New Zealand

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (“new Zeeland”), nieuw calqued as new, Zeeland borrowed as the respelling Zealand to parallel the historical exonym, after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, from Middle Dutch Sêelant, equivalent to zee (“sea”) +‎ land (“land”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nyoo͞-zē'lənd, IPA^(key): /nju ˈziː.lənd/, /ˌnjuː -/
• (General American) enPR: noo͞-zē'lənd, IPA^(key): /nu ˈzi.lənd/, /ˌnu -/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /njʉː ˈzɪələnd/, (uncommon/foreign) /- ˈziː-/
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [njʉ ˈzɪəɫənd], [-ˈzeə-]

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• Rhymes: -iːlənd
• Hyphenation: New Zea‧land

Proper noun

New Zealand

2. A country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.
   • 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The government of New Zealand is looking for a crew to lead the redevelopment of its research headquarters in Antarctica.
     Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.

   • 2023 July 8, “Pylon of the Month - July 2023”, in Pylon of the Month‎^[2]:

     After two pylonless months, July's pylon comes all the way from the hills outside Wellington, New Zealand.

3. The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
4. A western suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3336).
5. A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0177).

Usage notes

• The word is also used in the attributive form, e.g. the New Zealand government.

Synonyms

• (from Maori) Aotearoa
• Aotearoa New Zealand
• Dominion of New Zealand (dated, formal)
• Enzed
• Godzone (New Zealand, informal)
• Kiwiland
• Land of the Long White Cloud
• Maoriland
• Nu Zillund (humorous)
• NZ (abbreviation)
• Zealandia

Holonyms

• Polynesia

Derived terms

• Enzedder
• New Zealand begonia
• New Zealand bellbird
• New Zealand cotton
• New Zealand Daylight Time
• New Zealand English
• New Zealander
• New Zealandese
• New Zealand flax
• New Zealand fur seal
• New Zealand goose
• New Zealandish, New Zealandic
• New Zealandism
• New Zealandize
• New Zealand Mean Time
• New Zealandress
• New Zealand studies
• New Zealand tea tree
• Zealandia
• Zealandian
• Zealandica

Descendants

• → Arabic: نِيُوزِيلَانْدَا (niyūzīlāndā), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَا (niyūzīlandā), نِيُوزِيلَانْدَة (niyūzīlānda), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَة (niyūzīlanda)
• → Bengali: নিউজিল্যান্ড (niujilênḍ)
• → Chinese: 紐西蘭 / 纽西兰 (Niǔxīlán)
• → Danish: New Zealand
• → Fijian: Niusiladi
• → Greek: Νέα Ζηλανδία (Néa Zilandía)
• → Hawaiian: Nukilani
• → Hebrew: נְיוּ זִילַנְדּ (nyú zíland)
• → Hindi: न्यू ज़ीलंड (nyū zīlaṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैंड (nyūzīlaiṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैण् (nyūzīlaiṇ)
• → Japanese: ニュージーランド (Nyū Jīrando)
• → Korean: 뉴질랜드 (nyujillaendeu)
• → Maori: Niu Tireni
• → Niuean: Niu Sila
• → Norwegian Bokmål: New Zealand
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: New Zealand
• → Pashto: نيوزيلنډ (nyuzelanḍ)
• → Persian: نِیوزیلَنْد (niyuziland)
• → Rarotongan: Nū Tireni
• → Samoan: Niu Sila
• → Swahili: Nyuzilandi
• → Tamil: நியூசிலாந்து (niyūcilāntu)
• → Thai: นิวซีแลนด์ (niu-sii-lɛɛn)
• → Tokelauan: Niu Hila
• → Tongan: Nuʻusila, Nuʻu Sila
• → Urdu: نْیُوزی لَینْڈ (nyūzī lainḍ), نْیُوزی‌لَینْڈ (nyūzī-lainḍ)
• → Yiddish: ניו־זילאַנד (nyu-ziland)

