Denmark

English

Etymology

From Danish Danmark, from 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

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

   Synonym: Kingdom of Denmark

Derived terms

• Denmark Street
• New Denmark
• something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Translations

country in Western Europe

• Acehnese: Denmark
• Afrikaans: Denemarke (af)
• Albanian: Danimarkë f (indefinite), Danimarka (sq) f
• Amharic: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
• Arabic: الدَّنْمَارْك‎ f (ad-danmārk)

  Egyptian Arabic: دنمارك‎

• Aragonese: Dinamarca m
• Aramaic: ܕܐܢܡܐܪܩ‎
• Armenian: Դանիա (hy) (Dania)
• Aromanian: Danimarca f
• Asturian: Dinamarca (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Danimarka (az)
• Bashkir: Дания (Daniya)
• Basque: Danimarka (eu)
• Bavarian: Dänemark, Denemark
• Belarusian: Да́нія f (Dánija)
• Bengali: ডেনমার্ক (ḍenmark)
• 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 (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 (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
• Hausa: Denmark
• 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, Dinamarka
• Karachay-Balkar: Дания
• Karakalpak: Daniya
• Kashmiri: डेनमार्क (ḍenmārk)
• Kashubian: Dëńskô (csb) n
• Kazakh: Дания (Danïya)
• Khmer: ដាណឺម៉ាក (km) (daanəɨmaak)
• 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
• 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 (ḍenmārkkŭ)
• 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 (ḍaenmārk)
• Quechua: Dansuyu
• Romanian: Danemarca (ro) f
• Russian: Да́ния (ru) f (Dánija)
• Rusyn: Да́ньско 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, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

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