English
Etymology
From Middle English Norwey, Norweye, Northwey, Norweȝe, Norewæiȝ, Norwæge, from Old English Norþweġ, a calque of Old Norse Norðvegr (“north way”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”), contrasted with suðrvegr (“south way”), i.e. Germany, and austrvegr (“east way”), the Baltic lands. Norwegian (1607) is from Medieval Latin Norvegia, with the -w- from Norway. Equivalent to North + way.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɔː.weɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɔɹ.weɪ/
Proper noun
Norway
- A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Norway.
2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business[1]:Kramer said California’s legislation is weak compared to the laws in Norway and other European countries, which require a certain percentage of women on boards.
- The former name of a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, now Upper Beaches.
- A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois.
- A census-designated place in White County, Indiana.
- A small city in Benton County, Iowa.
- A rural unincorporated community in Republic County, Kansas.
- A town in Oxford County, Maine.
- A small city in Dickinson County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Nebraska.
- A small town in Herkimer County, New York.
- A small town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
- A town in Racine County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ノルウェー (Noruwē)
Translations
Scandinavian country
- Afrikaans: Noorweë
- Albanian: Norvegji f (indefinite), Norvegjia (sq) f (definite)
- Amharic: ኖርዌይ (norwey)
- Arabic: النُّرْوِيج (ar) f (an-nurwīj) (definite), النُّرْوِيج (ar) f (an-nurwēg) (definite), نُرْوِيج f (nurwīj), نُرْوِيج f (nurwēg), النَّرُوج f (an-narūj) (definite), نَرُوج f (narūj)
- Hijazi Arabic: النُّرْويج f (an-nurwīj) (definite)
- Armenian: Նորվեգիա (Norvegia)
- Aromanian: Nurveghii f (indefinite), Nurveghia (definite), Nãrvãyii (indefinite), Nãrvãyia (definite)
- Assamese: নৰৱে (norowe)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܲܪܒ݂ܲܝܓ f (narwayg)
- Asturian: Noruega (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: Norveç (az)
- Bashkir: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
- Basque: Norvegia (eu)
- Bavarian: Norwegn
- Belarusian: Нарве́гія f (Narvjéhija), Нарвэ́гія f (Narvéhija) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: নরওয়ে (bn) (norōẇe)
- Breton: Norvegia (br)
- Bulgarian: Норве́гия (bg) f (Norvégija)
- Burmese: နော်ဝေ (nauwe)
- Buryat: Норвеги (Norvjegi)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Но́рьско n (Nórʹsko)
- Catalan: Noruega (ca) f, Norvègia (ca)
- Chechen: Норвеги (Norʷegi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 挪威 (no4 wai1)
- Eastern Min: 挪威 (Nò̤-ŭi)
- Hokkien: 挪威 (Nô͘-ui)
- Mandarin: 挪威 (zh) (Nuówēi)
- Wu: 挪威 (6nu-ue)
- Chuvash: Норвеги (Norvegi)
- Cornish: Norgagh m
- Crimean Tatar: Norvegiya
- Czech: Norsko (cs) n
- Danish: Norge (da)
- Dhivehi: ނޯވޭ (dv) (nōvē)
- Dutch: Noorwegen (nl) n
- Dzongkha: ནོ་ཝེ་ (no we)
- Esperanto: Norvegio, Norvegujo (eo)
- Estonian: Norra (et)
- Farefare: Norsore
- Faroese: Noreg (fo) n, Norra n, Noregsland n, Noregur m
- Finnish: Norja (fi)
- French: Norvège (fr) f
- Galician: Noruega (gl) f
- Georgian: ნორვეგია (ka) (norvegia)
- German: Norwegen (de) n
- Greek: Νορβηγία (el) f (Norvigía)
- Greenlandic: Norge (kl)
- Gujarati: નોર્વે (norve)
- Hausa: Norwe, Nowe
- Hawaiian: Nolewai
- Hebrew: נוֹרְוֶגְיָה (he) f (norvégya)
- Hiligaynon: Norwega
