Flemish

See also: flemish

Contents

EnglishEdit

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 Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
3. Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

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)
• Georgian: ფლამანდიური (plamandiuri)
• German: flämisch
• Icelandic: flæmskur
• Irish: Pléimeannach
• Italian: fiammingo
• Manx: Flandrynagh
• Marathi: फ्लेमिश (flemiśa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flamsk

  Nynorsk: flamsk

• Persian: فلامان (flâmân), فلمنک (flamank)
• 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)
• Georgian: ფლამანდიური (plamandiuri)
• 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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

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

Proper nounEdit

Flemish

1. Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
2. West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

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)

• Korean: 플랑드르의 (peullangdeuleuui)
• Kurdish: flamî (ku) f
• Malay: bahasa Belanda Belgium, bahasa Flemish
• Manx: Flandrynish f
• Marathi: फ्लेमिश (flemiśa)
• Mongolian: Фламандын (Flamandyn)
• Nepali: फ्लेमिश (Phlēmiśa)
• 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
• Uzbek: flamancha
• Walloon: flamind (wa) m

Related termsEdit

• Flanders
• Fleming

See alsoEdit

• Netherlandish

Further readingEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• himself, Himself