Bhoutan

Breton

Proper noun

Bhoutan

Bhutan (a country in South Asia, in the Himalayas)

French

Alternative forms

Boutan (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Tibetan བོད (bod)bor.

Prakrit *𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*bhŏṭṭa)

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éntrom

Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hántram

Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hántram

Sanskrit अन्त्र (antra)

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ontróm

Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāntrám

Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hāntrám

Sanskrit आ॒न्त्र (āntrá)

Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀢 (aṃta)

Prakrit 𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁𑀢 (bhŏṭṭaṃta)bor.

Nepali भुटान (bhuṭān)bor.

French Bhoutan

Probably borrowed from Nepali भुटान (bhuṭān), from Prakrit 𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁𑀢 (bhŏṭṭaṃta, “Tibet”, literally “end of Tibet”); probably ultimately from Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”). Traditionally considered to be derived via Sanskrit भोटान्त (bhoṭānta), but that word is probably a Prakritism.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bu.tɑ̃/
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Proper noun

Bhoutan m

Bhutan (a country in South Asia, in the Himalayas)

Descendants

→ Breton: Bhoutan
→ English: Bhutan, Bootan (archaic)
- → Albanian: Bhutan
- → Arabic: بُوتَان (būtān)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܗܘܼܛܵܢ (bhūṭān)
- → Burmese: ဘူတန် (bhutan)
- → Chinese:
  - Cantonese: 不丹 (bat1 daan1)
  - Mandarin: 不丹 (Bùdān)
- → Danish: Bhutan
- → Dhivehi: ބޫޓާން (būṭān̊)
- → Dutch: Bhutan
- → Esperanto: Butano
- → Estonian: Bhutan
- → Faroese: Butan
- → Finnish: Bhutan
- → German: Bhutan
- → Greek: Μπουτάν (Boután)
- → Gujarati: ભૂતાન (bhūtān)
- → Hausa: Butan, Bhutan
- → Hebrew: בְּהוּטָן
- → Interlingua: Bhutan
- → Irish: Bútáin
- → Icelandic: Bútan
- → Italian: Bhutan
- → Japanese: ブータン (Būtan)
- → Kalenjin: Butani
- → Kamba: Butani
- → Kannada: ಭೂತಾನ್ (bhūtān)
- → Kikuyu: Butan
- → Korean: 부탄 (Butan)
- → Northern Kurdish: Bûtan
- → Lao: ພູຖານ (phū thān)
- → Luhya: Butani
- → Malay: Bhutan
- → Malayalam: ഭൂട്ടാൻ (bhūṭṭāṉ)
- → Maltese: il-Butan
- → Manx: Yn Vootaan
- → Māori: Putāna, Purutāna
- → Meru: Butan
- → Mongolian:
  Cyrillic script: Бутан (Butan)
- → Norman: Bhutan
- → Norwegian:
  Norwegian Bokmål: Bhutan
  Norwegian Nynorsk: Bhutan
- → Pashto: بوټان (buṭān)
- → Persian: بوتان (butân)
- → Polish: Bhutan
- → Portuguese: Butão
- → Romanian: Bhutan
- → Punjabi: ਭੂਟਾਨ (bhūṭān)
- → Polish: Bhutan
- → Russian: Бута́н (Bután)
  - → Bashkir: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Belarusian: Бута́н (Bután)
  - → Bulgarian: Бута́н (Bután)
  - → Crimean Tatar: Butan
  - → Georgian: ბჰუტანი (bhuṭani)
  - → Kazakh: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Kyrgyz: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Latvian: Butāna
  - → Lithuanian: Butanas
  - → Macedonian: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Tajik: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Turkmen: Butan
  - → Tatar: Бутан (Butan)
  - → Ukrainian: Бута́н (Bután)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: Бу̀та̄н
  Latin script: Bùtān
- → Sindhi: ڀوٽان (bhoṭā̃)
- → Sinhalese: භූතානය (bhūtānaya)
- → Slovak: Bhután
- → Spanish: Bután
  - → Galician: Bután
- → Swahili: Butani
- → Swedish: Bhutan
- → Tamil: பூட்டான் (pūṭṭāṉ)
- → Telugu: భూటాన్ (bhūṭān)
- → Thai: ภูฏาน (puu-dtaan)
- → Urdu: بھوٹان (bhūṭān)
- → Uyghur: بۇتان (butan)
- → Uzbek: Butan
- → Vietnamese: Bu-tan
- → Volapük: Butän
- → Swedish: Bhutan
- → Turkish: Bhutan
- → Welsh: Bhwtan
- → Yiddish: בוטאַן (butan)
- → Yoruba: Bútánì
→ Khmer: ប៊ូតង់ (buutɑng)
→ Lao: ບູຕັງ (bū tang)

Breton

Proper noun

French

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

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