Japan

See also Japán, and japan

English

Wikipedia

Map showing Japan

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Although the earliest form of "Japan" in Europe was Marco Polo's "Chipangu", the first recorded form in English was in a letter dated February 19, 1565 (published 1577), spelt “Giapan”. “Of the Ilande of Giapan”, by Luīs Fróis (a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Japan), published in Richard Willes, “The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies” (London 1577), cited in “Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery”, by Peter C. Mancall, pp. 156–57.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌdʒəˈpæn/, X-SAMPA: /%dZ@"p{n/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Japan

1. An island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located the east of China, Korea and Russia.

Synonyms

• Japonia (obsolete)
• Nihon, Nippon

Related terms

• Jap
• Japanese
• Japanize
• Japanology
• Japanophile
• Japanophilia
• Nip
• Nipponism
• Nipponize
• Sea of Japan

Translations

A Far East country in Asia

• Afrikaans: Japan (af)
• Ainu: シサㇺ (sisam)
• Albanian: Japonia (sq)

  Gheg: Japan

• Arabic: اليابان (ar) (al-yaabaan) m

  Egyptian Arabic: اليابان (el yabaan) f

• Aragonese: Chapón (an) m
• Aramaic: ܝܦܢ (japan)
• Armenian: Ճապոնիա (hy) (Č̣aponia)
• Asturian: Xapón (ast) m
• Azeri: Yaponiya (az)
• Bashkir: Япония (Yaponiya)
• Basque: Japonia (eu)
• Bavarian: Japan
• Belarusian: Японія (be) (Japónija) f
• Bengali: জাপান (bn) (japan)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: জাপান
• Breton: Japan (br)
• Bulgarian: Япония (bg) (Japónija) f
• Burmese: ဂျပန် (my) (jăpan), ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ (my) (jăpan nain-gan)
• Buryat: Жибэн (Žiben)
• Catalan: Japó (ca) m
• Cebuano: Hapon
• Chamorro: Japan (ch)
• Cherokee: ᏣᏆᏂ (chr) (Tsaquani)
• Cheyenne: Japan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日本 (cmn) (Rìběn)

  Cantonese: 日本 (yat6 bun2)

  Gan: 日本

  Hakka: 日本 (Ngit-pún)

  Min Dong: 日本 (Nĭk-buōng)

  Min Nan: 日本 (nan) (Ji̍t-pún)

  Wu: 日本

• Chuvash: Япони
• Cornish: Nihon (kw)
• Czech: Japonsko (cs)
• Danish: Japan (da)
• Dhivehi: ޖަޕާނު (dv)
• Dutch: Japan (nl)
• Dutch Low Saxon: Japan
• Dzongkha: Japan (dz)
• Esperanto: Japanio (eo), Japanujo (eo)
• Estonian: Jaapan (et)
• Faroese: Japan (fo)
• Finnish: Japani (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: J·apon
• French: le Japon (fr) m
• Galician: Xapón (gl) m
• Georgian: იაპონია (ka) (iaponia)
• German: Japan (de)
• Greek: Ιαπωνία (el) (Iaponía) f
• Gujarati: જાપાન (gu)
• Haitian Creole: Japon
• Hebrew: יפן (he) (Yapan)
• Hindi: जापान (hi) (jāpān) m
• Hungarian: Japán (hu)
• Icelandic: Japan (is)
• Ido: Japonia (io)
• Ilocano: Japon
• Indonesian: Jepang (id)
• Interlingua: Japon (ia)
• Interlingue: Japan (ie)
• Inuktitut: ᓃᑉᐊᓐ (iu), Niipan (iu)
• Irish: an tSeapáin (ga) f
• Italian: Giappone (it) m
• Japanese: 日本 (ja) (にっぽん, Nippon; にほん, Nihon)
• Javanese: Jepang (jv)
• Jèrriais: Japon m
• Kalmyk: Японь
• Kannada: ಜಪಾನ್ (kn)
• Kapampangan: Hapon
• Kashmiri: जापान (ks)
• Kashubian: Japòńskô (csb)
• Kazakh: Жапония (kk) (Žaponiya)
• Khmer: ជប៉ុន (km) (jībpūn)
• Korean: 일본 (ko) (Ilbon) (日本 (ko))
• Kurdish: Japon (ku), ژاپۆن (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Жапония (ky) (Žaponiya)
• Lao: ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ (lo) (nyī-pun), ປະເທດຍີ່ປຸ່ນ (lo) (patheet nyī-pun)
• Latgalian: Japoneja f
• Latin: Iaponia (la) f, Japonia (la) f
• Latvian: Japāna (lv) f
• Ligurian: Giappon
• Limburgish: Japan (li)
• Lingala: Zapɔ́ (ln)
• Lithuanian: Japonija (lt)

