Japan

• Giapan (obsolete)
• Japonia (obsolete)

From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本, likely from an earlier stage of modern Cantonese reading jat⁶ bun² or Min Nan ji̍t-pún (in turn from Middle Chinese nyit-pwón, potentially from older Old Chinese *nit-pˁənʔ but unattested in Old Chinese-era literature). Compare also Mandarin 日本 (Rìběn), Japanese 日本 (Nippon), Korean 일본 (Ilbon), Vietnamese Nhật Bản.

The earliest form of “Japan” in Europe was Marco Polo's Cipangu, the first recorded form in English was in a letter dated February 19, 1565 (published 1577), spelt “Giapan”: Of the Ilande of Giapan, by Luís 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.

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• IPA^(key): /dʒəˈpæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Japan

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

   Synonyms: Jap., Jpn., Land of the Rising Sun, Japonia, Nihon, Nippon, Yamato, State of Japan, Chrysanthemum Nation

• → Bengali: জাপান (japan)
• → Burmese: ဂျပန် (gya.pan)
• → Hindi: जापान (jāpān)
• → Irish: Seapáin
• → Marathi: जपान (japān)
• → Tamil: ஜப்பான் (jappāṉ)
• → Telugu: జపాను (japānu)
• → Urdu: جاپان‎ (jāpān)

• 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

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

Japan

1. Japan

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

Japan

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

• japaner
• japansk

• → Faroese: Japan

From Malay Jepang, from Chinese 日本.

• IPA^(key): /jaːˈpɑn/

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Japan n

1. Japan

• Afrikaans: Japan
• See further descendants at Portuguese Japão.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

Japan

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

• japani, japanari
• japanskur

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpan/

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Japan n (genitive Japans)

1. Japan

• Japaner
• Japanerin
• Japanisch
• japanisch

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːpʰaːn/

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?

• Japani
• japanska

Japan

1. Rōmaji transcription of ジャパン

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

Japan

1. Japan

• japaner
• japansk

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

Japan

1. Japan

• japanar
• japansk

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

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

Jàpān m (Cyrillic spelling Ја̀па̄н)

1. Japan

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

• IPA^(key): /¹jɑːpan/

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Japan n (genitive Japans)

1. Japan

• japansk
•  japan, japanska