Europe

See also: europe, europé, Europę, Európe, and Európé

English

World map showing the location of Europe (continent).

Etymology

From Middle English Europe, from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), of uncertain origin, but either from:

• Ancient Greek εὐρύς (eurús) + ὄψ (óps), literally meaning "wide face" (as a description of the beauty of the mythical Europa) or "broad eye" (metaphorically meaning something like "as far as the eye can see")
• Semitic origin; compare also Ἀσία (Asía):
  • Akkadian 𒀭𒌓𒋙𒀀 (^dUD.ŠU₂.A /erebu, erbu/, “direction of the setting sun, occident, west”)
  • Phoenician 𐤏𐤓𐤁‎ (ʿrb /ʿereb/, “evening”)
  • Aramaic ערובה‎ (ʿrōbā, “sunset, Sabbath eve”)
  • Hebrew בֶּן‑עֲרֻבָּה‎ (ben‑ʿărubbāh, “hostages”) and מַעֲרָב‎ (maʿărāḇ, “occident, west”)
  • Classical Syriac ܥܪܘܒܐ‎ (ʿaruḇa, “hostages”) and ܡܥܪܒܐ‎ (maʿrəḇā, “occident, west”)
  • Arabic غَرْب‎ (ḡarb, “occident, west”)

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊ(ə)ɹəp/, /ˈjʉəɹɘp/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹəp/, /ˈjɔːɹəp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹəp/, /ˈjɝəp/

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Proper noun

Europe

2. The portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean.

   How can Europe exist without the European Union?

3. A political entity; the European Union.
4. (Britain, Ireland) Continental Europe, typically the western portion, and excluding the island nations or the larger Mediterranean islands.
5. (soccer) International club competitions operated by UEFA, the sport's governing body for Europe.
   • “Man City out of Europe as Arsenal lose again”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎^[1], ESPN (UK), 4 December 2012, retrieved 5 December 2012

     Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund ended their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League.

Hypernyms

• Eurasia

Hyponyms

• Alps
• Apennine Peninsula; Italian Peninsula
• Balkans; Balkan Peninsula
• Baltic
• Benelux; Low Countries
• British Isles; Islands of the North Atlantic
• Carpathians
• Caucasus (transcontinental)

• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Iberia; Iberian Peninsula
• Northern Europe
• Pyrenees
• Scandinavia
• Southern Europe
• Western Europe

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

Derived terms

• Euro
• europate

• European
• europium

Related terms

• Eurabia
• Eurasia
• Euro
• Euro-
• Europa

Descendants

• → Hindi: यूरोप (yūrop)
• → Korean: 유럽 (Yureop)
• → Marathi: यूरोप (yūrop)
• → Malay: Eropah (ايروڤه)
• → Nepali: यूरोप (yūropa)
• → Sanskrit: यूरोप (yūropa)
• → Urdu: یورپ‎ (yūrop)

Translations

European Union — see European Union

continent

• Abkhaz: Европа (Evroṗā)
• Acehnese: Iërupa
• Afrikaans: Europa (af)
• Albanian: Evropa (sq) f
• Amharic: አውሮፓ (ʾäwropa)
• Antillean Creole: Éwop
• Arabic: أُورُوبَّا‎ f (ʾūrūbbā), أُورُبَّا‎ f (ʾūrubbā), أُورُوبَّة‎ f (ʾūrūbba)

  Egyptian Arabic: أوروبا‎ f (ʾurupa, ʾuruba)

  Hijazi Arabic: أوربّا‎ f (ʾōrubba), أورپا‎ f (ʾōruppa)

• Aragonese: Europa f
• Armenian: Եվրոպա (hy) (Evropa)
• Assamese: ইউৰোপ (iurüp)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܪܝܦܝ‎
• Asturian: Europa (ast) f
• Aymara: Iwrupa (ay)
• Azerbaijani: Avropa (az), Ovropa (archaism)
• Banjarese: Irupa
• Basque: Europa (eu)
• Belarusian: Еўро́па f (Jeŭrópa), Эўро́па f (Eŭrópa) (Taraškievica Orthography)
• Bengali: ইউরোপ (bn) (iurop)
• Bulgarian: Евро́па (bg) f (Evrópa)
• Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)
• Buryat: Европо (Jevropo)
• Catalan: Europa (ca) f
• Chechen: Европа (Ewropa), Йивроп (Jiwrop)
• Chichewa: Ulaya
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歐洲, 欧洲 (au¹ zau¹)

  Hakka: 歐洲, 欧洲 (Êu-chû)

  Mandarin: 歐洲 (zh), 欧洲 (zh) (Ōuzhōu), 歐羅巴, 欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā) (dated)

  Min Dong: 歐洲, 欧洲 (Ĕu-ciŭ)

  Min Nan: 歐洲 (zh-min-nan), 欧洲 (zh-min-nan) (Au-chiu)

  Wu: 歐洲, 欧洲 (eu tseu)

• Czech: Evropa (cs) f
• Danish: Europa (da)
• Dutch: Europa (nl) n
• Erzya: Европа (Jevropa)
• Esperanto: Eŭropo (eo)
• Estonian: Euroopa (et)
• Faroese: Evropa n
• Finnish: Eurooppa (fi)
• French: Europe (fr) f
• Galician: Europa (gl) f
• Georgian: ევროპა (ka) (evroṗa)
• German: Europa (de) n
• Greek: Ευρώπη (el) f (Evrópi)

  Ancient: Εὐρώπη f (Eurṓpē)

• Gujarati: યુરોપ (yurop)
• Gusii: Ng’umbu
• Haitian Creole: Ewòp
• Haryanvi: ऐ़रूप (ऐ़rūp)
• Hausa: Turai
• Hawaiian: ʻEulopa
• Hebrew: אֵירוֹפָּה‎ (he) f (eirópa)
• Hiligaynon: Ewropa
• Hindi: यूरोप (hi) (yūrop), युरोप (hi) m (yurop)
• Hungarian: Európa (hu)
• Icelandic: Evrópa (is) f
• Ido: Europa (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: Eropa (id)
• Interlingua: Europa (ia)
• Irish: Eoraip (ga) f
• Italian: Europa (it)
• Japanese: ヨーロッパ (ja) (Yōroppa), 欧羅巴 (ja) (Yōroppa) (ateji), 欧州 (ja) (おうしゅう, Ōshū)
• Kabardian: Еуропэ (Ewropă)
• Kannada: ಯುರೋಪ್ (kn) (yurōp)
• Kazakh: Еуропа (kk) (Ewropa)
• Khmer: អឺរ៉ុប (km) (ʼəɨrop)
• Komi-Permyak: Европа (Jevropa)
• Komi-Zyrian: Европа (Jevropa)
• Korean: 유럽 (Yureop), 구주 (Guju) (歐洲 (ko)), 구라파 (Gurapa) (歐羅巴 (ko)) (dated)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Ewropa (ku)

  Sorani: ئەوروپا‎ (ku) (ewrupa)

• Kyrgyz: Европа (ky) (Yevropa)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ເອີລົບ (ʼœ̄ lop), ເອີຣົບ (lo) (ʼœ̄ rop) (dated)
• Latin: Eurōpa (la) f

• Latvian: Eiropa f
• Lithuanian: Europa (lt) f
• Livonian: Eirōp
• Low German: Europa (nds), Uropa
• Luxembourgish: Europa (lb) f
• Macedonian: Европа f (Evropa)
• Malay: Eropah
• Malayalam: യൂറോപ്പ് (ml) (yūṟōppŭ)
• Maltese: L-Ewropa f
• Manx: Oarpey
• Maori: Ūropi (mi)
• Marathi: युरोप (yurop)
• Mauritian Creole: Lerop
• Mirandese: Ouropa f
• Moksha: Европа (Jevropa)
• Mongolian: Европ (mn) (Jevrop)
• Nauruan: Uirope
• Navajo: Tó Wónaanídi Bilagáana Bikéyah
• Ngazidja Comorian: Ulaya class 11
• North Frisian: Europa (Heligolandic)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Europa (no)

  Nynorsk: Europa (nn)

• Occitan: Euròpa (oc) f
• Old English: Europa m
• Old Norse: Norðrhálfa m
• Oriya: ୟୁରୋପ (yuropô)
• Ossetian: Европӕ (Evropæ)
• Pashto: اروپا‎ (ps) f (orupã), يورپ‎ (ps) m (uróp)
• Persian: اروپا‎ (fa) (orupâ), اورپا‎ (orupâ), فرنگستان‎ (farangestan)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Urup
• Polish: Europa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Europa (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਯੂਰਪ (yūrp)
• Romanian: Europa (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Еуропа (ro) f

• Romansch: Europa f
• Russian: Евро́па (ru) f (Jevrópa)
• Rusyn: Евро́па f (Evrópa)
• Sanskrit: आरूप (ārūpa)
• Scots: Europe
• Scottish Gaelic: an Roinn-Eòrpa f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Европа f, Еуропа f (Croatia)

  Roman: Evropa (sh) f, Europa (sh) f (Croatia)

• Silesian: Ojropa
• Sinhalese: යුරෝපය (yurōpaya)
• Slovak: Európa (sk) f
• Slovene: Evrópa (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Europa f

  Upper Sorbian: Europa (hsb) f

• Sotho: Yuropo
• Spanish: Europa (es) f
• Swahili: Ulaya, Uropa (rare)
• Swedish: Europa (sv)
• Tagalog: Yuropa
• Tajik: Аврупо (tg) (Avrupo)
• Tamil: ஐரோப்பா (ta) (airōppā)
• Tatar: Аурупа (Aurupa)
• Telugu: ఐరోపా (te) (airōpā)
• Thai: ยุโรป (th) (yú-ròop)
• Tibetan: ཡོ་རོབ་གླིང (yo rob gling)
• Tigrinya: ኤውሮጳ (ʾewrop̣a)
• Turkish: Avrupa (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýewropa
• Udmurt: Европа (Jevropa)
• Ukrainian: Євро́па (uk) f (Jevrópa)
• Urdu: یورپ‎ (yūrop)
• Uyghur: ياۋروپا‎ (yawropa)
• Uzbek: Yevropa (uz)
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Châu Âu (vi) (洲歐), Âu (vi) (歐)
• Volapük: Yurop (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: Urope (wa) f
• Welsh: Ewrop (cy) f
• Yakut: Европа (Yevropa)
• Yiddish: אייראָפּע‎ f (eyrope)
• Zhuang: Ouhcouh

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents)}

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French

Etymology

From Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa), a character in Greek mythology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ø.ʁɔp/

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Proper noun

Europe f

1. Europe
2. Europa, a moon of Jupiter

Derived terms

• Européen/Européenne
• européen/européenne

See also

• euro
• UE

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈroː.peː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈro.pe/, [ɛu̯ˈrɔː.pɛ]

Proper noun

Eurōpē f sg (genitive Eurōpēs); first declension

1. Alternative form of Eurōpa

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Eurōpē
Genitive	Eurōpēs
Dative	Eurōpae
Accusative	Eurōpēn
Ablative	Eurōpē
Vocative	Eurōpē
Locative	Eurōpae

References

• Europe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press