homeland

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: home‧land

Etymology

home +‎ land

Noun

homeland (plural homelands)

1. The country that one regards as home.
2. One's country of residence.
3. One's country of birth.
4. The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
5. (South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.

   Synonyms: bantustan

Hypernyms

• land

Translations

country which one regards as home

• Afrikaans: tuisland
• Albanian: atdhe (sq), mëmëdhe (sq)
• Arabic: وَطَن‎ (ar) (waṭan), أَوْطَان‎ (ar) (ʾawṭān)
• Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʿ)
• Azeri: vətən (az)
• 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
• Dutch: thuisland (nl) n
• Estonian: kodumaa (et)
• Faroese: heimland n
• Finnish: kotimaa (fi)
• French: patrie (fr) f
• Georgian: სამშობლო (ka) (samšoblo)
• German: Heimat (de) f, Heimatland (de) 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)
• 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)
• Kazakh: атажұрт (atajurt), отан (otan)
• Korean: 고국 (ko) (goguk) (故國 (ko)), 자기 나라 (jagi nara), 고향 (ko) (gohyang) (故鄕 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: родина (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
• 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
• Russian: ро́дина (ru) f (ródina), оте́чество (ru) n (otéčestvo), отчи́зна (ru) f (otčízna)
• 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
• Sundanese: lemah cai
• Swedish: fosterland (sv) n, hemland (sv) n
• Tajik: ватан (tg) (vatan)
• Tamil: ஈழம் (ta) (īḻam)
• Thai: บ้านเกิด
• 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)
• Yiddish: היימלאַנד‎ n (heymland)

one's country of residence

• Finnish: asuinmaa

one's country of birth

• Afrikaans: geboorteland
• Finnish: synnyinmaa (fi)
• Maori: ewe

• Mongolian: төрсөн нутаг (törsön nutag)
• Spanish: tierra natal f

traditional territory of an ethnic group

• Finnish: asuinalue (fi)

South Africa: area for blacks

• Finnish: kotimaa (fi)

References

• homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• homeland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia