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PACIFIC OCEAN (Body of Water) EnglishFrom Portuguese
pacífico meaning "peaceful, calm", ultimately derived from Latin
pacificus "peacemaking".
PADANG (Settlement) Indonesian, Minangkabau, Acehnese, Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, UzbekMeans "field, plain" in Indonesian. This is the name of the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Sumatra.
PAHANG (Political Subdivision & River) Malay, Indonesian, Banjar, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, UrduUncertain, possibly from
mahang, the Malay name for a type of tree native to the area (genus Macaranga), or from Khmer ប៉ាហាំង
(paahang) meaning "tin". This is the name of a Malaysian state as well as a river that flows through the region.
PALAU (Country) EnglishPalau is an archipelago in Oceania. The flag is a yellow circle in the middle of a blue background, and the country is locally known as Belau.
PALEMBANG (Settlement) Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Minangkabau, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indian, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, UzbekMeaning unclear, possibly from the prefix
pa- denoting location combined with Malay
limbang meaning "to pan gold, to wash rice" or
lembang meaning "to cause (water) to flow" or "lowland basin, valley" (a reference to the area's geography as a wetland)...
[more] PALERMO (Settlement) Italian, English, Dutch, Esperanto, Georgian, German, Greek, Maltese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, TurkishFrom Latin
Panormus, itself from Ancient Greek Πάνορμος (
Pánormos), composed of the words πᾰν (
pan, "all") and ὅρμος (
hórmos, "port"), influenced by Arabic بَلَرْم (
balarm)...
[more] PALESTINA (Country & Region) Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, TagalogForm of
PALESTINE.
PALESTINE (Region) English, Biblical, FrenchFrom Hebrew
Pelesheth, which probably means "land of the Philistines". This is the name of a historical/geographic region in Western Asia....
[more] PALESTINE (Country) EnglishFrom the name of the geographical region
Palestine (1), which is ultimately derived from Hebrew
Pelesheth. This is the name of a sovereign state in Western Asia (officially the State of Palestine)...
[more] PALESTRINA (Settlement) ItalianThe name of a town east of Rome in central Italy, apparently derived from
Praeneste, its ancient name.
PANAMA (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Spanish
Panamá of uncertain meaning. It may be derived from the name of a tree commonly found in the area (genus Sterculia), from an indigenous word meaning "many butterflies", from Kuna
bannaba meaning "distant, far away", or from a Guaraní word meaning "place of many fish"...
[more] PANEVĖŽYS (Settlement) LithuanianMeans "along the Nevėžis" referring to the Nevėžis River in Lithuania. This is the name of a city and county in northeast Lithuania.
PANGASINAN (Political Subdivision) Filipino, Pangasinan, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pampangan, Tagalog, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, UrduFrom the name of the Pangasinan people meaning "place of salt" or "land of salt", derived from Pangasinan
pang- meaning "for",
asin meaning "salt", and the place marker suffix
-an...
[more] PANGEA (Other) HistoryName of the first supercontinent from the greek
Pan meaning "all" and
gaia meaning "earth"
PARAGUAY (Country) Spanish, EnglishMeaning unknown, but probably derived from a river with the same name. This is the name of a landlocked country in South America.
PARIAMAN (Settlement) Indonesian, Minangkabau, Javanese, Malay, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, UrduFrom Arabic بر أمان
(barr 'aman) meaning "safe land, secure land". This is the name of a town in West Sumatra province, Indonesia.
PASADENA (Settlement) EnglishName of a city in
CALIFORNIA, from Ojibwe
pa-sa-de-na, meaning "valley of the valley" "crown of the valley" "key of the valley" or "hill of the valley"...
[more] PATTANI (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Thai, Malay, Azerbaijani, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, TurkishMost likely from Pattani Malay
patani meaning "this beach" (compare standard Malay
pantai ini). Alternately, it may have come from a Sanskrit word meaning "virgin nymph" or from Malay
petani meaning "farmer"...
[more] PAVLODAR (Settlement) Kazakh, Russian, EnglishDerived from the name of Pavel Alexandrovich, a former Grand Duke of Russia. The city was originally named
Koryakovsky before Pavel's birth. Pavlodar is a northeastern city in Kazakhstan.
PAXSON (Settlement) EnglishThis is the name of 3 places, two being in America and one being in Canada....
[more] PÉCS (Settlement) HungarianPécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country.
PENANG (Political Subdivision & Island) Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, TurkishFrom Malay
Pulau Pinang meaning "betel palm island", from
pinang meaning "betel nut" or "betel palm" (a type of tree). This is the name of an island and state in Malaysia.
PENGE (Settlement) EnglishA suburb of London, England. Originally named Penceat, it appears to derive from Brythonic
*penno, 'head, edge' and
*ceid, 'forest, wood', so likely meant 'settlement on the forest's edge'.
PENNSYLVANIA (Political Subdivision) EnglishName of a state in the United States, literally "Penn's woods".
Penn comes from
Pennaeth, the welsh word for "head" "top" and Latin
silvania (from Latin
silvia) "wood, forrest"...
