Earth

Earth

See also: earth

English

Planetary symbol for the Earth

A second planetary symbol for the Earth

The Earth

Alternative forms

• earth (planet)

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”). More at earth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝθ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ

Proper noun

Earth (plural Earths)

1. The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
   • 2012, Ken Adams, Earth 2... It's Where You Go When You Die‎:

     It's my theory that we'll keep being reborn on as many Earths as it takes until every person gets it exactly right from the moment they are born until the moment they die.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Earth.
2. The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.

Usage notes

Earth may be used with or without the. Contrast other planets (e.g. Mars, Jupiter) which never take an article, and certain other celestial bodies (e.g. Sun, Moon) which always do.

The capitalized form usually occurs when it is contrasted with the names of other celestial bodies or realms:

From the Earth to the Moon

What is the distance between Earth and Mars?

Synonyms

• (third planet of the Solar System): globe, God's green earth, Sol III, Terra, the world
• (world inhabited by mankind): Middle Earth (archaic or pagan); Midgard (Germanic religion)
• (personification): See Mother Earth for female forms

Hypernyms

• planet

Derived terms

• Earthan
• Earther
• Earth-grazing
• Earthian
• Earthican
• Earthite
• earthlight
• Earthling
• earthling
• Earthman
• Earth-pointing
• earthrise
• Earthscape
• earth-shattering
• Earthshine
• earthshine
• earthside
• Earth-sized
• Earthwoman
• Middle Earth
• Middle-earth
• transearth

 

Related terms

• Earth Day
• earth science
• earth sciences
• Earth Summit
• hell on earth

 

