land

See also: Land, länd, lǟnd, and -land

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(General American) enPR: lănd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [ɫeə̯nd]
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land good or bad land for growing potatoes
(often in combination) realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.

Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
Synonym: furlong
(agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
Synonym: furlong

Coordinate terms: headland, furlong
(Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:
  Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
  her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.^[1]
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
  - 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:
    The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
  - 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):
    The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
(Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water

Abenaki: aki
Aché: waxu
Afrikaans: land (af)
Albanian: vend (sq) m
Arabic: بَرّ f (barr), أَرْض (ar) f (ʔarḍ), يابِسة f (yābisa)
Egyptian Arabic: أرض f (ʔarḍ)
Armenian: ցամաք (hy) (cʻamakʻ)
Asturian: tierra (ast) f
Bashkir: ер (yer), ҡоро ер (qoro yer)
Basque: lur
Belarusian: зямля́ f (zjamljá), су́ша f (súša)
Bengali: ভূমি (bn) (bhumi), জমি (bn) (jomi), জমিন (bn) (jomin)
Bhojpuri: जमीन (jamīn)
Bikol Central: daga (bcl)
Blackfoot: ksaahko
Brunei Malay: darat
Bulgarian: земя́ (bg) f (zemjá), су́ша (bg) f (súša)
Burmese: ကုန်း (my) (kun:)
Catalan: terra (ca) f
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴽⴰⵍ m (akal)
Chamicuro: c̈hijta
Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎯ (gadohi)
Cheyenne: ho'e
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土地 (zh) (tǔdì), 陸地／陆地 (zh) (lùdì)
Cree: ᐊᐢᑭᕀ (askiy)
Czech: země (cs) f
Danish: land (da) n
Dutch: land (nl) n
Eastern Bontoc: lota
Egyptian:

(tꜣ)
Esperanto: tero (eo)
Estonian: maa (et)
Farefare: tɩŋa, tẽŋa
Faroese: land n
Fijian: vanua
Finnish: maa (fi)
French: terre (fr) f
Galician: terra (gl) f
Georgian: მიწა (mic̣a), ხმელეთი (xmeleti)
German: Land (de) n, Länder (de) pl
Rhine Franconian: Lond (Palatine)
Greek: ξηρά (el) f (xirá), γη (el) f (gi)
Guaraní: yvy (gn)
Gujarati: જમીન (gu) f (jamīn)
Hawaiian: honua
Hebrew: אֶרֶץ (he) f (érets), אֲדָמָה (he) f (adamá), יַבָּשָׁה (he) f (yabashá)
Higaonon: bugta
Hindi: भूमि (hi) f (bhūmi), ज़मीन (hi) f (zamīn)
Hungarian: föld (hu), szárazföld (hu)
Icelandic: land (is)
Ido: lando (io)
Igbo: ala
Ilocano: daga
Indonesian: tanah (id), bumi (id), darat (id)
Ingrian: maa
Istriot: tiera f
Italian: terra (it) f
Japanese: 土 (ja) (つち, tsuchi), 土地 (ja) (とち, tochi), 陸地 (ja) (りくち, rikuchi)
Khmer: ដី (km) (dəy)
Korean: 땅 (ko) (ttang), 뭍 (ko) (mut), 토지(土地) (ko) (toji), 육지 (ko) (yukji), 륙지 (ko) (ryukji) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خاک (ckb) (xak)
Ladin: tera f
Lakota: makȟóčhe
Lao: ດິນ (lo) (din), ພູ (lo) (phū)
Latin: terra (la) f
Latvian: zeme (lv) f, sauszeme (lv) f, cietzeme f
Lithuanian: sausuma f, žemė (lt) f
Lü: ᦡᦲᧃ (ḋiin)
Macedonian: земја (mk) f (zemja)
Malay: tanah (ms), darat (ms), bumi (ms)
Maltese: art
Manchu: ᠨᠠ (na)
Maori: whenua (mi)
Marathi: जमीन f (j̈amīn)
Mazanderani: زمین (zemin)
Minangkabau: tanah (min)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: газар (mn) (gazar), шороо (mn) (šoroo), хөрс (mn) (xörs)
Nahuatl:
Classical: tlalli
Navajo: kéyah
Nepali: जमिन (jamin)
Nheengatu: retama
North Frisian: (Mooring) lönj n; (Föhr-Amrum) lun n; (Helgoland) Lun n, Lön (Sylt)
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: land (no) n
Occitan: tèrra (oc)
Ojibwe: aki, ᐊᑭ
Old Church Slavonic: землꙗ f (zemlja)
Old East Slavic: землꙗ f (zemlja)
Old English: land (ang) n
Old Javanese: rat
Old Saxon: land n
Oromo: lafa
Ottawa: ki
Persian:
Iranian Persian: سَرْزَمین (fa) (sarzamin)
Plautdietsch: Launt (nds) n
Polish: ziemia (pl) f, ląd (pl) m
Portuguese: terra (pt) f
Punjabi: ਜ਼ਮੀਨ (zamīn)
Romanian: uscat (ro) n, pământ (ro) n
Romansch: terra f, tiara f
Russian: земля́ (ru) f (zemljá), зе́мли (ru) pl (zémli), (as apposed to oceans) су́ша (ru) f (súša)
Sanskrit: भूमि (sa) f (bhūmi)
Sardinian: terra f
Scots: laund
Scottish Gaelic: talamh m, tìr f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зѐмља f, ко̏пно n

