English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From father + land. Compare Old English fæderland (“paternal land”), Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”).
fatherland (plural fatherlands)
- The country of one's ancestors.
- The country of one's birth, origin.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
country of one's ancestry
- Albanian: atdhe (sq)
- Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʿ)
- Basque: aberri (eu)
- Belarusian: радзі́ма (be) f (radzíma), спа́дчына f (spádčyna)
- Bulgarian: та́тковина (bg) f (tátkovina)
- Catalan: pàtria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 祖国 (zh)
- Czech: otčina (cs) f, vlast (cs) f
- Danish: fædreland n
- Dutch: vaderland (nl) n
- Esperanto: patrujo
- Estonian: isamaa
- Faroese: móðurland n, føðiland n, heimland n, fosturland n, ættarland n
- Finnish: isänmaa (fi)
- French: patrie (fr) f
- Galician: patria (gl) f
- Georgian: სამშობლო (ka) (samšoblo), მამული (mamuli)
- German: Vaterland (de) n
- Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída)
- Ancient: πατρίς f (patrís), πάτρᾱ f (pátrā)
- Hindi: जन्मभूमि (hi) f (janmabhūmi), वतन (hi) m (vatan), स्वदेश (hi) m (svadeś)
- Hungarian: szülőföld (hu), anyaföld (hu)
- Icelandic: föðurland (is) n, ættland n
- Ido: patrio (io), naskolando (io)
- Irish: (please verify) athairtír f, tír dhúchais f, athartha f
- Italian: patria (it), paese (it) m, suolo natio m
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