Poland

Meaning

1. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
2. A number of places in the United States:
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8. A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
9. A surname.

Synonyms

Republic of Poland

Polska

the Republic of Poland

PL

New Prussian

Central Europe

𐐑𐐬𐑊𐐲𐑌𐐼

Polish People’s Republic

Translations

Pologne

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Polonia

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Polonia

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Polen

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Polen

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Polónia

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Πολωνία

بولندا

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Polònia

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Polonya

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Polônia

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Polonia

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Polonha

Polonya

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpəʊ.lənd/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Slavic *poľe
Proto-Slavic *-janъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-janinъ
Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder.
German Polebor.
English Pole
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English Poland
1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

Sentences

Czartoryski wanted to find a place for Poland in the Europe of the time .