English
Etymology
From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fatherland (plural fatherlands)
- The country of one's ancestors.
Synonyms
Translations
country of one's ancestry
- Albanian: atdhe (sq)
- Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʻ)
- Aromanian: pãtridã f
- Asturian: patria f
- Avar: ватӏан (watʼan)
- Azerbaijani: ana yurdu, vətən (az)
- Basque: aberri (eu)
- Belarusian: радзі́ма (be) f (radzíma), спа́дчына (be) f (spádčyna)
- Bengali: ওয়াতন (bn) (ōẇaton)
- Bulgarian: та́тковина (bg) f (tátkovina)
- Catalan: pàtria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 祖國／祖国 (zh) (zǔguó)
- Czech: otčina (cs) f, vlast (cs) f, domovina f
- Danish: fædreland n
- Dutch: vaderland (nl) n
- Esperanto: patrujo (eo)
- Estonian: isamaa
- Faroese: ættarland n, fosturland n, føðiland n, heimland n, móðurland n
- Finnish: isänmaa (fi)
- French: patrie (fr) f
- Galician: patria (gl) f
- Georgian: სამშობლო (ka) (samšoblo), მამული (mamuli)
- German: Vaterland (de) n
- Alemannic German: Vaterland n
- Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída)
- Ancient: πατρίς f (patrís), πάτρᾱ f (pátrā)
- Hindi: जन्मभूमि (hi) f (janmabhūmi), वतन (hi) m (vatan), स्वदेश (hi) m (svadeś)
- Hungarian: anyaföld (hu), szülőföld (hu)
- Icelandic: ættjörð (is) f, ættland (is) n, föðurland (is) n
- Ido: naskolando (io), patrio (io)
- Irish: (please verify) athairtír f, athartha f, tír dhúchais f
- Italian: patria (it), paese (it) m, suolo natio m
- Japanese: 祖国 (ja) (そこく, sokoku)
- Kazakh: атамекен (atameken), отан (otan)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نیشتیمان (nîştîman)
- Latin: patria (la) f
- Latvian: tēvija f, tēvzeme f, dzimtene
- Lithuanian: tėvynė (lt) f
- Livonian: izāmō
- Low German: Vaderland n
- Plautdietsch: Vodalaunt n
- Macedonian: татко́вина f (tatkóvina)
- Malagasy: tanindrazana (mg)
- Maori: whenua matua
- Norwegian: fedreland n
- Occitan: patria (oc) f
- Old English: ēþel m
- Old Tupi: tetama
- Ottoman Turkish: وطن (vatan)
- Persian: میهن (fa) (mihan)
- Polish: ojczyzna (pl) f, macierz (pl) f
- Portuguese: pátria (pt) f
- Romanian: patrie (ro)
- Russian: оте́чество (ru) n (otéčestvo), ро́дина (ru) f (ródina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀таџбина f, до̀мовина f
- Roman: òtadžbina (sh) f, dòmovina (sh) f
- Silesian: hajmat m
- Slovak: otčina f, domovina f, vlasť f
- Slovene: domovina (sl) f
- Spanish: patria (es) f
- Swedish: fosterland (sv) n, fädernesland (sv) n
- Tabasaran: ватан (vatan)
- Tibetan: ཕ་ཡུལ (pha yul)
- Turkish: ana vatan (tr)
- Ukrainian: ба́тьківщи́на (uk) f (bátʹkivščýna)
- Welsh: tadwlad
- West Frisian: heitelân (fy)
- Yiddish: פֿאָטערלאַנד n (foterland)
- Zazaki: esasware c, welat (diq)
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