Sweden

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots Swaden, from Middle Dutch Sweden, dative of Swede (see for further details.) Compare Middle English Swethin (“Sweden”), also from the Middle Dutch, and Middle English Swethe (“Sweden”) from Old English Swēoþēod (“the Swedish people”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswiː.dən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswi.dən/

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• Rhymes: -iːdən

Proper noun

Sweden

2. A country in Scandinavia. Official name: Kingdom of Sweden

Derived terms

• Swede
• Swedish

Translations

Scandinavian country

• Abkhaz: Швециа (Švecia)
• Acehnese: Swèdia
• Afrikaans: Swede
• Albanian: Suedia (sq)
• Amharic: ስዊድን (səwidn)
• Arabic: السُّوَيْد‎ f (as-suwayd)

  Hijazi Arabic: السُّويد‎ f or m (as-suwēd)

• Aragonese: Suecia f
• Aramaic: ܣܘܝܕ‎
• Armenian: Շվեդիա (hy) (Švedia)
• Aromanian: Suidia
• Asturian: Suecia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: İsveç (az)
• Bambara: Swedi
• Bashkir: Швеция (Švetsiya)
• Basque: Suedia (eu)
• Belarusian: Шве́цыя f (Švjécyja), Швэ́цыя f (Švécyja) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সুইডেন (bn) (śuiḍen)
• Bikol Central: Suesya
• Bislama: Sweden
• Breton: Sveden (br)
• Bulgarian: Шве́ция (bg) f (Švécija)
• Burmese: ဆွီဒင် (hcwidang)
• Catalan: Suècia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Sweden
• Central Kurdish: سوید‎ (suyd)
• Chechen: Швеци (Šweci)
• Cherokee: ᏍᏫᏕᏂ (swideni)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瑞典 (seoi⁶ din²)

  Hakka: 瑞典 (Shuì-tién)

  Mandarin: 瑞典 (zh) (Ruìdiǎn)

  Min Nan: 瑞典 (Sūi-tián)

• Chuvash: Швеци (Švetsi)
• Cornish: Swedherwyk, Sweden m
• Corsican: Svezia
• Crimean Tatar: İsveç
• Czech: Švédsko (cs) n
• Danish: Sverige (da)
• Dhivehi: ސުވިޑެން‎ (suviḍen̊)
• Dutch: Zweden (nl) n
• Dzongkha: སུའི་ཌན (su'i ḍan)
• Elfdalian: Swerre
• Erzya: Швеция Мастор (Švecija Mastor)
• Esperanto: Svedio (eo), Svedujo (eo), Svedlando (eo)
• Estonian: Rootsi (et)
• Ewe: Sweden
• Extremaduran: Suécia
• Faroese: Svøríki (fo) n
• Fiji Hindi: Sweden
• Finnish: Ruotsi (fi)
• French: Suède (fr) f
• Friulian: Svezie
• Gagauz: Şveţiya
• Galician: Suecia (gl) f
• Georgian: შვედეთი (ka) (švedeti)
• German: Schweden (de) n

  Alemannic: Schweden n

  Bavarian: Schwen, Schwedn

  Central Franconian: Shvede

• Greek: Σουηδία (el) f (Souidía)
• Greenlandic: Sverige (kl), Svenskit Nunaat (kl)
• Guaraní: Suesia
• Gujarati: સ્વિડન (sviḍan)
• Haitian Creole: Syèd
• Hausa: Suwedan
• Hawaiian: Kuekene
• Hebrew: שְׁװֶדְיָה \ שְׁוֶדְיָה‎ f (sh'védya)
• Hindi: स्वीडन (hi) (svīḍan)
• Hungarian: Svédország (hu)
• Icelandic: Svíþjóð (is) f
• Ido: Suedia (io)
• Ilocano: Sweden
• Inari Sami: Ruotâ
• Indonesian: Swedia (id)
• Interlingua: Svedia
• Inuktitut: ᔅᕗᕆᑭ (svuriki), Svuriki
• Irish: An tSualainn f, Ríocht na Sualainne f
• Italian: Svezia (it) f
• Japanese: スウェーデン (ja) (Suwēden)
• Javanese: Swedia
• Kabardian: Шуэц (Šwăc)
• Kalmyk: Сведин Нутг (Svedin Nutg)
• Kannada: ಸ್ವೀಡನ್ (kn) (svīḍan)
• Kapampangan: Sweden
• Karachay-Balkar: Швеция (Şvetsiya)
• Karakalpak: Shvetsiya
• Kashubian: Szwedzkô (csb)
• Kazakh: Швеция (Şvecïya)
• Khmer: ស៊ុយអែត (km) (suyʼaet)
• Kildin Sami: Рӯц е̄ммьне (Rūc ʹēmmʹnje)
• Komi-Permyak: Шведму (Švedmu)
• Komi-Zyrian: Швеция (Švecija)
• Kongo: Suedi
• Konkani: स्विडन (sviḍan)
• Korean: 스웨덴 (ko) (Seuweden), 스웨리예 (ko) (Seuweriye) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوید‎ (suyd)

  Northern Kurdish: Swêd (ku)

