Bhutan

See also: Bhután and Bhútán

English

Map of Bhutan (2010)

Alternative forms

• Bootan (archaic)

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”), traditionally considered to be derived via Sanskrit भोट-अन्त (bhoṭa-anta, “end of Tibet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈtɑːn/, /buːˈtæn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Bhutan

2. A landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan

Translations

Himalayan country

• Albanian: Butani m
• Arabic: بُوتَان‎ f (būtān)
• Armenian: Բութան (hy) (Butʿan)
• Assamese: ভূটান (bhutan)
• Asturian: Bután (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Butan (az)
• Bashkir: Бутан (Butan)
• Belarusian: Бута́н m (Bután)
• Bengali: ভুটান (bhuṭan)
• Breton: Bhoutan
• Bulgarian: Бута́н (bg) m (Bután)
• Burmese: ဘူတန် (bhutan)
• Catalan: Bhutan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 不丹 (bat¹ daan¹)

  Mandarin: 不丹 (zh) (Bùdān)

• Crimean Tatar: Butan
• Czech: Bhútán (cs) m
• Danish: Bhutan n
• Dhivehi: ބޫޓާން‎ (būṭān̊)
• Dutch: Bhutan (nl) n
• Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul), བོདཤ་ཐཱན (bodsh thān) (anti-nationalist)
• Esperanto: Butano (eo)
• Estonian: Bhutan (et)
• Faroese: Butan n
• Finnish: Bhutan (fi)
• French: Bhoutan (fr) m
• Galician: Bután (gl)
• Georgian: ბჰუტანი (ka) (bhuṭani)
• German: Bhutan (de)
• Greek: Μπουτάν (el) n (Boután)
• Gujarati: ભૂતાન (bhūtān)
• Hausa: Butan, Bhutan
• Hebrew: בְּהוּטָן‎ f (butan)
• Hindi: भूटान (hi) m (bhūṭān)
• Hungarian: Bhután (hu)
• Icelandic: Bútan (is) n
• Indonesian: Bhutan (id)
• Interlingua: Bhutan
• Irish: An Bhútáin f
• Italian: Bhutan (it)
• Japanese: ブータン (ja) (Būtan)
• Kalenjin: Butani
• Kamba: Butani
• Kannada: ಭೂತಾನ್ (bhūtān)
• Kazakh: Бутан (Bwtan)
• Khmer: ប៊ូតង់ (km) (buutɑng)
• Kikuyu: Butan
• Korean: 부탄 (ko) (Butan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bûtan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Бутан (Butan)
• Lao: ພູຖານ (phū thān), ບູຕັງ (bū tang)
• Latvian: Butāna (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Butanas (lt) m
• Luhya: Butani

• Luo: Butan
• Macedonian: Бутан (mk) m (Butan)
• Malay: Bhutan
• Malayalam: ഭൂട്ടാൻ (bhūṭṭān)
• Maltese: il-Butan
• Manx: Yn Vootaan f
• Maori: Putāna, Purutāna
• Marathi: भूतान (bhūtān)
• Meru: Butan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бутан (Butan)

• Navajo: Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh bikéyah
• Nepali: भुटान (bhuṭān)
• Norman: Bhutan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bhutan (no)

  Nynorsk: Bhutan (nn)

• Occitan: Botan
• Oriya: ଭୁଟାନ (bhuṭanô)
• Pashto: بوټان‎ m (buṭān)
• Persian: بوتان‎ (fa) (butân)
• Polish: Bhutan (pl)
• Portuguese: Butão (pt)
• Punjabi: ਭੂਟਾਨ m (bhūṭān)
• Romanian: Bhutan (ro) n
• Russian: Бута́н (ru) m (Bután)
• Santali: ᱵᱷᱩᱴᱟᱱ (bhuṭan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бу̀та̄н m

  Roman: Bùtān (sh) m

• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: ڀوٽان‎
• Sinhalese: භූතානය (bhūtānaya)
• Slovak: Bhután m
• Spanish: Bután (es)
• Swahili: Butani (sw)
• Swedish: Bhutan (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠜꠥꠐꠣꠘ (búṭan)
• Tajik: Бутан (Butan)
• Tamil: பூட்டான் (pūṭṭāṉ)
• Tatar: Бутан (Butan)
• Telugu: భూటాన్ (te) (bhūṭān)
• Thai: ภูฏาน (th) (puu-dtaan)
• Tibetan: འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul)
• Turkish: Bhutan (tr)
• Turkmen: Butan
• Ukrainian: Бута́н (uk) m (Bután)
• Urdu: بھوٹان‎ m (bhūṭān)
• Uyghur: بۇتان‎ (butan)
• Uzbek: Butan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bu-tan
• Volapük: Butän (vo)
• Welsh: Bhutan
• Yiddish: בוטאַן‎ n (butan)
• Yoruba: Bútánì

See also

• Bhutanese
• Thimphu
• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Further reading

• Bhutan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Thuban

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /buˈtan/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Bhutan m

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• bhutanès

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Danish

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈtaːn/, /buˈtɑn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Bhu‧tan
• Rhymes: -aːn, -ɑn

Proper noun

Bhutan n

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia) [from 19th c.]

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Estonian

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbutɑn/, [ˈbut̪ɑn]

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Bhutan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Bhutan	—
genitive		Bhutanin	—
partitive		Bhutania	—
illative		Bhutaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bhutan	—
accusative	nom.	Bhutan	—
	gen.	Bhutanin
genitive		Bhutanin	—
partitive		Bhutania	—
inessive		Bhutanissa	—
elative		Bhutanista	—
illative		Bhutaniin	—
adessive		Bhutanilla	—
ablative		Bhutanilta	—
allative		Bhutanille	—
essive		Bhutanina	—
translative		Bhutaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bhutanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bhutan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bhutanini	Bhutanimme
2nd person	Bhutanisi	Bhutaninne
3rd person	Bhutaninsa

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːtaːn/

• Audio

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• Homophone: Butan
• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Bhutan n (genitive Bhutans)

1. Bhutan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• bhutanisch
• Bhutaner

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

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Italian

Proper noun

Bhutan m

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• bhutanese

Anagrams

• Thuban

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bhutaner
• bhutansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bhutanar
• bhutansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.tan/

Proper noun

Bhutan m inan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Bhutan

	singular
nominative	Bhutan
genitive	Bhutanu
dative	Bhutanowi
accusative	Bhutan
instrumental	Bhutanem
locative	Bhutanie
vocative	Bhutanie

Derived terms

• (nouns) Bhutańczyk, Bhutanka
• (adjective) bhutański

Further reading

• Bhutan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”), traditionally considered to be derived via Sanskrit भोट-अन्त (bhoṭa-anta, “end of Tibet”).

Proper noun

Bhutan n (genitive Bhutans)

2. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bhutanesisk (“Bhutanese”, adjective)
• bhutanes c (“Bhutanese male”)
• bhutanesiska c (“Bhutanese female”)

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Turkish

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Bhutan (a country in Asia)

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Welsh

Proper noun

Bhutan

1. Alternative form of Bhwtan