- Hindi: नॉर्वे (hi) m (nŏrve)
- Hungarian: Norvégia (hu)
- Icelandic: Noregur (is) m
- Ido: Norvegia (io)
- Inari Sami: Taažâ
- Indonesian: Norwegia (id)
- Interlingua: Norvega, Norvegia
- Irish: An Iorua f, Ríocht na hIorua f
- Italian: Norvegia (it) f
- Japanese: ノルウェー (ja) (Noruwē), (obsolete) 諾威 (ja) (Noruwē)
- Kannada: ನಾರ್ವೇ (nārvē)
- Kashubian: Norweskô (csb) f
- Kazakh: Норвегия (kk) (Norvegiä)
- Khmer: ន័រវែស (km) (nɔəvɛɛh)
- Kildin Sami: Та̄рр (Tārr), Та̄рре̄ммьне (Tārriemm’nje)
- Korean: 노르웨이 (ko) (Noreuwei)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Norwêc
- Kven: Norja, Ruiđa
- Kyrgyz: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
- Lao: ນອກແວ (nǭk wǣ)
- Latin: Norvegia f (New Latin)
- Latvian: Norvēģija (lv) f
- Limburgish: Nórwaeg n
- Lithuanian: Norvegija (lt) f
- Livonian: Norvēgmō
- Livvi: Norviegii
- Lule Sami: Vuodna
- Luxembourgish: Norwegen (lb) n
- Macedonian: Норвешка (mk) f (Norveška)
- Malay: Norway (ms)
- Malayalam: നോർവെ (nōṟve)
- Maltese: In-Norveġja f (definite)
- Manx: Loghlyn
- Maori: Nōwei, Norowe
- Marathi: नॉर्वे (nŏrve)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Норвеги (mn) (Norvegi), Норвег (Norveg)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠣᠷᠸᠧᠭᠢ (norwēgi), ᠨᠣᠷᠸᠠᠢ (norwai) (China)
- Nepali: नर्वे (narve)
- Norman: Norouague f
- Northern Sami: Norga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Norge (no) n
- Nynorsk: Noreg (nn) n
- Occitan: Norvègia (oc) f
- Odia: ନରୱେ (narawe)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: Норєгъ m (Noregŭ) (moern)
- Old English: Norþweġ m
- Old French: Norweie f
- Ossetian: Норвеги (Norvegi)
- Pashto: ناروې f (nārwe)
- Pennsylvania German: Norwegen n
- Persian:
- Dari: نَارْوی (nārwē)
- Iranian Persian: نُرْوِژ
- Pite Sami: Vuodna
- Polish: Norwegia (pl) f
- Portuguese: Noruega (pt) f
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਨਾਰਵੇ m (nārve)
- Rarotongan: Noruē
- Romani:
- Vlax Romani: Norvejiya
- Romanian: Norvegia (ro) f
- Russian: Норве́гия (ru) f (Norvégija)
- Scots: Norawa
- Scottish Gaelic: Nirribhidh f, Lochlann m or f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Но̀рвешка̄ f
- Roman: Nòrveškā (sh) f
- Sicilian: Nurbeggia f
- Silesian: Norwygijo f
- Sinhalese: නෝර්වේ (nōrwē)
- Skolt Sami: Taarr
- Slovak: Nórsko (sk) n
- Slovene: Norvẹ̑ška (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Norwegska f
- Upper Sorbian: Norwegska f
- Southern Sami: Nöörje, Nøørje
- Spanish: Noruega (es) f
- Swahili: Norwe (sw)
- Swedish: Norge (sv) n
- Tagalog: Norwega
- Tajik: Норвегия (tg) (Norvegiya)
- Tamil: நோர்வே (ta) (nōrvē)
- Tatar: Норвегия (Norwegiyä)
- Telugu: నార్వే (te) (nārvē)
- Thai: นอร์เวย์ (th) (nɔɔ-wee)
- Tigrinya: ኖርዌ (norwe)
- Turkish: Norveç (tr)
- Turkmen: Norwegiýa
- Ukrainian: Норве́гія (uk) f (Norvéhija), Норве́ґія f (Norvégija)
- Urdu: نارْوے m (nārve)
- Uyghur: نورۋېگىيە (norwëgiye)
- Uzbek: Norvegiya (uz)
- Veps: Norvegii
- Vietnamese: Na Uy (vi) (挪威)
- Volapük: Norgän (vo)
- Võro: Norra
- Welsh: Norwy (cy) f
- Yakut: Норвегия (Norvegiya)
- Yiddish: נאָרוועגיע n (norvegye)
- Yoruba: Nọọwii
- Zhuang: Nozveih
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Noun
Norway (plural Norways)
- Ellipsis of Norway rat.
See also
- Appendix:Countries of the world
- Austland, Austlandet
- Midt-Noreg
- Midt-Norge
- Nordaustland, Nordaustlandet
- Nordøstland, Nordøstlandet
- Nordvestland, Nordvestlandet
- Østland, Østlandet
- Søraustland, Søraustlandet
- Sørland, Sørlandet
- Sørvestland, Sørvestlandet
- Sørøstland, Sørøstlandet
- Vestland, Vestlandet