Roman: zèmlja (sh) f, kȍpno (sh) n
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: terra (scn) f
Slovak: zem (sk) f
Slovene: kopno (sl) n, zemlja (sl) f
Southern Altai: јер (ǰer)
Spanish: tierra (es) f
Sundanese: lemah (su)
Swahili: ardhi (sw) class 9
Swedish: land (sv) n
Tagalog: lupa (tl)
Telugu: భూమి (te) (bhūmi)
Thai: ดิน (th) (din), ภู (th) (puu)
Tocharian A: ype
Tocharian B: yapoy
Tongan: fonua
Turkish: kara (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎕 (ảrṣ)
Ukrainian: земля́ (uk) f (zemljá), су́ша f (súša)
Urdu: زَمِین (ur) f (zamīn)
Venetan: tera f
Vietnamese: đất (vi)
Vilamovian: łaond n
Welsh: tir (cy) m
West Frisian: lân (fy)
Western Apache: kiiya, bíniʼ
Yankunytjatjara: manta
Yiddish: ארץ f (erets), לאַנד n (land), יבשה f (yaboshe)
Yup'ik: nuna
Zhuang: dieg

real estate or landed property

Albanian: truall (sq) m, tokë (sq) f
Apache:
Western Apache: bíniʼ
Asturian: campa f, terrén (ast) n, finca (ast) f, posesión f, propiedá f, facienda f, fundu m
Bashkir: ер (yer)
Bengali: জমি (bn) (jomi), জমিন (bn) (jomin)
Bikol Central: daga (bcl)
Brunei Malay: tanah
Bulgarian: позе́млена со́бственост f (pozémlena sóbstvenost), земя́ (bg) f (zemjá)
Catalan: terra (ca), terreny (ca)
Cheyenne: ho'e
Dutch: land (nl) n, grond (nl) m, land (nl) n
Estonian: maa (et)
Finnish: maa (fi)
French: terre (fr) f, terrain (fr) m
Georgian: მიწა (mic̣a)
German: Land (de) n, Länder (de) pl
Rhine Franconian: Lond (Palatine)
Greek: γαίες (el) f pl (gaíes), εκτάσεις (el) f pl (ektáseis), κτήματα (el) n pl (ktímata)
Hawaiian: ʻāina
Ingrian: maa, mantu
Japanese: 不動産 (ja) (ふどうさん, fudōsan), 土地 (ja) (とち, tochi)
Javanese: lemah (jv) (ngoko), siti (krama)
Kabuverdianu: txon
Khmer: ដី (km) (dəy)
Korean: 땅 (ko) (ttang), 토지(土地) (ko) (toji), 부동산(不動産) (ko) (budongsan)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: žemė (lt) f
Malay: tanah (ms)
Nahuatl: tlālli (nah), tlali (nah)
Portuguese: terra (pt) f, propriedade (pt) f, terreno (pt) m
Romanian: teren (ro) n, pământ (ro) n
Russian: земля́ (ru) f (zemljá), недви́жимость (ru) f (nedvížimostʹ), земе́льная со́бственность f (zemélʹnaja sóbstvennostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по́сед m, по́сјед m

Roman: pósed (sh) m, pósjed (sh) m
Spanish: propiedad (es) f, terreno (es) m, posesión (es) f, hacienda (es) f, fundo (es) m, terruño m, baldío (es) m, predio (es) m, finca (es) f, conuco (es) m
Swedish: mark (sv) c
Tagalog: lupain
Thai: please add this translation if you can

country or region

Afrikaans: land (af)
Albanian: tokë (sq) f
Arabic: بِلَاد pl (bilād), أَرْض (ar) f (ʔarḍ), بَلَد (ar) m (balad)
Armenian: երկիր (hy) (erkir)
Asturian: país (ast) m, tierra (ast) f
Belarusian: краі́на (be) f (kraína), зямля́ f (zjamljá)
Bengali: দেশ (bn) (deś)
Bulgarian: страна́ (bg) f (straná), земя́ (bg) f (zemjá)
Burmese: နိုင်ငံ (my) (nuingngam)
Catalan: terra (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎯ (gadohi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 國家／国家 (gwok³ gaa¹)

Dungan: гоцзя (goczi͡a)

Mandarin: 國家／国家 (zh) (guójiā)
Corsican: paesu m
Czech: země (cs) f
Danish: land (da) c
Dolgan: һир
Dutch: land (nl) n
Erzya: мастор (mastor), мода (moda)
Esperanto: lando (eo)
Estonian: maa (et), riik (et)
Farefare: tɩŋa, tẽŋa
Faroese: land n
Finnish: maa (fi)
French: contrée (fr) f, pays (fr) m
Galician: terra (gl) f, país (gl) m
German: Land (de) n, Länder (de) pl
Rhine Franconian: Lond (Palatine)
Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 n (land)
Greek: χώρα (el) f (chóra)
Ancient: χώρα f (khṓra)
Hawaiian: ʻāina
Hindi: देश (hi) m (deś), मुल्क (hi) m (mulk)
Icelandic: land (is) n
Indonesian: negara (id), negeri (id)
Ingrian: maa, riikki
Italian: terra (it) f
Japanese: 領土 (ja) (りょうど, ryōdo), 国土 (ja) (こくど, kokudo), 国家 (ja) (こっか, kokka), 国 (ja) (くに, kuni)
Kashmiri: مُلک (mulk)
Khmer: ប្រទេស (km) (prɑteih), បទេស (km) (paʼteih), រដ្ឋ (km) (rŏət)
Korean: 땅 (ko) (ttang), 나라 (ko) (nara), 국가(國家) (ko) (gukga)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: وڵات (ckb) (wllat)