• Kven: Ruottii
• Kyrgyz: Швеция (ky) (Şvetsiya)
• Ladino: Suesia
• Lao: ສະວີເດັນ (lo) (sa wī den)
• Latgalian: Švedeja f
• Latin: Suēcia (la) f
• Latvian: Zviedrija f
• Ligurian: Sveçia
• Limburgish: Zwaede
• Lingala: Swédi
• Lithuanian: Švedija (lt) f
• Livonian: Rūotšmō
• Lombard: Svezia f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Sveden

  German Low German: Sweden (nds) n

• Luganda: Swiiden

• Lule Sami: Svierik
• Luxembourgish: Schweden (lb) n
• Macedonian: Шведска (mk) f (Švedska)
• Malagasy: Soeda (mg)
• Malay: Sweden (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്വീഡന്‍ (svīḍan‍)
• Maltese: Żvezja
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡶᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ (sifiy᠋esk'o)
• Manx: Y Toolyn f
• Maori: Wīreni, Huītene
• Marathi: स्वीडन (svīḍan)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Швеций (Švecij)

• Mazanderani: سوئد‎
• Meänkieli: Ruotti
• Moksha: Шведмастор (Švedmastor)
• Mongolian: Швед (mn) (Shved)
• Nahuatl: Suecatlān
• Nauruan: Sweden, Widen
• Neapolitan: Sguezia
• Nepali: स्वीडेन (svīḍena)
• Newar: स्वीडेन (swīḍena)
• Norman: Suède f
• North Frisian: Swärik
• Northern Sami: Ruoŧŧa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sverige (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sverige (nn) n

• Occitan: Suècia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Свеньско (Svenĭsko)
• Old English: Swēoland n, Swēorīċe n
• Oriya: ସ୍ୱିଡେନ (swiḍenô)
• Ossetian: Швеци (Šveci)
• Papiamentu: Suecia
• Pashto: سويډن‎ (ps) m (swiḍán)
• Pennsylvania German: Schweden n
• Persian: سوئد‎ (fa) (su'ed)
• Piedmontese: Svessia
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Swiiden
• Pite Sami: Sverdji
• Polish: Szwecja (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Σουηδία (Souēdía)
• Portuguese: Suécia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਵੀਡਨ (savīḍan)
• Quechua: Suysya
• Romanian: Suedia (ro) f
• Romansch: Svezia
• Russian: Шве́ция (ru) f (Švécija)
• Rusyn: Швеція f (Švecija)
• Rwanda-Rundi:

  Kinyarwanda: Suwede

• Samoan: Sweden
• Samogitian: Švedėjė
• Sanskrit: स्वीडन (svīḍana)
• Sardinian: Isvetzia
• Saterland Frisian: Sweden
• Scots: Swaden
• Scottish Gaelic: An t-Suain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Шве̏дска̄ f

  Roman: Švȅdskā (sh) f

• Sicilian: Svezzia
• Silesian: Szwecyjo n
• Sindhi: سويڊن‎
• Sinhalese: ස්‍වීඩනය (swīḍanaya)
• Skolt Sami: Ruõcc
• Slovak: Švédsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Švédska (sl) f
• Somali: Sweden, Iswiidhan
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Šwedska f

• Southern Sami: Sveerje
• Spanish: Suecia (es) f
• Sundanese: Swédia
• Swahili: Uswidi (sw)
• Swazi: ISwideni
• Swedish: Sverige (sv) n
• Tagalog: Suwesya
• Tajik: Шветсия (tg) (Švetsiya)
• Tamil: சுவீடன் (cuvīṭaṉ)
• Tatar: Швеция (tt) (Şwetsiya)
• Telugu: స్వీడన్ (te) (svīḍan)
• Tetum: Suésia
• Thai: สวีเดน (th) (sà-wii-den)
• Tibetan: སི་ཝེ་དེན (si we den)
• Tigrinya: ስዊድን (səwidn)
• Tok Pisin: Suwidan
• Turkish: İsveç (tr)
• Turkmen: Şwesiýa
• Udmurt: Швеция (Švecija)
• Ukrainian: Шве́ція (uk) f (Švécija)
• Upper Sorbian: Šwedska
• Urdu: سویڈن‎ (svīḍan)
• Uyghur: شۋېتسىيە‎ (shwëtsiye)
• Uzbek: Shvetsiya (uz)
• Venetian: Svezsia
• Vietnamese: Thụy Điển (瑞典)
• Volapük: Svedän (vo)
• Võro: Roodsi
• Walloon: Suwedwesse
• Waray-Waray: Suecia
• Welsh: Sweden (cy) f
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Zweedn
• West Frisian: Sweden (fy)
• Western Panjabi: سویڈن‎ (pnb)
• Wolof: Suweed
• Yakut: Швеция (Şvetsiya)
• Yiddish: שוועדן‎ (shvedn)
• Yoruba: Swídìn
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) İswec
• Zealandic: Zweden
• Zhuang: Ruidenj
• Zulu: ISwidi

See also

• (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, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Suecophile

Anagrams

• endews, newsed, snewed

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Welsh

Proper noun

Sweden f (not mutable)

1. Sweden (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• Teyrnas Sweden (“Kingdom of Sweden”)