Yemen

Type Country
Usage English, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Tagalog
Scripts Йемен(Russian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz) Ємен(Ukrainian) 也门(Chinese) 也門(Traditional Chinese) 예멘(Korean Hangul) เยเมน(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈjɛ.mən/(English) /ˈʝe.men/(Spanish) /ˈje.mʲɪn/(Russian) /je.men/(Korean) /jeː˧.ˈmeːn˧/(Thai)  [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

From Arabic يمن (Yaman), probably derived from يمين (yamin) meaning "right hand, south". This is the name of a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.

Related Names

Other Languages & CulturesJemen(Afrikaans) Yaman(Arabic) Yəmən(Azerbaijani) Jemen(Bosnian) Iemen(Catalan) Jemen(Croatian) Jemen(Czech) Jemen(Dutch) Jemen(Finnish) Yémen(French) Iemen(Galician) Iemeni(Georgian) Jemen(German) Yemeni(Greek) Yaman(Hindi) Jemen(Hungarian) Jemen(Icelandic) Yaman(Indonesian) Iemen(Japanese) Jemena(Latvian) Jemenas(Lithuanian) Jemen(Macedonian) Yaman(Malay) Jemen(Norwegian) Yaman(Persian) Jemen(Polish) Iêmen(Portuguese (Brazilian)) Iémen(Portuguese (European)) Jemen(Serbian) Jemen(Slovak) Jemen(Slovene) Jemen(Swedish) Yaman(Urdu) Yaman(Uzbek)
Same SpellingYémen
User SubmissionÝemen
Entry updated April 23, 2024