Spain

See also: spáin, spàin, and 'spáin

English

Wikivoyage

Location of Spain in the Iberian peninsula.

Alternative forms

• Spayen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman Espayne, from Late Latin Spania, from earlier Latin Hispānia, from Ancient Greek Ἱσπανία (Hispanía), from Phoenician 𐤀𐤉-𐤔𐤀𐤐𐤀𐤍𐤉𐤌‏ (ay-shaphanim, literally “hyrax isle”), as the native wild rabbits were mistaken for hyraxes.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /speɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Proper noun

Spain

1. A country in Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain.
   • 1865, James Stuart Laurie (editor), Manual of Elementary Geography, page 40:

     The mountains of Spain consist of parallel ranges, running from east to west […]

   • 1999, Stephen P. Reyna, "The Force of Two Logics", in S. P. Reyna & R. E. Downs (editors), Deadly Developments: Capitalism, states and war (War and Scoiety, volume 5), page 34

     Spain fought with France constantly from 1494 through the 1540s, especially over Italy.

Hyponyms

• (country): Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castile, Catalonia, Galicia, Valencia

Related terms

• Hispanic
• Spaniard
• Spanish

Translations

country in Europe

• Abaza: Испания (Ispānija)
• Abkhaz: Еспаниа (Esṗāniā)
• Acehnese: Seupanyo
• Afrikaans: Spanje (af)
• Albanian: Spanja (sq)
• Amharic: ስጳንያ (səp̣anya)
• Arabic: إِسْبَانِيَة‏‎ (ar) f (ʾisbāniya), أَسْبَانِيَا‏‎ f (ʾasbāniyā)
• Armenian: Իսպանիա (hy) (Ispania)
• Aromanian: Ispania
• Asturian: España (ast) f
• Azeri: İspaniya (az)
• Bashkir: Испания (Ispaniya)
• Basque: Espainia (eu)
• Belarusian: Іспа́нія f (Ispánija), Гішпа́нія f (Hišpánija) (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bengali: স্পেন (spen)
• Breton: Spagn (br), Bro-Spagn (br)
• Bulgarian: Испа́ния (bg) f (Ispánija)
• Burmese: စပိန် (ca.pin)
• Buryat: Испани (Ispani)
• Catalan: Espanya (ca) f
• Chechen: Испани (Ispani)
• Cherokee: ᏍᏆᏂᏱ (squaniyi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西班牙 (zh) (Xībānyă)

• Chuvash: Испани (Ispani)
• Crimean Tatar: İspaniya
• Czech: Španělsko (cs) n
• Danish: Spanien (da)
• Dhivehi: ސްޕެއިން‏‎ (spein)
• Dutch: Spanje (nl) n
• Dzongkha: སིཔཱེན (sipāen)
• Esperanto: Hispanio (eo), Hispanujo
• Estonian: Hispaania (et)
• Faroese: Spania n
• Finnish: Espanja (fi)
• French: Espagne (fr) f
• Galician: España (gl) f
• Georgian: ესპანეთი (ka) (esṗaneti)
• German: Spanien (de) n
• Greek: Ισπανία (el) f (Ispanía)

  Ancient: Ἱσπανία f (Hispanía)

• Gujarati: સ્પેન (spen)
• Hawaiian: Sepania
• Hebrew: סְפָרַד‏‎ (he) (s'farád)
• Hindi: स्पेन (hi) (spen), इस्पैन (ispain)
• Hungarian: Spanyolország (hu)
• Icelandic: Spánn (is) m
• Ido: Hispania (io)
• Indonesian: Spanyol (id)
• Interlingua: Espania (ia)
• Irish: An Spáinn f
• Italian: Spagna (it) f
• Japanese: スペイン (ja) (Supein), 西班牙 (ja) (Supein) (obsolete)
• Kabardian: Испание (Ispānie)
• Kannada: ಸ್ಪೇನ್ (kn) (spēn)
• Kashubian: Szpańskô
• Kazakh: Испания (kk) (Ïspanïya)
• Khmer: អេស្ប៉ាញ (km) (’ēspāña)
• Komi-Permyak: Эспання (Espannja)
• Korean: 스페인 (Seupein), 에스파냐 (Eseupanya)
• Kyrgyz: Испания (İspaniya)
• Lao: ສະເປນ (sa pēn)
• Latin: Hispania (la) f

• Latvian: Spānija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Ispanija (lt) f
• Livonian: Spāņmō
• Luxembourgish: Spuenien (lb) n
• Macedonian: Шпанија (mk) f (Španija)
• Malay: Sepanyol
• Malayalam: സ്പെയിൻ (ml) (speyin)
• Maltese: Spanja f
• Maori: Peina, Peina
• Marathi: स्पेन (spen)
• Mongolian: Испани (mn) (Ispani)
• Nahuatl: Caxtillān
• Navajo: Dibé diníí bikéyah
• Norman: Espangne f
• Northern Sami: Spánia
• Norwegian: Spania (no)
• Occitan: Espanha (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Їспанїꙗ f (Ispanija)

• Old Norse: Ispanía, Ispaníaland n, Spánn m, Spánland n, Spánaland n, Spanía n, Spaníaland n
• Old Provençal: Espagna
• Ottoman Turkish: اسپانیا‏‎ (ispanya)
• Pashto: اسپانيا‏‎ f (ispānyā)
• Persian: اسپانیا‏‎ (fa) (espâniya)

  Dari: هسپانیه‏‎ (hespâniye)

• Polish: Hiszpania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Espanha (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਪੇਨ (sapen)
• Quechua: Ispaña
• Romanian: Spania (ro) f
• Romansch: Spagna f
• Russian: Испа́ния (ru) f (Ispánija)
• Rusyn: Іспа́нія f (Ispánija)
• Scottish Gaelic: An Spàinn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Шпанија f, Шпањолска f

  Roman: Španija (sh) f, Španjolska (sh) f

• Silesian: Szpańijo f
• Sinhalese: ස්පාඤ්ඤය (spāññaya)
• Slovak: Španielsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Špánija (sl) f
• Spanish: España (es) f
• Swahili: Hispania (sw)
• Swedish: Spanien (sv)
• Tagalog: Espanya (tl)
• Tajik: Испониё (tg) (Isponiyo)
• Tamil: ஸ்பெயின் (speyiṉ)
• Tatar: Испания (İspaniya)
• Telugu: స్పెయిన (speyina)
• Tetum: Espanya
• Thai: สเปน (th) (sà-bpeen)
• Tibetan: ཞི་པན་ཡ (zhi pan ya)
• Tongan: Sepeni
• Turkish: İspanya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ispaniýa
• Ukrainian: Іспа́нія (uk) f (Ispánija)
• Urdu: سپین‏‎ (spen), اسپین‏‎ (ispen)
• Uyghur: ئىسپانىيە‏‎ (ispaniye)
• Vietnamese: Tây Ban Nha (vi) (西班牙), Y Pha Nho (vi) (伊坡伩) (archaic)
• Volapük: Spanyän (vo)
• Welsh: Sbaen (cy) f
• Yiddish: שפּאַניע‏‎ (shpanye)
• Zhuang: Sihbanhyaz

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Spain
• (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)}
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• IP SAN, Pisan, nipas, pains, pinas, piñas