Flanders

English

Etymology

From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plúma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflɑːn.dəz/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflæn.dɚz/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːndə(ɹ)z, (General American) -ændə(ɹ)z

Proper noun

Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

1. The County of Flanders, a historical county of Europe, of varying extent.
   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.

3. A community and administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.
5. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West-Flanders and East-Flanders.
6. Ellipsis of French Flanders, a former province of France, now constituting the French department Nord.
7. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
8. A surname.

Related terms

• East-Flanders
• Flandrian
• Flemish
• French Flanders
• Imperial Flanders
• West-Flanders
• Zeelandic Flanders

 

Translations

community and region in the north of federal Belgium

• Arabic: فْلَانْدِر‎ m or f (flāndir)

  Hijazi Arabic: فْلَاندر‎ m or f (flāndir)

• Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
• Asturian: Flandes
• Catalan: Flandes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé), 法蘭德斯區／法兰德斯区 (Fǎlándésī)

• Corsican: Fiandri f pl
• Czech: Vlámsko (cs) n0
• Danish: Flandern (da)
• Dutch: Vlaanderen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Flandrio
• Estonian: Flandria
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: la Flandre (fr) f, les Flandres (fr) f pl
• Galician: Flandres (gl)
• Georgian: ფლანდრია (plandria)
• German: Flandern (de) n
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
• Hungarian: Flandria (hu)
• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre (it)
• Japanese: フランデレン (Furanderen), フランドル (Furandoru)
• Lithuanian: Flandrija f
• Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
• Norman: Fliandres f pl (Jersey)
• Polish: Flandria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
• Romanian: Flandra f
• Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
• Spanish: Flandes (es) m
• Swedish: Flandern
• Thai: แฟลนเดอร์ส (flɛɛn-də̂ə)
• Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

historical county

• Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
• Catalan: Flandes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé)

• Czech: Vlámsko (cs) n, Flandry (cs) f pl
• Danish: (grevskabet) Flandern (da)
• Dutch: (graafschap) Vlaanderen (nl) n
• Estonian: Flandria
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: la Flandre (fr) f
• Georgian: ფლანდრია (plandria), ფლანდრიის საგრაფო (plandriis sagrapo)
• German: Flandern (de) n
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre (it)
• Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランダース (Furandāsu)
• Lithuanian: Flandrija f
• Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
• Old Norse: Flæmingjaland n
• Old Portuguese: Frandes
• Persian: فلاندر‎ (fa) (flânder)
• Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
• Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
• Spanish: Flandes (es) m
• Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

two provinces in Belgium

• Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
• Corsican: Fiandri f pl
• Czech: Flandry (cs) f pl
• Dutch: de Vlaanders pl
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: Flandres (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ფლანდრია (plandria)
• German: Flandern (de) pl
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre (it) f pl
• Japanese: フランデレン州 (Furanderen shū)
• Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
• Norman: Fliandres f pl (Jersey)
• Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
• Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
• Spanish: Flandes (es) m
• Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

former province and region of northern France

• Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
• Catalan: Flandes francès m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé)

• Czech: Flandry (cs) f pl
• Danish: Flandern (da), Fransk Flandern
• Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen n
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: la Flandre (fr) f, la Flandre française f
• German: Flandern (de) n
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre (it) f pl
• Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランドル・フランセーズ (Furandoru furansēzu)
• Lithuanian: Prancūzijos Flandrija f
• Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
• Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
• Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
• Spanish: Flandes (es) m
• Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} Vlaandere
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} Flandria
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} Flandrez (br)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Фламандия f (Flamandija)
• Corsican: ^{(please verify)} Fiandria
• Dutch Low Saxon: ^{(please verify)} Vlaonderen
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} Flandrio, ^{(please verify)} Flandrujo
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Flandes, ^{(please verify)} Flandres (gl)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} פלנדריה‎
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Flæmingjaland
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} Flandria (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Flandria
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 플란데런 (peullandereon)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} Flandria f
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Flandern
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Flandra
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} Flandra
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Фла̀ндрија f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} Flàndrija (sh) f

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} Flámsko
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Flandes (es) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Flandern
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} Flaman Ovası
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} Фландрія f (Flandrija)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} Flăng-drơ, ^{(please verify)} xứ Flăng-drơ
• Walloon: ^{(please verify)} Flande
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Vloandern
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} Flaanderen

See also

• Belgium
• Brussels
• Wallonia

Anagrams

• Ferlands, Fernalds, snarfled