English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
home + land
Pronunciation[edit]
homeland (plural homelands)
- The country that one regards as home.
- One's country of residence.
- One's country of birth.
- The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
- (South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.
- Synonym: bantustan
Hypernyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
country which one regards as home
- Afrikaans: tuisland
- Albanian: atdhe (sq), mëmëdhe (sq)
- Arabic: وَطَن (ar) (waṭan), أَوْطَان (ar) (ʾawṭān)
- Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʿ)
- Azerbaijani: vətən (az)
- Bashkir: ватан (vatan)
- Belarusian: радзі́ма (be) f (radzíma), айчы́на f (ajčýna), ба́цькаўшчына f (bácʹkaŭščyna)
- Bengali: জন্মভূমি (jônmbhumi)
- Bulgarian: ро́дина (bg) f (ródina)
- Catalan: pàtria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 祖國 (zh), 祖国 (zh) (zǔguó), 故鄉 (zh), 故乡 (zh) (gùxiāng) (native place)
- Czech: vlast (cs) f, domovina f
- Danish: hjemland (da) n
- Dutch: thuisland (nl) n
- Estonian: kodumaa (et)
- Faroese: heimland n
- Finnish: kotimaa (fi)
- French: patrie (fr) f
- Galician: patria (gl) f
- Georgian: სამშობლო (ka) (samšoblo)
- German: Heimat (de) f, Heimatland (de) n
- Silesian: Heemteland n
- Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída)
- Ancient: πατρίς f (patrís)
- Gujarati: સ્વદેશ (svadeś)
- Hebrew: מוֹלֶדֶת (he) f (moledet), מְכוֹרָה (he) f (mekhora)
- Hindi: स्वदेश (hi) (svadeś), वतन (hi) (vatan), मातृभूमि (hi) f (mātŕbhūmi), जन्मभूमि (hi) f (janmabhūmi)
- Hungarian: szülőföld (hu)
- Indonesian: tanah air (id)
- Irish: tír dhúchais f
- Italian: patria (it) f, suolo natio, paese (it) m
- Japanese: 祖国 (ja) (そこく, sokoku), 故郷 (ja) (こきょう, kókyō) (native place), 原郷 (げんきょう, genkyō)
- Kazakh: атажұрт (atajurt), отан (otan)
- Khmer: ស្វទេស (km) (svaʼteeh), ដំណែល (km) (dɑmnael)
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- Korean: 고국 (ko) (goguk) (故國 (ko)), 자기 나라 (jagi nara), 고향 (ko) (gohyang) (故鄕 (ko))
- Kyrgyz: родина (ky) (rodina), ата мекен (ata meken)
- Latin: patria (la) f
- Latvian: dzimtene f
- Lithuanian: tėvynė (lt) f, gimtinė f
- Macedonian: татковина f (tatkovina), родина f (rodina)
- Maori: ewe, ipukarea
- Occitan: patria (oc) f
- Old English: ēþel, eard
- Persian: وطن (fa) (vatan), میهن (fa) (mihan), زادبوم (fa) (zâdbum)
- Polish: ojczyzna (pl) f, macierz (pl) f
- Portuguese: pátria (pt) f
- Romanian: patrie (ro) f
- Russian: ро́дина (ru) f (ródina), оте́чество (ru) n (otéčestvo), отчи́зна (ru) f (otčízna)
- Sanskrit: स्वदेश (sa) m (svadeśa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: домовина f, завичај m, отаџбина f
- Roman: domovina (sh) f, zavičaj (sh) m, otadžbina (sh) f
- Silesian: hajmatland
- Slovak: vlasť f, domovina f
- Slovene: domovina (sl) f
- Southern Altai: тӧрӧл (töröl)
- Spanish: patria (es) f, terruño m
- Sundanese: lemah cai
- Swedish: fosterland (sv) n, hemland (sv) n
- Tajik: ватан (tg) (vatan)
- Tamil: ஈழம் (ta) (īḻam)
- Tatar: ватан (tt) (watan)
- Thai: บ้านเกิด (bâan-gə̀ət), (idiomatic) บ้านเกิดเมืองนอน (th) (bâan-gə̀ət-mʉʉang-nɔɔn)
- Turkish: vatan (tr), anavatan (tr), yurt (tr)
- Turkmen: watan
- Ukrainian: ба́тьківщина (uk) f (bátʹkivščyna), вітчи́зна (uk) f (vitčýzna)
- Urdu: وطن (ur) (vatan)
- Uzbek: vatan (uz)
- Vietnamese: tổ quốc (vi) (祖國)
- Walloon: patreye (wa) f
- Yiddish: היימלאַנד n (heymland)
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one's country of residence
traditional territory of an ethnic group
South Africa: area for blacks
References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 