Finland

English

Etymology

Ultimately, from Old Norse Finnland. Compare Old English Finna land (“Lapland”, literally “land of the Sami”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪn.lənd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnlənd

Proper noun

Finland (usually uncountable, plural Finlands)

2. (geography) A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia. Official name: Republic of Finland.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Finland.

Related terms

• Finn
• Finnish
• Suomi

Translations

Nordic country

• Abkhaz: Суоми (Swomi)
• Afrikaans: Finland
• Albanian: Finlanda (sq)
• Amharic: ፊንላንድ (finland)
• Arabic: فِنْلَنْدَا f (finlandā)

  Egyptian Arabic: فينلاندا

• Armenian: Ֆինլանդիա (hy) (Finlandia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܝܼܢܠܵܢܕܵܐ f (Pīnlanda)
• Asturian: Finlandia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Finlandiya (az)
• Bashkir: Финляндия (Finlyandiya)
• Basque: Finlandia (eu)
• Bavarian: Finnlånd
• Belarusian: Фінля́ндыя f (Finljándyja)
• Bengali: ফিনল্যান্ড (bn) (phinlênḍ)
• Breton: Finland
• Bulgarian: Финла́ндия (bg) f (Finlándija)
• Burmese: ဖင်လန် (hpanglan)
• Buryat: Финлянд (Finljand)
• Catalan: Finlàndia (ca) f
• Central Kurdish: فینلاند (fînland)
• Chechen: Финлянди (Finljandi)
• Cherokee: ᏫᏂᎳᏂ (winilani)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芬蘭／芬兰 (fan¹ laan⁴), 芬兰 (fan¹ laan⁴)

  Mandarin: 芬蘭／芬兰 (zh) (Fēnlán), 芬兰 (zh) (Fēnlán)

• Chuvash: Финлянди (Finljandi)
• Cornish: Fynndir m, Pow Finn m
• Crimean Tatar: Finlandiya
• Czech: Finsko (cs) n
• Danish: Finland (da)
• Dhatki: Finland
• Dhivehi: ފިންލޭންޑު (fin̊lēn̊ḍu)
• Dutch: Finland (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཕིན་ལེནཌ (phin lenḍ)
• Erzya: Суоми Мастор (Suomi Mastor)
• Esperanto: Finlando (eo), Finnlando (eo), Suomio
• Estonian: Soome (et)
• Farefare: Fɩŋɔ
• Faroese: Finnland n
• Finnish: Suomi (fi)
• French: Finlande (fr) f
• Galician: Finlandia (gl) f
• Georgian: ფინეთი (ka) (pineti)
• German: Finnland (de) n
• Greek: Φινλανδία (el) f (Finlandía)
• Greenlandic: Finlandi (kl)
• Gujarati: ફીનલેંડ (phīnleṇḍ)
• Haitian Creole: Fenlann
• Hausa: Finland, Finlan
• Hawaiian: Pinilana
• Hebrew: פִינְלַנְד (fínland)
• Hindi: फ़िनलैंड (finlaiṇḍ), फिनलैंड (phinlaiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: Finnország (hu)
• Icelandic: Finnland (is) n
• Ido: Finlando (io)
• Inari Sami: Suomâ
• Indonesian: Finlandia (id)
• Ingrian: Soomi
• Irish: An Fhionlainn f
• Italian: Finlandia (it) f
• Japanese: フィンランド (ja) (Finrando)
• Kabardian: Финлэнд (Finlɛnd)
• Kannada: ಫಿನ್‍ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ (kn) (phin‍lyāṇḍ)
• Karakalpak: Finlyandiya
• Karelian: Suomi, Šuomi
• Kazakh: Финландия (Finlandiä), Финляндия (Finländiä)
• Khmer: ហ្វាំងឡង់ (km) (fanglɑng)
• Kildin Sami: Ла̄дтҍ е̄ммьне (Lādt’ jēmm’nje)
• Komi-Permyak: Суоми (Suomi), Финму (Finmu)
• Komi-Zyrian: Финляндия (Finľanďija)
• Kongo: Finlandi
• Korean: 핀란드 (ko) (Pillandeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Fînland

• Kyrgyz: Финляндия (ky) (Finlyandiya)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: פינלנדיה f

  Latin: Finlandia f

• Lao: ແຟັງລັງ (lo) (fæng lang)
• Latgalian: Suomeja f
• Latin: Finnia (la), Fennia, Finlandia
• Latvian: Somija (lv) f
• Ligurian: Finlandia f
• Limburgish: Finland (li) n
• Lingala: Finilanda
• Lithuanian: Suomija (lt) f
• Livonian: Sūomõmō
• Livvi: Suomi, Ruočči
• Lombard: Finlandia f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Finlaand (nds) n

  German Low German: Finnland (nds) n

• Luganda: Finilandi
• Luhya: Finlandi
• Lule Sami: Suobma
• Luo: Finland
• Luxembourgish: Finnland (lb)
• Macedonian: Финска (mk) f (Finska)
• Malagasy: Finlandy
• Malay: Finland
• Malayalam: ഫിൻലാന്റ് (phiṉlānṟŭ), ഫിൻലാൻഡ് (phiṉlāṉḍŭ)
• Maltese: il-Finlandja
• Mansi:
• Manx: Finnlynn
• Maori: Whinirana
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• Marathi: फिनलंड (phinlaṇḍa)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:

• Meru: Finland
• Mingrelian: ფინეთი (pineti)
• Moksha: Суоми мастор (Suomi mastor)
• Mongolian: Финлянд (Finljand), Финланд (Finland)
• Nahuatl: Fintlālpan
• Nauruan: Pinrand
• Navajo: Nahoditsʼǫʼłání Dineʼé Bikéyah
• Nepali: फिनल्याण्ड (phinalyāṇḍa)
• Newar: फिनल्यान्ड (phinalyānḍa)
• Norman: Fînlande f
• North Frisian: Finlönj n
• Northern Sami: Suopma
• Norwegian: Finland (no)
• Occitan: Finlàndia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Соумь f (Sumĭ)

• Old East Slavic: Сумь f (Sumĭ)
• Old Norse: Finnland n
• Oriya: ଫିନଲ୍ଯାଣ୍ଡ (phinaljāṇḍa)
• Papiamentu: Finlandia
• Pashto: فېنلانډ (finlānd)
• Persian: فنلاند (fa) (fanlând)
• Piedmontese: Finlandia f
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Finland
• Pite Sami: Suobma
• Polish: Finlandia (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Φινλανδία f (Finlandía)
• Portuguese: Finlândia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਫਿਨਲੈਂਡ (phinlaiṇḍ)
• Quechua: Phinsuyu
• Romani:

  Vlax Romani: Finland

• Romanian: Finlanda (ro) f
• Romansch: Finlanda f
• Russian: Финля́ндия (ru) f (Finljándija), (rare) Суо́ми (ru) f (Suómi)
• Rusyn: Фі́ньско n (Fínʹsko)
• Samoan: Finalagi
• Samogitian: Soumėjė f
• Sanskrit: फिन्लैंड (phinlaiṃḍa)
• Sardinian: Finlandia f
• Saterland Frisian: Finlound n
• Scots: Finland
• Scottish Gaelic: an Fhionnlainn f, Suòmaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Фи̑нска̄ f

  Roman: Fȋnskā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Fillannia f
• Silesian: Finlandyjo n
• Sindhi: فن لينڊ
• Sinhalese: ෆින්ලන්තය (finlantaya)
• Skolt Sami: Lääʹddjânnam
• Slovak: Fínsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Fínska (sl) f
• Somali: Finland
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Finska f

• Sotho: Finland
• Southern Sami: Såevmie
• Spanish: Finlandia (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Finland
• Swahili: Ufini (sw)
• Swazi: IFini
• Swedish: Finland (sv)
• Tagalog: Pinlandiya, Pinlandya
• Tajik: Финланд (tg) (Finland)
• Tamil: பின்லாந்து (piṉlāntu)
• Tatar: Финландия (Finlandiyä)
• Telugu: ఫిన్‌లాండ్ (phin‌lāṇḍ)
• Tetum: Finlándia
• Thai: ฟินแลนด์ (th) (fin-lɛɛn)
• Tibetan: ཧྥིན་ལན (hphin lan)
• Tigrinya: ፊንላንድ (finland)
• Tok Pisin: Pinlan
• Turkish: Finlandiya (tr)
• Turkmen: Finlýandiýa (tk)
• Udmurt: Финляндия (Finľanďija)
• Ukrainian: Фінля́ндія (uk) f (Finljándija)
• Urdu: فنلینڈ (finlainḍ)
• Uyghur: فىنلاندىيە (finlandiye)
• Uzbek: Finlandiya (uz)
• Venetian: Finlandia f
• Veps: Suomenma
• Vietnamese: Phần Lan (vi) (芬蘭)
• Volapük: Suomiyän (vo)
• Votic: Soomi
• Võro: Soomõ
• Walloon: Finlande (wa) f
• Waray-Waray: Finlandya
• Welsh: y Ffindir (cy) m
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Finland
• West Frisian: Finlân (fy)
• Western Panjabi: فنلینڈ (pnb) (fnlenḍ)
• Wolof: Finlaand
• Wutunhua: fenlan
• Yakut: Финляндия (Finlandiya)
• Yiddish: פֿינלאַנד n (finland)
• Yoruba: Fínlándì
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Finlanda
• Zealandic: Finland n
• Zhuang: Fwnhlanz

See also

• (countries of Europe) countries of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

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Breton

Proper noun

Finland

1. Finland

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Danish

Proper noun

Finland

1. Finland

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Finlandt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed and first attested in the 16th century Dutch translation of Olaus Magnus Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus by Cornelius Grapheus, but whether it was borrowed from Latin or a Germanic translation, e.g. Swedish, Low German or High German, is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪn.lɑnt/

• audio:

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• Hyphenation: Fin‧land
• Rhymes: -ɪnlɑnt

Proper noun

Finland n

1. Finland

Derived terms

• Finlander
• Finlands

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪnlɑn/

Proper noun

Finland

1. Finland

Derived terms

• finlandshette

Related terms

• finlender, finlending, finne
• finlandsk, finsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Finland

1. Finland

Derived terms

• finlandshette

Related terms

• finlendar, finlending, finne
• finlandsk, finsk

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Finnland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪnˌland/, [ˈfɪnːˌl̪and]
• IPA^(key): /ˈfinlɑnd/

• audio:

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Proper noun

Finland n (genitive Finlands)

1. Finland (a country in Europe).

   Synonym: Republiken Finland

2. (historical) Finland (one of the four regions of Sweden, together with Götaland, Svealand and Norrland)

Derived terms

• finlandssvensk
• finländare
• finländsk

Related terms

• finne
• finsk