English - Alternative Forms

• Giapan (obsolete)

English - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本 (Middle Chinese nyit-pwón < Old Chinese *nit-pˁənʔ) (compare Cantonese Yat⁶-bun² 日本, Korean Ilbon 일본, Japanese Nippon にっぽん, Mandarin Rìběn 日本, Vietnamese Nhật Bản).

Although the earliest form of "Japan" in Europe was Marco Polo's "Chipangu", the first recorded form in English was in a letter dated February 19, 1565 (published 1577), spelt “Giapan”. “Of the Ilande of Giapan”, by Luīs Fróis (a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Japan), published in Richard Willes, “The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies” (London 1577), cited in “Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery”, by Peter C. Mancall, pp. 156–57.

English - Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒəˈpæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dʒəˈpæn/, [d͡ʒɪ̈ˈpʰæn]
• Rhymes: -æn

English - Proper Noun

Japan (uncountable)

1. An island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located to the east of China, Korea and Russia.

Synonyms

• Japonia (obsolete)
• Nihon
• Nippon

Derived terms

• Jap (derogatory)
• Japanese
• Japanize
• Japanology
• Japanophile
• Japanophilia
• Japan allspice
• Japan black
• Japan camphor
• Japan clover
• Japan earth
• Japan ink
• Japan lacquer
• Japan pea
• Japan varnish

Related terms

• Sea of Japan

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Japan
• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Afrikaans - Etymology

From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Afrikaans - Proper Noun

Japan

1. Japan

Danish - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Danish - Proper Noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

Dutch - Etymology

From Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Dutch - Proper Noun

Japan ?

1. Japan

Faroese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

Faroese - Etymology

From Danish Japan, from Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Faroese - Proper Noun

Japan

1. (geography) Japan (An island nation in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• japani, japanari
• japanskur

German - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

German - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

German - Proper Noun

Japan n (genitive Japans)

1. Japan

German - See Also

• Japaner
• Japanerin
• Japanisch
• japanisch

Icelandic - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Icelandic - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpʰaːn/

Icelandic - Proper Noun

Japan n

1. Japan

   Ég fer til Japans.

   I'm going to Japan.

   Hvar er Japan staðsett á kortinu?

   Where is Japan located on the map?

Icelandic - See Also

• Japani
• japanska

Japanese - Romanization

Japan

1. rōmaji reading of ジャパン

Norwegian - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Norwegian - Proper Noun

Japan

1. Japan

Related terms

• japaner
• japansk

Serbo-Croatian - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Serbo-Croatian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǎpaːn/
• Hyphenation: Ja‧pan

Serbo-Croatian - Proper Noun

Jàpān m (Cyrillic spelling Ја̀па̄н)

1. Japan

Declension

Swedish - Etymology

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本.

Swedish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑːpan/

Swedish - Proper Noun

Japan

1. Japan

See also

• japansk
•  japan, japanska

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