Translations

third planet of the Solar System

Abkhaz: Адгьыл (Adgʲəl) Adyghe: Чӏыгу (Ĉʼəgʷu) Afrikaans: Aarde Ainu: アィヌモシㇼ (aynu-mosir) Albanian: Toka (sq) Aleut: tanax̂ American Sign Language: Open8@BackHand-PalmDown-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Twist Amharic: መሬት (am) (märet) Apache: Western Apache: niʼ, niʼgosdzán Arabic: اَلْأَرْض‎ (ar) f (al-ʔarḍ) Egyptian Arabic: الأرض‎ f (el-ʾarḍ) Aragonese: Tierra Armenian: Երկիր (hy) (Erkir) Aromanian: Locu Assamese: পৃথিৱী (prithiwi), ভূঁই (bhũi) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܥܵܐ‎ f (ārʿa) Asturian: Tierra (ast) f Avar: Ракь (Rakkˡʼ) Azerbaijani: Dünya, Yer (az) Baluchi: زمین‎ (zamín) Bashkir: Ер (Yer) Basque: Lurra (eu) Bavarian: eadn Belarusian: Зямля́ f (Zjamljá) Bengali: পৃথিবী (bn) (pŕthibī), আর্থ (arthô) Bikol Central: Kinaban Breton: Douar (br) m Bulgarian: Земя́ f (Zemjá) Burmese: ကမ္ဘာဂြိုဟ် (my) (kambhagruih), ကမ္ဘာ (my) (kambha) Catalan: Terra (ca), terra (ca) f Chechen: Дуьне (Düne) Cherokee: ᎡᎶᎯ (chr) (elohi) Chinese: Cantonese: 地球 (dei6 kau4) Dungan: Димян (Dimi͡an) Mandarin: 地球 (zh) (dìqiú) Min Nan: 地球 (zh-min-nan) (tē-kiû/tuē-kiû) Chuvash: Ҫӗр (Śĕr) Cornish: Norvys m, Norves m Crimean Tatar: Zemin Czech: Země (cs) f Danish: Jorden (da), jorden (da) Dhivehi: ބިން‎ (bin̊) Dutch: Aarde (nl) f East Central German: Ard f Elfdalian: juord f Erzya: Мода (Moda) Esperanto: terglobo Estonian: Maa (et), maakera (et) Ewe: Anyigba Faroese: jørðin f Finnish: Maa (fi) French: Terre (fr) f Galician: terra (gl) f Georgian: დედამიწა (dedamic̣a) German: Erde (de) f Alemannic German: Erde f Central Franconian: Ääd Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 m (midjungards), 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 f (airþa) Greek: Γη (el) f (Gi) Ancient: γῆ f (gê) Greenlandic: nuna, nunarsuaq Gujarati: પૃથ્વી (gu) (pṛthvī) Haitian Creole: latè Hawaiian: ao, honua, ʻāina Hebrew: אֶרֶץ‎ (he) f ('érets), כַּדּוּר הָאָרֶץ‎ (he) m (kadúr ha'árets) Hindi: पृथ्वी (hi) f (pŕthvī) धरती (hi) (dhartī), भूलोक (hi) (bhūlok), भूमि (hi) f (bhūmi), क्षोणी (hi) f (kṣoṇī), क्षिति (hi) f (kṣiti), ज़मीन (hi) f (zamīn), जमीन (hi) f (jamīn), भू (hi) f (bhū), धर्ती (hi) f (dhartī) Hungarian: Föld (hu) Icelandic: jörð (is) f Ido: Tero (io) Indonesian: Bumi (id) Ingush: Лаьтта (Lätta) Irish: Domhan m Italian: Terra (it) f Japanese: 地球 (ja) (ちきゅう, Chikyū), アース (ja) (Āsu) Kalmyk: делкә (delkä), Делкә һариг (Delkä ğarig) Kannada: ಭೂಮಿ (kn) (bhūmi) Karachay-Balkar: Джер (Cer) Kazakh: Жер (Jer) Khmer: ផែនដី (km) (phaen dəy) Komi-Permyak: му (mu) Komi-Zyrian: Му (Mu) Korean: 지구(地球) (ko) (Jigu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: زەڤی‎ (ku) (zevî), زەوی‎ (ku) (zewî) Northern Kurdish: erd (ku) Kyrgyz: Жер (Jer) Lakota: makȟówaŋča Lao: ໂລກ (lo) (lōk) Latin: orbis (la) m, terra (la) f, orbis terrarum m Latvian: Zeme (lv), zeme (lv) f Lithuanian: Žemė (lt) f Low German: Eer (nds) f Luxembourgish: Äerd (lb) f Macedonian: Земја f (Zemja) Malay: Bumi (ms) Malayalam: ഭൂമി (ml) (bhūmi) Maltese: l-Art Manx: yn Thalloo, yn chruinney, yn Dowan Marathi: पृथ्वी (mr) (pruthvī) Mari: Eastern Mari: Мланде (Mlande) Western Mari: Мӱлӓндӹ (Müländÿ) Maricopa: mat Mingrelian: დიხაუჩა (dixauča), დიადიხა (diadixa) Mongolian: дэлхий (mn) (delxii), Дэлхий (Delxii) Nahuatl: tlālticpactli Nauruan: Eb (na) Navajo: nahasdzáán Nenets: Я Nepali: पृथ्वी (ne) (pr̥thvī) Northern Ohlone: wárép Northern Sami: Eana Norwegian: Bokmål: jord (no) m or f, klode m Nynorsk: jord f, klode m Occitan: Tèrra (oc) f Old Dutch: ertha f Old English: eorþe f Old Frisian: erthe f Old High German: erda f Old Norse: jǫrð f Old Saxon: ertha f Oriya: ପୃଥିବୀ (or) (pruthibi) Ossetian: Зӕхх (Zæxx) Pashto: ځمکه‎ f (jmᶕka) Persian: زمین‎ (fa) (zamin) Pitcairn-Norfolk: Erth Polish: Ziemia (pl) f Portuguese: Terra (pt) f Punjabi: ਧਰਤੀ (dhartī) Quechua: paca, paza Romanian: Pământ (ro) n Romansch: Terra Russian: Земля́ (ru) f (Zemljá) Rusyn: Земля́ f (Zemljá) Sango: Sese Sanskrit: भूमि (sa) f (bhūmi), पृथ्वी (sa) f (pṛthvī), भू (sa) f (bhū) Santali: ᱫᱷᱟᱹᱨᱛᱤ (dhărti) Scots: Yird Scottish Gaelic: cruinne-cè m or f, talamh m or f, An Talamh m Semai: Bumik Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Зѐмља f Latin: Zèmlja f Sinhalese: පෘථිවිය (si) (pr̥thiwiya) Slovak: Zem f, zem (sk) f Slovene: Zêmlja (sl) f Southern Altai: Јер (J̌er) Southern Sami: eatneme Spanish: Tierra (es) f, tierra (es) f Sundanese: Marcapada Swahili: dunia (sw), nchi (sw) class 9/10 Swedish: jorden (sv), Tellus (sv) Tagalog: Daigdig (tl), Duta Tajik: замин (tg) (zamin) Tamil: நிலம் (ta) (nilam), பூமி (ta) (pūmi), புவி (ta) (puvi) Taos: pǫ̏’óna Tatar: Җир (tt) (Cir) Tedim Chin: lei Telugu: భూమి (te) (bhūmi) Tetum: Rai Tetun Dili: Rai Thai: โลก (th) (lôok) Tibetan: སའི་གོ་ལ (sa'i go la) Tigrinya: ምድሪ (ti) (mədri) Turkish: Dünya (tr), Yer (tr), Yüre (tr), Yerküre, Acun (tr), Yerdiz, Arz Turkmen: Dünýä Udmurt: му (mu), Музъем (Muzʺjem) Ukrainian: Земля́ (uk) f (Zemljá) Urdu: زمین‎ (ur) f (zamīn), پرتھوی‎ f (prithvī) Uyghur: يەر‎ (ug) (yer) Uzbek: Yer Vietnamese: Trái Đất (vi), Địa Cầu (vi) Volapük: tal (vo) Welsh: y Ddaear West Frisian: ierde (fy) Wolof: suuf si (wo) Yagnobi: замин (zamin) Yakut: Сир (Sir) Yiddish: ערד‎ f (erd), ערד־פּלאַנעט‎ (erd-planet) Yup'ik: nunarpak Zazaki: Erd m, Erde m Zhuang: digiuz, (please verify) Giuznamh Zou: lei Zulu: uMhlaba class 3/4

personification of Earth — see Mother Earth

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• (moon of Earth) Luna/‎Moon/‎moon ^[edit]
• ♁, 🜨

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star	Sun
Planets and most likely dwarf planets	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
Notable moons	—		Moon	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymede Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon Styx Nix Kerberos Hydra

Further reading

• Earth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Rathe, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare