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English
a map of the British Isles , showing the United Kingdom in green and Wales in darker green
Welsh kingdoms c. 1039
Etymology
From Middle English Wales , from Old English Wēalas , plural of wealh ( “ Celt, Welsh person ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *walhaz ( “ Celt, Roman ” ) . Compare the second element in Cornwall , and also Gaul .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales (countable and uncountable , plural Waleses )
One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom , formerly a principality
( historical ) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
A surname .
A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham , South Yorkshire , England ( OS grid ref SK4883) .
A number of places in the United States :
A city in Alaska .
A town in Maine .
A town in Massachusetts .
A town in New York .
A city in North Dakota .
A town in Utah .
A village in Wisconsin .
A submerged ghost town in Ontario , Canada .
Synonyms
Related terms
( constituent country ) : Welsh
Translations
a constituent nation of the UK
Abkhaz: Уалыс ( Waləs )
Afrikaans: Wallis (af)
Albanian: Uellsi , Galli f
Amharic: ዌልስ ( wels )
Arabic: وِيلْز (ar) f ( wēlz, wīlz )
Hijazi Arabic: ويلز f ( wēlz )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܘܵܠܝܼܵܐ f ( Walia )
Armenian: Ուելս ( Uels ) , Վաղէս ( Vaġēs ) , Կալլես ( Kalles )
Asturian: Gales (ast)
Azerbaijani: Uels (az)
Basque: Gales (eu)
Belarusian: Ўэльс m ( Ŭelʹs ) , Уэ́льс m ( Uélʹs ) , Ва́лія f ( Válija ) ( obsolete )
Bengali: ওয়েল্স্ ( ōẇels )
Breton: Kembre (br) , Bro-Gembre
Bulgarian: Уе́лс m ( Uéls )
Burmese: ဝေလ ( wela. )
Catalan: Gal·les (ca) m , pais de Gal·les m
Chechen: Уэльс ( Welʲs )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 威爾斯 / 威尔斯 ( wai1 ji5 si1 ) , 威爾士 / 威尔士 ( wai1 ji5 si6 )
Mandarin: 威爾士 / 威尔士 (zh) ( Wēi'ěrshì ) , 威爾斯 / 威尔斯 (zh) ( Wēi'ěrsī )
Chuvash: Уэльс ( Uelʹs )
Cornish: Kembra (kw)
Czech: Wales (cs) m
Danish: Wales n
Dutch: Wales (nl) n
Esperanto: Kimrio
Estonian: Wales (et) , Kõmrimaa ( rare )
Farefare: Walgɔ
Faroese: Wales , Kymru
Finnish: Wales (fi) , Kymri
French: pays de Galles (fr) m
Middle French: Galles f
Old French: Gales f
Galician: Gales (gl)
Georgian: უელსი ( uelsi )
German: Wales (de) n
Greek: Ουαλία (el) f ( Oualía )
Gujarati: વેલ્સ ( vels ) , કમરી ( kamrī )
Hebrew: ווֹלְס f ( vols ) , וֵילְס f ( veils ) , וֵיילְס f ( veils )
Hindi: वेल्स (hi) ( vels )
Hungarian: Wales (hu) , Velsz ( poetic, archaic )
Icelandic: Wales
Ido: Wals (io)
Indonesian: Wales (id)
Interlingua: Galles
Inuktitut: ᐆᐃᓪᔅ ( ooils )
Irish: an Bhreatain Bheag f
Italian: Galles (it) m
Japanese: ウェールズ (ja) ( Wēruzu )
Kannada: ವೇಲ್ಸ್ ( vēls )
Kashubian: Walijô
Kazakh: Уэльс (kk) ( Uéls )
Khmer: វ៉ែល ( vael )
Korean: 웨일스 (ko) ( Weilseu )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Wêls (ku) f
Kyrgyz: Уэльс ( Uels )
Lao: ການ (lo) ( kān ) , ເວລສ໌ ( wēn sa )
Latin: Cambria f , Wallia f
Latvian: Velsa f
Lithuanian: Velsas m
Macedonian: Велс m ( Vels )
Malay: Wales
Malayalam: വേൽസ് ( vēlsŭ )
Maltese: Wales
Manx: Bretyn
Maori: Wēra
Marathi: वेल्स ( velsa )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Уэльс ( Uelʹs )
Nepali: वेल्स ( velsa )
Norman: Galles f
North Frisian: Wales
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Wales (no)
Occitan: País de Galas (oc) m
Old English: Wēalas m pl
Old Norse: Bretland n
Ossetian: Уэльс ( Uèlʹs )
Pashto: ويلز m , وېلز m
Persian: ویلز ( veylz )
Polish: Walia (pl) f
Portuguese: País de Gales (pt) m