Northern Kurdish: welat (ku) m
Lakota: makȟóčhe
Lao: ປະເທດ (pa thēt), ເມືອງ (lo) (mư̄ang)
Latvian: zeme (lv) f
Lithuanian: kraštas (lt) m, šalis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Land (lb) n
Macedonian: земја (mk) f (zemja)
Malagasy: tany (mg)
Malay: negara (ms), nasional (ms)
Mazanderani: سامون (samun)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: газар (mn) (gazar), орон (mn) (oron)
Moore: tenga, tẽnga
Navajo: kéyah
Ngarrindjeri: ruwe
Nhengatu: retama
North Frisian: lönj n (Mooring), Lun n (Heligolandic)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: land (no) n
Ojibwe: aki
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: землꙗ f (zemlja), страна f (strana)
Old East Slavic: землꙗ f (zemlja), краина f (kraina)
Old English: land (ang) n
Pannonian Rusyn: жем f (žem)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: سَرْزَمین (fa) (sarzamin), کِشْوَر (fa) (kešvar), بوم (fa) (bum), سامان (fa) (sâmân)
Polish: kraj (pl) m, kraina (pl) f, ziemia (pl) f
Portuguese: terra (pt) f
Quechua: hallpa, marka
Romanian: țară (ro) f
Russian: страна́ (ru) f (straná), земля́ (ru) f (zemljá), край (ru) m (kraj)
Saterland Frisian: Lound n
Scottish Gaelic: talamh m or f, tìr f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зѐмља f

Roman: zèmlja (sh) f
Sindhi: ملڪ
Sinhalese: රට (si) (raṭa)
Slovak: krajina (sk) f, zem (sk) f
Slovene: dežela (sl) f, zemlja (sl) f
Southern Altai: јер (ǰer)
Spanish: patria (es) f, país (es) m
Swahili: nchi (sw)
Swedish: land (sv) n
Tamil: நாடு (ta) (nāṭu), தேசம் (ta) (tēcam)
Taos: pǫ̏ʼóna
Thai: ประเทศ (th) (bprà-têet), เมือง (th) (mʉʉang)
Turkish: ülke (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎆𐎚 (ḥwt), 𐎀𐎗𐎕 (ảrṣ)
Ukrainian: краї́на (uk) f (krajína), земля́ (uk) f (zemljá)
Urdu: دیش m (deś), مُلْک m (mulk)
Vietnamese: quốc gia (vi)
Welsh: tir (cy) m, gwlad (cy) f, tiriogaeth (cy) f
West Frisian: lân (fy) n
Yakut: сир (sir)
Yiddish: לאַנד n (land)
Yup'ik: nuna

someone's homeplace

Albanian: vend (sq) m
Asturian: patria f, tierra (ast) f
Bikol Central: dagang tinubuan
Chinese:
Cantonese: 祖國／祖国 (zou² gwok³)

Mandarin: 祖國／祖国 (zh) (zǔguó)
Czech: vlast (cs) f
Dutch: land (nl) n, vaderland (nl) n
Estonian: kodumaa (et)
Finnish: kotimaa (fi), kotiseutu (fi)
French: pays (fr) m, patrie (fr) f
German: Vaterland (de) n
Japanese: 祖国 (ja) (そこく, sokoku)
Korean: 조국 (ko) (joguk)
Latin: patria (la)
Malagasy: tanindrazana (mg)
Portuguese: terra (pt) f
Slovak: vlasť f
Spanish: patria (es) f, tierra (es) f
Swedish: fosterland (sv)
Vietnamese: tổ quốc (vi)

ground that is suitable for farming

Albanian: arë (sq)
Asturian: barrial m, suqueru m, vega f
Bengali: জমি (bn) (jomi), জমিন (bn) (jomin)
Bikol Central: daga (bcl)
Bulgarian: земя (bg) f (zemja)
Burmese: မြေ (my) (mre)
Buryat: хүдөө (xüdöö)
Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎯ (gadohi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土地 (zh) (tǔdì), 農地／农地 (zh) (nóngdì)
Dutch: grond (nl) f
Estonian: maa (et)
Faroese: jørð (fo) f
Finnish: maa (fi)
French: terre (fr) f
Galician: terra (gl) f
German: Land (de) n, Länder (de) pl
Icelandic: jörð (is) f
Ingrian: maa
Italian: terreno (it) m, distesa (it) f, appezzamento (it) m
Japanese: 土地 (ja) (とち, tochí), 農地 (ja) (のうち, nōchi)
Javanese: lemah (jv) (ngoko), siti (krama)
Khmer: ដី (km) (dəy)
Korean: 땅 (ko) (ttang), 토지(土地) (ko) (toji)
Mongolian: хөдөө (mn) (xödöö)
Portuguese: terra (pt) f
Quechua: allpa (qu)
Romanian: pământ (ro) n (arabil), teren (ro) n (cultivabil)
Russian: земля́ (ru) f (zemljá)
Serbo-Croatian: zèmlja (sh) f
Spanish: vega (es) f
Swedish: land (sv) n

fright — see fright

electronics: conducting area on a board or chip

Finnish: johdinkuvio

in a compact disc, area which does not have pits

Finnish: tasanko (fi)

travel: non-airline portion of an itinerary

space between the rifling grooves in a gun

Dutch: trek (nl) m
Finnish: harja (fi)
Russian: по́ле наре́за n (póle naréza)

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.
(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
  10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
(intransitive) To come into rest.
(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1:
  Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen. […] A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.
(transitive) To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

Use the net to land the fish.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
  I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
(transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- 1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3:
  `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'
(transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:
  As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
- 2024 May 1, “Network News: Danes plan fully automated trains”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 18:
  Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.
(slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
Too ugly to ever land a chick
(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match
(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
- 2023 January 13, Anonymous ("Jackal Comment"), 11:08 from the start, in CORRECTIONS Episode 68: Week of Monday, January 9 (Late Night with Seth Meyers)‎, YouTube:
  We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday- did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."

Derived terms

terms derived from the verb land

Translations

to descend to a surface, especially from the air

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: هَبَطَ (habaṭa)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: aterrizar (ast), posar (ast)
Azerbaijani: enmək (az)
Basque: lurreratu
Belarusian: прызямля́цца impf (pryzjamljácca), прызямлі́цца pf (pryzjamlícca)
Breton: douarañ (br)
Bulgarian: приземя́вам се impf (prizemjávam se), приземя́ се pf (prizemjá se)
Catalan: aterrar (ca), aterrar-se
Chinese:
Mandarin: 著地 (zh), 着地 (zhuódì), 著陸／著陆 (zh) (zhuólù), 着陆 (zh) (zhuólù)
Czech: přistávat impf, přistát (cs) pf
Danish: lande (da)
Dutch: landen (nl)
Esperanto: surteriĝi, alteriĝi
Estonian: maanduma
Ewe: dze
Finnish: laskeutua (fi)
French: se poser (fr), atterrir (fr)
Galician: pousar (gl), aterrar (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: landen (de)
Greek: προσγειώνομαι (el) (prosgeiónomai)
Hebrew: נָחַת (he) (nakhát)
Hindi: अवतरण करना (avatraṇ karnā), उतरना (hi) (utarnā)
Hungarian: leszáll (hu), landol (hu)
Icelandic: lenda
Italian: atterrare (it)
Japanese: 着陸する (ja) (ちゃくりくする, chakurikú suru), 上陸する (ja) (じょうりくする, jōriku suru)
Kabuverdianu: atera, aterrá
Khmer: ចត (km) (cɑɑt), ចុះ (km) (coh), ចុះចត (coh cɑɑt)
Korean: 내리다 (ko) (naerida), 착륙하다 (ko) (changnyukhada)
Lao: ລົງ (long)
Latvian: nolaisties
Lithuanian: nusileisti, nutūpti
Malay: darat (ms), mendarat
Maori: tau (mi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lande (no)
Ojibwe: boonii
Polish: lądować (pl) impf, wylądować (pl) pf
Portuguese: aterrar (pt), pousar (pt), aterrissar (pt)
Romanian: ateriza (ro)
Russian: приземля́ться (ru) impf (prizemljátʹsja), приземли́ться (ru) pf (prizemlítʹsja)
Slovene: pristati (sl) pf
Spanish: aterrizar (es), (on Mars) amartizar (es), (on the Moon) alunizar (es)
Swedish: landa (sv)
Telugu: వాలిపో (vālipō)
Thai: ลง (th) (long)
Tibetan: འབབ་པ ('bab pa)
Turkish: inmek (tr)
Ukrainian: приземля́тися impf (pryzemljátysja), приземли́тися pf (pryzemlýtysja)
Vietnamese: hạ cánh (vi)
Walloon: ateri (wa), si rabate (birds)
Welsh: glanio (cy)
Yiddish: לאַנדן (landn)

to come into rest

Finnish: asettua (fi)

to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water

Asturian: terrar, atracar
Bulgarian: дебарки́рам (bg) impf or pf (debarkíram)
Catalan: atracar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 登陸／登陆 (zh) (dēnglù), 上陸／上陆 (zh) (shànglù)
Czech: přistát (cs)
Esperanto: alteriĝi, albordiĝi
Finnish: nousta maihin
French: aborder (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 上陸する (ja) (じょうりくする, jōriku suru)
Korean: 닿다 (ko) (data), 상륙하다 (sangnyukhada)
Latin: egredior
Malay: darat (ms), mendarat
Maori: mahuta, eke, ū
Middle English: londen, lenden
Norman: aborder
Polish: dobić do brzegu
Portuguese: desembarcar (pt)
Russian: выса́живаться (ru) impf (vysáživatʹsja), вы́садиться (ru) pf (výsaditʹsja), прича́ливать (ru) impf (pričálivatʹ), прича́лить (ru) pf (pričálitʹ)
Slovene: pristati (sl)
Spanish: aterrar (es), atracar (es)
Swedish: landa (sv), lägga till (sv)
Turkish: inmek (tr)
Yiddish: לאַנדן (landn)

to bring to land

Asturian: aterrizar (ast)
Danish: lande (da)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} doen landen (nl) , ^{(please verify)} aan de grond zetten
Esperanto: albordigi, alterigi
Estonian: maandama
Finnish: tuoda maihin; laskeutua (fi) (of aircraft)
French: poser (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: landen (de)
Greek: προσγειώνω (el) (prosgeióno)
Hebrew: הנחית (hinkhít)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 着陸する (ja) (ちゃくりくする, chakuriku suru), ^{(please verify)} 上陸させる (じょうりくさせる, jōriku saseru)
Korean: 내리다 (ko) (naerida), (for cargo) 부리다 (ko) (burida)
Maori: whakaū
Middle English: londen
Norwegian: lande (no)
Portuguese: aterrissar (pt), aterrar (pt)
Russian: выса́живать (ru) impf (vysáživatʹ), вы́садить (ru) pf (výsaditʹ) (usually of people), выгружа́ть (ru) impf (vygružátʹ), вы́грузить (ru) pf (výgruzitʹ), приземля́ть (ru) impf (prizemljátʹ), приземли́ть (ru) pf (prizemlítʹ) (aircraft)
Spanish: aterrizar (es)
Swedish: landa (sv), föra (sv) i (sv) land (sv)
Thai: เครื่องบินลงสู่พื้น (krêuang bin long sòo péun)
Turkish: indirmek (tr)
Yiddish: לאַנדן (landn)

to acquire; to secure

Catalan: pescar (ca)
German: an Land ziehen
Irish: faigh (ga)

to deliver — see deliver

Etymology 2

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

Noun

land (uncountable)

lant; urine

References

[1]
Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Land”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

“land”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]
Audio: (file)

Noun

land (plural lande)

country; nation

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lanˀ/, [lanˀ]
Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
Synonyms: stat, nation
(uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
(as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Declension

More information neuter gender, Singular ...

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landet	lande	landene
genitive	lands	landets	landes	landenes

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Derived terms

Terms derived from land (“country, nation”)

eventyrland
fædreland
landeplage
landsmand
landsdækkende
naboland
olieland

Terms derived from land (“countryside”)

agerland
landbrug
landluft
landmand
landmiljø

Terms derived from land (“(dry) land”)

Terms derived from land (“amusement park”)

badeland
legeland
Legoland
sommerland
vandland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

land

imperative of lande

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑnt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: land
Rhymes: -ɑnt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

land; country
- 1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel, Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (also online at dbnl.org):
  In ons land werd door de Westgermaanse volksstammen het Nederduits (Nederfrankisch en Saksisch) en het Fries gesproken.
  Het Nederfrankisch wordt wel verdeeld in: (1) het Hollands-Frankisch (Hollands, Utrechts, Westveluws, Zeeuws, Westvlaams); (2) het Brabants-Frankisch (Westbetuws, Westbrabants, Antwerps, Kempens, Leuvens, Aalsters, Oostvlaams); (3) het Limburgs-Frankisch (Gelders-Limburgs, Limburgs, Oostbrabants).
  Het Saksisch (Gelders-Overijssels, Oostveluws, Drents, Gronings) wordt gesproken in het noordoosten van ons land, van Groningen tot de Oude Ijssel.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
land (part of Earth not covered by water)
(Netherlands, Antilles) a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the territorial government of an overseas constituent country
- 2022 December 6, Oscar van Dam, John Samson, “Gerechtshof: lhbt’s mogen trouwen op Aruba en Curaçao [Appellate court: LGBT people allowed to marry in Aruba and Curaçao]”, in Caribisch Netwerk‎, retrieved 14 December 2022:
  Het zijn twee verschillende uitspraken die vandaag door het gerechtshof achter elkaar zijn gedaan. Voor Aruba gaat het om het een zaak van Fundacion Orguyo Aruba en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Aruba. Voor Curaçao gaat het om een zaak van Human Rights Caribbean Foundation en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Curaçao.
  Today's rulings are two separate ones handed down by the appellate court back-to-back. For Aruba, it involves a case brought by Fundacion Orguyo Aruba and two women against the government of Aruba. For Curaçao, it involves a case brought by Human Rights Caribbean Foundation and two women against the government of Curaçao.
(history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: land
Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
→ Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
>? Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

land

inflection of landen:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
3. imperative

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

country; nation

Declension

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neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landeð	land	landę
accusative	land	landeð	land	landę
dative	lande	landę	landum	landum(e)
genitive	—	—	—	—

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lant/
Rhymes: -ant

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

Declension

n8	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	land	landið	lond	londini
Accusative	land	landið	lond	londini
Dative	landi	landinum	londum	londunum
Genitive	lands	landsins	landa	landanna

Related terms

landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

(uncountable) urine

Declension

n8	Singular
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	land	landið
Accusative	land	landið
Dative	landi	landinum
Genitive	lands	landsins

Noun

land m (plural lands or länder)

land (region of Germany or Austria)

Romanization

land

Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lant/
Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

(uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
(countable) country
Japan er fallegt land.
Japan is a beautiful country.
(uncountable) countryside, country
Ég bý úti á landi.
I live in the country.
(uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
(countable) tracts of land, an estate
Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
I own this land and everything on it.

Declension

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	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landið	lönd	löndin
accusative	land	landið	lönd	löndin
dative	landi	landinu	löndum	löndunum
genitive	lands	landsins	landa	landanna

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Derived terms

draga að landi (“to eat somebody's leftovers”)
draga í land (“to give in a little”)
eiga langt í land (“of something- to have a long way to go/to be finished”)
Finnland
Frakkland
föðurland
Grænland
Ísland
landlægur
láta lönd og leið (“to not give a damn about something”)
leggja land undir fót
með lögum skal land byggja
sinn er siður í landi hverju
Svartfjallaland
útland
Þýskaland

Noun

land

Alternative form of lond

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑnː/
Rhymes: -ɑnː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

country
land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

imperative of lande

References

“land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

lainnj (eye dialect spelling)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lanː/, /land/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

country
Noreg er eit land i nord.
Norway is a country in the north.
land
Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.
There was a lack of land for agriculture.
coast, dry land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

urine from livestock

References

“land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

land
- 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue:
  Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
  With law shall land be built.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landit	land	landin
accusative	land	landit	land	landin
dative	landi	landinu	landum	landunum
genitive	lanz	lanzins	landa	landanna
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.

