Sweden

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots Swethin, Swadne (also Swaden), from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native Old English Swēoland (literally “Swede land”), Swēoþēod (literally “Swede nation”), and Swēorīċe (literally “Swede kingdom”) to refer to the country.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswiː.dən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswi.dən/

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• Rhymes: -iːdən

Proper noun

Sweden

2. A country in Scandinavia. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden

Derived terms

• Swede
• Swedish

Descendants

• → Bengali: সুইডেন (śuiḍen)
• → Hindi: स्वीडन (svīḍan)
• → Marathi: स्वीडन (svīḍan)
• → Japanese: スウェーデン (Suwēden)
• → Korean: 스웨덴 (seuweden)
• → Telugu: స్వీడన్ (svīḍan)
• → Cantonese: 瑞典 (seoi6 din2)

  → Mandarin: 瑞典 (Ruìdiǎn)

  → Hakka: 瑞典 (Shuì-tién)

  → Korean: 서전 (Seojeon)

  → Vietnamese: Thụy Điển

• → Min Nan: 瑞典 (Sūi-tián)

  → Mandarin: 瑞典 (Ruìdiǎn)

Translations

Scandinavian country

• Abkhaz: Швециа (Ŝvecja)
• Acehnese: Swèdia
• Afrikaans: Swede
• Albanian: Suedi f (indefinite), Suedia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ስዊድን (səwidn)
• Arabic: السُّوَيْد‎ (ar) f (al-suwayd)

  Hijazi Arabic: السُّويد‎ f or m (as-suwēd)

• Aragonese: Suecia f
• Armenian: Շվեդիա (hy) (Švedia)
• Aromanian: Suidii f (indefinite), Suidia f (definite)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܲܝܕܝܼܵܐ‎ f (šwaydia) (formal), ܣܘܲܝܕ‎ (swayd) (vernacular)
• Asturian: Suecia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: İsveç (az)
• Bambara: Swedi
• Bashkir: Швеция (Şvetsiya)
• Basque: Suedia (eu)
• Belarusian: Шве́цыя f (Švjécyja), Швэ́цыя f (Švécyja) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সুইডেন (bn) (śuiḍen)
• Bikol Central: Suesya
• Bislama: Sweden
• Breton: Sveden (br)
• Bulgarian: Шве́ция (bg) f (Švécija)
• Burmese: ဆွီဒင် (hcwidang)
• Catalan: Suècia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Sweden
• Central Kurdish: سوید‎ (suyd)
• Chechen: Швеци (Šʷeci)
• Cherokee: ᏍᏫᏕᏂ (swideni)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瑞典 (seoi⁶ din²)

  Hakka: 瑞典 (Shuì-tién)

  Mandarin: 瑞典 (zh) (Ruìdiǎn)

  Min Nan: 瑞典 (Sūi-tián)

• Chuvash: Швеци (Švetsi)
• Cornish: Swedherwyk, Sweden m
• Corsican: Svezia f
• Crimean Tatar: İsveç
• Czech: Švédsko (cs) n
• Danish: Sverige (da)
• Dhivehi: ސުވިޑެން‎ (suviḍen̊)
• Dutch: Zweden (nl) n
• Dzongkha: སུའི་ཌན (su'i ḍan)
• Elfdalian: Swerre
• Erzya: Швеция Мастор (Švećija Mastor)
• Esperanto: Svedio (eo), Svedujo (eo), Svedlando (eo)
• Estonian: Rootsi (et)
• Ewe: Sweden
• Extremaduran: Suécia
• Farefare: Suedgo
• Faroese: Svøríki (fo) n
• Fiji Hindi: Sweden
• Finnish: Ruotsi (fi)
• French: Suède (fr) f
• Friulian: Svezie
• Gagauz: Şveţiya
• Galician: Suecia (gl) f
• Georgian: შვედეთი (ka) (švedeti)
• German: Schweden (de) n

  Alemannic: Schweden n

  Bavarian: Schwen, Schwedn

• Greek: Σουηδία (el) f (Souidía)
• Greenlandic: Sverige (kl), Svenskit Nunaat (kl)
• Guaraní: Suesia
• Gujarati: સ્વિડન (sviḍan)
• Haitian Creole: Syèd
• Hausa: Suwedan
• Hawaiian: Kuekene
• Hebrew: שְׁװֶדְיָה \ שְׁוֶדְיָה‎ f (sh'védya)
• Hindi: स्वीडन (hi) (svīḍan)
• Hungarian: Svédország (hu)
• Icelandic: Svíþjóð (is) f
• Ido: Suedia (io)
• Ilocano: Sweden
• Indonesian: Swedia (id)
• Interlingua: Svedia
• Inuktitut: ᔅᕗᕆᑭ (sforiki), Svuriki
• Irish: An tSualainn f, Ríocht na Sualainne f
• Italian: Svezia (it) f
• Japanese: スウェーデン (ja) (Suwēden), 瑞典 (ja) (Suwēden)
• Javanese: Swedia
• Kabardian: Шуэц (Šɛc)
• Kalmyk: Сведин Нутг (Svedin Nutg)
• Kannada: ಸ್ವೀಡನ್ (kn) (svīḍan)
• Kapampangan: Sweden
• Karachay-Balkar: Швеция (Şvetsiya)
• Karakalpak: Shvetsiya
• Kashubian: Szwedzkô (csb)
• Kazakh: Швеция (kk) (Şvesiä)
• Khmer: ស៊ុយអែត (km) (suyʼaet)
• Komi-Permyak: Шведму (Švedmu)
• Komi-Zyrian: Швеция (Švecija)
• Kongo: Suedi
• Konkani: स्विडन (sviḍan)
• Korean: 스웨덴 (ko) (Seuweden), 스웨리예 (ko) (Seuweriye) (North Korea), 서전 (ko) (Seojeon) (archaic)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوید‎ (suyd)

  Northern Kurdish: Swêd (ku)

• Kven: Ruottii
• Kyrgyz: Швеция (ky) (Şvetsiya)
• Ladino: Suesia
• Lao: ສະວີເດັນ (lo) (sa wī den)
• Latgalian: Švedeja f
• Latin: Suēcia (la) f
• Latvian: Zviedrija f
• Ligurian: Sveçia
• Limburgish: Zwaede
• Lingala: Swédi
• Lithuanian: Švedija (lt) f
• Livonian: Rūotšmō
• Lombard: Svezia f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Sveden

  German Low German: Sweden (nds) n

• Luganda: Swiiden
• Luxembourgish: Schweden (lb) n
• Macedonian: Шведска (mk) f (Švedska)
• Malagasy: Soeda (mg)
• Malay: Sweden (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്വീഡൻ (svīḍaṉ)
• Maltese: Żvezja
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡶᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ (sifiyesk'o)
• Manx: Y Toolyn f
• Maori: Wīreni, Huītene
• Marathi: स्वीडन (svīḍan)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Швеций (Švecij)

• Mazanderani: سوئد‎
• Meänkieli: Ruotti
• Moksha: Шведмастор (Švedmastor)
• Mongolian: Швед (mn) (Šved)
• Nahuatl: Suecatlān
• Nauruan: Sweden, Widen
• Neapolitan: Sguezia
• Nepali: स्वीडेन (svīḍena)
• Newar: स्वीडेन (swīḍena)
• Norman: Suède f
• North Frisian: Swärik
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sverige (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sverige (nn) n

• Occitan: Suècia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Свеньско (Svenĭsko)
• Old English: Swēoland n, Swēorīċe n
• Oriya: ସ୍ୱିଡେନ (swiḍenô)
• Ossetian: Швеци (Šveci)
• Papiamentu: Suecia
• Pashto: سويډن‎ (ps) m (swiḍán)
• Pennsylvania German: Schweden n
• Persian: سوئد‎ (fa) (su'ed)
• Piedmontese: Svessia
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Swiiden
• Polish: Szwecja (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Σουηδία (Souidía)
• Portuguese: Suécia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਵੀਡਨ (savīḍan)
• Quechua: Suysya
• Rarotongan: Tuitene
• Romanian: Suedia (ro) f
• Romansch: Svezia
• Russian: Шве́ция (ru) f (Švécija)
• Rusyn: Швеція f (Švecija)
• Rwanda-Rundi:

  Kinyarwanda: Suwede

• Sami:

  Inari: Ruotâ

  Kildin: Рӯц е̄ммьне (Rūc ’ēmm’nje)

  Lule: Svierik

  Northern: Ruoŧŧa

  Pite: Sverdji

  Skolt: Ruõcc

  Southern: Sveerje, Svöörje

  Ume: Ruohtsa

• Samoan: Sweden
• Samogitian: Švedėjė
• Sanskrit: स्वीडन (svīḍana)
• Sardinian: Isvetzia f
• Saterland Frisian: Sweden
• Scots: Swaden
• Scottish Gaelic: An t-Suain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Шве̏дска̄ f

  Roman: Švȅdskā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Sbezzia f
• Silesian: Szwecyjo n
• Sindhi: سويڊن‎
• Sinhalese: ස්‍වීඩනය (swīḍanaya)
• Slovak: Švédsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Švédska (sl) f
• Somali: Sweden, Iswiidhan
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Šwedska f

• Spanish: Suecia (es) f
• Sundanese: Swédia
• Swahili: Uswidi (sw)
• Swazi: ISwideni
• Swedish: Sverige (sv) n
• Tagalog: Suwesya
• Tajik: Шветсия (tg) (Švetsiya)
• Tamil: சுவீடன் (cuvīṭaṉ)
• Tatar: Швеция (tt) (Şwetsiya)
• Telugu: స్వీడన్ (te) (svīḍan)
• Tetum: Suésia
• Thai: สวีเดน (th) (sà-wii-den)
• Tibetan: སི་ཝེ་དེན (si we den)
• Tigrinya: ስዊድን (səwidn)
• Tok Pisin: Suwidan
• Turkish: İsveç (tr)
• Turkmen: Şwesiýa
• Udmurt: Швеция (Švecija)
• Ukrainian: Шве́ція (uk) f (Švécija)
• Upper Sorbian: Šwedska
• Urdu: سویڈن‎ (svīḍan)
• Uyghur: شۋېتسىيە‎ (shwëtsiye)
• Uzbek: Shvetsiya (uz)
• Venetian: Svezsia
• Vietnamese: Thụy Điển (vi) (瑞典)
• Volapük: Svedän (vo)
• Võro: Roodsi
• Walloon: Suwedwesse
• Waray-Waray: Suecia
• Welsh: Sweden (cy) f
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Zweedn n
• West Frisian: Sweden (fy) n
• Western Panjabi: سویڈن‎ (pnb)
• Wolof: Suweed
• Yakut: Швеция (Shvetsiya)
• Yiddish: שוועדן‎ (shvedn)
• Yoruba: Swídìn
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) İswec (diq)
• Zealandic: Zweden
• Zhuang: Ruidenj
• Zulu: ISwidi

See also

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

Anagrams

• endews, newsed, snewed

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛdɛn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsweːdɛn/, /ˈswɛdɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛdɛn

Proper noun

Sweden f (not mutable)

1. Sweden (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• Teyrnas Sweden (“Kingdom of Sweden”)