Punjabi: ਵੇਲਜ਼ ( velaz )
Romani:
Welsh Romani: Vålši f pl , Akava Them m , Talano Them m , Vålšano Them m , Vålšenengo Them m , Vålšitika Them m
Romanian: Țara Galilor f , Wales (ro) n
Romansch: Valisa f
Russian: Уэ́льс (ru) m ( Uélʹs ) , Ва́ллис m ( Vállis ) ( obsolete ) , Ва́ллия f ( Vállija ) ( obsolete )
Samoan: Uelese
Scots: Wales
Scottish Gaelic: A' Chuimrigh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Велс m
Roman: Wales m , Vels m
Sicilian: Galles m , Gàllisi m
Silesian: Walijo f
Sinhalese: වේල්සය ( wēlsaya )
Slovak: Wales m
Slovene: Wales m
Somali: Waalis
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Wales f
Upper Sorbian: Waliziska f
Spanish: Gales (es) m , País de Gales m
Swahili: Welisi
Swedish: Wales (sv) n
Tagalog: Gales (tl)
Tajik: Уелс ( Uyels )
Tamil: வேல்ஸ் ( vēls )
Tatar: Велс ( Wels ) , Уэльс ( U'l’s )
Telugu: వేల్స్ ( vēls )
Thai: เวลส์ ( weel )
Turkish: Galler (tr)
Turkmen: Uels
Ukrainian: Уе́льс m ( Uélʹs ) , Ва́лліс m ( Vállis ) ( obsolete ) , Ва́ллія f ( Vállija ) ( obsolete )
Urdu: ویلز ( vels )
Uyghur: ۋېلش ( wëlsh )
Uzbek: Uels
Vietnamese: Uy Nhĩ Sĩ , Huệ Châu , Xứ Gan , xứ Gan (vi)
Võro: Kõmrimaa , Wales
Welsh: Cymru (cy) f
West Frisian: Wales (fy)
Yiddish: וויילז n ( veylz )
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales m inan (related adjective waleský or velšský )
Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom )
Declension
Declension of Wales (sg-only hard masculine inanimate )
Further reading
Wales in Internetová jazyková příručka
Danish
Proper noun
Wales
Wales
Dutch
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales n
Wales ( country )
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Wales .
Pronunciation
Since this is an unadapted borrowing, there is no set pronunciation, it depends on the speaker's knowledge of English.
The most common version seen is:
Proper noun
Wales
Wales
Synonym: ( rare ) Kõmrimaa
Declension
Finnish
Etymology
From English Wales .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales
Wales
Declension
Derived terms
German
Etymology
From English Wales
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /veːls/ , /vɛɪ̯ls/ , /wɛɪ̯ls/
Proper noun
Wales n (proper noun , genitive Wales' or ( with an article ) Wales )
Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom )
Related terms
Hungarian
Wales on Hungarian Wikipedia
Etymology
From English Wales .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales
Wales (a country in the United Kingdom )
Declension
Derived terms
Indonesian
Proper noun
Wales
Wales
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English Wēalas , plural of wealh ; equivalent to wale ( “ outsider ” ) + -es .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales
Wales ( constituent part of the United Kingdom )
Descendants
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Wales
Wales ( a country within the United Kingdom )
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Wales
Wales ( a country within the United Kingdom )
Related terms
Romanian
Proper noun
Wales n
Wales (a country in northwestern Europe , a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
Synonym: Țara Galilor
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales m inan (genitive singular Walesu , declension pattern of dub )
Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom )
References
“Wales ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk , 2024
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wales n (genitive Wales )
Wales
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