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Descendants

Danish: land

Alternative forms

lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑnd/, /lɔnd/

Noun

land n

land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
a country
region within a country: district, province
the country, countryside
owned or tilled land, an estate

Usage notes

Using the word land is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
- Prefixing the name of a people to the word land. Ex: Franca (“French person”) → Francland (“France”), Swēo (“Swede”) → Swēoland (“Sweden”), and *Unger (“a Hungarian”) → Ungerland (“Hungary”).
- Prefacing land with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex: Egypta land (“Egypt”, literally “land of the Egyptians”), Siġelhearwena land (“Ethiopia”, literally “land of the Ethiopians”).
However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other than land are used: Dene (“a Dane”) → Denemearc (“Denmark”, literally “Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit: On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born in Greece [lit. in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”), Ymb twā ġēar þæs þe hē cōm of Francum, hē ġefōr (”Two years after he came from France [lit. from the Franks], he died”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin: Arabia, Isrāēl, Italia, Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic: Norþweġ (“Norway”, literally “north way”).
Unlike most words, land undergoes i-umlaut when combined with the suffix -isċ: inlendisċ (“native”), uplendisċ (“rural”).

Declension

More information Case, Singular ...

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	land	land
accusative	land	land
genitive	landes	landa
dative	lande	landum

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Derived terms

Derived prefix terms

landbegang m (“land tilling or dwelling”)
landbegenġa m (“husbandman, farmer”)
landbrǣċe m (“land breaking or ploughing”)
landbōc f (“land charter”)
landbūende (“dwelling in a land, living on earth”)
landbūend f (“a settlement, colony”)
landbūend m (“husbandman, a native”)
landbūnes f (“a settlement, a colony”)
landcofa m (“the old city of Shechem”)
landefne n (“amount of land holdings”)
landfæsten n (“a land fastness, a stronghold”)
landfeoh n (“a land rent or tax”)
landfierding f (“terrestrial military operations”)
landfierd f (“land army”)
landfolc n (“the people of the land”)
landfruma m (“prince”)
landhæbbende (“landowning, land-having as a ruler”)
landhæfen f (“land holdings”)
landhere m (“land army”)
landhlāford m (“landlord”)
landhredding f (“redemption of mortgaged land”)
landielf f (“land elf”)
landlagu f (“law in a district”)
landlyre m (“loss of land”)
landlēas (“landless”)
landlēoda m (“a native of a land”)
landlēod m (“an inhabitant or the people of a land”)
landmann m (“a native of a land”)
landmearc (“belonging to a land's boundaries”)
landmearca m (“a territory”)
landmearc f (“boundary of a land or an estate”)
landopenung f (“a breaking up of land”)
landrǣden f (“district or country ordinance, disposition, or institution”)
landrest f (“grave”)
landriht n (“the law of the land”)
landrīċa f (“landlord”)
landrīċe n (“territory”)
landsǣta m (“settler, colonist”)
landseten f (“land possession or occupation thereof”)
landsetla m (“a settler or tenant”)
landsidu m (“custom of the land”)
landsittende (“occupying land”)
landsplott m (“a small plot of ground”)
landspēdiġ (“rich in land holdings or estates”)
landspēd f (“land holdings”)
landstede m (“a land”)
landstyċċe n (“a small plot of land”)
landsċeap n (“district or swath of land, landscape”)
landsċearu f (“a share or deal of land”)
landsċipe m (“a region or swath of land”)
landsōcn f (“land or country seeking”)
landwaru f (“people of land, a land”)
landweard m (“the warden of a land, a prince”)
landwela m (“the earth's wealth”)
landādl f (“nostalgia for one's homeland”)
landāgend m (“landowner”)
landār f (“land holdings, a landed estate”)
landċēap m (“fine or tax on bought land”)
landġehwearf n (“land swap”)
landġemaca m (“neighbor”)
landġemǣre n (“border”)
landġemierċe n (“border”)
landġesċeaft n (“the earth's creation & created things”)
landġeweorc n (“a land's main stronghold”)
landġewyrpe n (“earthen heaps cast up”)
lendan (“to land”)

