Japão
See also: Japaõ
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- Iapam (obsolete)
- Japam (obsolete)
- Japaõ (obsolete)
Etymology
From Malay Jepang, from Jepun, from Min Nan 日本 (Ji̍t-pún).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʒɐ.ˈpɐ̃w̃/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒa.ˈpɐ̃w̃/
Proper noun
Japão m
- Japan (an archipelago and country off the eastern coast of Asia)
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Japão.
Related terms
- japonês
- japonesar
- japónico
- japonismo
- japonizar
Descendants
Borrowings may also be from Dutch Japan.
- → Arabic: اليابان (al-yābān)
- → Danish: Japan
- → English: Japan
- → Bengali: জাপান (japan)
- → Burmese: ဂျပန် (gya.pan)
- → Hindi: जापान (jāpān)
- → Irish: Seapáin
- → Marathi: जपान (japān)
- → Tamil: ஜப்பான் (jappāṉ)
- → Telugu: జపాను (japānu)
- → Urdu: جاپان (jāpān)
- → Estonian: Jaapan
- → Finnish: Japani
- → French: Japon
- Haitian Creole: Japon
- → Italian: Giappone
- → Norman: Japon
- → Persian: ژاپن (žâpon)
- → Rade: Za pô nê (via japonais)
- → Turkish: Japon
- → Venetian: Giapòn
- → German: Japan
- → Icelandic: Japan
- → Hebrew: יפן (yapan)
- → Hungarian: Japán
- → Latvian: Japāna (perhaps via another European borrowing)
- → Norwegian: Japan
- → Romanian: Japonia
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Јапан
- Latin: Japan
- → Spanish: Japón
- → Tagalog: Hapon
- → Swedish: Japan
- → West Frisian: Japan