Japan

See also Japán, and japan

English

Wikipedia

Map showing Japan

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Chinese 日本 (Min Nan/Hokkien Ji̍t-pún).

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/, 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 Tosk: Japan (als) Arabic: اليابان (ar) (al-yaabaan) m. Aragonese: Chapón (an) m. Aramaic: ܝܦܢ (japan) Armenian: Ճապոնիա (hy) (Č̣aponia) Asturian: Xapón (ast) Azeri: Yaponiya (az) Bashkir: Япония Basque: Japonia (eu) Bavarian: Japan Belarusian: Японія (be) (Japónija) f. Bengali: জাপান (bn) (japan) Bishnupriya Manipuri: জাপান Bosnian: Japan (bs) m. 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 (Ji̍t-pún) Wu: 日本 Chuvash: Япони Cornish: Nihon (kw) Croatian: Japan (hr) m. 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) 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 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) Ligurian: Giappon Limburgish: Japan (li) Lingala: Zapɔ́ (ln)

Lithuanian: Japonija (lt) Lojban: pongu'e (jbo) Low Saxon: Japan (nds) Lower Sorbian: Japońska Luxembourgish: Japan (lb) Macedonian: Јапонија (mk) (Japónija) f. Malagasy: Japana (mg) Malay: Jepun (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) Narom: Japon Nauruan: Djapan (na) Navajo: Binaʼadaałtzózí bikéyah Neapolitan: Giappone Nepali: जापान (ne) Newari: जापान Northern Sami: Japána Norwegian: Japan (no) Nynorsk: Japan (nn) Novial: Japan Occitan: Japon (oc) m. Ossetian: Япон 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 Scots: Japan Scottish Gaelic: Iapan (gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: Јапан (sr) m. Roman: Japan (sr) m. Sicilian: Giappuni (scn) Silesian: Japůńja Sinhalese: ජපානය (si) (japānaya) Slovak: Japonsko (sk) Slovene: Japonska (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: Crimean Tatar: Yaponiya Telugu: జపాన్ (te) Thai: ญี่ปุ่น (th) (yīpun), ประเทศญี่ปุ่น (th) (bpràtêt yīpun) Tibetan: ཇི་བེན Tok Pisin: Siapan (tpi) Turkish: Japonya (tr) Turkmen: Ýaponiýa (tk) Udmurt: Япония Ukrainian: Японія (uk) (Japónija) f. Upper Sorbian: Japanska Urdu: جاپان (ur) (jāpān) m. Uyghur: ياپونىيە (ug) Uzbek: Yaponiya (uz) Venetian: Giapòn Vietnamese: Nhật Bản (vi) Volapük: Yapän (vo) Waray: Hapon Welsh: Japan (cy) West Frisian: Japan (fy) Wolof: Sapoŋ (wo) Yiddish: יאפאן (yi) (Yapan) Yoruba: Japan (yo) Zamboanga Chavacano: Japón Zazaki: please add this translation if you can Southern: Japonya Zulu: IJapani (zu)

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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) [edit]}
• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

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Dutch

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjaːpaːn/

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Proper noun

Japan n.

1. Japan

See also

• Japaner
• Japanerin
• Japanisch
• japanisch

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Icelandic

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

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

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Serbo-Croatian

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjɑːpan/

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

See also

• japansk
•  japan, japanska