Derived suffix terms

behātland (“promised land”)
belandian (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
belendan (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
berland (“land for the growing of barley, bearland”)
bondeland (“bond or leased land under written conditions”)
burgland n (“city-land, urban landscape”)
bēanland (“land for the growing of beans, beanland”)
bēodland (“land to defray food consumption, as in a monastery”)
bōcland (“freehold”)
būrland (“peasant land”)
dūnland (“down or hilly land”)
ealdland (“long untilled or unploughed land”)
eardland (“fatherland”)
earningland (“land earned or made freehold”)
efnland (“even land, plains”)
eleland (“a strange or foreign land”)
eringlond n (“arable land”)
etelond n (“pasture land”)
fæstland (“fortified land”)
feldland (“a field or plain, antonym to dūnland”)
fenland (“fenland”)
feohland (“pasture land”)
feorland n (“a far-off land”)
folcland (“land of the people”)
friþland (“a land at peace with one's own”)
fōstorland (“land for fostering”)
gafolland (“tenant land”)
hǣþfeldland (“moorland or heathland”)
hereġeatland (“obligatory bequest of land to a lord or king”)
hwǣteland (“land for the growing of wheat”)
hēafodland (“a headland or boundary”)
hēahland (“the high ground”)
hēahlandrīċa (“a justice of the peace”)
ierfeland (“heritable land”)
ierþland (“arable land”)
inland (“Demesne land”)
lǣnland (“loaned or leased land”)
līnland (“land for the growing of flax or linseed”)
mæstland (“land for the forthteeing of mast, i.e. tree nuts”)
mǣdland m (“meadow”)
mearcland (“borderland, or wasteland beyond the tilled land, marshland”)
merisċland (“marshland”)
muntland (“mountainous land”)
mynsterland (“land belonging to the monastery”)
mōrland (“moorland, the wild & hilly hinterland”)
norþland (“a northern land”)
nēahland (“neighboring country”)
rēfland (“sundorġerēfland, i.e. particular tributary lands”)
sacerdland (“land set aside for priests”)
sandland (“the seashore”)
sǣland (“maritime district”)
sundorland (“private land”)
sċrūdland (“a land grant to buy clothing”)
sīdland (“wide open land”)
sūþland (“a southern land”)
timberland (“timberland”)
tēoþungland (“land subject to tithe payment”)
tūnland (“land of a farm or estate”)
þēodland (“a populated region or country”)
unfriþland (“a hostile country”)
unland (“what is not land: sea, marsh, etc.”)
uppeland (“rural country away from town”)
wealhland (“a foreign country or land”)
wīdland (“broad land, the earth's surface”)
wīnland (“grapevine land, wine producing region”)
ātland (“land for the growing of oats, oatland”) ælmesland m (“land bequeathed in frankalmoigne, i.e. rich in land is rich in soul”)
ċiricland (“church-land, land belonging to the church”)
ċēapland (“bought land, compare to landcēap”)
ēþelland (“homeland”)
ġebūrland (“peasant land/farmland”)
ġedālland (“land that may get owned by separate people, divided common land”)
ġehlotland (“land doled out by lot”)
ġehātland (“promised land”)
ġelanda m (“fellow countryman”)
ġelandian (“to land”)
ġenēatland (“tenant land”)
ġerēfland (“tributary land”)
īeġland (“island”)
ūtanlandes (“abroad”)
ūtland (“a foreign country or land”)

Derived national terms

Bretland (“Britain”)
Cumberland (“Cumberland”)
Cwēnland (“historical Lapland, or roughly Finland”)
Egypta land (“Egypt”)
Finna land (“Finland”)
Francland (“France”)
Frīsland n (“Friesland, Frisia”)
Gotland (“Gothland, or Götaland, i.e. a region of Norway”)
Grēcland (“Greece”)
Hālgoland (“Hålogaland, a region of Norway”)
Langaland (“a Danish island in the Baltic Sea”)
Scedeland (“Scania”)
Seaxland (“Saxony”)
Swēoland (“Sweden”)
Sċotland (“a name for Ireland before the Scottish left it behind”)
Ungerland (“Hungary”)
Wihtland (“Isle of Wight”)
Wineda land (“land of the Slavs”)
Wīsleland (“the land around the Vistula river in Poland”)
Ēstland (“Estonia”)
Īra land (“Ireland”)

Descendants

Middle English: lond
- English: land
- Scots: laund, land
- Yola: lhoan, lone

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Noun

land ?

Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

More information Old Irish mutation, Radical ...

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
land also lland after a proclitic ending in a vowel	land pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

land

Declension

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neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landit	lǫnd	lǫndin
accusative	land	landit	lǫnd	lǫndin
dative	landi	landinu	lǫndum	lǫndunum
genitive	lands	landsins	landa	landanna

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Descendants

Icelandic: land
Faroese: land
Norn: land
Norwegian Nynorsk: land
- Russenorsk: лань (lanʹ)
Old Swedish: land
- Elfdalian: land
- Swedish: land
Old Danish: land
- Danish: land
  - Norwegian Bokmål: land
- Scanian: lann
Old Gutnish: land
- Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land. Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑnd/

Noun

land n

land

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	land	land
accusative	land	land
genitive	landes	landō
dative	lande	landun
instrumental	—	—

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Descendants

Middle Low German: lant
- Dutch Low Saxon: laand
- German Low German: Land
- Plautdietsch: Launt

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n

land

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	land	landit	land	landin
accusative	land	landit	land	landin
dative	landi, lande	landinu, landeno	landum, landom	landumin, landomen
genitive	lands	landsins	landa	landanna

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Descendants

Elfdalian: land
Swedish: land

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlant/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ant
Syllabification: land

Noun

land m inan

Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
Synonym: kraj związkowy

Coordinate terms: stan, kraj (“krai”)
(Poznań) countryside (rural area)
Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	land	landy
genitive	landu	landów
dative	landowi	landom
accusative	land	landy
instrumental	landem	landami
locative	landzie	landach
vocative	landzie	landy

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Land.

