United Arab Emirates
English
Etymology
Calque of Arabic الْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَّة الْمُتَّحِدَة (al-ʾimārāt al-ʿarabiyya l-muttaḥida)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juˌnaɪtɪd ˌæɹəb ˈɛmɪɹɪts/
- Hyphenation: U‧nit‧ed Ar‧ab Em‧ir‧ates
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Proper noun
United Arab Emirates
- A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East.
Synonyms
- Arab Emirates (informal)
- UAE
Meronyms
- Abu Dhabi
- Ajman
- Dubai
- Fujairah
- Ras al-Khaimah
- Sharjah
- Umm al-Quwain
Translations
country in Western Asia
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See also
- Appendix:Countries and territories of the world
- (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
Further reading
United Arab Emirates on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- United Arab Emirates at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “United Arab Emirates”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “the United Arab Emirates” in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- “United Arab Emirates”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “United Arab Emirates”, in Collins English Dictionary.