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PACIFIC OCEAN (Body of Water) EnglishFrom Portuguese
pacífico meaning "peaceful, calm", ultimately derived from Latin
pacificus "peacemaking".
PÁEZ (Other, Political Subdivision, Region & Settlement) Spanish (Latin American), Native PaezeanPáez (also Paez, Paes; the autonym Nasa Yuwe 'Nasa language' is becoming increasingly used) is a language isolate of Colombia spoken by the Páez people. Ethnologue estimates 71,400 to 83,300
citation needed speakers, including 40,000 monolingual, out of an ethnic population of 140,000....
[more] PALESTINA (Country & Region) Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, SwedishForm of
Palestine.
PALESTRINA (Settlement) ItalianThe name of a town east of Rome in central Italy, apparently derived from
Praeneste, its ancient name.
PANAMA (Country) English, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Tagalog, TurkishThe name of the Country in Central America. Panama is a country on the isthmus linking Central and South America. The Panama Canal, a famous feat of human engineering, cuts through its center, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to create an essential shipping route...
[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.
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". Although the Ojibwe had no ties to Southern California, Dr...
[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.
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) English (American)Name 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] 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] PHILIPPINES (Country) English, FrenchFrom the Spanish name for the archipelago,
Filipinas, which was derived from
Felipe. The name was given in honour of King Phillip II of Spain (1527-1598) by Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, who originally used it to refer to the islands of
Leyte and
Samar...
[more] PHNOM PENH (Settlement) Khmer, EnglishMeans "Penh's hill" in Khmer, a combination of
ភ្នំ (pnum) "hill, mountain" and
ពេញ (bpeuñ) meaning "full", but referring to Lady Penh, a wealthy woman in Cambodian legend who built a new temple for the Buddha after a flood (today believed to be the temple of Wat Phnom)...
[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.
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). The preferred spelling is now the same as the English one, namely
Pyongyang.
PLOVDIV (Settlement) Bulgarian, English"Plovdiv" is the British English form of the city's original Greek name:
Philippopolis, which means "the city of Phillip". It is also the Bulgarian evolution of one of the city's names:
Pulpudeva...
[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.
PRUSSIA (Country) HistoryBecame a Duchy in 1660 and a kingdom in the following century. At its greatest extent it included the northern two-thirds of Germany and western Poland. Prussia, by World War II a federal unit of Germany, was fully disbanded at the end of World War II.
PUERTO RICO (Country) SpanishMeans "rich port" in Spanish. Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory with a landscape of mountains, waterfalls and the El Yunque tropical rainforest. In San Juan, the capital and largest city, the Isla Verde area is known for its hotel strip, beach bars and casinos...
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