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

Derived terms

• Denmark Hill
• Denmark Street
• 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), الدَّنِمَرْك‎ f (ad-danimark), الدَّنْمَرْك‎ f (ad-danmark), الدِّنْمَرْك‎ f (ad-dinmark)

  Egyptian Arabic: دنمرك‎

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

• Aragonese: Dinamarca m
• Armenian: Դանիա (hy) (Dania)
• Aromanian: Danimarca f
• 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)
• Catalan: Dinamarca (ca) f, Danimarca
• Cebuano: Denmark, Dinamarka
• Central Kurdish: دانمارک‎ (danmark)
• Chechen: Дани (Dani)
• Cherokee: ᏕᏂᎹᎩ (denimagi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丹麥／丹麦 (daan¹ mak⁶)

  Hakka: 丹麥／丹麦 (Tan-ma̍k)

  Mandarin: 丹麥／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) 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), Kerajaan Denmark
• Interlingua: Danmark
• Irish: An Danmhairg (ga) f
• Italian: Danimarca (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Denmaak
• Japanese: デンマーク (ja) (Denmāku), (obsolete) 丁抹 (ja) (Denmāku)
• 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 n
• 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: Dania f
• 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)

• 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), Дани (Dani)
• Papiamentu: Dinamarka
• Pashto: دانمارک‎ m (dānmãrk), ډنمارک‎ m (ḍanmãrk)
• 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 (ḍainnamārak)
• Quechua: Dansuyu
• Romanian: Danemarca (ro) f
• Russian: Да́ния (ru) f (Dánija)
• Rusyn: Да́ньско n (Dánʹsko)
• 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
• 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 (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 (Dańija)
• Ukrainian: Да́нія (uk) f (Dánija)
• Urdu: ڈنمارک‎ m (ḍenmārk)
• 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — 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