Translations

country in Oceania

• Abkhaz: Зеландиа ҿыц (Zelandja ĉʼəc)
• Acehnese: Seulandia Barô
• Afrikaans: Nieu-Seeland
• Albanian: Zelanda e Re f
• Amharic: ኒው ዚላንድ (niw ziland)
• Aneityum: Niusilan, Nosilan
• Arabic: نِيُوزِيلَانْدَا f (niyūzīlandā), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَا f (niyūzīlandā), نِيُوزِيلَانْدَة f (niyūzīlanda), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَة f (niyūzīlanda), زِيلَانْدَا الجَدِيدَة f (zīlandā l-jadīda), زِيلَنْدَا الجَدِيدَة f (zīlandā l-jadīda)

  Gulf Arabic: نيوزلندة (nyūzlanda)

  Hijazi Arabic: نيوزيلندا f (nyūzīlanda)

• Aragonese: Nueva Zelanda f
• Aramaic: ܢܝܘ ܙܝܠܢܕ

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܝܼܠܵܢܕܵܐ ܚܲܕܬܵܐ f (zīlanda ḳadta)

• Armenian: Նոր Զելանդիա (Nor Zelandia)
• Assamese: নিউজিলেণ্ড (niuzilendo)
• Asturian: Nueva Zelanda (ast) f
• Aymara: Nu Zelandia
• Azerbaijani: Yeni Zelandiya (az)
• Bashkir: Яңы Зеландия (Yañı Zelandiya)
• Basque: Zeelanda Berria
• Bavarian: Neiseeland
• Belarusian: Но́вая Зела́ндыя f (Nóvaja Zjelándyja), Но́вая Зэля́ндыя f (Nóvaja Zeljándyja) (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bengali: নিউজিল্যান্ড (bn) (niujilênḍ)
• Bikol Central: Nueva Zelanda
• Bislama: Niu Zilan
• Breton: Zeland-Nevez (br)
• Bulgarian: Но́ва Зела́ндия f (Nóva Zelándija)
• Burmese: နယူးဇီလန် (na.yu:jilan)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Новый Зеланд m (Novŷj Zeland)
• Catalan: Nova Zelanda (ca)
• Cebuano: Nuzeland
• Chamorro: Nuebu Silan
• Chechen: Керла Зеланди (Kerla Zelandi)
• Cherokee: ᎢᏤᏏᎢᎴᏂᏗ (itsesiilenidi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紐西蘭 / 纽西兰 (nau⁵ sai¹ laan⁴, nau² sai¹ laan⁴), 新西蘭 / 新西兰 (san¹ sai¹ laan⁴)

  Eastern Min: 新西蘭 / 新西兰 (Sĭng-să̤-làng)

  Hakka: 紐西蘭 / 纽西兰 (Néu Sî-làn) (Sixian, PFS)

  Hokkien: 紐西蘭 / 纽西兰 (Liú-se-lân)

  Mandarin: 新西蘭 / 新西兰 (zh) (Xīn Xīlán), (Taiwan) 紐西蘭 / 纽西兰 (zh) (Niǔ Xīlán)

  Wu: 新西蘭 / 新西兰 (¹shin-shi-le)

