Feminine
Espanha
Sentences
Meaning
- (feminine) Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula; official name: Reino de Espanha; capital and largest city: Madrid)
- (archaic, feminine, plural-normally, poetic) Iberian Peninsula
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈpɐ̃.ɲɐ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Espanha (“Iberian Peninsula”), from Latin Hispānia, possibly derived from the Punic אי שפן (I-Shaphan, “coast of hyraxes”). Doublet of Hispânia, a borrowing.
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