proper noun

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Noun

proper noun (plural proper nouns)

1. A noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.

Usage notes

Main appendix: English proper nouns

In English, a proper noun normally is not preceded by an article or limiting modifier and is written with an initial capital letter.

Synonyms

• proper name, nomen proprium

Antonyms

• common noun

Translations

The name of a particular person, place, organization or other individual entity

• Amharic: የተፀውኦ ስም (yätäTS'äwao sm)
• Arabic: اسم علم (ism 3alam)
• Armenian: հատուկ անուն (hatuk anun)
• Asturian: nome propiu (ast) m
• Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ исем (yañğïðlïq isem)
• Catalan: nom propi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專有名詞, 专有名词 (zh) (zhuānyǒu míngcí), 固有名詞 (zh), 固有名词 (gùyǒu míngcí)

• Czech: vlastní jméno (cs) n
• Danish: proprium (da), egennavn
• Dutch: eigennaam (nl) m
• Esperanto: propra nomo
• Faroese: sernavn n
• Finnish: erisnimi (fi)
• French: nom propre (fr)
• Galician: nome propio m
• German: Eigenname (de) m
• Greek: κύριο όνομα (el) n (kýrio ónoma)
• Hungarian: tulajdonnév (hu)
• Icelandic: eiginnafn n
• Interlingua: nomine proprie
• Italian: nome proprio (it)
• Japanese: 固有名詞 (ja) (こゆうめいし, koyūmeishi)

• Jèrriais: nom propre m
• Khmer: អសាធារណនាម (ak sathea raknak neam), នាមអសាធារណ៍ (neam ak sathea)
• Korean: 고유명사 (ko) (goyumyeongsa) (固有名詞 (ko))
• Latin: nōmen proprium n
• Latvian: īpašvārds (lv) m
• Macedonian: лична именка f (líčna ímenka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egennavn (no) n

  Nynorsk: eigennamn n

• Occitan: nom pròpri m
• Old English: āgen nama m
• Persian: اسم خاص (fa)
• Polish: nazwa własna (pl) f
• Portuguese: substantivo próprio (pt) m
• Romanian: nume propriu (ro) n, substantiv propriu (ro) n
• Russian: имя собственное (ru) n (ímja sóbstvennoje)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmear sònrachaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: властита именица f (vlastita imenica)

  Latin: vlastita imenica f

• Spanish: nombre propio (es)
• Swedish: egennamn (sv)
• Turkish: özel ad (tr), özel isim (tr)

See also

• Appendix:English proper nouns
• Appendix:Glossary#proper noun