Poland

See also: Póland

English

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Etymology

1560s. From Pole +‎ land, from German Pole, singular of Polen, from Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

Poland

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊ.lənd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊ.lənd/

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Proper noun

Poland

2. A country in Eastern or Central Europe (varies with sources). Official name: Republic of Poland.

Translations

European country

• Afrikaans: Pole (af)
• Albanian: Poloni f (indefinite), Polonia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ፖላንድ (poland)
• Arabic: بُولَنْدَا‎ f (bulandā, bōlandā)

  Egyptian Arabic: بولندا‎ f (bulanda)

• Armenian: Լեհաստան (hy) (Lehastan)
• Aromanian: Polandia
• Asturian: Polonia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Polşa (az)
• Bashkir: Польша (Pol’ša)
• Basque: Polonia (eu)
• Bavarian: Poin
• Belarusian: По́льшча f (Pólʹšča)
• Bengali: পোল্যান্ড (bn) (poljanḍ)
• Breton: Polonia
• Bulgarian: По́лша (bg) f (Pólša)
• Burmese: ပိုလန် (puilan)
• Catalan: Polònia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波蘭 (zh), 波兰 (zh) (Bōlán)

• Crimean Tatar: Lehistan, Poloniya
• Czech: Polsko (cs) n
• Danish: Polen (da)
• Dhivehi: ޕޮލެންޑު‎ (polenḍu)
• Dutch: Polen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Pollando (eo), Polujo
• Estonian: Poola (et)
• Extremaduran: Poloña
• Faroese: Pólland n
• Finnish: Puola (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Pologne
• French: Pologne (fr) f
• Gagauz: Polşa
• Galician: Polonia (gl) f
• Georgian: პოლონეთი (ka) (ṗoloneti)
• German: Polen (de) n

  Alemannic German: Pole

  Rhine Franconian: Pole (Palatine)

• Greek: Πολωνία (el) f (Polonía)
• Greenlandic: Poleni
• Gujarati: પોલેંડ (poleṇḍ)
• Hausa: Polan
• Hawaiian: Pōlani
• Hebrew: פּוֹלִין‎ (polin), פּוֹלַנְיָה‎ f (polania)
• Hiligaynon: Polonya
• Hindi: पोलैंड (polaiṇḍ), लहिस्तान m (lahistān)
• Hungarian: Lengyelország (hu)
• Hunsrik: Pole n
• Icelandic: Pólland (is)
• Ido: Polonia (io)
• Indonesian: Polandia (id)
• Interlingua: Polonia
• Irish: An Pholainn (ga) f, Poblacht na Polainne f
• Italian: Polonia (it) f
• Japanese: ポーランド (ja) (Pōrando)
• Kannada: ಪೋಲೆಂಡ್ (kn) (pōleṇḍ)
• Kashubian: Pòlskô (csb) f
• Kazakh: Польша (kk) (Polʹşa)
• Khmer: ប៉ូឡូញ (km) (poulouñ)
• Korean: 폴란드 (Pollandeu), 뽈스까 (Ppolseukka) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Polonya (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Польша (ky) (Polʹşa)
• Lao: ໂປແລັນ (pō læn)
• Latgalian: Puoleja
• Latin: Polonia (la) f
• Latvian: Polija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Lenkija (lt) f
• Livonian: Pūoļmō
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Pooln (nds)

• Luxembourgish: Polen (lb) n
• Macedonian: Полска (mk) f (Polska)

• Malay: Poland
• Malayalam: പോളണ്ട് (pōḷaṇṭŭ)
• Maltese: Polonja f
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᠯᠣᠨᡳᠶᠠ (boloniya)
• Maori: Pōrana (mi)
• Marathi: पोलंड (polaṇḍ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Польш (Polʹš)

  Mongolian: ᠫᠤᠯᠠᠨᠳ᠋ (puland᠋), ᠫᠤᠯᠱᠠ (pulša)

• Navajo: Póolish Dineʼé bikéyah
• Nepali: पोल्याण्ड (polyāṇḍa)
• Norman: Polongne f
• Northern Sami: Polen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Polen (no)

  Nynorsk: Polen (nn)

• Occitan: Polonha (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Пол҄ьска f (Polʹĭska), Лѧхꙑ m pl (Lęxy)

• Old East Slavic: Ляхꙑ m pl (Ljaxy)
• Ottoman Turkish: لهستان‎‎ (lehistan), له‎ (leh)
• Pashto: پولنډ‎ (ps) m (polánḍ)
• Persian: لهستان‎ (fa) (lahestân)
• Picard: Polonne
• Piedmontese: Polònia
• Polish: Polska (pl) f
• Portuguese: Polónia (pt) f (Portugal), Polônia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: Polonia (ro) f
• Romansch: Pologna f
• Russian: По́льша (ru) f (Pólʹša)
• Rusyn: По́льско n (Pólʹsko), По́лща f (Pólšča)
• Samogitian: Lėnkėjė f
• Sanskrit: पोलैंड (polaiṃḍa)
• Scottish Gaelic: A' Phòlainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пољска f

  Roman: Poljska (sh) f

• Silesian: Polsko
• Sinhalese: පෝලන්‍තය (pōlantaya)
• Slovak: Poľsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Póljska (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Pólska

  Upper Sorbian: Pólska (hsb)

• Spanish: Polonia (es) f
• Swahili: Polandi (sw), Upoli
• Swedish: Polen (sv)
• Tagalog: Polonya
• Tajik: Лаҳистон (tg) (Lahiston), Полша (Polša)
• Tamil: போலந்து (pōlantu)
• Tatar: Польша (Pol’şa)
• Telugu: పోలాండ్ (te) (pōlāṇḍ)
• Thai: โปแลนด์ (th) (bpoo-lɛɛn)
• Tibetan: ཕོ་ལན (pho lan)
• Turkish: Polonya (tr), Lehistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Polşa
• Ukrainian: По́льща (uk) f (Pólʹšča)
• Upper Sorbian: Pólska (hsb)
• Urdu: پولینڈ‎ (polaiṇḍ)
• Uyghur: پولشا‎ (polsha), لەھىستان‎ (lehistan)
• Uzbek: Polsha (uz)
• Veps: Pol'šanma
• Vietnamese: Ba Lan (vi) (波蘭)
• Vilamovian: Pöłn
• Walloon: Pologne (wa) f
• Welsh: Gwlad Pwyl (cy)
• West Frisian: Poalen n
• Yiddish: פּוילן‎ n (poyln)
• Yoruba: Polandi

Related terms

• Polander
• Poland syndrome
• Pole
• Polish, Polono-
• Polak

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Poland
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Appendix:Countries of the world

References

• “Poland” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.