Japan

See also: japan, japán, and Japán

English

a satellite image showing Japan

Alternative forms

• Giapan (obsolete)
• Japonia (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本, likely from an earlier stage of modern Cantonese reading jat⁶ bun² or Min Nan ji̍t-pún (in turn from Middle Chinese nyit-pwón, potentially from older Old Chinese *nit-pˁənʔ but unattested in Old Chinese-era literature). Compare also Mandarin 日本 (Rìběn), Japanese 日本 (Nippon), Korean 일본 (Ilbon), Vietnamese Nhật Bản.

The earliest form of “Japan” in Europe was Marco Polo's Cipangu, the first recorded form in English was in a letter dated February 19, 1565 (published 1577), spelt “Giapan”: Of the Ilande of Giapan, by Luís Fróis (a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Japan), published in Richard Willes, The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (London 1577), cited in Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery, by Peter C. Mancall, pp. 156–57.

Pronunciation

Wikivoyage

• IPA^(key): /dʒəˈpæn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Japan (uncountable)

2. An island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located to the east of China, Korea and Russia.

   Synonyms: Jap., Jpn., Land of the Rising Sun, Japonia, Nihon, Nippon, Yamato, State of Japan, Chrysanthemum Nation

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Empire of Japan
• Jap (derogatory)
• japan
• Japan allspice
• Japan black
• Japan camphor
• Japan clover

• Japan earth
• Japanese
• Japan ink
• Japanize
• Japan lacquer
• Japanology

• Japanophile
• Japanophilia
• Japan pea
• Japan varnish
• japanware
• Sea of Japan

Descendants

• → Bengali: জাপান (japan)
• → Burmese: ဂျပန် (gya.pan)
• → Hindi: जापान (jāpān)
• → Irish: Seapáin
• → Marathi: जपान (japān)
• → Tamil: ஜப்பான் (jappāṉ)
• → Telugu: జపాను (japānu)
• → Urdu: جاپان‎ (jāpān)

Translations

a country in East Asia

• Abkhaz: Иапониа (Iāṗoniā)
• Acehnese: Jeupun
• Adyghe: Японие (Jāponie)
• Afrikaans: Japan (af)
• Ainu: シサㇺ (Sisam)
• Albanian: Japonia (sq) (Tosk), Japan (Gheg)
• Amharic: ጃፓን (ǧapan)
• Arabic: اَلْيَابَان‎‎ m (al-yābān)
• Aragonese: Chapón m
• Aramaic: ܝܦܢ‎‎ (japan)
• Armenian: Ճապոնիա (Čaponia)
• Assamese: জাপান (zapan)
• Asturian: Xapón (ast) m
• Aymara: Nihun
• Azerbaijani: Yaponiya (az)
• Banjarese: Japang
• Bashkir: Япония (Yaponiya)
• Basque: Japonia (eu)
• Bavarian: Japan
• Belarusian: Япо́нія f (Japónija)
• Bengali: জাপান (bn) (japan)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: জাপান (jāpān)
• Breton: Japan
• Buginese: ᨍᨛᨄ
• Bulgarian: Япо́ния (bg) f (Japónija)
• Burmese: ဂျပန် (gya.pan)
• Buryat: Жибэн (Žiben)
• Catalan: Japó (ca) m
• Cebuano: Hapon
• Chamorro: Japan
• Chavacano: Japón
• Cherokee: ᏣᏆᏂ (tsaquani)
• Cheyenne: Japan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日本 (yat⁶ bun²)

  Dungan: Жыбын (Ƶьbьn)

  Hakka: 日本 (Ngit-pún)

  Mandarin: 日本 (zh) (Rìběn)

  Min Dong: 日本 (Nĭk-buōng)

  Min Nan: 日本 (zh-min-nan) (Ji̍t-pún, Li̍t-pún)

  Wu: 日本 (zeq pen)

• Chuvash: Япони (Japoni)
• Cornish: Nihon
• Crimean Tatar: Yaponiya
• Czech: Japonsko (cs) n
• Danish: Japan (da)
• Dhivehi: ޖާފާނު‎‎ (jāfānu)
• Dutch: Japan (nl) n
• Dutch Low Saxon: Japan
• Dzongkha: ཇཱ་པཱན (jā pān)
• Esperanto: Japanio (eo), Japanujo (eo)
• Estonian: Jaapan (et)
• Faroese: Japan n
• Finnish: Japani (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: J·apon
• French: le Japon (fr) m
• Galician: Xapón (gl) m
• Georgian: იაპონია (iaṗonia)
• German: Japan (de) n
• Greek: Ιαπωνία (el) f (Iaponía)
• Gujarati: જાપાન (jāpān)
• Haitian Creole: Japon
• Hausa: Japan
• Hawaiian: Iāpana
• Hebrew: יַפָּן‎‎ (he) (yapan)
• Hindi: जापान (hi) m (jāpān)
• Hungarian: Japán (hu)
• Icelandic: Japan (is) n
• Ido: Japonia (io)
• Ilocano: Japon
• Indonesian: Jepang (id)
• Interlingua: Japon
• Interlingue: Japan
• Inuktitut: ᓃᑉᐊᓐ (niipan), Niipan
• Irish: An tSeapáin f
• Italian: Giappone (it) m
• Japanese: 日本 (ja) (にほん, Nihon; にっぽん, Nippon), 大和 (ja) (やまと, Yamato), 日の本 (ja) (ひのもと, Hi no Moto)
• Javanese: Jepang
• Kalmyk: Японь (Yapon')
• Kannada: ಜಪಾನ್ (kn) (japān)
• Kapampangan: Hapon
• Kashmiri: जापान (jāpān)
• Kashubian: Japòńskô
• Kazakh: Жапония (Japonïya)
• Khmer: ជប៉ុន (km) (cĕəʾpon)
• Korean: 일본 (Ilbon) (日本 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Japon (ku)

  Sorani: ژاپۆن‎‎ (ku) (japon)

• Kyrgyz: Жапония (ky) (Caponiya)
• Lao: ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ (lo) (nyī pun)
• Latgalian: Japoneja f
• Latin: Iaponia (la) f, Japonia (la) f
• Latvian: Japāna (lv) f
• Ligurian: Giappon m
• Limburgish: Japan (li)
• Lingala: Zapɔ́
• Lithuanian: Japonija (lt) f
• Lombard: Giappon m, Giapun m

• Low German: Japan
• Lower Sorbian: Japońska
• Luxembourgish: Japan (lb)
• Lü: ᦍᦲᧈᦔᦳᧃᧈ (yii¹ṗun¹)
• Macedonian: Јапо́нија (mk) f (Japónija)
• Malagasy: Japana (mg)
• Malay: Jepun (ms), Jepang (ms)
• Malayalam: ജപ്പാന്‍ (jappān‍)
• Maltese: Ġappun
• Manchu: ᠣᡯᡝ
  ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (odze gurun)
• Manx: Yn Çhapaan f
• Maori: Tiapana
• Marathi: जपान (japān)
• Marshallese: Japan
• Mongolian: Япон (mn) (Japon)
• Nahuatl: Xapōn
• Nauruan: Djapan
• Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí dineʼé bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Giappone
• Nepali: जापान (jāpān)
• Newari: जापान (jāpān)
• Norman: Japon m
• Northern Sami: Japána
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Japan (no)

  Nynorsk: Japan (nn)

