic) Holland

Synonyms

• Nederland

Related terms

• hollender, nederlender
• hollandsk, nederlandsk

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Holland n

1. Holland, a region in the Netherlands. Often referring to the whole of the Netherlands.