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 *poljane, plural of *poljaninъ (“field dweller”), from *polje (“field”) + *-ěninъ.

Pronunciation

Poland

• (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 (bulandā, bōlandā), بُولُونِيَا‎ f (bōlōniyā)
• Armenian: Լեհաստան (hy) (Lehastan)
• Aromanian: Polandia
• Asturian: Polonia (ast) f
• Azeri: Polşa (az)
• Bashkir: Польша (Pol’ša)
• Basque: Polonia (eu)
• Bavarian: Poin
• Belarusian: По́льшча f (Pólʹšča)
• Bengali: পোল্যান্ড (polyanḑ)
• 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)
• Franco-Provençal: Pologne
• French: Pologne (fr) f
• Gagauz: Polşa
• Galician: Polonia (gl) f
• Georgian: პოლონეთი (ṗoloneti)
• German: Polen (de) n

  Alemannic German: Pole

  Rhine Franconian: Pole (Palatine)

• 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
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Pooln (nds)

• 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:

  Bokmål: Polen (no)

  Nynorsk: Polen (nn)

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

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

• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Uyghur: پولشا‎ (polsha)
• 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 ^{(Category: en:Countries of Europe)}
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Related terms

• Polander

References

• “Poland” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2017.