Poland

See also: Póland

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Poland

Etymology

1560s. From Pole +‎ land, from German Pole, singular of Polen, from Polish Polanie ‎(“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poljane, plural of *poljaninъ ‎(“field dweller”), from *polje ‎(“field”) + *-ěninъ.

Pronunciation

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

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Proper noun

Poland

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

Translations

European country

• Afrikaans: Pole
• Albanian: Poloni f (indefinite), Polonia (sq) f (definite)
• Arabic: بُولَنْدَا f ‎(bōlandā)
• Armenian: Լեհաստան (hy) ‎(Lehastan)
• Aromanian: Polandia
• Asturian: Polonia (ast) f
• Azeri: Polşa (az)
• Bashkir: Польша ‎(Pol’ša)
• Basque: Polonia (eu)
• Belarusian: По́льшча f ‎(Pólʹšča)
• Bengali: পোল্যান্ড ‎(poljanḑ)
• 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)
• Dutch: Polen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Pollando (eo), Polujo
• Estonian: Poola (et)
• Extremaduran: Poloña
• Faroese: Pólland n
• Finnish: Puola (fi)
• French: Pologne (fr) f
• Galician: Polonia (gl) f
• Georgian: პოლონეთი ‎(ṗoloneti)
• German: Polen (de) n
• Greek: Πολωνία (el) f ‎(Polonía)
• Gujarati: પોલેંડ ‎(poleṇḍ)
• Hawaiian: Pōlani
• Hebrew: פּוֹלִין ‎(polin), פּוֹלַנְיָה f ‎(polania)
• Hiligaynon: Polonya
• Hindi: पोलैंड ‎(polaiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: Lengyelország (hu)
• Icelandic: Pólland (is)
• Ido: Polonia (io)
• Indonesian: Polandia (id)
• Interlingua: Polonia
• Irish: An Pholainn f, Poblacht na Polainne f
• Italian: Polonia (it) f
• Japanese: ポーランド (ja) ‎(Pōrando)
• Kannada: ಪೋಲೆಂಡ್ (kn) ‎(pōleṃḍ)
• Kashubian: Pòlskô (csb) f
• Kazakh: Польша (kk) ‎(Polʹşa)
• Khmer: ប៉ូឡូញ (km) ‎(po lonh)
• Korean: 폴란드 ‎(Pollandeu), 뽈스까 ‎(Ppolseukka) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Польша (ky) ‎(Polʹşa)
• Lao: ໂປແລັນ ‎(pō læn)
• Latgalian: Puoleja
• Latin: Polonia (la) f
• Latvian: Polija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Lenkija (lt) f

• Livonian: Pūoļmō
• Luxembourgish: Polen (lb) n
• Macedonian: Полска (mk) f ‎(Polska)
• Malay: Poland
• Malayalam: പോളണ്ട് ‎(pōḷaṇṭ)
• Maltese: Polonja f
• Maori: Pōrana (mi)
• Marathi: पोलंड ‎(polaṇḍ)
• Mongolian: Польш ‎(Polʹš)
• Navajo: Póolish Dineʼé bikéyah
• Nepali: पोल्याण्ड ‎(polyāṇḍ)
• Norman: Polongne f
• Northern Sami: Polen
• Norwegian: Polen (no)
• Occitan: Polonha (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Пол҄ьска ‎(Polʹĭska)
• 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)
• 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
• Spanish: Polonia (es) f
• Swahili: Polandi (sw), Upoli
• Swedish: Polen (sv)
• Tagalog: Polonya
• Tajik: Лаҳистон (tg) ‎(Lahiston)
• Tamil: போலந்து ‎(pōlantu)
• Tatar: Польша ‎(Pol’şa)
• Telugu: పోలాండ్ (te) ‎(pōlāṃḍ)
• Thai: โปแลนด์ (th) ‎(bpoo-lɛɛn)
• Turkish: Polonya (tr), Lehistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Polşa
• Ukrainian: По́льща (uk) f ‎(Pólʹšča)
• Upper Sorbian: Pólska (hsb)
• Urdu: پولینڈ ‎(polaiṇḍ)
• Uzbek: Polsha (uz)
• Veps: Pol'šanma
• Vietnamese: Ba Lan (波蘭)
• Vilamovian: Pöłn
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Gwlad Pwyl (cy)
• West Frisian: Poalen n
• Yiddish: פּוילן n ‎(poyln)

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, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Europe)}
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Related terms

• Polander

References

• “Poland” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).