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Spain
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spáin spàin 'spáin
English
thumb|240px|Flag of Spain
thumb|Location of Spain in the Iberian peninsula.
Alternative forms
en Spayen obsolete
Etymology
en country :inh enm:Spayne<id:country> 1
From en enm Spayne, from en xno Espayne, from en la-lat Spania, from earlier en la Hispānia. Displaced ang Ispania, which was borrowed directly from Latin. en Hispania.
Pronunciation
en /speɪn/ RP,US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Spain.wav UK
en en-us-Spain.ogg US
en /spæɪn/ AU
en /spen/ Scotland
en /spein/ Wales,non-pane-pain
en eɪn 1
Proper noun
en Q29en country r/Southern Europe including most of the Iberian peninsula Kingdom of Spain Madrid.
en 1865 James Stuart Laurie Manual of Elementary Geography 40 The mountains of Spain consist of parallel ranges, running from east to west
1999, Stephen P. Reyna, "The Force of Two Logics", in S. P. Reyna & R. E. Downs (editors), Deadly Developments: Capitalism, states and war (War and Society, volume 5), page 34
Spain fought with France constantly from 1494 through the 1540s, especially over Italy.
Sam Jones Ayahuasca and toad poison seized as police raid spiritual retreats in Spain 2025-08-11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/ayahuasca-toad-poison-seized-spiritual-retreats-spain Police in eastern Spain have arrested three people and seized 11 litres of ayahuasca, 117 San Pedro cactus plants and several bottles of toad poison after raiding two rural properties that were used to host lucrative spiritual retreats promising “astral journeys”. https://web.archive.org/web/20261017215238/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/ayahuasca-toad-poison-seized-spiritual-retreats-spain 17 October 2026
en English ethnic nicknames for someone with Spanish ancestry.
Hyponyms
country en Andalusia, en Aragon, en Asturias, en Cantabria, en Castile, en Catalonia, en Galicia, en Valencia
Related terms
en Hispanic
en Spaniard
en Spanish
Descendants
my 1 စပိန်
inc-hnd 1
hi स्पेन
ja 1 スペイン Supein
ko 1 스페인
mr 1 स्पेन
th 1 สเปน
Translations
Q29 country in Europe
Abaza: abq Испания
Abkhaz: ab Еспаниа
Acehnese: ace Seupanyo
Afrikaans: af Spanje
Albanian: sq Spanjë f, sq Spanja f definite
Amharic: am ስጳንያ
Antillean Creole: gcf Èspagn f, gcf Èspangn f
Arabic: ar إِسْبَانِيَة f, ar إِسْبَانِيَا f, ar أَسْبَانِيَا f
Egyptian Arabic: arz أسبانيا ʔasbanya
Gulf Arabic: afb إسبانيا ʔĭsbānyə
Hijazi Arabic: acw إسبانيا ʔisbānya
Aragonese: an Espanya
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܐܸܣܦܵܢܝܼܵܐ ispaniya
Armenian: hy Իսպանիա
Aromanian: rup Ispania
Assamese: as স্পেইন
Asturian: ast España f
Azerbaijani: az İspaniya
Bashkir: ba Испания
Basque: eu Espainia
Belarusian: be Іспа́нія f, be Гішпа́нія f Taraškevica
Bengali: bn স্পেন
Breton: br Spagn, br Bro-Spagn
Bulgarian: bg Испа́ния f
Burmese: my စပိန်
Buryat: bua Испани
Caló: rmq Sesé
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Іспа́нія f
Catalan: ca Espanya f
Chechen: ce Испани
Cherokee: chr ᏍᏆᏂᏱ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 西班牙
Hokkien: nan-hbl 西班牙 Se-pan-gâ
Mandarin: cmn 西班牙
Chuvash: cv Испани
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Исбухьэн
West Circassian: ady Испание
Crimean Tatar: crh İspaniya
Czech: cs Španělsko n
Danish: da Spanien
Dhivehi: dv ސްޕެއިން
Dutch: nl Spanje n
Dzongkha: dz སིཔཱེན
Esperanto: eo Hispanio, eo Hispanujo
Estonian: et Hispaania
Extremaduran: ext España
Farefare: gur Ispania, gur Sɛpaŋɔ
Faroese: fo Spania n
Finnish: fi Espanja
French: fr Espagne f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Spanje n
Friulian: fur Spagne f
Galician: gl España f
Georgian: ka ესპანეთი
Old Georgian: oge სპანიაჲ
German: de Spanien n
Alemannic German: gsw Schpanië
