Flemish

See also: flemish

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EtymologyEdit

Middle English flemmysshe, from Old Frisian flemsche, from Middle Dutch vlāmisch, vlemesch (modern Vlaams), from Old Frisian flamsk ‘Fleming’ (compare West Frisian Flaamsk), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz ‘flowing, current (water)’ and *-iskaz. More at Flanders.

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

Flemish ‎(comparative more Flemish, superlative most Flemish)

1. Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
2. Of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

Flemish accounts Flemish beauty Flemish bond Flemish brick

Flemish coil Flemish eye Flemish horse Flemishness

TranslationsEdit

of or relating to Flanders

• Armenian: ֆլամանդական (hy) ‎(flamandakan)
• Asturian: flamencu
• Catalan: flamenc
• Dutch: Vlaams (nl)
• French: flamand (fr)
• Galician: flamengo (gl)
• German: flämisch
• Icelandic: flæmskur
• Irish: Pléimeannach
• Italian: fiammingo
• Manx: Flandrynagh
• Marathi: फ्लेमिश ‎(flemiśa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flamsk

  Nynorsk: flamsk

• Polish: flamandzki
• Portuguese: flamengo (pt) m
• Romanian: flamand (ro)
• Russian: флама́ндский (ru) ‎(flamándskij), фла́ндрский ‎(flándrskij)
• Spanish: flamenco (es)
• Swedish: flamländsk (sv)
• Volapük: Flanänik
• Walloon: flamind (wa) m, flaminde (wa) f

of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language

• Catalan: flamenc
• Dutch: Vlaams (nl)
• French: flamand (fr)
• German: flämisch
• Irish: Pléimeannais f
• Marathi: फ्लेमिश ‎(flemiśa)

• Polish: flamandzki
• Portuguese: flamengo (pt) m
• Romanian: flamand (ro)
• Russian: флама́ндский (ru) ‎(flamándskij)
• Swedish: flamländsk (sv)
• Walloon: flamind (wa) m, flaminde (wa) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} flamî, ^{(please verify)} flemanî

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} flamenco m

Proper nounEdit

Flemish

1. The Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders.

TranslationsEdit

the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders

• Asturian: flamencu m
• Catalan: flamenc
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛蘭芒語 (zh), 佛兰芒语 (zh) ‎(Fólánmángyŭ), 弗拉茫 ‎(Fúlāmáng), 佛蘭芒, 佛兰芒 ‎(Fólánmáng)

• Czech: vlámština f
• Danish: flamsk
• Dutch: Vlaams (nl) n
• Faroese: flamskt n
• Finnish: flaami (fi)
• French: flamand (fr) m
• Galician: flamengo (gl) m
• German: Flämisch (de) n
• Hungarian: flamand (hu)
• Icelandic: flæmska (is) f

• Irish: Pléimeannais
• Italian: fiammingo m
• Japanese: フラマン語 ‎(furamango)
• Kurdish: flamî (ku) f
• Malay: bahasa Belanda Belgium, bahasa Flemish
• Manx: Flandrynish f
• Marathi: फ्लेमिश ‎(flemiśa)
• Polish: flamandzki m inan
• Portuguese: flamengo (pt) m
• Romanian: flamandă (ro) f
• Russian: флама́ндский (ru) m ‎(flamándskij), фла́ндрский m ‎(flándrskij)
• Spanish: flamenco (es) m
• Swedish: flamländska (sv)
• Turkish: flamandaca
• Walloon: flamind (wa) m

Related termsEdit

• Flanders
• Fleming

See alsoEdit

• Netherlandish

External linksEdit

• ISO 639-3 code vls (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Dutch, nld
• Ethnologue entry for Flemish, vls

AnagramsEdit

• himself, Himself