Spain

See also: spáin, spàin, and 'spáin

English

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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
• Adyghe: Испание (Ispānie)
• 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 (aspānyã)
• 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, 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