Gothic: got 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰, got 𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰
Greek: el Ισπανία f
Ancient Greek: grc Ἱσπανία f, grc Σπανία f
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug Epáña
Guianese Creole: gcr Èspangn f
Gujarati: gu સ્પેન
Haitian Creole: ht Espay f
Hausa: ha Sipen, ha Sipaniya
Hawaiian: haw Sepania
Hebrew: he סְפָרַד f s'farád, he אַסְפַּמְיָא f aspámya Talmudic
Hindi: hi स्पेन m, hi इस्पैन m, hi हस्पानिया f haspāniyā
Hungarian: hu Spanyolország
Hunsrik: hrx Spanje n
Icelandic: is Spánn m
Ido: io Hispania
Indonesian: id Spanyol
Interlingua: ia Espania
Irish: ga Spáinn f An Spáinn
Italian: it Spagna f
Japanese: ja スペイン Supein, ja 西班牙 Supein obsolete
Javanese: jv Spanyol
Kannada: kn ಸ್ಪೇನ್
Kashubian: csb Szpańskô n
Kazakh: kk Испания
Khmer: km អេស្ប៉ាញ
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi Эспання
Korean: ko ^스페인, ko ^에스파냐, ko ^에스빠냐 North Korea
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئیسپانیا
Northern Kurdish: kmr Spanya, kmr Sipanya
Kyrgyz: ky Испания
Lao: lo ເອັສປາຍ, lo ແອສະປາຍ, lo ສະເປນ, lo ແອັດສະປາຍ
Latin: la Hispānia f
Latvian: lv Spānija f
Leonese: roa-leo Hespaña
Lithuanian: lt Ispanija f
Livonian: liv Spāņmō
Luxembourgish: lb Spuenien n
Macedonian: mk Шпанија f
Malay: ms Sepanyol
Malayalam: ml സ്പെയിൻ
Maltese: mt Spanja f
Manchu: mnc ᡳᠰ ᠪᠠ ᠨᡳ ᠶᠠ
Māori: mi Peina, mi Pāniora
Marathi: mr स्पेन
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Испани
Mongolian script: mn ᠢᠰᠫᠠᠨᠢ
Nahuatl: nah Caxtillān
Navajo: nv Dibé diníí bikéyah
Norman: nrf Espangne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Spania n
Nynorsk: nn Spania n
Occitan: oc Espanha f
Old Occitan: pro Espagna
Odia: or ସ୍ପେନ
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Їспанїꙗ f
Old English: ang Ispania f
Old Norse: non Ispanía, non Ispaníaland n, non Spánn m, non Spánland n, non Spánaland n, non Spanía n, non Spaníaland n
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Шпания f
Papiamentu: pap Spaña
Pashto: ps اسپانيا f aspānyā
Persian:
Dari: prs هِسْپَانِیَه
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اِسْپانِیا
Plautdietsch: pdt Spanien n
Polish: pl Hiszpania f
Portuguese: pt Espanha f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਸਪੇਨ
Quechua: qu Ispaña
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: rmf Espanes m
Sinte Romani: rmo španja f, rmo španatiko them
Romanian: ro Spania f
Romansh: rm Spagna f, rm Spogna f
Russian: ru Испа́ния f, ru Гишпа́ния f archaic
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Spánia
Sardinian: sc Ispagna f
Scots: sco Spainie, sco Spain
Scottish Gaelic: gd Spàinn f An Spàinn
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Шпа̑нија f, sh Шпа̀њо̄лска̄ f
Latin: sh Špȃnija f, sh Špànjōlskā f
Sicilian: scn Spagna f
Silesian: szl Szpańijo f
Sinhalese: si ස්පාඤ්ඤය
Slovak: sk Španielsko n
Slovene: sl Špánija f
Spanish: es España f
Sundanese: su Spanyol
Swahili: sw Hispania
Swedish: sv Spanien n
Tagalog: tl Espanya
Tajik: tg Испониё, tg Испания
Tamil: ta ஸ்பெயின், ta எசுப்பானியா
Tatar: tt Испания
Telugu: te స్పెయిన
Tetum: tet Espanya
Thai: th สเปน
Tibetan: bo ཞི་པན་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ስጳኛ
Tongan: to Sepeni
Turkish: tr İspanya
Ottoman Turkish: ota اسپانیا ispanya
Turkmen: tk Ispaniýa
Ukrainian: uk Іспа́нія f, uk Еспанія f
Urdu: ur ہَسْپانِیَہ m, ur اَسْپین m, ur سْپین m
Uyghur: ug ئىسپانىيە
Uzbek: uz Ispaniya
Venetan: vec Spagna f
Vietnamese: vi Tây Ban Nha (vi 西班牙), vi Y Pha Nho (vi 伊坡伩) archaic
Volapük: vo Spanyän
Welsh: cy Sbaen f
Yiddish: yi שפּאַניע f
Yoruba: yo Sípéènì, yo ilẹ̀ Pànyán-àn
Zhuang: za Sihbanhyaz
See also
Countries of the world
Anagrams
en ainps aspin spina SPINA PAINs Pains PAINS pains nipas pinas ispán piñas NSAPI pisan IP SAN Pisan
en exonyms