Greenland

English

Etymology

From green +‎ land, calque of Old Norse Grœnland, from grœnn (“green”) + land (“land”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.lənd/, /ˈɡɹiːn.lænd/

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Proper noun

Greenland, a home country of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Greenland

1. A large self-governing territory in North America that is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
3. (obsolete) Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
4. A surname​.
5. A city in Arkansas
6. A village in Barbados
7. A ghost town in California
8. An unincorporated community in Colorado
9. A town in New Hampshire
10. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
11. An unincorporated community in West Virginia

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Greenland dove
• Greenlander
• Greenland falcon
• Greenland gerfalcon

• Greenlandic
• Greenlandish
• Greenlandite
• Greenlandman

• Greenland poppy
• Greenland right whale
• Greenland Sea
• Greenland seal

• Greenland spar
• Greenland turtle
• Greenland whale

Translations

a large self-governing island in North America

• Arabic: جِرِينْلَانْدَ‎‎ f (girinlanda)
• Aragonese: Gronlandia f
• Armenian: Գրենլանդիա (hy) (Grenlandia)
• Asturian: Groenlandia (ast) f
• Bashkir: Гренландия (Grenlandiya)
• Belarusian: Грэнла́ндыя f (Hrenlándyja)
• Bengali: গ্রিনল্যান্ড (grinlænḑ)
• Breton: Greunland
• Bulgarian: Гренла́ндия f (Grenlándija)
• Burmese: ဂရင်းလန်ကျွန်း (ga.rang:lankywan:)
• Catalan: Grenlàndia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格陵蘭 (zh), 格陵兰 (zh) (Gélínglán)

• Czech: Grónsko (cs) n
• Danish: Grønland (da)
• Dutch: Groenland (nl)
• Esperanto: Groenlando
• Estonian: Gröönimaa (et)
• Faroese: Grønland n
• Finnish: Grönlanti (fi)
• French: Groenland (fr) m
• Galician: Grenlandia (gl) f
• Georgian: გრენლანდია (grenlandia)
• German: Grönland (de) n
• Greek: Γροιλανδία (el) f (Groilandía)
• Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat (kl)
• Hawaiian: ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
• Hebrew: גרינלנד‎‎ (grinland)
• Hindi: ग्रीनलैण्ड (hi) (grīnlaiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: Grönland (hu)
• Icelandic: Grænland (is) n
• Irish: An Ghraonlainn f
• Italian: Groenlandia (it) f
• Japanese: グリーンランド (ja) (Gurīnrando)
• Kalenjin: Grinlande
• Kamba: Grinlandi
• Kazakh: Гренландия (Grenlandïya)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសបៃតង (prɑteih bay tɑɑng), ហ្គ្រិនលែនដ៍ (griinlɛɛn), បៃតង (km) (bay tɑɑŋ)
• Kikuyu: Grinlandi
• Korean: 그린란드 (Geurinnandeu)
• Kyrgyz: Гринландия (ky) (Grinlandiya)
• Latin: Groenlandia f
• Latvian: Grenlande
• Luhya: Grinlandi

• Luo: Grinland
• Macedonian: Гре́нланд m (Grénland)
• Malagasy: Groenlanda
• Maltese: Greenland, Grinlend
• Manx: Greenlyn f
• Maori: Kirinirana
• Meru: Grinlandi
• Mongolian: Гренланд (Grenland)
• Nahuatl: Groentlalpan
• Navajo: Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah
• Norman: Groenland m, Greenland m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Grønland

  Nynorsk: Grønland

• Occitan: Grenlàndia (oc) f, Groenlàndia (oc) f
• Old Norse: Grǿnland n, Grǿnaland n
• Persian: گرینلند‎‎ (grinland), گروئنلند‎‎ (groenland)
• Polish: Grenlandia (pl)
• Portuguese: Groenlândia (pt) f, Gronelândia (pt) f
• Romanian: Groenlanda f
• Russian: Гренла́ндия f (Grenlándija)
• Scots: Greenland
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гренланд m, Гринланд m

  Roman: Grenland (sh) m, Grinland m (Serbo-Croatian)

• Slovak: Grónsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Grénlándija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Grönlandska f

• Spanish: Groenlandia (es) f
• Swahili: Grinlandi (sw)
• Swedish: Grönland (sv) n
• Tagalog: Lupanlunti
• Tajik: Гренландия (tg) (Grenlandiya)
• Thai: กรีนแลนด์ (greenlaen)
• Turkish: Grönland (tr)
• Turkmen: Grenlandiýa
• Ukrainian: Гренла́ндія f (Hrenlándija), Ґренла́ндія f (Grenlándija)
• Vietnamese: Greenland (vi)
• Volapük: Gröneän (vo), (older term, obsolete) Grönän
• Welsh: Yr Ynys Las f
• Yiddish: גרינלאַנד‎‎ n (grinland)
• Yoruba: Gerelandi

Anagrams

• Engerland, Englander

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Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse Grœnland, from grœnn (“green”) + land (“land”).

Proper noun

Greenland

1. Greenland.