homeland

English

Etymology

home +‎ land

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: home‧land

Noun

homeland (plural homelands)

The country that one regards as home.
One's country of residence.
One's country of birth.
The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
(South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.
Synonym: bantustan

Hypernyms

land

Translations

country which one regards as home

Afrikaans: tuisland
Albanian: atdhe (sq), mëmëdhe (sq)
Arabic: وَطَن‎ (ar) (waṭan), أَوْطَان‎ (ar) (ʾawṭān)
Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʿ)
Azerbaijani: vətən (az)
Bashkir: ватан (vatan)
Belarusian: радзі́ма (be) f (radzíma), айчы́на f (ajčýna), ба́цькаўшчына f (bácʹkaŭščyna)
Bengali: জন্মভূমি (jônmbhūmi)
Bulgarian: ро́дина (bg) f (ródina)
Catalan: pàtria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 祖國 (zh), 祖国 (zh) (zǔguó), 故鄉 (zh), 故乡 (zh) (gùxiāng) (native place)
Czech: vlast (cs) f, domovina f
Danish: hjemland (da) n
Dutch: thuisland (nl) n
Estonian: kodumaa (et)
Faroese: heimland n
Finnish: kotimaa (fi)
French: patrie (fr) f
Galician: patria (gl) f
Georgian: სამშობლო (ka) (samšoblo)
German: Heimat (de) f, Heimatland (de) n
Silesian: Heemteland n
Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída)
Ancient: πατρίς f (patrís)
Gujarati: સ્વદેશ (svadeś)
Hebrew: מוֹלֶדֶת‎ (he) f (moledet), מְכוֹרָה‎ (he) f (mekhora)
Hindi: स्वदेश (hi) (svadeś), वतन (hi) (vatan), मातृभूमि (hi) f (mātŕbhūmi)
Hungarian: szülőföld (hu)
Indonesian: tanah air (id)
Irish: tír dhúchais f
Italian: patria (it) f, suolo natio, paese (it) m
Japanese: 祖国 (ja) (そこく, sokoku), 故郷 (ja) (こきょう, kókyō) (native place)
Kazakh: атажұрт (atajurt), отан (otan)
Korean: 고국 (ko) (goguk) (故國 (ko)), 자기 나라 (jagi nara), 고향 (ko) (gohyang) (故鄕 (ko))

Kyrgyz: родина (ky) (rodina), ата мекен (ata meken)
Latin: patria (la) f
Latvian: dzimtene f
Lithuanian: tėvynė (lt) f, gimtinė f
Macedonian: татковина f (tatkovina), родина f (rodina)
Maori: ewe, ipukarea
Old English: ēþel, eard
Persian: وطن‎ (fa) (vatan), میهن‎ (fa) (mihan), زادبوم‎ (fa) (zâdbum)
Polish: ojczyzna (pl) f, macierz (pl) f
Portuguese: pátria (pt) f
Romanian: patrie (ro) f
Russian: ро́дина (ru) f (ródina), оте́чество (ru) n (otéčestvo), отчи́зна (ru) f (otčízna)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: домовина f, завичај m, отаџбина f

Roman: domovina (sh) f, zavičaj (sh) m, otadžbina (sh) f
Silesian: hajmatland
Slovak: vlasť f, domovina f
Slovene: domovina (sl) f
Southern Altai: тӧрӧл (töröl)
Spanish: patria (es) f, terruño m
Sundanese: lemah cai
Swedish: fosterland (sv) n, hemland (sv) n
Tajik: ватан (tg) (vatan)
Tamil: ஈழம் (ta) (īḻam)
Tatar: ватан (tt) (watan)
Thai: บ้านเกิด
Turkish: vatan (tr), anavatan (tr), yurt (tr)
Turkmen: watan
Ukrainian: ба́тьківщина (uk) f (bátʹkivščyna), вітчи́зна (uk) f (vitčýzna)
Urdu: وطن‎ (ur) (vatan)
Uzbek: vatan (uz)
Vietnamese: tổ quốc (vi), (祖國)
Walloon: patreye (wa) f
Yiddish: היימלאַנד‎ n (heymland)

one's country of residence

Finnish: asuinmaa

one's country of birth

Afrikaans: geboorteland
Bulgarian: родина (bg) f (rodina)
Danish: fædreland n, fødeland n
Finnish: synnyinmaa (fi)
French: terre natale (fr) f
Greek:
Ancient: πατρίς f (patrís)

Latin: patria (la) f
Maori: ewe
Mongolian: төрсөн нутаг (törsön nutag)
Portuguese: terra natal (pt) f
Spanish: tierra natal f

traditional territory of an ethnic group

Danish: hjemland (da) n

Finnish: asuinalue (fi)

South Africa: area for blacks

Danish: hjemland (da) n

Finnish: kotimaa (fi)

References

homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
homeland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Holdeman

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