Japon

• Iapon

Possibly from New Latin Iapō̆nia or French Japon or Cantonese 日本 (jat⁶ bun²).

Japon

1. Obsolete form of Japan.
   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 442:

     Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]

Japon

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

Japon

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

From Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), from Middle Chinese 日本 (nyit pwon^X, literally “sun origin”).

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /ʒa.pɔ̃/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ʒa.põ/, /ʒɑ.põ/

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Japon m

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

• ⇒ Haitian Creole: Japon
• → Italian: Giappone
• → Khmer: ជប៉ុន (cĕəʼpon)
• ⇒ Lombard: Gjapon
• → Norman: Japon
• → Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ژاپُن (žâpon)

• ⇒ Piedmontese: Giapon
• → Rade: Za pô nê (via japonais)
• → Turkish: Japon
• → Venetan: Giapòn

From French Japon.

• IPA^(key): /ʒapɔ̃/

Japon

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

• japonè

Japon m

1. alternative spelling of Gjapon: Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

Borrowed from French Japon.

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Japon m

1. (Jersey) Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

• IPA^(key): /dʒaˈpu/

Japon m

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

Borrowed from French Japon.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑˈpon/, [ʒɑˈpʰo̞n̪]

Japon

1. Japanese (native or inhabitant of Japan)

Japon (uncomparable)

1. Japanese (of, from or relating to Japan)

• Japonyalı

• Japonca