Norway

English

Alternative forms

• Norroway (archaic)
• Norwey (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English Norwey, Norweye, Northwey, Norweȝe, Norewæiȝ, Norwæge, from Old English Norþweġ, a calque of Old Norse Norðvegr (“north way”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”), contrasted with suðrvegr (“south way”), i.e. Germany, and austrvegr (“east way”), the Baltic lands. Norwegian (1607) is from Medieval Latin Norvegia, with the -w- from Norway. Equivalent to North + way.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.weɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔɹ.weɪ/

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Proper noun

Norway

2. A country in Scandinavia, in northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Norway.
3. The former name of a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, now Upper Beaches.
4. A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
5. An unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois.
6. A census-designated place in White County, Indiana.
7. A small city in Benton County, Iowa.
8. A rural unincorporated community in Republic County, Kansas.
9. A town in Oxford County, Maine.
10. A small city in Dickinson County, Michigan.
11. An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Nebraska.
12. A small town in Herkimer County, New York.
13. A small town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
14. A town in Racine County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

• Norwegia

Derived terms

• Central Norway
• Church of Norway
• East Norway
• Eastern Norway
• New Norway
• North Norway
• Northern Norway
• Norway House, Manitoba, Canada
• Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)
• Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
• Norway pine (Pinus resinosa)
• Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii)
• Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)
• Norway redfish (Sebastes viviparus)
• Norway spruce (Picea abies)
• South Norway
• Southern Norway
• Norway and Sweden
• West Norway
• Western Norway

Related terms

• Norwegian
• Norwegian Current
• Norwegian elkhound, Norsk elghund, elkhound
• Norwegianisation
• Norwegianise
• Norwegianising
• Norwegianization
• Norwegianize
• Norwegianizing
• Norwegian saltpeter, Norgessalpeter, ( = calcium nitrate)
• Norwegian Sea

Translations

Scandinavian country

• Afrikaans: Noorweë
• Albanian: Norvegji f (indefinite), Norvegjia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ኖርዌይ (norwey)
• Arabic: النُّرْوِيج f (an-nurwīj) (definite), النُّرْوِيج f (an-nurwēg) (definite), نُرْوِيج f (nurwīj), نُرْوِيج f (nurwēg), النَّرُوج f (an-narūj) (definite), نَرُوج f (narūj)

  Hijazi Arabic: النُّرْويج f (an-nurwīj) (definite)

• Armenian: Նորվեգիա (Norvegia)
• Aromanian: Nurveghii f (indefinite), Nurveghia (definite), Nãrvãyii (indefinite), Nãrvãyia (definite)
• Assamese: নৰৱে (norowe)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܲܪܒ݂ܲܝܓ f (narwayg)
• Asturian: Noruega (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Norveç (az)
• Bashkir: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
• Basque: Norvegia (eu)
• Bavarian: Norwegn
• Belarusian: Нарве́гія f (Narvjéhija), Нарвэ́гія f (Narvéhija) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: নরওয়ে (bn) (norōẇe)
• Breton: Norvegia (br)
• Bulgarian: Норве́гия (bg) f (Norvégija)
• Burmese: နော်ဝေ (nauwe)
• Buryat: Норвеги (Norvjegi)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Но́рьско n (Nórʹsko)
• Catalan: Noruega (ca) f, Norvègia (ca)
• Chechen: Норвеги (Norʷegi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 挪威 (no⁴ wai¹)

  Eastern Min: 挪威 (Nò̤-ŭi)

  Hokkien: 挪威 (Nô͘-ui)

  Mandarin: 挪威 (zh) (Nuówēi)

  Wu: 挪威 (⁶nu-ue)

• Chuvash: Норвеги (Norvegi)
• Cornish: Norgagh m
• Crimean Tatar: Norvegiya
• Czech: Norsko (cs) n
• Danish: Norge (da) n
• Dhivehi: ނޯވޭ (dv) (nōvē)
• Dutch: Noorwegen (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ནོ་ཝེ་ (no we)
• Esperanto: Norvegio, Norvegujo (eo)
• Estonian: Norra (et)
• Farefare: Norsore
• Faroese: Noreg (fo) n, Norra n, Noregsland n, Noregur m
• Finnish: Norja (fi)
• French: Norvège (fr) f
• Galician: Noruega (gl) f
• Georgian: ნორვეგია (ka) (norvegia)
• German: Norwegen (de) n
• Greek: Νορβηγία (el) f (Norvigía)
• Greenlandic: Norge (kl)
• Gujarati: નોર્વે (norve)
• Hausa: Norwe, Nowe
• Hawaiian: Nolewai
• Hebrew: נורווגיה \ נוֹרְוֶגְיָה (he) f (norvégya)
• Hiligaynon: Norwega
• Hindi: नॉर्वे (hi) m (nŏrve)
• Hungarian: Norvégia (hu)
• Icelandic: Noregur (is) m
• Ido: Norvegia (io)
• Inari Sami: Taažâ
• Indonesian: Norwegia (id)
• Interlingua: Norvega, Norvegia
• Irish: An Iorua f, Ríocht na hIorua f
• Italian: Norvegia (it) f
• Japanese: ノルウェー (ja) (Noruwē), (obsolete) 諾威 (ja) (Noruwē)
• Kannada: ನಾರ್ವೇ (nārvē)
• Kashubian: Norweskô (csb) f
• Kazakh: Норвегия (kk) (Norvegiä)
• Khmer: ន័រវែស (km) (nɔəvɛɛh)
• Kildin Sami: Та̄р е̄ммьне (Tār ’ēmm’nje), Та̄ре̄ммьне (Tāriemm’nje)
• Korean: 노르웨이 (ko) (Noreuwei)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Norwêc