• Lojban: pongu'e (jbo)
• Low German: Japan (nds)
• Lower Sorbian: Japońska
• Luxembourgish: Japan (lb)
• Macedonian: Јапонија (mk) (Japónija) f
• Malagasy: Japana (mg)
• Malay: Jepun (ms), Jepang (ms)
• Malayalam: ജപ്പാന്‍ (ml)
• Maltese: Ġappun (mt)
• Manx: Yn Çhapaan (gv)
• Maori: Nipono (mi)
• Marathi: जपान (mr)
• Marshallese: Japan (mh)
• Mongolian: Япон (mn) (Yapon)
• Nahuatl: Xapōn (nah)
• Nauruan: Djapan (na)
• Navajo: Binaʼadaałtzózí bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Giappone
• Nepali: जापान (ne)
• Newari: जापान
• Norman: Japon
• Northern Sami: Japána
• Norwegian: Japan (no)

  Nynorsk: Japan (nn)

• Novial: Japan
• Occitan: Japon (oc) m
• Old English: Iapan (ang)
• Ossetian: Япон (Âpon), Япон (Âpon)
• Palauan: Siabal
• Pashto: جاپان (ps)
• Persian: ژاپن (fa) (Žâpon)
• Piedmontese: Giapon
• Polish: Japonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Japão (pt) m
• Quechua: Nihun (qu)
• Romanian: Japonia (ro) f
• Romansch: Giapun (rm) m
• Russian: Япония (ru) (Japónija) f
• Samoan: Iapani (sm)
• Sanskrit: जापान (sa)
• Sardinian: Japone (sc)
• Scots: Japan
• Scottish Gaelic: Iapan (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јапан (sh) m

  Roman: Japan (sh) m

• Sicilian: Giappuni (scn)
• Silesian: Japůńja
• Sinhalese: ජපානය (si) (japānaya)
• Slovak: Japonsko (sk)
• Slovene: Japónska (sl) f
• Somali: Jabaan (so)
• Spanish: Japón (es) m, el Japón (es)
• Sundanese: Jepang (su)
• Swahili: Japani (sw)
• Swati: IJaphani (ss), Japan (ss)
• Swedish: Japan (sv)
• Tagalog: Hapon (tl)
• Tahitian: Tāpōnē
• Tajik: Ҷопон (tg) (Jopon), Жопон (tg) (Žopon)
• Tamil: ஜப்பான் (ta)
• Tatar: , Япон (tt) (Yapon)

  Crimean Tatar: Yaponiya

• Telugu: జపాన్ (te)
• Thai: ญี่ปุ่น (th) (yīpun), ประเทศญี่ปุ่น (th) (bpràtêt yīpun)
• Tibetan: ཇི་བེན (bo)
• Tok Pisin: Siapan (tpi)
• Turkish: Japonya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýaponiýa (tk)
• Udmurt: Япония
• Ukrainian: Японія (uk) (Japónija) f
• Upper Sorbian: Japanska (hsb)
• Urdu: جاپان (ur) (jāpān) m
• Uyghur: ياپونىيە (ug) (yaponiye)
• Uzbek: Yaponiya (uz)
• Venetian: Giapòn
• Vietnamese: Nhật Bản (vi)
• Volapük: Yapän (vo)
• Waray-Waray: Hapon
• Welsh: Japan (cy)
• West Frisian: Japan (fy)
• Wolof: Sapoŋ (wo)
• Yiddish: יאַפּאַן (yi) (Yapan)
• Yoruba: Japan (yo)
• Zamboanga Chavacano: Japón
• Zazaki: Japonya (Southern Zazaki)
• Zulu: IJapani (zu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Buginese:
• Samogitian: Japuonėjė

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Japan
• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi ^{(Category: en:Japanese prefectures)}
• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

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Dutch

Etymology

From Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan ?

1. Japan

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Faroese

Wikipedia ^fo

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjaːpan/

Etymology

From Danish Japan, from Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japani, japanari
• japanskur

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German

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjaːpaːn/

• audio

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Proper noun

Japan n

1. Japan

See also

• Japaner
• Japanerin
• Japanisch
• japanisch

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjaːpʰaːn/

Proper noun

Japan n

1. Japan

   Ég fer til Japans.

   I'm going to Japan.

   Hvar er Japan staðsett á kortinu?

   Where is Japan located on the map?

See also

• Japani
• japanska

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jǎpaːn/
• Hyphenation: Ja‧pan

Proper noun

Jàpān m (Cyrillic spelling Ја̀па̄н)

1. Japan

Declension

    declension of Japan

	singular
nominative	Japan
genitive	Japana
dative	Japanu
accusative	Japan
vocative	Japane
locative	Japanu
instrumental	Japanom

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjɑːpan/

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

See also

• japansk
•  japan, japanska