Dhivehi Submitted Place Names

Dhivehi names are used by the Dhivehi people of the Maldives.

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

BUTAN ބޫޓާން (Country) Abkhaz, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chuvash, Circassian, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Dhivehi, Faroese, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lezgin, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Ossetian, Persian, Russian, Slovene, Tatar, Turkmen, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Yakut
Form of BHUTAN.

INDONESHIYA އިންޑޮނޭޝިޔާ (Country) Dhivehi
Dhivehi form of INDONESIA.

LIBIYA ލީބިޔާ‎ (Country) Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Crimean Tatar, Dhivehi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Tajik, Telugu, Urdu
Form of LIBYA.

MAKAU މަކާއޫ (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Dhivehi, Indonesian, Malay, Polish
Dhivehi, Indonesian, Malay, and Polish form of Macau.

MELESHIYA މެލޭޝިޔާ (Country) Dhivehi
Dhivehi form of MALAYSIA.

UMAN ޢުމާން‎ (Country) Arabic, Dhivehi, Pashto
Arabic, Dhivehi, and Pashto form of OMAN.

YAMAN ޔަމަން‎ (Country) Arabic, Chechen, Dhivehi, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Tajik, Tatar, Urdu, Uzbek
Form of YEMEN. In Arabic, it is usually written with the definite article as اليمن (al-Yaman).

YUNAN ޔޫނާން‎ (Country) Arabic, Dhivehi, Hindi, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu
Form of Ionia used to refer to the country of Greece. The Arabic name is usually written with a definite article as اليونان (al-Yunan).

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