Denmark

English

Etymology

From Danish Danmark, from Danish dansk (“Danish”) + Old Norse merki (“boundary”) or mǫrk (“borderland”). Cognate to (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

1. A country in Western Europe consisting mainly of most of the Jutland Peninsula and a number of islands off its coast.

Synonyms

• Kingdom of Denmark

Derived terms

• Denmark Street
• New Denmark

Translations

country in Western Europe

• Acehnese: Denmark
• Afrikaans: Denemarke (af)
• Albanian: Danimarkë f (indefinite), Danimarka (sq) f
• Amharic: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
• Arabic: دَانِمَارْك‏‎ m (dānimārk)

  Egyptian Arabic: دنمارك‏‎

• Aragonese: Dinamarca m
• Aramaic: ܕܐܢܡܐܪܩ‏‎
• Armenian: Դանիա (hy) (Dania)
• Aromanian: Danimarca f
• Asturian: Dinamarca (ast) f
• Azeri: Danimarka (az)
• Bashkir: Дания (Daniya)
• Basque: Danimarka (eu)
• Bavarian: Dänemark, Denemark
• Belarusian: Да́нія f (Dánija)
• Bengali: ডেনমার্ক (ḑenmark)
• Bikol Central: Denmark
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: ডেনমার্ক (ḍēnamārk)
• Bislama: Denmark
• Breton: Danmark (br)
• Bulgarian: Да́ния (bg) f (Dánija)
• Burmese: ဒိန်းမတ် (din:mat)
• Catalan: Dinamarca (ca) f
• Cebuano: Denmark, Dinamarka
• Central Kurdish: دانمارک‏‎
• Chechen: Дани (Dani)
• Cherokee: ᏕᏂᎹᎩ (denimagi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丹麥, 丹麦 (daan¹ mak⁶)

  Hakka: 丹麥, 丹麦 (Tan-ma̍k)

  Mandarin: 丹麥 (zh), 丹麦 (zh) (Dānmài)

  Min Dong: 丹麥, 丹麦 (Dăng-măk)

  Min Nan: 丹麥, 丹麦 (Tan-be̍h)

• Chuvash: Дани (Dani), Дани (Dani)
• Cornish: Danmark m
• Corsican: Danimarca f
• Crimean Tatar: Danimarka
• Czech: Dánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Danmark (da)
• Dhivehi: ޑެންމާކު‏‎ (dv) (ḍenmāku)
• Dutch: Denemarken (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཌེན་མཱཀ་ (ḍen māk)
• Esperanto: Danio, Danujo, Danlando
• Estonian: Taani (et)
• Ewe: Denmark
• Extremaduran: Dinamarca
• 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
• Hawaiian: Kenemaka
• Hebrew: דֶּנְמַרְק‏‎ (he) f (dénmark)
• Hindi: डेनमार्क (hi) (ḍenmārk)
• Hungarian: Dánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Danmörk (is) f
• Ido: Dania (io)
• Ilocano: Denmark
• Indonesian: Denmark (id), Kerajaan Denmark
• Interlingua: Danmark
• Interlingue: Dania
• Irish: An Danmhairg f
• Italian: Danimarca (it) f
• Japanese: デンマーク (ja) (Denmāku), (obsolete) 丁抹 (Denmāku)
• Javanese: Denmark
• Kabardian: Даниэ (Dāniă)
• Kalenjin: Denmak
• Kalmyk: Данскгин Нутг (Danskgin Nutg)
• Kamba: Denmak
• Kannada: ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್‌ (ḍenmārk‌)
• Kapampangan: Denmark
• Karachay-Balkar: Дания
• Karakalpak: Daniya
• Kashmiri: डेनमार्क‏‎ (ḍenmārk)
• Kashubian: Dëńskô (csb) n
• Kazakh: Дания (Danïya)
• Khmer: ដាណឺម៉ាក (km) (danermaak)
• Kikuyu: Denmak
• Komi-Permyak: Данмарк (Danmark)
• Komi-Zyrian: Дания (Danija)
• Kongo: Danemark
• Korean: 덴마크 (Denmakeu), (North Korea) 단마르크 (Danmareukeu)
• Kurdish: Danîmarka‏‎ (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Дания (Daniya)
• Ladino: Danimarka
• Lao: ແດນມາກ (dǣn māk)
• Latgalian: Daneja f
• Latin: Dania f
• Latvian: Dānija (lv) f
• Ligurian: Danemarca f
• Limburgish: Dieënemerk (li)
• Lingala: Danemark
• Lithuanian: Danija (lt) f
• Livonian: Dēņmō

