indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Country
Usage Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur
Scripts Օման(Armenian) ওমান(Bengali) Оман(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian) အိုမန်(Burmese) Ομάν(Greek) ओमान(Hindi) オマーン(Japanese Katakana) ومان(Kazakh Arabic) 오만(Korean Hangul) عومان(Kurdish Sorani) โอมาน(Thai) ئومان(Uyghur Arabic)
Pronounced Pron. aw-MAHN(Armenian) O-MAN(Burmese, Japanese, Korean) o-MAN(Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Indonesian, Romanian, Thai) oo-MAN(Catalan) o-MAHN(English, Hindi) ə-MAHN(English) AW-MAN(French) AW-MAHN(French) AW-man(Polish) u-MAN(Russian) [key·IPA]
Other Forms FormsOmān (Japanese)
Meaning & History
From Arabic عمان (ʿUmān), which is of disputed etymology. It may be from Arabic عُمَانَة (ʿumāna), a byname for the historical city of Sohar (presently located in Al Batinah North Governorate, Oman), which is probably derived from the root ع م ن (ʿ-m-n) meaning "to settle, to remain, to dwell". Alternately, it may be derived from the name of a historical figure or from the name of a valley in Yemen. This is the name of a country located in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia.