Flanders

English

Etymology

From French Flandres, from Dutch Vlaanderen pl, from Middle Dutch Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdra (“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

1. The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
   • 1613, 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 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

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

2. A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.
3. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
4. Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
5. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
6. A surname​.

Related terms

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

 

Translations

subnational state in the north of federal Belgium

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

  Mandarin: 佛蘭德 (zh), 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
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: la Flandre (fr) f, les Flandres (fr) f pl
• Galician: Flandres (gl)
• German: Flandern (de) n
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)

• Hungarian: Flandria (hu)
• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre
• Japanese: フランデレン (Furanderen), フランドル (Furandoru)
• 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
• Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

historical county

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

  Mandarin: 佛蘭德 (zh), 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
• Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
• French: la Flandre (fr) f
• German: Flandern (de) n
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)

• Irish: Flóndras m
• Italian: Fiandre
• Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランダース (Furandāsu)
• Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
• Old Norse: Flæmingjaland n
• Old Portuguese: Frandes
• Persian: فلاندر‎ (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
• German: Flandern (de) pl
• Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
• Irish: Flóndras m

• Italian: Fiandre 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 (zh), 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 f pl
• Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランドル・フランセーズ (Furandoru furansēzu)
• 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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} Flandria
• 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