Denmark

English

Etymology

From Middle English Denmark, from Danish Danmark, from dansk (“Danish”) + Old Norse merki (“boundary”) or mǫrk (“borderland”). Cognate with (and perhaps influenced by) Old English Denemearc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.mɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.mɑɹk/

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Proper noun

Denmark

2. A country in Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Denmark. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen.

   Synonym: Kingdom of Denmark

3. The main part of the Kingdom of Denmark, excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the metropole of the Kingdom of Denmark.

   Synonym: Denmark proper

4. A number of places in other countries:
   1. A town and local government area (Shire of Denmark) in the Great Southern region, Western Australia.
   2. A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
   3. A parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada, named for the commmnity of New Denmark.
   4. A place in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Bulloch County, Georgia.
      2. An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana.
      3. A census-designated place and township in Lee County, Iowa.
      4. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kansas.
      5. A town in Oxford County, Maine.
      6. A township in Tuscola County, Michigan.
      7. A township in Washington County, Minnesota.
      8. A town in Lewis County, New York.
      9. An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
      10. A township in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
      11. An unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon.
      12. A city in Bamberg County, South Carolina.
      13. An unincorporated community and former city in Madison County, Tennessee.
      14. A village in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin.
5. A surname.

Derived terms

• Denmark Hill
• Denmark satin
• New Denmark
• something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Descendants

• → Japanese: デンマーク (Denmāku)
• → Korean: 덴마크 (Denmakeu)
• → Malay: Denmark
  • Indonesian: Denmark

Translations

country in Northern Europe

• Abkhaz: Даттәыла (Datʼtʷʼəla), Даниа (Danja)
• Acehnese: Denmark
• Afrikaans: Denemarke (af)
• Akan: Dɛnmaak
• Albanian: Danimarkë f (indefinite), Danimarka (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
• Arabic: الدَّانِمَرْك f (ad-dānimark) (definite), الدَّنِمَرْك f (ad-danimark), الدَّنْمَرْك f (ad-danmark), الدِّنْمَرْك f (ad-dinmark)

  Egyptian Arabic: دنمرك f

  Hijazi Arabic: الدنمارك f (ad-danmārk, ad-dinmārk)

• Aragonese: Dinamarca m
• Armenian: Դանիա (hy) (Dania)
• Aromanian: Danimarca f
• Assamese: ডেনমাৰ্ক (denmark)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܢܝܼܵܐ f (Dania)
• Asturian: Dinamarca (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Danimarka (az)
• Bashkir: Дания (Daniya)
• Basque: Danimarka (eu)
• Bavarian: Dänemark, Denemark
• Belarusian: Да́нія f (Dánija)
• Bengali: ডেনমার্ক (bn) (ḍenomark)
• Bikol Central: Denmark
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: ডেনমার্ক (ḍēnamārk)
• Bislama: Denmark
• Breton: Danmark (br)
• Bulgarian: Да́ния (bg) f (Dánija)
• Burmese: ဒိန်းမတ် (din:mat)
• Buryat: Дани (Dani)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Да́ньско n (Dánʹsko)
• Catalan: Dinamarca (ca) f, Danimarca f
• Cebuano: Denmark, Dinamarka
• Central Kurdish: دانمارک (danmark)
• Chechen: Дани (Dani)
• Cherokee: ᏕᏂᎹᎩ (denimagi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丹麥／丹麦 (daan¹ mak⁶)

  Eastern Min: 丹麥／丹麦 (Dăng-măk)

  Hakka: 丹麥／丹麦 (Tan-ma̍k)

  Hokkien: 丹麥／丹麦 (Tan-be̍h)

  Mandarin: 丹麥／丹麦 (zh) (Dānmài)

  Wu: 丹麥／丹麦 (¹te-maq)