• Novial: Japan
• Occitan: Japon (oc) m
• Okinawan: やまとぅ (yamatu)
• Oriya: ଜାପାନ୍ (or) (japan)
• Ossetian: Япон (Japon)
• Palauan: Siabal
• Pashto: جاپان‎‎ (ps) f (jāpān)
• Persian: ژاپن‎‎ (fa) (žâpon), ژاپون‎‎ (fa) (žāpōn)
• Piedmontese: Giapon m
• Plautdietsch: Jau'paun
• Polish: Japonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Japão (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਜਪਾਨ (japān)
• Quechua: Nihun
• Rade: Za pô nê
• Romanian: Japonia (ro) f
• Romansch: Giapun m
• Russian: Япо́ния (ru) f (Japónija)
• Samoan: Iapani (sm)
• Samogitian: Japuonėjė
• Sanskrit: जापान (jāpāna)
• Sardinian: Japone
• Scots: Japan
• Scottish Gaelic: Iapan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јапан m

  Roman: Japan (sh) m

• Sicilian: Giappuni (scn) m
• Silesian: Japůńja
• Sinhalese: ජපානය (japānaya)
• Slovak: Japonsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Japónska (sl) f
• Somali: Jabaan
• Southern Altai: Јопон (J̌opon)
• Spanish: Japón (es) m
• Sundanese: Jepang
• Swahili: Japani (sw)
• Swazi: IJaphani, Japan
• Swedish: Japan (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠎꠣꠙꠣꠘ (zafan)
• Tagalog: Hapon (tl)
• Tahitian: Tāpōnē
• Tajik: Ҷопон (tg) (Jopon), Жопон (Žopon)
• Tamil: ஜப்பான் (ta) (jappāṉ)
• Tangsa: Cyexpanx
• Tatar: Япон (Yapon)
• Tboli: Afun
• Telugu: జపాన్ (te) (japān)
• Thai: ญี่ปุ่น (th) (yîi-bpùn)
• Tibetan: རི་པིན (ri pin), ཉི་ཧོང (nyi hong)
• Tok Pisin: Siapan
• Translingual: 🗾
• Turkish: Japonya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýaponiýa
• Udmurt: Япония (Japonija)
• Ukrainian: Япо́нія (uk) f (Japónija)
• Upper Sorbian: Japanska
• Urdu: جاپان‎‎ m (jāpān)
• Uyghur: ياپونىيە‎‎ (ug) (yaponiye)
• Uzbek: Yaponiya (uz)
• Venetian: Giapòn m
• Vietnamese: Nhật Bản (vi)
• Volapük: Yapän (vo)
• Waray-Waray: Hapon
• Welsh: Japan (cy)
• West Frisian: Japan (fy)
• Wolof: Sapoŋ
• Yakut: Дьоппуон (Coppuon)
• Yiddish: יאַפּאַן‎‎ n (yapan)
• Yoruba: Japan
• Zazaki: Japonya (Southern Zazaki)
• Zhuang: Yizbwnj, ^{(please verify)} Nditbonj
• Zulu: IJapani

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Japan
• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

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Danish

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

Descendants

• → Faroese: Japan

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Dutch

Etymology

From Malay Jepang, from Chinese 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaːˈpɑn/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Japan n

1. Japan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Japan
• See further descendants at Portuguese Japão.

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Faroese

Etymology

From Danish Japan, from Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

Proper noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japani, japanari
• japanskur

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German

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

• audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Japan n (genitive Japans)

1. Japan

See also

• Japaner
• Japanerin
• Japanisch
• japanisch

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpʰaːn/

Proper noun

Japan n

1. Japan

   Ég fer til Japans.

   I'm going to Japan.

   Hvar er Japan staðsett á kortinu?

   Where is Japan located on the map?

See also

• Japani
• japanska

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Japanese

Romanization

Japan

1. Rōmaji transcription of ジャパン

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Proper noun

Japan

1. Japan

Related terms

• japanar
• japansk

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǎpaːn/
• Hyphenation: Ja‧pan

Proper noun

Jàpān m (Cyrillic spelling Ја̀па̄н)

1. Japan

Declension

Declension of Japan

	singular
nominative	Japan
genitive	Japana
dative	Japanu
accusative	Japan
vocative	Japane
locative	Japanu
instrumental	Japanom

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Swedish

Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑːpan/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Japan n (genitive Japans)

1. Japan

See also

• japansk
•  japan, japanska