Wales

See also wales

English

a map of the British Isles, showing the United Kingdom in green and Wales in darker green

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”), probably from Latin Volcae.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: wālz, IPA: /weɪlz/, SAMPA: /weIlz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlz
• Homophones: whales, wails (wails in accents with wine-whine merger)

Proper noun

Wales

1. One of the four constituent countries of, the United Kingdom
2. A surname.

Synonyms

• The Principality (UK government)

Translations

a constituent nation of the UK

Arabic: ويلز (wilz) f. Armenian: Ուելս (hy) (Uels) Azeri: Uels (az) Basque: Gales (eu) Bengali: ওয়েল্‌স্‌ (bn) Bosnian: Velš m. Breton: Kembre (br), Bro-Gembre (br) Bulgarian: Уелс (bg) (Uéls) Catalan: Gal·les (ca) m., pais de Gal·les (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 威爾士 (cmn), 威尔士 (cmn) (Wēiěrshì) Chuvash: Уэльс (Uɛl’s) Cornish: Kembra Czech: Wales (cs) m. Danish: Wales (da) Dutch: Wales (nl) n. Esperanto: Kimrio (eo) Estonian: Wales (et), Kõmrimaa (et) Faroese: Wales (fo), Kymru (fo) Finnish: Wales (fi) French: Pays de Galles (fr) m. German: Wales (de) n. Greek: Ουαλία (el) (Oualía) f. Hebrew: וולס (he) (vols) Hungarian: Wales (hu), Velsz (hu) (poetic, archaic)

Indonesian: Wales (id) Interlingua: Galles Irish: an Bhreatain Bheag (ga) f. Italian: Galles (it) Japanese: ウェールズ (ja) (Wēruzu) Latvian: Velsa (lv) f. Lithuanian: Velsas (lt) m. Maltese: Wales (mt) Manx: Bretyn Old English: please add this translation if you can Old French: Gales f. Old Norse: please add this translation if you can Polish: Walia (pl) f. Portuguese: País de Gales (pt) m. Romanian: Țara Galilor (ro) f., Wales (ro) n. Romansch: Valisa (rm) f. Russian: Уэльс (ru) (Uɛ́l’s) m. Scottish Gaelic: A' Chuimrigh f. Silesian: Walijo f. Slovene: Wales (sl) m. Spanish: Gales (es), País de Gales (es) m. Swedish: Wales (sv) Tajik: Уелс (tg) Turkish: Galler (tr) Ukrainian: Уельс (uk) (Uel’s) m. Welsh: Cymru (cy) f.

surname

Anagrams

• lawes, swale, sweal, weals

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Czech

Proper noun

Wales m.

1. Wales

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

Wales

• IPA: /ʋeːls/

Proper noun

Wales n.

1. Wales

Anagrams

• walse

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Estonian

Proper noun

Wales

1. Wales

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Finnish

Proper noun

Wales

1. Wales

Declension

Declension of Wales (type risti) singular plural nominative Wales – genitive Walesin – partitive Walesia – accusative Wales Walesin – inessive Walesissa – elative Walesista – illative Walesiin – adessive Walesilla – ablative Walesilta – allative Walesille – essive Walesina – translative Walesiksi – instructive – – abessive Walesitta – comitative – –

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German

Proper noun

Wales n.

1. Wales

Related terms

• Waliser
• walisisch, Walisisch
• welsch
• Wallone

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Wales

1. Wales

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Romanian

Proper noun

Wales

1. Wales

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Swedish

Proper noun

Wales

1. Wales