• Lojban: danmark
• Lombard: Danimarca 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
• Malayalam: ഡെന്മാർക്ക് (ḍenmārkk)
• Maltese: id-Danimarka
• Manx: Danvarg
• Maori: Tenemāka
• Marathi: डेन्मार्क (ḍenmārk)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Даний (Danij)

• Meru: Denmak
• Mingrelian: დანია (dania)
• Moksha: Данмастор (Danmastor)
• Mongolian: Дани (Dani), Дани (Dani)
• Nahuatl: Dinamarca
• Nauruan: Denemark
• Navajo: Déinish Dineʼé bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Danemarca f
• Nepali: डेनमार्क (ḍenmārk)
• Norman: Dannemar m
• North Frisian: Dånmark
• Northern Sami: Dánmárku
• Norwegian: Danmark (no) (Kongeriket Danmark)

  Nynorsk: Danmark (nn)

• Novial: Dania
• Occitan: Dinamarca (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: Данїꙗ f (Danija)
• Old East Slavic: Донь (Donĭ)
• Old English: Denemearc f
• Old Norse: Danmǫrk f
• Oriya: ଡେନମାର୍କ (ḍenômarkô)
• Ossetian: Дани (Dani), Дани (Dani)
• Papiamentu: Dinamarka
• Pashto: ډېنمارک‏‎ (denmārk)
• Pennsylvania German: Denemarrick
• Persian: دانمارک‏‎ (fa) (dânmârk)
• Piedmontese: Danimarca f
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Denmark
• Polish: Dania (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Δανία (Danía)
• Portuguese: Dinamarca (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਡੈੱਨਮਾਰਕ (ḍēnnamārak)
• Quechua: Dansuyu
• Romanian: Danemarca (ro) f
• Russian: Да́ния (ru) f (Dánija)
• Rusyn: Да́ньско (rue) f (Dánʹsko)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Danimarike, Danemarke
• Samogitian: Danėjė
• Scots: Denmark
• Scottish Gaelic: An Danmhairg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Данска f

  Roman: Danska (sh) f

• Sicilian: Danimarca f
• Silesian: Dańijo
• Sinhalese: ඩෙන්මාකය (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)
• Tagalog: Dinamarka (tl)
• Tajik: Дания (tg) (Daniya)
• Tamil: டென்மார்க் (ṭeṉmārk)
• Tatar: Дания (Daniya)
• Telugu: డెన్మార్క్ (te) (ḍenmārk)
• Tetum: Dinamarka
• Thai: เดนมาร์ก (th) (den-màak)
• Tibetan: དན་མྲག (dan mrag)
• Tok Pisin: Denmak
• Turkish: Danimarka (tr)
• Turkmen: Daniýa
• Udmurt: Дания (Danija)
• Ukrainian: Да́нія (uk) f (Dánija)
• Urdu: ڈنمارک‏‎ (ḍenmārk)
• Uyghur: دانىيە‏‎ (daniye)
• Uzbek: Daniya (uz)
• Venetian: Danimarca f
• Vietnamese: Đan Mạch
• 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 (denmark)
• Yoruba: Dẹ́nmárkì
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Danimarka
• Zealandic: Denemarken
• Zulu: IDenimaki

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Denmark
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Category: en:Countries of Europe)}

Anagrams

• end mark, endmark

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Acehnese

Proper noun

Denmark

1. Denmark

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Scots

Etymology

From Danish Danmark, from Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Proper noun

Denmark

1. Denmark