village

English

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Etymology

Middle French village, from Latin villaticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/, /ˈvɪlədʒ/

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Noun

village (plural villages)

1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28: 

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.

   There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.

2. (UK) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

Derived terms

• eco-village
• global village
• Olympic village
• Potemkin village
• village bicycle
• village bike
• village cart
• village green
• village idiot
• villager

Related terms

• villa
• -wich
• wick

Translations

a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town

• Afrikaans: dorpie
• Ainu: コタン (kotan)
• Albanian: fshat m, katund m
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: دیه (diye)

• Amharic: መንደር (mänədär)
• Arabic: قرية (ar) f (qárya)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرية f (qarya), كفر m (kafr), نجع m (nagʕ), نحية f (naḥya)

• Armenian: գյուղ (gyuł), շեն (šen)
• Asturian: aldea (ast) f
• Azeri: kənd (az), qışlaq
• Baekje: 夫里 (buri)
• Baluchi: ہلک (halk)
• Bashkir: ауыл (awïl)
• Basque: herrixka
• Belarusian: весь f (vesʹ), вёска f (vjóska), сяло n (sjaló)
• Bengali: গ্রাম (bn) (gram)
• Breton: bourcʼh, gwig, pennkêr
• Bulgarian: село (bg) n (seló)
• Burmese: ရွာ (my) (rwa), ဇနပုဒ် (my) (ja.na.pud)
• Catalan: poble (ca) m
• Central Mazahua: ts'ijñiñi
• Chamicuro: chi'nashtalichi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 村 (zh) (cūn), 鄉村 (zh), 乡村 (zh) (xiāngcūn), 農村 (zh), 农村 (zh) (nóngcūn), 村子 (zh) (cūnzi), 村莊 (zh), 村庄 (zh) (cūnzhuāng)

• Czech: vesnice (cs) f, ves (cs) f, dědina f
• Danish: landsby c, by (da) c
• Dutch: dorp (nl) n
• Esperanto: vilaĝo
• Estonian: küla (et)
• Faroese: bygd f
• Finnish: kylä (fi), kirkonkylä (fi)
• French: village (fr) m
• Friulian: paîs
• Georgian: სოფელი (sop’eli), შენი (šeni)
• German: Dorf (de) n, Dörfer (de) pl
• Greek: χωριό (el) n (chorió)
• Hausa: ƙauye
• Hebrew: כפר (he) m (kfar)
• Hindi: गांव m (gānv)
• Hungarian: falu (hu)
• Icelandic: þorp (is) n
• Ido: vilajo (io)
• Indonesian: desa (id), kampung (id)
• Irish: sráidbhaile (ga) m, gráigbhaile m
• Italian: villaggio (it) m, borgo (it) m, paese (it)
• Japanese: 村 (ja) (むら, mura), むら (ja) (mura), 田舎 (ja) (いなか, inaka) (country)
• Javanese: désa
• Kannada: ಗ್ರಾಮ (kn) (grāma)
• Kazakh: ауыл (kk) (awıl), қыстау (qıstaw)
• Khmer: ភូមិ (km) (pūm)
• Korean: 마을 (ko) (ma-eul)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: gund (ku) m

  Sorani: دێ (dê), گوند (gund)

• Kyrgyz: айыл (ayıl), кыштак (kıştak), деревня (derevnya)
• Ladin: paeje
• Lao: ບ້ານ (bān), ໝູ່ບ້ານ (lo) (mū bān)
• Latgalian: sola, cīms
• Latin: rus (la) n
• Latvian: ciems (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kaimas (lt) m

• Low German:

  German Low German: Dörp (nds) n, Derp n

  Dutch Low Saxon: loug (Gronings), dörp (Gronings)

• Luxembourgish: Duerf n
• Macedonian: село n (sélo)
• Malay:

  Rumi: kampung (ms) / kampong

  Jawi: کامڤوڠ

• Maltese: villaġġ (mt)
• Manx: balley beg m
• Maori: kāinga
• Marathi: गाव n (gaav), खेडे n (khede)
• Mongolian: тосгон (tosgon), гацаа (gatsaa)
• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) taarep n; (Sylt) Tērp n; (Helgoland) Dörp m
• Northern Sami: gilli, girkogilli, márkan
• Norwegian: landsby (no), torp n
• Occitan: vilatge (oc)
• Old Portuguese: vila
• Pashto: کلی m (kəlai)
• Persian: روستا (fa) (rustâ), ده (fa) (deh), قشلاق (fa) (qešlâq)
• Phoenician: 𐤊𐤐𐤓 m (kpr)
• Polish: wieś (pl) f, wioska (pl) f
• Portuguese: aldeia (pt) f, vila (pt), povoado (pt)
• Quechua: llaqta (qu), ayllu
• Romanian: sat (ro) n
• Romansch: vischnanca f
• Russian: деревня (ru) f (derévnja), село (ru) n (seló), (Central Asia) кишлак (ru) m (kišlák), (Central Asia, Caucasus) аул (ru) m (aúl)
• Sanskrit: ग्राम (grām)
• Santali: ᱚᱛᱳ (ato)
• Saterland Frisian: Täärp
• Scots: veelage
• Scottish Gaelic: baile beag m, clachan m, baile-dùthchail m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: село n

  Roman: selo (sh) n

• Sicilian: villaggiu m, paisi
• Sinhalese: ගම (gama)
• Slovak: dedina f
• Slovene: vas (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjas f

• Spanish: aldea (es) f, pueblo (es) m
• Swahili: kijiji (sw)
• Swedish: by (sv) c
• Tajik: русто (rusto), деҳ (deh), деҳа (deha), қишлоқ (qišloq)
• Talysh: ди (di)
• Tamil: கிராமம் (ta) (kirāmam), கிராமம் (ta) (kirāmam), கிராமம் (ta) (kirāmam)
• Tatar: авыл (tt) (awıl)
• Telugu: గ్రామం (te) (grāmaṃ)
• Tetum: suku
• Thai: หมู่บ้าน (th) (mòo bâan)
• Tigrinya: ቍሸት (ḳʷəšät)
• Tolai: gunan
• Tongan: kolo
• Turkish: köy (tr), nahiye (tr)
• Turkmen: oba
• Tuvan: көдээ суур (ködee suur)
• Ukrainian: село (uk) n (seló)
• Urdu: گانو m (gānv)
• Uzbek: qishloq (uz)
• Vietnamese: làng (vi), làng quê
• Volapük: vilag (vo), (diminutive) vilagil (vo)
• Welsh: llan f, pentref (cy) m
• West Frisian: doarp (fy) n
• Yiddish: דאָרף n (dorf)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: cry · step · turning · #812: village · quickly · lie · supposed

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French

Etymology

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

Pronunciation

• Audio (un village)

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• IPA^(key): /vilaʒ/

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village

Related terms

• villageois

External links

• “village” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilage

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village