Courland

English

Etymology

Frenchified spelling of German Kurland, equivalent to Cour- +‎ land, with the initial component related to Curonian, Latin Curonia and Latvian Kurzeme.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʊə(ɹ)lənd/

Proper noun

Courland

A region in western Latvia.
(historical) A duchy in that region.

Related terms

Translations

region in western Latvia

Belarusian: Курля́ндыя f (Kurljándyja)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 庫爾蘭／库尔兰 (zh) (Kù'ěrlán)
Czech: Kuronsko n
Danish: Kurland
Esperanto: Kuronio
Estonian: Kuramaa
Finnish: Kuurinmaa (fi)
French: Kurzeme f (modern), Courlande (fr) f (historical)
Georgian: კურლანდია (ḳurlandia)
German: Kurland (de) n
Hungarian: Kurföld, Kurland, Kurzeme
Italian: Curlandia
Japanese: クールラント (Kūrurando)
Korean: 쿠를란트 (Kureullanteu)
Latin: Curonia
Latvian: Kurzeme f
Lithuanian: Kuršas m
Livonian: Kurāmō
Norwegian: Kurland
Old Norse: Kúrland n
Polish: Kurlandia (pl) f
Portuguese: Curlândia f
Russian: Ку́рземе (ru) f (Kúrzeme) (modern), Курля́ндия (ru) f (Kurljándija) (historical)
Spanish: Curlandia f
Swedish: Kurland
Turkish: Kurlandiya
Ukrainian: Ку́рземе f (Kúrzeme), Курля́ндія f (Kurljándija)

Anagrams

cauldron, crunodal

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