• Chuvash: Ҫӗнӗ Зеланди (Śĕnĕ Zelandi)
• Cornish: Mordir Nowyth m
• Corsican: Nova Zilanda
• Cree: ᓂᐅ ᓯᐊᐧᐣ (nio siayn)
• Crimean Tatar: Yañı Zelandiya
• Czech: Nový Zéland (cs) m
• Danish: New Zealand (da) n
• Dhivehi: ނިއުޒިލޭންޑު (niuzilēn̊ḍu)
• Dutch: Nieuw-Zeeland (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ནིའུ་ཛི་ལེནཌ་ (ni'u dzi lenḍ)
• Erzya: Од Зеландия (Od Zelandija)
• Esperanto: Nov-Zelando (eo)
• Estonian: Uus-Meremaa (et)
• Extremaduran: Nueva Zelanda
• Faroese: Nýsæland n
• Fiji Hindi: New Zealand
• Fijian: Niusiladi
• Finnish: Uusi-Seelanti (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Novèla-Zèlanda
• French: Nouvelle-Zélande (fr) f
• Fula: Niw-Zilannda
• Gagauz: Eni Zelandiya
• Galician: Nova Zelandia (gl) f, Nova Celandia (gl) f
• Georgian: ახალი ზელანდია (ka) (axali zelandia)
• German: Neuseeland (de) n
• Greek: Νέα Ζηλανδία (el) f (Néa Zilandía)
• Guianese Creole: Nouvèl-Zélann
• Gujarati: ન્યુઝીલેન્ડ (nyujhīlenḍ)
• Haitian Creole: Nouvèl Zelann
• Hawaiian: Aokealoa, Aotearoa, Nukilani
• Hebrew: נְיוּ זִילַנְד f (nyú zíland)
• Hindi: न्यू ज़ीलंड m (nyū zīlaṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैंड m (nyūzīlaiṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैण् m (nyūzīlaiṇ)
• Hungarian: Új-Zéland (hu)
• Icelandic: Nýja-Sjáland (is) n
• Ido: Nova-Zelando (io)
• Ilocano: Baro a Selanda
• Indonesian: Selandia Baru (id), New Zealand (id)
• Ingush: Керда Зеланди (Kerda Zelandi)
• Interlingua: Nove Zelanda
• Inuktitut: ᓂᐅ ᓰᓚᓐ (nio siilan)
• Irish: An Nua-Shéalainn f
• Italian: Nuova Zelanda (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Nyuu Ziilant
• Japanese: ニュージーランド (ja) (Nyūjīrando), ニュー・ジーランド (ja) (Nyū-Jīrando), 乳国 (にゅうこく、nyū koku) (obsolete)
• Javanese: Niu Sélan
• Kabardian: Зиландыщӏэ (Zilandəśʼɛ)
• Kabyle: Ziland Tamaynut
• Kalenjin: Nyuziland
• Kalmyk: Шинзеленд (Şinzelend), Шинзелендин Орн (Şinzelendin Orn)
• Kamba: Nyuziland
• Kannada: ನ್ಯೂ ಜೀಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ (kn) (nyū jīlyāṇḍ)
• Karakalpak: Jańa Zelandiya
• Kashubian: Nowô Zelandzkô n
• Katla: Джангы Зеландия
• Kazakh: Жаңа Зеландия (kk) (Jaña Zelandiä)
• Khakas: Наа Зеландия (Naa Zelandiya)
• Khmer: នូវែលហ្សេឡង់ (nuuvɛɛl zeelɑng)
• Kikuyu: Nyuziland
• Komi-Zyrian: Выль Зеландия (Vyľ Źelanďija)
• Korean: 뉴질랜드 (ko) (Nyujillaendeu), 신서란(新西蘭) (ko) (Sinseoran)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نیوزیلاند (nîwzîland)

  Northern Kurdish: Nû Zelenda (ku), Zelendaya Nû (ku), Zelendaya Teze, Nîwzelanda (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Жаңы Зеландия (ky) (Jaŋı Zelandiya)
• Ladino: Mueva Zelanda
• Lao: ນູແວນເຊລັງ (nū wǣn sē lang), ນິວ​ຊີ​ແລນ (niu sī lǣn), ນິວຊີແລນດ໌ (niu sī lǣn da)
• Latin: Nova Seelandia f, Nova Zelandia (la) f
• Latvian: Jaunzēlande (lv) f
• Lezgi: Цӏийи Зеландия (C̣iji Zelandiä)
• Limburgish: Nui-Zieland
• Lithuanian: Naujoji Zelandija (lt) f
• Livvi: Uuzi Zelandii
• Lombard: Noeuva Zelanda
• Low German:

  German Low German: Niegseeland n

• Luhya: Niuziland
• Luo: Niuziland
• Luxembourgish: Neiséiland
• Macedonian: Нов Зеланд (mk) m (Nov Zeland)
• Malagasy: Zelandy Vaovao
• Malay: New Zealand
• Malayalam: ന്യൂസീലൻഡ് (nyūsīlaṉḍŭ), ന്യൂസിലാൻറ് (nyūsilāṉṟŭ), ന്യൂസിലാന്ഡ് (nyūsilānḍŭ)
• Maltese: New Zealand (mt)
• Manx: Noa Heelan f, Yn Teelan Noa f
• Maori: Aotearoa (mi), Niu Tireni
• Marathi: न्यू झीलँड (nyū jhīlĕṇḍa)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: У Зеланди (U Zelandi)