• Chuvash: Дани (Dani)
• Cornish: Danmark m
• Corsican: Danimarca f
• Crimean Tatar: Danimarka
• Czech: Dánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Danmark (da) n
• Dhivehi: ޑެންމާކު (dv) (ḍen̊māku)
• Dutch: Denemarken (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཌེན་མཱཀ་ (ḍen māk)
• Esperanto: Danio, Danujo, Danlando
• Estonian: Taani (et)
• Ewe: Denmark
• Extremaduran: Dinamarca
• Farefare: Daŋɔ
• Faroese: Danmørk f, Danmark f
• Fiji Hindi: Denmark
• Finnish: Tanska (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Danemârc m
• French: Danemark (fr) m
• Friulian: Danimarcje f
• Gagauz: Daniya
• Galician: Dinamarca (gl) f
• Georgian: დანია (dania)
• German: Dänemark (de) n
• Greek: Δανία (el) f (Danía)
• Greenlandic: Danmarki (kl)
• Guaraní: Ndinamayka
• Gujarati: ડેનમાર્ક (ḍenmārk)
• Haitian Creole: Danmak
• Hausa: Denmark
• Hawaiian: Kenemaka
• Hebrew: דֶּנְמַרְק (he) f (dénmark)
• Hindi: डेनमार्क (hi) m (ḍenmārk)
• Hungarian: Dánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Danmörk (is) f
• Ido: Dania (io)
• Ilocano: Denmark
• Indonesian: Denmark (id)
• Interlingua: Danmark
• Irish: An Danmhairg (ga) f
• Italian: Danimarca (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Denmaak
• Japanese: デンマーク (ja) (Denmāku), 丁抹 (ja) (デンマーク, Denmāku) (obsolete)
• Javanese: Denmark
• Kabardian: Даниэ (Daniɛ)
• Kalenjin: Denmak
• Kalmyk: Данскгин Нутг (Danskgin Nutg)
• Kamba: Denmak
• Kannada: ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್ (ḍenmārk‌)
• Kapampangan: Denmark, Dinamarka
• Karachay-Balkar: Дания (Daniya)
• Karakalpak: Daniya
• Kashmiri: डेनमार्क (ḍēnamārk)
• Kashubian: Duńskô f
• Kazakh: Дания (kk) (Daniä)
• Khmer: ដាណឺម៉ាក (km) (daanəɨmaak)
• Kikuyu: Denmak
• Komi-Permyak: Данмарк (Danmark)
• Komi-Zyrian: Дания (Dańija)
• Kongo: Danemark
• Korean: 덴마크 (ko) (Denmakeu), 단마르크 (ko) (Danmareukeu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Danmarka (ku), Danîmarka (ku)

• Kven: Tanmarkku, Tanska
• Kyrgyz: Дания (Daniya)
• Ladino: Danimarka
• Lao: ດານມາກ (dān māk), ແດນມາກ (dǣn māk)
• Latgalian: Daneja f
• Latin: Dānia f (Medieval Latin)
• Latvian: Dānija (lv) f
• Ligurian: Danemarca f
• Limburgish: Dieënemerk
• Lingala: Danemark
• Lithuanian: Danija (lt) f
• Livonian: Dēņmō
• Lombard: Danimarca (lmo) f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Denmaark (nds)

  German Low German: Däänmark (nds)

• Luganda: Denimaaka
• Luhya: Denmak
• Luo: Denmak
• Luxembourgish: Dänemark (lb) n
• Macedonian: Данска (mk) f (Danska)
• Malagasy: Danmarka
• Malay: Denmark (ms)
• Malayalam: ഡെന്മാർക്ക് (ḍenmāṟkkŭ)
• Maltese: id-Danimarka
• Manx: Danvarg
• Maori: Tenemāka
• Marathi: डेन्मार्क (ḍenmārka)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Даний (Dańij)

• Meru: Denmak
• Mingrelian: დანია (dania)
• Moksha: Данмастор (Danmastor)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Дани (Dani)

  Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠠᠨ᠋ᠢ (dani)

• Nahuatl: Dinamarca
• Nauruan: Denemark
• Navajo: Chʼah Bideeʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
• Neapolitan: Danemarca f
• Nepali: डेनमार्क (ḍenmārka)
• Norman: Dannemar m
• North Frisian: Dånmark
• Northern Sami: Dánmárku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Danmark (no) n

