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English
World map showing the location of Europe (continent).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Europe , borrowed from Latin Eurōpa , borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα ( Eurṓpa ) . Doublet of Europa .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Europe (countable and uncountable , plural Europes )
A continent or region located west of Asia (separated by the Urals ), north of Africa and east of the Atlantic Ocean .
A political entity; the European Union .
Al Mahlool, Fared (2021 November 13) “1:53 PM · Nov 13, 2021 ”, in Twitter , Twitter, retrieved 13 November 2021 : “French politician Julien Odoul says he would prefer the cold death of migrants stranded behind barbed wire on the Belarus-Poland border, rather than being allowed to enter Europe . ”
( UK , Ireland ) Mainland Europe (continental Europe ), especially the western portion, thus excluding the island nations or the larger Mediterranean islands.
( soccer ) International club competitions operated by UEFA , the sport's governing body for Europe.
“Man City out of Europe as Arsenal lose again”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) , ESPN (UK), 2012 December 4, retrieved 5 December 2012
Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund ended their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
(countries of Europe ) countries of Europe ; Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia (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
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Translations
continent
Abkhaz: Европа ( Evropʼa )
Acehnese: Iërupa
Afrikaans: Europa (af)
Akan: Yurop
Albanian: Evropë f , Evropa (sq) f ( definite )
Amharic: አውሮፓ ( ʾäwropa )
Antillean Creole: Éwop
Arabic: أُورُوبَّا (ar) f ( ʔūrūbbā ) , أُورُبَّا f ( ʔūrubbā ) , أُورُوبَّة f ( ʔūrūbba )
Egyptian Arabic: أوروبا f ( ʔurupa, ʔuruba )
Hijazi Arabic: أوربّا f ( ʔōrubba, ʔōruppa )
Aragonese: Europa f
Armenian: Եվրոպա (hy) ( Evropa )
Assamese: ইউৰোপ ( iurüp )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܪܝܦܝ ( w-rip )
Asturian: Europa (ast) f
Aymara: Iwrupa
Azerbaijani: Avropa (az) , Ovropa ( archaism )
Banjarese: Irupa
Bashkir: Европа ( Yevropa ) , ( obsolete ) Аурупа ( Awrupa )
Basque: Europa (eu)
Belarusian: Еўро́па f ( Jeŭrópa ) , Эўро́па f ( Eŭrópa ) ( Taraškievica Orthography )
Bengali: ইউরোপ (bn) ( iurōp )
Bulgarian: Евро́па (bg) f ( Evrópa )
Burmese: ဥရောပ ( u.rau:pa. )
Buryat: Европо ( Jevropo )
Carpathian Rusyn: Евро́па f ( Evrópa )
Catalan: Europa (ca) f
Chechen: Европа ( Jevropa ) , Йивроп ( Jivrop )
Chichewa: Ulaya
Chinese:
Cantonese: 歐洲 / 欧洲 ( au1 zau1 )
Eastern Min: 歐洲 / 欧洲 ( Ĕu-ciŭ )
Hakka: 歐洲 / 欧洲 ( Êu-chû )
Hokkien: 歐洲 / 欧洲 (zh-min-nan) ( Au-chiu )
Mandarin: 歐洲 / 欧洲 (zh) ( Ōuzhōu ) , 歐羅巴 / 欧罗巴 (zh) ( Ōuluóbā ) ( dated )
Wu: 歐洲 / 欧洲
Corsican: Europa f , Auropa f
Czech: Evropa (cs) f
Danish: Europa (da) n
Dhivehi: ޔޫރަޕު ( yūrapu )
Dutch: Europa (nl) n
Erzya: Эвропа ( Evropa ) , Явропа ( Javropa )
Esperanto: Eŭropo (eo)
Estonian: Euroopa (et)
Farefare: Europa
Faroese: Evropa n
Finnish: Eurooppa (fi)
French: Europe (fr) f
Galician: Europa (gl) f
Georgian: ევროპა (ka) ( evroṗa )
German: Europa (de) n
Greek: Ευρώπη (el) f ( Evrópi )
Ancient: Εὐρώπη f ( Eurṓpē )
Gujarati: યુરોપ ( yurop )
Gusii: Ng’umbu
Haitian Creole: Ewòp
Haryanvi: ऐ़रूप
Hausa: Turai (ha)
Hawaiian: ʻEulopa
Hebrew: אֵירוֹפָּה (he) f ( eirópa )
Hiligaynon: Ewropa
Hindi: यूरोप (hi) ( yūrop ) , युरोप (hi) m ( yurop )
Hungarian: Európa (hu)
Icelandic: Evrópa (is) f
Ido: Europa (io)
Igbo: Iroopu
Indonesian: Eropa (id)
Interlingua: Europa (ia)
Irish: Eoraip (ga) f
Italian: Europa (it)
Japanese: ヨーロッパ (ja) ( Yōroppa ) , 欧羅巴 (ja) ( Yōroppa ) ( ateji ) , 欧州 (ja) ( おうしゅう, Ōshū )
Kabardian: Еуропэ ( Jewuropɛ )
Kannada: ಯುರೋಪ್ (kn) ( yurōp )
Kashubian: Eùropa f
Kazakh: Еуропа (kk) ( Europa )
Khmer: អឺរ៉ុប (km) ( ʼəɨrop )
Komi-Permyak: Европа ( Jevropa )
Komi-Zyrian: Европа ( Jevropa )