• Mazanderani: نو زیلند
• Meru: Nyuziland, Nyuziland
• Mingrelian: ახალი ზელანდია (axali zelandia)
• Mirandese: Nuoba Zelándia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Шинэ Зеланд (Šine Zeland)

• Mullu Kurumba: Seelandɩ Kɩfalʊʊ
• Nahuatl: Yancuīc Zetlālpan
• Navajo: Łeesdísí Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Nòva Zelanna
• Nepali: न्युजिल्यान्ड (nyujilyānḍa)
• Norfuk: Nyuu Ziilan
• Norman: Nouvelle Zélande f
• North Frisian: Nei-Sialun
• Northern Ndebele: Nyuzilandi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: New Zealand (no) n, Ny-Zealand n

  Nynorsk: New Zealand (nn) n, Ny-Zealand n

• Nyindrou: Nueva Zelanda
• Occitan: Nòva Zelanda (oc) f
• Odia: ନିଉଜିଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ (niujilyāṇḍa)
• Oromo: Niwuu Ziilaandi
• Ossetian: Ног Зеланди (Nog Zelandi)
• Paiwan: Autearua
• Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Selánda Pyahu
• Pashto: نيوزيلنډ (ps) m, نویزېلنډ m (nəwayzelanḍ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: نِیوزیلَنْد (niyuziland), زِلانْدِ نُو (zelând-e now), زِلانْدِ جَدید (zelând-e jadid)

• Picard: Novèle-Zilinde
• Polish: Nowa Zelandia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Nova Zelândia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਨਿਊਜੀਲੈਂਡ (niūjīlaiṇḍ)
• Quechua: Musuq Silantha
• Rarotongan: Nū Tireni
• Romanian: Noua Zeelandă (ro) f
• Romansch: Nova Zelanda f
• Russian: Но́вая Зела́ндия (ru) f (Nóvaja Zelándija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Nuveli Zelande
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: Uđđâ-Seeland

• Samoan: Niu Sila
• Santali: ᱱᱤᱭᱩᱡᱤᱞᱮᱱᱰ (niyujilenḍ)
• Sardinian: Noa Zelanda
• Saterland Frisian: Näi-Seelound
• Scottish Gaelic: Sealainn Nuadh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Но̏вӣ Зѐланд m

  Roman: Nȍvī Zèland m

• Shan: မိူင်းၼိဝ်းၸီႇလႅၼ်ႇ (móeng nío tsìi lèn)
• Shor: Наа Зеландия
• Sicilian: Nova Zilanna f
• Silesian: Nowŏ Zelandyjŏ f
• Sindhi: نيوزيلينڊ (̃eozelẽḍ)
• Sinhalese: නවසීලන්‍තය (nawasīlantaya), නව සීලන්තය (nawa sīlantaya)
• Slovak: Nový Zéland m
• Slovene: Nôva Zelándija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Nowoseelandska f