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) land	landul	(niște) landuri	landurile
genitive/dative	(unui) land	landului	(unor) landuri	landurilor
vocative	landule		landurilor

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

one of the federal states of Germany
- 2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, in La Vanguardia‎:
  Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil del land alemán de Baviera.
  Germany yesterday confirmed the first four cases of Wuhan coronavirus on its territory, all belonging to the same automotive component company from the German land of Bavaria.

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /land/, [l̪an̪ːd̪], (colloquial) /lan/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

a country, a land (independent political entity)
Sverige är ett land
Sweden is a country

länderna i EU
the countries in the EU

främmande länder
foreign lands

fjärran länder
distant lands

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	land	lands
singular	definite	landet	landets
plural	indefinite	länder	länders
plural	definite	länderna	ländernas

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Noun

land n

(uncountable) land (as opposed to sea)
Om man inte har lust att vara på en båt så kan man vara på land istället
If you don't feel like being on a boat, you can be on land instead

land och hav
land and sea

ha land i sikte
have land in sight

Land i sikte!
Land ahoy!
(usually in the definite) countryside, country
Vi bor på landet
We live in the countryside

Vi är ute på landet
We are out in the country

livet på landet
life in the countryside

stad och land
town and country

laglöst land
lawless land
- 2007, Laser Inc (lyrics and music), “Det var en gång en fågel [Once upon a time, there was a bird]”‎:
  Det var en gång en liten fågel. Ja, en fågel. Han bodde på landet, och Roger hette han. Han ville gärna leka med sina vänner, med sina vänner, men det fick inte han. Men denna historia slutar sorgligt, för Roger blev skjuten, skjuten i magen av gamle jägar'n [jägaren] Pär. Han ville hem och äta, äta en fågel med lite potäter, men Roger hann iväg.
  Once upon a time, there was a little bird. Yes, a bird. He lived in the countryside, and Roger was his name. He wanted to play with his friends ["He wanted gladly to play with his friends," in the sense of, "He wanted, with keenness, to play with his friends" – the translation skips the gärna as it doesn't make much difference to the meaning], with his friends, but [that – to play with his friends] he didn't get to. But this story ends sadly, because Roger was shot, shot in the stomach by old hunter Pär ["den gamle jägaren Pär" matches "the old hunter Pär" – skipping "den" makes "jägaren Pär" sound lexicalized]. He wanted to go home and eat, eat a bird with some potatoes, but Roger got away [in time].

Usage notes

See mark for some other senses of land.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	land	lands
singular	definite	landet	landets
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

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Noun

land n

a smaller piece of land for small-scale cultivation; a patch, a garden plot, etc.
ett jordgubbsland
a strawberry patch

ett potatisland
a potato patch

påta i landet
potter in the garden plot

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More information nominative, genitive ...

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	land	lands
singular	definite	landet	landets
plural	indefinite	land	lands
plural	definite	landen	landens

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Derived terms

grönsaksland (“vegetable patch / plot”)
trädgårdsland (“garden plot”)

Derived terms

arabland
Dalsland
drömland
England
Estland
fastland
favoritland
Finland
Gotland
grannland
grönsaksland
Gästrikland
Götaland
Halland
Holland
Hälsingland
högland
i-land
inland
Jämtland
landa
landamären
landareal
landavträdelse
landbacken
landbaserad
landbo
landborg
landbris
landbrygga
landdjur
landeri
landfast
landfäste
landförbindelse
landgille
landgräns
landgång
landhockey
landhöjning
landis
landkarta
landkrabba
landkänning
landledes
landmassa
landmil
landmina
landmärke
landning
landområde
landpermission
landremsa
landrygg
landsantikvarie
landsarkiv
landsarkivarie
landsbibliotek
landsbygd
landsdel
landsfader
landsfaderlig
landsfiskal
landsflykt
landsflyktig
landsflykting
landsfogde
landsförrädare
landsförräderi
landsförrädisk
landsförsamling
landsförvisa
landsförvisning
landshövding
landsida
landskamp
landskampare
landskap
landskommun
Landskrona
landskronabo
landskronit
landskyrka
landsköldpadda
landslag
landsman
landsmaninna
landsmoder
landsmål
landsmöte
landsnummer
landsomfattande
landsorganisation
landsort
landsplåga
landsråd
landssekretariat
landssorg
landssvek
landstiga
landstigning
landstorm
landstrategi
landstridskrafter
landstrimma
landstrykare
landsträcka
landstäckande
landställe
landsväg
landsända
landsände
landsänkning
landsätta
landsättning
landtunga
landvad
landvind
landvägen
landyta
lantadel
lantarbetare
lantbarn
lantbefolkning
lantbo
lantbrevbärare
lantbrevbäring
lantbruk
lantbröd
lantdag
lantegendom
lantflicka
lantgreve
lantgård
lanthandel
lanthandlare
lanthem
lanthushåll
lanthushållsskola
lantis
lantjunkare
lantkyrka
lantlig
lantlighet
lantliv
lantlolla
lantluft
lantman
lantmarskalk
lantmästare
lantmätare
lantmäteri
lantpatron
lantpräst
lantras
lantråd
lantställe
lantvin
lantvärn
Lappland
Lettland
lågland
morotsland
Norrland
Nyland
potatisland
rovland
rödbetsland
Skåneland
slättland
Småland
Svealand
Södermanland
Sörmland
trädgårdsland
Tyskland
u-land
Uppland
uppland
utland
utlänning
Värmland
Västergötland
västerlandet
Västmanland
Åland
Öland
Östergötland
österlandet

References

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant.

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

land

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Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Land”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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