Submitted Name
Type Country
Usage Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur
Scripts Йемен(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian) 也门, 叶门(Chinese) يەمەن(Kazakh Arabic, Uyghur) 예멘(Korean Hangul) یەمەن(Kurdish Sorani) เยเมน(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. YEH-MUN(Chinese) YEH-mən(English) YEH-MEHN(Korean) YEH-min(Russian) YEH-myin(Russian) JYEH-mehn(Spanish) yeh-MEHN(Thai) [key·IPA]
Other Forms FormsYemén (Spanish)
[Meaning & History
From Arabic اليمن (al-Yaman) which is probably from يَمِين (yamīn) meaning "right (hand), south". This is the name of a country in Western Asia.