• Kven: Norja, Ruiđa
• Kyrgyz: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
• Lao: ນອກແວ (nǭk wǣ)
• Latin: Norvegia f (New Latin)
• Latvian: Norvēģija (lv) f
• Limburgish: Nórwaeg n
• Lithuanian: Norvegija (lt) f
• Livonian: Norvēgmō
• Livvi: Norviegii
• Lule Sami: Vuodna
• Luxembourgish: Norwegen (lb) n
• Macedonian: Норвешка (mk) f (Norveška)
• Malay: Norway (ms)
• Malayalam: നോർവെ (nōṟve)
• Maltese: In-Norveġja f (definite)
• Manx: Loghlyn
• Maori: Nōwei, Norowe
• Marathi: नॉर्वे (nŏrve)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Норвеги (mn) (Norvegi), Норвег (Norveg)

  Mongolian: ᠨᠣᠷᠸᠧᠭᠢ (norwēgi), ᠨᠣᠷᠸᠠᠢ (norwai) (China)

• Nepali: नर्वे (narve)
• Norman: Norouague f
• Northern Sami: Norga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Norge (no) n

  Nynorsk: Noreg (nn) n

• Occitan: Norvègia (oc) f
• Odia: ନରୱେ (nôrôwe)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Норєгъ m (Noregŭ) (moern)

• Old English: Norþweġ m
• Old French: Norweie f
• Ossetian: Норвеги (Norvegi)
• Pashto: ناروې f (nārwe)
• Pennsylvania German: Norwegen n
• Persian:

  Dari: نَارْوی (nārwē)

  Iranian Persian: نُرْوِژ (fa)

• Pite Sami: Vuodna
• Polish: Norwegia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Noruega (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਨਾਰਵੇ m (nārve)

• Rarotongan: Noruē
• Romani:

  Vlax Romani: Norvejiya

• Romanian: Norvegia (ro) f
• Russian: Норве́гия (ru) f (Norvégija)
• Scots: Norawa
• Scottish Gaelic: Nirribhidh f, Lochlann m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Но̀рвешка̄ f

  Roman: Nòrveškā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Nurbeggia f
• Silesian: Norwygijo f
• Sinhalese: නෝර්වේ (nōrwē)
• Skolt Sami: Taarr
• Slovak: Nórsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Norvẹ̑ška (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Norwegska f

  Upper Sorbian: Norwegska f

• Southern Sami: Nöörje, Nøørje
• Spanish: Noruega (es) f
• Swahili: Norwe (sw)
• Swedish: Norge (sv) n
• Tagalog: Norwega
• Tajik: Норвегия (tg) (Norvegiya)
• Tamil: நோர்வே (ta) (nōrvē)
• Tatar: Норвегия (Norwegiyä)
• Telugu: నార్వే (te) (nārvē)
• Thai: นอร์เวย์ (th) (nɔɔ-wee)
• Tigrinya: ኖርዌ (norwe)
• Turkish: Norveç (tr)
• Turkmen: Norwegiýa
• Ukrainian: Норве́гія (uk) f (Norvéhija), Норве́ґія f (Norvégija)
• Urdu: نارْوے m (nārve)
• Uyghur: نورۋېگىيە (norwëgiye)
• Uzbek: Norvegiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Na Uy (vi) (挪威)
• Volapük: Norgän (vo)
• Võro: Norra
• Welsh: Norwy (cy) f
• Yakut: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
• Yiddish: נאָרוועגיע n (norvegye)
• Yoruba: Nọọwii
• Zhuang: Nozveih

Noun

Norway (plural Norways)

1. Short for Norway rat.

See also

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Austland, Austlandet
• Midt-Noreg
• Midt-Norge
• Nordaustland, Nordaustlandet
• Nordøstland, Nordøstlandet
• Nordvestland, Nordvestlandet
• Østland, Østlandet
• Søraustland, Søraustlandet
• Sørland, Sørlandet
• Sørvestland, Sørvestlandet
• Sørøstland, Sørøstlandet
• Vestland, Vestlandet