Persian Gulf

English

Persian Gulf (dark blue)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜːʒən ˈɡʌlf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɝʒən ˈɡʌlf/

Proper noun

The Persian Gulf

1. The Persian Gulf, a gulf between Iran (“Persia”) and the Arabian Peninsula.

   Synonyms: (used in some Arab countries) Arabian Gulf, (Ottoman-era name) Gulf of Basra

   • 1994 [November 29, 1990], Quayle, Dan, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir‎^[1], 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 253:

     Today, all the states of the Middle East face a major threat in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Saddam's ambitions are not confined to Kuwait. Rather, his goal is to dominate the Persian Gulf region and use its vast wealth to become the greatest Arab hero of modern times, the leader of a new Arab superpower.

Translations

gulf between Iran and the Arabian peninsula

• Afrikaans: Persiese Golf
• Albanian: Gjiri Persik
• Amharic: የፋርስ ባህረስላጤ (yäfars bahräslaṭe)
• Arabic: الْخَلِيج الْعَرَبِيّ‎ m (al-ḵalīj al-ʕarabiyy), الْخَلِيج الْفَارِسِيّ‎ m (al-ḵalīj al-fārisiyy)
• Aramaic: ܒܪܩܩܐ ܦܪܣܝܐ‎ (ܒܪܩܩܐ ܦܪܣܝܐ)
• Armenian: Պարսից ծոց (Parsicʿ cocʿ)
• Azerbaijani: Fars körfəzi (az)
• Bashkir: Фарсы ҡултығы (Farsı qultığı)
• Basque: Persiar golkoa
• Belarusian: Персі́дскі залі́ў m (Pjersídski zalíŭ)
• Bengali: পারস্য উপসাগর (parosyo upsagor)
• Breton: Pleg-mor Persia m
• Bulgarian: Перси́йски зали́в m (Persíjski zalív)
• Burmese: ပါရှန်ပင်လယ်ကွေ့ (pahranpanglai-kwe.)
• Catalan: golf Pèrsic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波斯灣／波斯湾 (zh) (Bōsī wān)

• Crimean Tatar: Basra körfezi
• Czech: Perský záliv (cs) m
• Danish: Persiske Bugt
• Dutch: Perzische Golf
• Esperanto: Persa Golfo
• Estonian: Pärsia laht
• Faroese: Persaflógva
• Finnish: Persianlahti (fi)
• French: golfe Persique (fr) m
• Galician: Golfo Pérsico m
• Georgian: სპარსეთის ყურე (sṗarsetis q̇ure)
• German: Persischer Golf (de) m
• Greek: Περσικός Κόλπος m (Persikós Kólpos)
• Gujarati: ફારસની ખાડી (phārasnī khāḍī)
• Hebrew: המפרץ הפרסי‎ m (ha-mifráts ha-pársi)
• Hindi: फ़ारस की खाड़ी f (fāras kī khāṛī), खाड़ी (hi) m (khāṛī)
• Hungarian: Perzsa-öböl (hu)
• Icelandic: Persaflói
• Ido: Persiana gulfo
• Indonesian: Teluk Persia
• Irish: Murascaill na Peirse f
• Italian: Golfo Persico m
• Japanese: ペルシア湾 (ペルシアわん, Perushia wan), ペルシャ湾 (ペルシャわん, Perusha wan)
• Kannada: ಪರ್ಶಿಯನ್ ಕೊಲ್ಲಿ (parśiyan kolli)
• Kazakh: Парсы шығанағы /Parsy Şyğanağy (Parsy şyğanağy /Parsy Şyğanağy)
• Khmer: ឈូងសមុទ្រពែក្ (chhungsâmŭtrôpêk)
• Korean: 페르시아 만 (Pereusia man)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کەنداوی فارس‎ (kendawî fars)

  Northern Kurdish: Kendava Farsî

• Kyrgyz: Перс булуңу (Pers buluŋu)
• Lao: ອ່າວເປີເຊຍ (lo) (ʼāo pœ̄ sīa)
• Latvian: Persijas līcis m
• Lithuanian: Persijos įlanka f
• Macedonian: Пе́рсиски За́лив m (Pérsiski Záliv)
• Malay: Teluk Parsi
• Malayalam: പേർഷ്യൻ ഗൾഫ് (pēṟṣyaṉ gaḷfŭ)
• Maltese: Golf Persjan m
• Marathi: इराणचे आखात (irāṇce ākhāt), पर्शियन आखात (parśiyan ākhāt)
• Mazanderani: فارس دریامونا‎ (fârs daryâmunâ)
• Mongolian: Персийн булан (Persiin bulan)
• Nepali: फारसको खाडी (phārasko khāḍī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Persiabukten

  Nynorsk: Persiabukta

• Old Persian: 𐎭𐎼𐎹 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿𐎠 (d-r-y p-a-r-s-a /draya Pārsā/)
• Persian: خلیج فارس‎ (fa) (xalij-e fârs), شاخاب پارس‎ (fa) (šâxâb-e pârs), دریای پارس‎ (daryây-e pârs)
• Polish: Zatoka Perska (pl) f
• Portuguese: Golfo Persa m
• Punjabi: ਫ਼ਾਰਸ ਦੀ ਖਾੜੀ (fāras dī khāṛī)
• Romanian: Golful Persic n
• Russian: Перси́дский зали́в (ru) m (Persídskij zalív)
• Scottish Gaelic: Camas Pearsach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Персијски залив m, Перзијски залив m, Перзијски заљев m (Croatian)

  Roman: Persijski zaliv m, Perzijski zaliv m, Perzijski zaljev m (Croatian)

• Slovak: Perzský záliv m
• Slovene: Perzijski zaliv (sl) m
• Somali: Gacanka Faarsiga
• Spanish: golfo Pérsico (es) m
• Swahili: Ghuba ya Uajemi
• Swedish: Persiska viken
• Tagalog: Golpong Persiko
• Tajik: Халиҷи Форс (tg) (Xaliji Fors)
• Tamil: பாரசீக வளைகுடா (pāracīka vaḷaikuṭā)
• Tatar: Фарсы култыгы (Farsı qultığı)
• Telugu: పర్షియన్ గల్ఫ్ (parṣiyan galph)
• Thai: อ่าวเปอร์เซีย (àao-bpəə-siia)
• Turkish: Basra Körfezi (tr)
• Turkmen: Pars aýlagy
• Ukrainian: Пе́рська зато́ка f (Pérsʹka zatóka)
• Urdu: خلیج فارس‎ m (xalīj-e fāris)
• Uyghur: پارس قولتۇقى‎ (pars qoltuqi)
• Uzbek: Fors koʻrfazi
• Vietnamese: Vịnh Ba Tư, Vịnh Ả Rập, Vịnh Péc-xích
• Welsh: Gwlff Persia m
• West Frisian: Perzyske Golf

See also

• Persian Gulf naming dispute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia