Europe

See also: europe, europé, Európe, and Európé

Contents

EnglishEdit

World map showing the location of Europe (continent).

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē). Possibly of Semitic origin; see the Greek.

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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Proper nounEdit

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. (idiomatic) 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.

HypernymsEdit

• Eurasia

HyponymsEdit

• 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, 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 termsEdit

• European

• Euro

Related termsEdit

• Eurabia
• Eurasia
• Euro
• Euro-
• Europa

TranslationsEdit

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)
• 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)
• Chichewa: Ulaya
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歐洲, 欧洲 (au¹ zau¹)

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

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

• 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 (evroṗa)
• German: Europa (de) n
• Greek: Ευρώπη (el) f (Evrópi)

  Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη f (Eurṓpē)

• Gujarati: યુરોપ (yurōpa)
• Gusii: Ng’umbu
• Haitian Creole: Ewòp
• Hausa: Turai
• Hawaiian: ʻEulopa
• Hebrew: אֵירוֹפָּה‎‎ (he) f (eirópa)
• Hiligaynon: Ewropa
• Hindi: यूरोप (hi) (yūrop)
• Hungarian: Európa (hu)
• Icelandic: Evrópa (is) f
• 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) (ʾəɨrop)
• Komi-Permyak: Европа (Jevropa)
• Komi-Zyrian: Европа (Jevropa)
• Korean: 유럽 (Yureop), 구주 (Guju) (歐洲 (ko)), 구라파 (Gurapa) (歐羅巴 (ko)) (dated)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئه‌وروپا‎‎

• Kyrgyz: Европа (ky) (Yevropa)
• Lao: ເອີລົບ (’œ̄ lop), ເອີຣົບ (lo) (’œ̄ 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: 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: Europa (no)
• Occitan: Euròpa (oc) f
• Old English: Europa m
• Old Norse: Norðrhálfa m
• Oriya: ୟୁରୋପ (yuropô)
• Ossetian: Европæ (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 (yūrap)
• Romanian: Europa (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Еуропа (ro) f

• Romansch: Europa f
• Russian: Евро́па (ru) f (Jevrópa)
• Rusyn: Евро́па f (Evrópa)
• 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: ኣውሮጳ (ʾawrop̣a)
• Turkish: Avrupa (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýewropa
• Udmurt: Европа (Jevropa)
• Ukrainian: Євро́па (uk) f (Jevrópa)
• Urdu: یورپ‎‎ (yūrop)
• Uyghur: ياۋروپا‎‎ (yawropa)
• Uzbek: Yevropa (uz)
• Vietnamese: Châu Âu (vi) (洲歐), Âu (vi) (歐)
• Volapük: Yurop (vo)
• Walloon: Urope (wa) f
• Welsh: Ewrop (cy) f
• Yakut: Европа (Yevropa)
• Yiddish: אייראָפּע‎‎ f (eyrope)
• Zhuang: Ouhcouh

See alsoEdit

• (continents) continent; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ø.ʁɔp/

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Proper nounEdit

Europe f

1. Europe

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   How can Europe exist without the European Union?

2. Europa, a moon of Jupiter

Derived termsEdit

• Européen/Européenne
• européen/européenne

See alsoEdit

• euro
• UE

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LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈroː.peː/

Proper nounEdit

Eurōpē f (genitive Eurōpēs); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of Eurōpa

InflectionEdit

First declension, Greek type, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Eurōpē
genitive	Eurōpēs
dative	Eurōpae
accusative	Eurōpēn
ablative	Eurōpē
vocative	Eurōpē
locative	Eurōpae

ReferencesEdit

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