proper noun

See also: proper-noun

English

Noun

proper noun (plural proper nouns)

1. (grammar) 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 is normally not preceded by an article or limiting modifier and is normally written with an initial capital letter. However, some proper nouns are preceded by articles (such as the Netherlands) and some are uncapitalized (kd lang), and many common (non-proper) nouns are also capitalized, like European. Some references erroneously conflate whether a noun is common or proper with whether it is capitalized or not, although these are not the same.

Synonyms

• nomen proprium, noun substantive proper, proper substantive, proper name, substantive proper
• selfname

Antonyms

• common noun (common name), appellative noun (nomen appellativum)

Hypernyms

• noun (substantive, substantive noun)

Translations

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

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} emër i përveçëm
• Amharic: የተፀውኦ ስም (yätäTS'äwao sm)
• Arabic: اِسْم عَلَم‏‎ (ism ʿalam)
• Armenian: հատուկ անուն (hatuk anun)
• Asturian: nome propiu (ast) m
• Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ исем (yañğïðlïq isem)
• Catalan: nom propi
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: vlastní jméno (cs) n
• Danish: proprium (da), egennavn (da)
• Dutch: eigennaam (nl) m
• Esperanto: propra nomo
• Faroese: sernavn n
• Finnish: erisnimi (fi), propri (fi)
• French: nom propre (fr)
• Galician: nome propio m
• Georgian: საკუთარი სახელი (saḳutari saxeli), საკუთარი არსებითი სახელი (saḳutari arsebiti saxeli)
• German: Eigenname (de) m
• Greek: κύριο όνομα (el) n (kýrio ónoma)
• Hindi: नामवाचक संज्ञा m (nāmvācak sañgyā)
• Hungarian: tulajdonnév (hu)
• Icelandic: eiginnafn n
• Interlingua: nomine proprie (ia)
• Italian: nome proprio (it)
• Japanese: 固有名詞 (ja) (こゆうめいし, koyūmeishi)
• Kalmyk: эврә нерн (evrä nern)
• 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
• Luxembourgish: Eegennumm m
• Macedonian: лична именка f (líčna ímenka)
• Norman: nom propre m
• 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, nome próprio m
• Romanian: nume propriu (ro) n, substantiv propriu (ro) n
• Russian: и́мя со́бственное (ru) n (ímja sóbstvennoje)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmear sònrachaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: властита именица f (vlastita imenica)

  Latin: vlastita imenica f

• Slovak: vlastné meno n
• Slovene: lastno ime (sl) n
• Spanish: nombre propio (es)
• Swedish: egennamn (sv)
• Telugu: సంజ్ఞానామము (saṃjñānāmamu), సంజ్ఞావిశేష్యము (saṃjñāviśēṣyamu)
• Thai: วิสามานยนาม (th) (wí-sǎa-maan-yá-naam)
• Turkish: özel ad (tr), özel isim (tr)
• Udmurt: асним (asnim)
• Welsh: enw priod m

See also

• Appendix:English proper nouns
• Appendix:Glossary