Danish

See also: danish

English

Alternative forms

• danish (noun; sense Danish pastry)

Etymology

Alteration of Middle English Denish (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisc (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪnɪʃ/

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Noun

Danish (uncountable)

1. The language of Danes and Denmark.
2. (regarded as plural) Natives of Denmark; Danes.
3. (informal, countable, chiefly US) Ellipsis of Danish pastry.

Derived terms

(language):

• Old Danish
• Middle Danish
• Modern Danish

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Deens (af)
• Albanian: Danisht
• Amharic: ዴኒሽ (deniš)
• Arabic: دَانْمَارْكِيَّة‎ f (danmarkiyya)
• Armenian: դանիերեն (hy) (danieren)
• Asturian: danés (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Данимарка
• Basque: daniera (eu)
• Belarusian: да́цкая мо́ва f (dáckaja móva), да́цкая f (dáckaja)
• Breton: Daneg
• Bulgarian: датски (datski)
• Catalan: danès (ca) m

  Valencian: danés (ca) m

• Cherokee: ᏓᏂᏍ (danis), ᏕᏂᏏ (Denisi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹麥語 (zh), 丹麦语 (zh) (Dānmàiyǔ)

• Czech: dánština (cs) f, dánský jazyk m
• Danish: dansk (da)
• Dutch: Deens (nl)
• Estonian: taani keel
• Faroese: danskt (fo) n
• Finnish: tanska (fi)
• French: danois (fr) m
• Galician: dinamarqués (gl) m, danés (gl) m
• Georgian: დანიური (daniuri), დანიური ენა (daniuri ena)
• German: Dänisch (de) n
• Greek: δανικά (el) n pl (daniká)
• Greenlandic: qallunaatut (kl)
• Hebrew: דנית‎ f (denít)
• Hindi: डेनिश (ḍeniś)
• Hungarian: dán (hu)
• Icelandic: danska (is) f
• Irish: Danmhairgis
• Italian: danese (it) m
• Japanese: デンマーク語 (ja) (Denmākugo)
• Khmer: ដាណឺម៉ាក (km) (daanəɨmaak)
• Korean: 덴마크어 (ko) (Denmakeu-eo)
• Kurdish: Danîmarkî (ku)
• Latvian: Dāņu
• Limburgish: Dieënsj (li) n
• Lithuanian: Danų, Daniškai
• Macedonian: дански m (dánski)

• Maltese: daniż
• Marathi: डेनिश f (ḍeniśa)
• Moksha: данонь (danonʹ)
• Mongolian: дани (dani)
• Navajo: Déinish Dineʼé bizaad
• Nepali: ड्यानिश (ḍyāniśa)
• North Frisian: Dånsch
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dansk (no) m

  Nynorsk: dansk (nn) m

• Occitan: danès m
• Persian: دانمارکی‎ (fa) (danmarki)
• Polish: duński (pl)
• Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt) m, danês m
• Romanian: daneză (ro) f
• Russian: да́тский (ru) (dátskij)
• Scots: Dens
• Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgis f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дански m

  Roman: danski (sh) m

• Slovak: dánčina (sk) f
• Slovene: dánščina (sl) f
• Sorbian: Danšćina, Dańšćina
• Spanish: danés (es) m
• Swahili: Kideni, Kidenishi
• Swedish: danska (sv)
• Tagalog: Danes (tl)
• Tamil: டேனிஷ் (ṭēṉiṣ)
• Tatar: дания (daniya)
• Thai: ภาษาเดนมาร์ก (th) (paasăa denmâak)
• Tigrinya: ዴኒሽ (deniš)
• Turkish: Danca (tr)
• Ukrainian: датський (datsʹkyj)
• Urdu: ڈينش‎
• Vietnamese: tiếng Đan-mạch
• Volapük: Danänapük (vo)
• Walloon: daenwès (wa)
• Welsh: Daneg (cy)
• West Frisian: Deensk (fy)
• Yiddish: דעניש‎ n (denish)

native of Denmark — see Dane

Danish pastry — see Danish pastry

Adjective

Danish (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Denmark.

Derived terms

• Danishness
• Danish axe
• Danish blue
• Danish dog
• Danish longball
• Danish oil
• Danish pastry
• Danish Canadian, Danish-Canadian
• Danish Sign Language
• Danish West Indies

Translations

of Denmark

• Armenian: դանիական (hy) (daniakan)
• Asturian: danés (ast)
• Basque: daniar
• Belarusian: да́цкі m (dácki)
• Catalan: danès (ca)

  Valencian: danés (ca)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹麥的 (zh), 丹麦的 (zh) (Dānmài de)

• Czech: dánský (cs)
• Danish: dansk (da)
• Dutch: Deens (nl)
• Esperanto: dana (eo)
• Faroese: danskur
• Finnish: tanskalainen (fi)
• French: danois (fr) m
• Galician: dinamarqués (gl), danés (gl)
• Georgian: დანიური (daniuri)
• German: dänisch (de)
• Greek: δανικός (el) (danikós)
• Hawaiian: Kenemaka

• Hebrew: דני‎ (deni)
• Hungarian: dán (hu)
• Icelandic: danskur (is)
• Interlingua: danese (ia)
• Italian: danese (it)
• Macedonian: дански (dánski)
• Marathi: डेनिश (ḍeniśa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dansk (no)

  Nynorsk: dansk (nn)

• Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt), danês
• Romanian: danez (ro)
• Russian: да́тский (ru) (dátskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgeach
• Slovak: dánsky (sk)
• Slovene: dánski (sl)
• Spanish: danés (es), dinamarqués (es)
• Swedish: dansk (sv)
• Tagalog: Danes (tl)
• Yiddish: דעניש‎ (denish)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Danish terms
• Appendix:Danish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Danish

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code da, ISO 639-3 code dan
• Ethnologue entry for Danish, da
• Danish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “Danish” (US) / “Danish” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• handis, sandhi