Korean: 유럽 (ko) ( Yureop ) , 구주(歐洲) (ko) ( Guju ) , 구라파(歐羅巴) (ko) ( Gurapa ) ( dated )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئەوروپا ( ewrupa )
Northern Kurdish: Ewropa (ku)
Kyrgyz: Европа (ky) ( Yevropa )
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Ladino:
Hebrew: איב׳רופה f , איאורופה f
Roman: Evropa f , Europa f
Lao: ເອີລົບ ( ʼœ̄ lop ) , ເອີຣົບ (lo) ( ʼœ̄ rop ) ( dated )
Latin: Eurōpa (la) f
Latvian: Eiropa (lv) f
Ligurian: Eoröpa
Lithuanian: Europa (lt) f
Livonian: Eirōp
Low German: Europa (nds) , Uropa
Lü: ᦵᦁᦲᧁᧈᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ ( ʼoew¹tsoew¹ )
Luxembourgish: Europa (lb) f
Macedonian: Европа f ( Evropa )
Malay: Eropah (ms)
Malayalam: യൂറോപ്പ് (ml) ( yūṟōppŭ )
Maltese: L-Ewropa f
Manx: Oarpey
Maori: Ūropi (mi)
Marathi: युरोप ( yurop )
Mauritian Creole: Lerop
Middle English: Europe
Mirandese: Ouropa f
Moksha: Европа ( Jevropa )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Европ (mn) ( Jevrop )
Mongolian: ᠧᠦ᠋ᠷᠣᠫᠠ ( ēüropa )
Moore: Yerope , yerope , Nasaar-tẽnga
Nahuatl: Europan
Nauruan: Uirope
Navajo: Tó Wónaanídi Bilagáana Bikéyah
Nepali: युरोप ( yurop )
Ngazidja Comorian: Ulaya class 11
North Frisian: Europa ( Heligolandic )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Europa (no) n
Nynorsk: Europa (nn) n
Occitan: Euròpa (oc) f
Odia: ୟୁରୋପ ( yuropa )
Ojibwe: Wemitigoozhiimowin-gichi-aki
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Єѵрѡпа f ( Eüropa ) ( modern )
Glagolitic: Ⰵⱛⱃⱉⱂⰰ f ( Eüropa )
Ossetian: Европӕ ( Evropæ )
Pashto: اروپا (ps) f ( orupā ) , يورپ (ps) m ( yurop )
Persian:
Dari: اُرُوپَا ( urūpā )
Iranian Persian: اُروپا ( orupâ )
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Urup
Polish: Europa (pl) f
Portuguese: Europa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਯੂਰਪ ( yūrap )
Romanian: Europa (ro) f
Cyrillic: Еуропа (ro) f ( Europa )
Romansch: Europa f
Russian: Евро́па (ru) f ( Jevrópa )
Sanskrit: आरूप ( ārūpa )
Scots: Europe
Scottish Gaelic: an Roinn-Eòrpa f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Евро́па f , Еуро́па f ( Croatia )
Roman: Evrópa (sh) f , Európa (sh) f ( Croatia )
Silesian: Ojropa
Sinhalese: යුරෝපය (si) ( yurōpaya )
Slovak: Európa (sk) f
Slovene: Evrópa (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Europa f
Upper Sorbian: Europa (hsb) f
Sotho: Yuropo
Spanish: Europa (es) f
Sukuma: bulaya
Swahili: Ulaya , Uropa ( rare )
Swedish: Europa (sv) n
Tagalog: Europa (tl)
Tajik: Аврупо (tg) ( Avrupo )
Tamil: ஐரோப்பா (ta) ( airōppā )
Tatar: Аурупа ( Awrupa )
Telugu: ఐరోపా (te) ( airōpā ) , యూరప్ ( yūrap )
Thai: ยุโรป (th) ( yú-ròop )
Tibetan: ཡོ་རོབ་གླིང ( yo rob gling )
Tigrinya: ኤውሮጳ ( ʾewrop̣a )
Turkish: Avrupa (tr)
Turkmen: Ýewropa
Udmurt: Европа ( JEvropa )
Ukrainian: Євро́па (uk) f ( Jevrópa ) , Европа (uk) ( Evropa )
Urdu: یُورَپ m ( yūrap )
Uyghur: ياۋروپا ( yawropa )
Uzbek: Yevropa (uz)
Veps: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: Châu Âu (vi) (洲歐 ), Âu (vi) (歐 )
Volapük: Yurop (vo)
Võro: please add this translation if you can
Votic: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: Urope (wa) f
Welsh: Ewrop (cy) f
West Frisian: Jeropa (fy) n , Europa (fy) n
Yakut: Европа ( YEvropa )
Yiddish: אייראָפּע f ( eyrope )
Yoruba: Yúróòpù
Zhuang: Ouhcouh
See also
French
Etymology
From Latin Eurōpa , from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα ( Eurṓpa ) , a character in Greek mythology.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Europe f
Europe
Synonym: Vieux Continent
Europa , a moon of Jupiter
Derived terms
See also
Friulian
Proper noun
Europe f
Europe (a continent)
See also
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη ( Eurṓpē ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eurōpē f sg (genitive Eurōpēs ) ; first declension
Alternative form of Eurōpa
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
Middle English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa , borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα ( Eurṓpa ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Europe
Europe ( continent )
Europa ( Greek goddess )
Descendants