Pomerania

See also: Pomerânia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pomerania, from German Pommern, from Proto-Slavic *pomorьjane pl (“coast dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *pomorьje (“seaboard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Pomerania

2. A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a region split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
   • 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.

Derived terms

• Pomeranian
• Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

Translations

region of Europe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea

• Armenian: Պոմերանիա (Pomerania)
• Belarusian: Памера́нія f (Pamjeránija)
• Catalan: Pomerània
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波美拉尼亞／波美拉尼亚 (zh) (Bōměilāníyà)

• Czech: Pomořansko (cs) n
• Danish: Pommern
• Dutch: Pommeren n
• Finnish: Pommeri (fi)
• French: Poméranie (fr) f
• Friulian: Pomeranie f
• Georgian: პომერანია (ṗomerania)
• German: Pommern (de) n
• Greek: Πομερανία (el) f (Pomeranía)
• Icelandic: Pommern
• Italian: Pomerania (it) f
• Kashubian: Pòmòrskô n
• Lithuanian: Pomeranijos f
• Maltese: Pomeranja f
• Marathi: पॉमेरानिया (pŏmerāniyā)
• Occitan: Pomerania f
• Ottoman Turkish: پومرانیا (Pomeranya)
• Polish: Pomorze (pl) n
• Portuguese: Pomerânia (pt) f
• Russian: Помера́ния (ru) f (Pomeránija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Pomorje (sh) f or n, Померанија
• Slovene: Pomeranija f or n
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Pomorska

• Spanish: Pomerania f
• Swedish: Pommern (sv) n

Italian

Proper noun

Pomerania f

1. Pomerania (A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a region split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)

Anagrams

• amperiano, apriamone

Occitan

Proper noun

Pomerania f

1. Pomerania (A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a region split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 154.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pomeˈɾanja/ [po.meˈɾa.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: Po‧me‧ra‧nia

Proper noun

Pomerania f

1. Pomerania (A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a region split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)

Derived terms

• Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental

 

Related terms

• pomerano