[more] PENRITH (Settlement) EnglishA town in Northern England. Its name derives from the Cumbric
pen, 'hill, top, summit' (Welsh
pen) and
rith, 'ford, crossing', (Welsh
ryd).
PENSHAW (Settlement) EnglishA village in Northern England. The first element seems to be Cumbric
pen, which means 'summit, head'. The most obvious explanation for the second is Old English
sceaga, meaning 'woods'...
[more] PEN-Y-GHENT (Mountain) English, Ancient CelticA mountain in Yorkshire, Northern England. In the Cumbric Language, the element
pen, exactly as in Welsh, meant 'head, top, summit', and
y, also as in Welsh, meant the definite article 'the'...
[more] PERAK (Political Subdivision) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Banjar, Minangkabau, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, UkrainianMeans "silver" in Malay, named in reference to the region's position as one of the world's largest sources of tin. This is the name of a state of Malaysia.
PERLIS (Political Subdivision) Malay, Indonesian, Acehnese, Banjar, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, UkrainianOf unclear origin, possibly from the Thai phrase พร้าวลอย
(práao loi) meaning "floating coconut" or "coconut washed ashore", a reference to the many coconuts once found along the shores of the region...
[more] PERSLEY (Settlement) ScottishA small hamlet in North-East Scotland, now encompassed by the city of Aberdeen. There are several explanations as to the origin of the name of this small settlement:...
[more] PERTH (Settlement) ScottishA city in central Scotland. The name is of Pictish origin and derived from
*perth, meaning 'bush, copse' (Welsh
perth, 'bush, hedge').
PETERBOROUGH (Settlement) EnglishThis is the name of 2 cities, one in Cambridgeshire (UK) and Ontario (Canada), and 3 towns, one in New Hampshire (US), Victoria & South Australia (Australia)....
[more] PETROGRAD (Political Subdivision & Region) RussianThe name of
SAINT PETERSBURG during 1914 to 1924. Saint Petersburg's name was changed to this to avoid German connotations, as
burg is a common German suffix meaning "fortress, fortification, castle" and
sankt meaning saint...
[more] PEVEK (Political Subdivision) Russianeither "Swollen-" or "Smelly Mountain"
PHẦN LAN (Country) VietnameseFrom a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 芬蘭
(Fēnlán), perhaps altered based on Vietnamese
phân meaning "feces" or
phần meaning "part, portion". This is the Vietnamese name for
Finland.
PHÁP (Country) VietnameseFrom Sino-Vietnamese 法
(Pháp), from a contraction of Chinese 法國
(Fǎguó). This is the Vietnamese name for
France.
PHILISTIA (Region) English, BiblicalFrom Hebrew
Pleshet. This was the name of a confederation of cities in Southwest Levant inhabited by the Philistines. See also
PALESTINE.
PHNOM PENH (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, Filipino, Tagalog, TurkishFrom Khmer ភ្នំពេញ
(Phnum Pin) meaning "Penh's hill", from ភ្នំ
(phnum) meaning "hill, mountain" and ពេញ
(pin), the name of a legendary woman who supposedly founded the city in 1372...
[more] PHOENICE (Settlement) Ancient GreekPhoenice or
Phoenike was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians.
45 It was also the location of the Treaty of Phoenice which ended the First Macedonian War,
6 as well as one of the wealthiest cities in Epirus until the Roman conquest....
[more] PHOENICIA (Region) Historyfrom the Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē meaning "purple country", Phoenicia was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic civilization that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent.
PHUKET (Political Subdivision, Settlement & Island) Thai, Albanian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Lao, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, TurkishDerived from Malay
bukit meaning "hill". This is the name of an island, province, and city in southern Thailand.
PJONGJANG (Settlement) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Macedonian, Polish, Serbian, SloveneForm of
PYONGYANG. In Belgium and the Netherlands, this spelling is technically considered dated but still used regularly there (especially in Belgium)...
[more] PLOVDIV (Settlement) Bulgarian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, UzbekFrom a Thracian translation of the Latin name
Pulpudeva, which is possibly derived from the given name
PHILLIP and Dacian
dava meaning "city, town, fortress"...
[more] PLYMOUTH (Settlement) EnglishThe name of a port city in the south-western English county of Devon as well as dozens of locations in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, notably the one in Massachusetts....
[more] POMPEII (Settlement) Ancient RomanPossibly derived from the Oscan
pompe "five", becoming the Latin second declension plural,
pompeii. This may be because the community formerly consisted of five hamlets, or was perhaps settled by a family group (gens
Pompeia)....
[more] PONDICHERRY (Political Subdivision & Settlement) EnglishDerived from Tamil புதுச்சேரி
(putuccēri) meaning "new town". Pondicherry (Puducherry) is the capital city of an Indian state of the same name.
PORTLAND (Settlement) AmericanIn America, it is most likely used as a place name in reference to Portland, Oregon.
PORTSMOUTH (Settlement) EnglishMeaning unknown. This is the name of a port city in Hampshire County, UK.