  Upper Sorbian: Nowoseelandska f

• Spanish: Nueva Zelanda (es) f, Nueva Zelandia (es) f
• Sundanese: Selandia Anyar
• Swahili: Nyuzilandi (sw)
• Swedish: Nya Zeeland (sv) n
• Tagalog: Bagong Selanda (tl)
• Tahitian: Aotearoa
• Tajik: Зеландияи Нав (Zelandiya-yi Nav)
• Tamil: நியூசிலாந்து (ta) (niyūcilāntu), நியூஜிலாந்து (niyūjilāntu)
• Tatar: Яңа Зеландия (Yaña Zelandiyä)
• Telugu: న్యూజీలాండ్ (nyūjīlāṇḍ)
• Tetum: Nova Zelándia
• Thai: นิวซีแลนด์ (th) (niu-sii-lɛɛn)
• Tibetan: ནིའུ་ཛི་ལེན་ཌི (ni'u dzi len ḍi)
• Tigrinya: ኒው ዘይላንድ (niw zäyland)
• Tok Pisin: Niu Silan
• Tongan: Nuʻusila, Nuʻu Sila
• Tulu: ನ್ಯೂ ಝಿಲೆಂಡ್ (nyū jhileṇḍŭ)
• Turkish: Yeni Zelanda (tr)
• Turkmen: Täze Zelandiýa
• Tyap: Zi̱lan A̱fai
• Udmurt: Выль Зеландия (Vyľ Źelanďija)
• Ukrainian: Нова́ Зела́ндія (uk) f (Nová Zelándija)
• Urdu: نْیُوزی لَینْڈ m (nyūzī lainḍ), نْیُوزی‌لَینْڈ m (nyūzī-lainḍ)
• Uyghur: يېڭى زېلاندىيە (yë'ngi zëlandiye)
• Uzbek: Yangi Zelandiya (uz)
• Venetan: Nova Zełanda
• Veps: Uzʹ Zelandii
• Vietnamese: Tân Tây Lan (vi) (新西蘭)
• Volapük: Nula-Seleäns (vo)
• Walloon: Novele-Zelande (wa)
• Waray-Waray: Bag-o nga Zelanda
• Welsh: Seland Newydd (cy) f
• West Flemish: Nieuw-Zêeland
• West Frisian: Nij-Seelân
• Western Panjabi: نیوزیلینڈ (neyozelīnḍ)
• Wolof: Seland-Gu-Bees
• Xhosa: Nyu Zilend
• Yakut: Саҥа Зеландия (Saŋa Zelandiya)
• Yiddish: ניו־זילאַנד n (nyu-ziland)
• Yoruba: Níù Sìlandì
• Zhuang: Sinhsihlanz
• Zulu: INyuzilandi

attributive form - relating to New Zealand

• Afrikaans: Nieu-Seelands
• Arabic: نْيُوزِيلَنْدِيّ (nyūzīlandiyy)
• Armenian: նորզելանդական (hy) (norzelandakan)
• Belarusian: новазела́ндскі (novazjelándski), новазэля́ндскі (novazeljándski) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: новозела́ндски (novozelándski)
• Czech: novozélandský (cs)
• Danish: newzealandsk (da)
• Dutch: Nieuw-Zeelands (nl)
• French: néo-zélandais (fr)
• Georgian: ახალზელანდიური (axalzelandiuri)
• German: neuseeländisch (de)
• Greek: νεοζηλανδικός (el) (neozilandikós)
• Irish: Nua-Shéalainneach
• Macedonian: новозеландски (novozelandski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: newzealandsk, nyzealandsk

  Nynorsk: newzealandsk, nyzealandsk

• Persian: نیوزیلندی (niyuzilandi)
• Polish: nowozelandzki (pl)
• Portuguese: neozelandês (pt)
• Romanian: neozeelandez (ro)
• Russian: новозела́ндский (ru) (novozelándskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Nua-Shealainneach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: новозѐландскӣ

  Roman: novozèlandskī (sh)

• Slovak: novozélandský
• Slovene: novozelandski
• Spanish: neozelandés (es)
• Swedish: nyzeeländsk (sv)
• Ukrainian: новозела́ндський (uk) (novozelándsʹkyj)

Noun

New Zealand (plural New Zealands)

1. A rabbit of a breed that originated in California from rabbits imported from New Zealand.

See also

countries in Oceania (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• New Zealand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• New Zealand (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Proper noun

New Zealand

1. New Zealand (a country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia)

Related terms

• newzealandsk

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

New Zealand

1. New Zealand (a country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia)

Synonyms

• Ny-Zealand

Related terms

• newzealandsk
• newzealender
• newzealending
• nyzealandsk
• nyzealender
• nyzealending

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

New Zealand

1. New Zealand (a country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia)

Synonyms

• Ny-Zealand

Related terms

• newzealandsk
• newzealendar
• newzealending
• nyzealandsk
• nyzealendar
• nyzealending