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Yemen

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See also: yemen, yémen, Ýemen, Yémen, ¥emen, and Yəmən

English

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Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman)bor.
Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen)bor.
English Yemen

    Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen), from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman), from Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right; right hand”).

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    Yemen (plural Yemens)

    2. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.
      • 2012 April 30, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, “Al-Qaida's wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
        Unlike in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, in Yemen they are trying to implement sharia by winning over the hearts and minds of the people.
    4. (historical) A region in the southern Arabian Peninsula; the Arabia Felix.
    6. (historical) A province of the Ottoman Empire: the Yemen eyalet, later Yemen vilayet.

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    The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article the, though this construction has declined in use.[1]

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    1. ^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020), “Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, number 1, →DOI, pages 1–16

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    countries in Asia (appendix)edit

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    Asturian

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    • IPA(key): /ˈʝemen/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.mẽŋ]
    • Rhymes: -emen
    • Syllabification: Ye‧men

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    Yemen m

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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    Yemen

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

    Cornish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English Yemen, from Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen), from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

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    Yemen

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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    countries in Asia: powyow Asi (appendix)edit
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    Crimean Tatar

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    Alternative spellings
    Arabic [[یمن]]
    Soviet Latin Jemen
    Cyrillic Емен
    Ukranian Latin Yemen

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    Yemen

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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    Danish

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    Yemen

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)
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    Italian

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    Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia it

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    Yemen m

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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    Norwegian

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    Yemen n

    1. alternative spelling of Jemen: Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

    Portuguese

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    Proper noun

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    Yemen m

    1. alternative spelling of Iêmen / Iémen

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    The Portuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 recommends the use of nativized placenames (instead of unadapted borrowings or partial calques) if these are established in the language. As such, the forms Iêmen or Iémen are preferred.

    Spanish

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    Yemen m

    1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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    • The definite article is optional when referring to Yemen in Spanish (i.e. el Yemen).

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    countries in Asia: países de Asia (appendix)edit

    Tagalog

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      Borrowed from Spanish Yemen (“Yemen”).

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      Yemen (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜒᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

      1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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      countries in Asia (Latin script): mga bansa sa Asya (appendix)edit

      Turkish

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      Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman)bor.
      Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen)
      Turkish Yemen

        Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen), borrowed from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

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        Yemen

        1. Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

        Declension

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        Declension of Yemen
        singular plural
        nominative Yemen -
        definite accusative Yemen'i -
        dative Yemen'e -
        locative Yemen'de -
        ablative Yemen'den -
        genitive Yemen'in -
        Possessive forms of Yemen
        singular plural
        benim (my) Yemen'im Yemenlerim
        senin (your) Yemen'in Yemenlerin
        onun (his/her/its) Yemen'i Yemenleri
        bizim (our) Yemen'imiz Yemenlerimiz
        sizin (your) Yemen'iniz Yemenleriniz
        onların (their) Yemen'i
        Yemenleri         		Yemenleri

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        countries in Asia: Asya ülkeleri (appendix)edit
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