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English
Etymology
From Middle Low German Swêde Germanic Old Norse Svíþjóð Old English Swēoþēod ( “ Sweden ” , literally “ Swede nation ” ) , itself from Swēo ( “ Swede ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *swihô ( “ Swede ” ) . Cognate with Dutch Zweed German Schwede
A crowd of Swedes .
Pronunciation
Noun Swede (plural Swedes
A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.
( historical ) North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden
Derived terms
Translations person from Sweden or of Swedish descent
Afrikaans: Sweed
Albanian: suedez (sq)
Arabic: سُوِيدِيّ ( suwīdiyy )
Armenian: շվեդ (hy) ( šved )
Azerbaijani: isveçli
Breton: Svedad (br) m
Bulgarian: швед m ( šved ) , шве́дка f ( švédka )
Catalan: suec (ca) m sueca (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏫᏗ ( aswidi )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瑞典人 (zh) ( Ruìdiǎnrén )
Czech: Švéd (cs) m Švédka (cs) f
Danish: svensker (da) c
Dutch: Zweed (nl) m Zweedse (nl) f
Esperanto: svedo svedino
Estonian: rootslane (et)
Faroese: svii m svenskari m svíi m
Finnish: ruotsalainen (fi)
French: Suédois (fr) m Suédoise (fr) f
Galician: sueco (gl) m sueca f
Georgian: შვედი (ka) ( švedi )
German: Schwede (de) m Schwedin (de) f
Greek: Σουηδός (el) m ( Souidós ) , Σουηδή (el) f ( Souidí ) , Σουηδέζος (el) m ( Souidézos ) , Σουηδέζα (el) f ( Souidéza )
Guaraní: suesiagua
Hawaiian: Kuekene
Hebrew: שוודי (he)
Hindi: स्वीडिश (hi) ( svīḍiś ) , स्वीडियाई (hi) ( svīḍiyāī )
Hungarian: svéd (hu)
Icelandic: Svíi (is) m
Ido: Suediano (io)
Irish: Sualannach m
Italian: svedese (it) m or f
Japanese: スウェーデン人 (ja) ( Suwēden-jin )
Kazakh: швед ( şved )
Korean: 스웨덴인 (ko) ( Seuweden-in ) , 스웨덴 사람 ( seuweden saram )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سوێدی ( swêdî )
Northern Kurdish: swêdî (ku)
Kyrgyz: швед ( şved )
Latvian: zviedrs m zviedriete f
Lithuanian: švedas (lt) m švedė (lt) f
Macedonian: Швеѓанец m ( Šveǵanec ) , Швеѓанка f ( Šveǵanka )
Maltese: żvediż m żvediża f
Northern Sami: ruoŧŧẹlaš
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svenske (no) m
Nynorsk: svenske (nn) m
Old English: Swēo m
Old Norse: svíar m pl
Persian: سوئدی (fa) ( su'edi )
Polish: Szwed (pl) m Szwedka (pl) f
Portuguese: sueco (pt) m sueca f
Romanian: suedez (ro) m suedeză (ro) f
Russian: швед (ru) m ( šved ) , шве́дка (ru) f ( švédka )
Scottish Gaelic: Suaineach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Шве́ђанин m Швеђ m Швеђанка f
Roman: Švéđanin Švȅd (sh) m Švéđānka f
Sicilian: sbidisi m or f
Slovak: Švéd m Švédka f
Slovene: Švéd (sl) m Švédinja f
Spanish: sueco (es) m sueca (es) f
Swahili: Mswidi (sw)
Swedish: svensk (sv) c ( males, or if gender is not important ) , svenska (sv) c ( females, only if gender is important ) , svenne (sv) c ( usually derogatory )
Tajik: швед ( šved )
Turkish: İsveçli (tr)
Ukrainian: швед m ( šved ) , шве́дка f ( švédka )
Uzbek: shved (uz)
Venetian: svedexe (vec) m or f
Welsh: Swediad m or f
Yiddish: שוועד m ( shved )
member of the ancient North Germanic tribe
References The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology 1 From Dutch Zweden Middle Dutch Zweden Sweden
Pronunciation
Proper noun Swede
Sweden Northern Europe Synonym: Koninkryk van Swede
Etymology 2
Noun Swede
plural of Sweed
