Flanders

English

Etymology

From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdra (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plúma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflɑːn.dəz/
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(US) IPA^(key): /ˈflæn.dɚz/
Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːndə(ɹ)z, (General American) -ændə(ɹ)z

Proper noun

Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
  When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.
Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
A surname.

Related terms

East-Flanders
Flandrian
Flemish
French Flanders
Imperial Flanders
West-Flanders
Zeelandic Flanders

Translations

subnational state in the north of federal Belgium

Arabic: فْلَانْدِر‎ m or f (flāndir)
Hijazi Arabic: فْلَاندر‎ m or f (flāndir)
Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
Asturian: Flandes
Catalan: Flandes m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé), 法蘭德斯區／法兰德斯区 (Fǎlándésī)
Corsican: Fiandri f pl
Czech: Vlámsko (cs) n0
Danish: Flandern (da)
Dutch: Vlaanderen (nl) n
Esperanto: Flandrio
Estonian: Flandria
Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
French: la Flandre (fr) f, les Flandres (fr) f pl
Galician: Flandres (gl)
German: Flandern (de) n
Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
Hungarian: Flandria (hu)
Irish: Flóndras m
Italian: Fiandre
Japanese: フランデレン (Furanderen), フランドル (Furandoru)
Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
Norman: Fliandres f pl (Jersey)
Polish: Flandria (pl) f
Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
Romanian: Flandra f
Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
Spanish: Flandes (es) m
Swedish: Flandern
Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

historical county

Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
Catalan: Flandes m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé)
Czech: Vlámsko (cs) n, Flandry (cs) f pl
Danish: (grevskabet) Flandern (da)
Dutch: (graafschap) Vlaanderen (nl) n
Estonian: Flandria
Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
French: la Flandre (fr) f
German: Flandern (de) n
Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
Irish: Flóndras m
Italian: Fiandre
Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランダース (Furandāsu)
Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
Old Norse: Flæmingjaland n
Old Portuguese: Frandes
Persian: فلاندر‎ (flânder)
Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
Spanish: Flandes (es) m
Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

two provinces in Belgium

Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
Corsican: Fiandri f pl
Czech: Flandry (cs) f pl
Dutch: de Vlaanders pl
Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
French: Flandres (fr) f pl
German: Flandern (de) pl
Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
Irish: Flóndras m
Italian: Fiandre f pl
Japanese: フランデレン州 (Furanderen shū)
Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
Norman: Fliandres f pl (Jersey)
Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
Spanish: Flandes (es) m
Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

former province and region of northern France

Armenian: Ֆլանդրիա (Flandria)
Catalan: Flandes francès m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 佛蘭德／佛兰德 (zh) (Fólándé), 弗蘭德／弗兰德 (Fúlándé)
Czech: Flandry (cs) f pl
Danish: Flandern (da), Fransk Flandern
Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen n
Finnish: Flanderi (fi)
French: la Flandre (fr) f, la Flandre française f
German: Flandern (de) n
Greek: Φλάνδρα (el) f (Flándra)
Irish: Flóndras m
Italian: Fiandre f pl
Japanese: フランドル (Furandoru), フランドル・フランセーズ (Furandoru furansēzu)
Manx: Yn Flandyryn f
Portuguese: Flandres (pt) f
Russian: Фла́ндрия (ru) f (Flándrija)
Scottish Gaelic: Flannras m
Spanish: Flandes (es) m
Welsh: Fflandrys (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} Vlaandere
Basque: ^{(please verify)} Flandria
Breton: ^{(please verify)} Flandrez (br)
Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Фламандия f (Flamandija)
Corsican: ^{(please verify)} Fiandria
Dutch Low Saxon: ^{(please verify)} Vlaonderen
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} Flandrio, ^{(please verify)} Flandrujo
Galician: ^{(please verify)} Flandes, ^{(please verify)} Flandres (gl)
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} פלנדריה‎
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Flæmingjaland
Ido: ^{(please verify)} Flandria (io)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Flandria
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 플란데런 (peullandereon)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} Flandria f
Latvian: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Flandern
Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Flandra
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} Flandra
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Фла̀ндрија f
Roman: ^{(please verify)} Flàndrija (sh) f
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} Flámsko
Slovene: ^{(please verify)} Flandrija
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Flandes (es) m
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Flandern
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} Flaman Ovası
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} Фландрія f (Flandrija)
Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} Flăng-drơ, ^{(please verify)} xứ Flăng-drơ
Walloon: ^{(please verify)} Flande
West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Vloandern
West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} Flaanderen

Anagrams

Ferlands, Fernalds, snarfled