The Hague

See also: Hague and hague

English

Etymology

From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, related to 's-Gravenhage, from des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge," i.e., the Count's hedge-enclosed hunting grounds.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ðə ˈheɪɡ/

Proper noun

The Hague

1. A city and capital of South Holland, Netherlands; administrative capital of the Netherlands.
2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

Related terms

Related terms

• haw

• hedge

Translations

Dutch city

• Afrikaans: Den Haag
• Albanian: Haga (sq)
• Arabic: لَاهَاي‎‎ m (lāhāy)
• Armenian: Հաագա (Haaga)
• Basque: Haga (eu)
• Belarusian: Гаага f (Haáha)
• Bulgarian: Хага (bg) f (Hága)
• Catalan: la Haia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海牙 (zh) (Hǎiyá)

• Chuvash: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Czech: Haag (cs) m
• Danish: Haag
• Dutch: Den Haag (nl), 's-Gravenhage (nl), De Haag (Hague dialect)
• Esperanto: Hago
• Estonian: Haag (et)
• Finnish: Haag (fi)
• French: La Haye (fr) f
• Galician: A Haia f
• Georgian: ჰააგა (haaga)
• German: Den Haag (de) m
• Greek: Χάγη (el) f (Chági)
• Haitian Creole: Layè
• Hebrew: האג‎‎ (hag)
• Hindi: हेग (hēg)
• Hungarian: Hága (hu)
• Icelandic: Haag
• Indonesian: Den Haag
• Irish: an Háig f
• Italian: L'Aia f
• Japanese: ハーグ (Hāgu), デン・ハーグ (Den-Hāgu)
• Khmer: ទីក្រុង​ហេគ (tii krong heek)
• Korean: 헤이그 (Heigeu)

• Latin: Haga f
• Latvian: Hāga
• Limburgish: D'n Haog
• Lithuanian: Haga
• Low German: N Heeg
• Macedonian: Хаг m (Hag)
• Malay: Den Haag
• Maltese: Il-Hague m
• Norwegian: Haag
• Occitan: L'Aia f
• Persian: لاهه‎‎ (Lâhe)
• Polish: Haga (pl) f
• Portuguese: Haia f
• Romanian: Haga (ro)
• Russian: Гаа́га (ru) f (Gaága)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ха̑г m

  Roman: Hȃg (sh) m

• Sicilian: L'Aia f
• Slovak: Haag m
• Slovene: Haag (sl) m
• Somali: Den Haag
• Spanish: La Haya (es) f
• Swahili: Den Haag
• Swedish: Haag (sv)
• Tajik: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Tamil: டென் ஹாக் (ṭeṉ hāk)
• Thai: กรุงเฮก (grung-hék)
• Turkish: Lahey (tr)
• Ukrainian: Гаага f (Haáha)
• Volapük: 's-Gravenhage
• Welsh: Den Haag
• West Frisian: De Haach

See also

See also

• Dutch: haag
• German: Hag
• Old English: haga

• French: La Hague
• French: La Haye
• Spanish: La Haya

• French: Copenhague
• Portuguese: Copenhague
• Spanish: Copenhague