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Niphon
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English
Etymology
From en ja 日本 (formerly Niffon, now Nippon or Nihon) "Japan".
Proper noun
en obsolete Honshu, the largest island of Japan.
en 1619 W. W. Gent A Briefe Relation of the Persecution Lately Made Against the Catholike Crhstians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia 1 20 The greateſt of theſe three, which is called Niphon, doth lye from Eaſt to Weſt, and is 700. miles in length and 180. in breadth, and it deuided into three & fifty little Kingdomes or Prouinces, and therein is the noble Citty of Meaco the chiefe and head of all Iapone.
en 1853 Japan Putnam's Monthly 1 3 242 Niphon, the chief island, is nine hundred miles long, and one hundred miles in average width.
Translations
Honshu
Anagrams
en hinnop nonhip
en Japan