  Nynorsk: Danmark (nn) n

• Occitan: Dinamarca (oc)
• Odia: ଡେନମାର୍କ (ḍenômarkô)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Данїꙗ f (Danija) (modern)

• Old East Slavic: Донь f (Donĭ)
• Old English: Denemearc f
• Old Norse: Danmǫrk f
• Ossetian: Дани (Dani)
• Papiamentu: Dinamarka
• Pashto: دانمارک m (dānmārk), ډنمارک m (ḍanmārk)
• Pennsylvania German: Denemarrick
• Persian:

  Dari: دَانْمَارْک (fa) (dānmārk), دَنْمَارْک (danmārk)

  Iranian Persian: دانْمارْک (fa) (dânmârk)

• Piedmontese: Danimarca f
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Denmark
• Polish: Dania (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Δανία (Danía)
• Portuguese: Dinamarca (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਡੈੱਨਮਾਰਕ m (ḍainnamārak)

• Quechua: Dansuyu
• Romanian: Danemarca (ro) f
• Russian: Да́ния (ru) f (Dánija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Danimarike, Danemarke
• Samogitian: Danėjė
• Scots: Denmark
• Scottish Gaelic: An Danmhairg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Да̑нска̄ f

  Roman: Dȃnskā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Danimarca f
• Silesian: Dańijo f
• Sinhalese: ඩෙන්මාකය (si) (ḍenmākaya)
• Slovak: Dánsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Dánska (sl) f
• Somali: Denmark
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Dańska f

  Upper Sorbian: Danska f

• Spanish: Dinamarca (es) f
• Swahili: Denmaki (sw), Udeni
• Swedish: Danmark (sv) n
• Tagalog: Dinamarka (tl)
• Tajik: Дания (tg) (Daniya)
• Tamil: டென்மார்க் (ṭeṉmārk)
• Tatar: Дания (Daniyä)
• Telugu: డెన్మార్క్ (te) (ḍenmārk)
• Tetum: Dinamarka
• Thai: เดนมาร์ก (th) (den-màak)
• Tibetan: དན་མྲག (dan mrag)
• Tigrinya: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
• Tok Pisin: Denmak
• Turkish: Danimarka (tr)
• Turkmen: Daniýa
• Udmurt: Дания (Dańija)
• Ukrainian: Да́нія (uk) f (Dánija)
• Urdu: ڈِنْمارْک m (ḍinmārk)
• Uyghur: دانىيە (daniye)
• Uzbek: Daniya (uz)
• Venetian: Danimarca f
• Vietnamese: Đan Mạch (vi)
• Volapük: Danän (vo)
• Võro: Taani
• Waray-Waray: Dinamarka
• Welsh: Denmarc (cy) f
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Denemarkn
• West Frisian: Denemark (fy)
• Western Panjabi: ڈنمارک (pnb)
• Wolof: Danmaark
• Yiddish: דענמאַרק n (denmark)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Danimarka
• Zealandic: Denemarken
• Zhuang: Danhmwz
• Zulu: IDenimaki

See also

• (countries of Europe) country 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

Anagrams

• end mark, endmark

Acehnese

Proper noun

Denmark

1. Denmark

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English Denmark, from Danish Danmark, from Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnma(r)k/
• Hyphenation: Dèn‧mark

Proper noun

Dènmark

1. Denmark (a country in Europe)

See also

• (countries of Europe) negara-negara di Eropa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belanda, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia dan Herzegovina, Britania Raya, Bulgaria, Ceko, Denmark, Estonia, Finlandia, Georgia, Hongaria, Irlandia, Islandia, Italia, Jerman, Kazakhstan, Kroasia, Latvia, Listenstaina, Lituania, Luksemburg, Makedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Norwegia, Perancis, Polandia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Siprus, Slovenia, Slowakia, Spanyol, Swedia, Swiss, Turki, Ukraina, Yunani, Vatikan

Further reading

• “Denmark” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Scots

Etymology

From Danish Danmark, from Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Proper noun

Denmark

1. Denmark