FromArabic اَلْيَمَن ( al-yaman ) , fromProto-Semitic *yamīn- ( “ right; right hand ” ) .
Yemen (plural Yemens )
Acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East . Official name:Republic of Yemen . Capital:Sanaa .2012 April 30, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, “Al-Qaida's wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds”, inThe Guardian [1] :Unlike in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, inYemen they are trying to implement sharia by winning over the hearts and minds of the people.
( historical ) Aregion in the southernArabian Peninsula ; theArabia Felix .The country is traditionally referred to with the definite articlethe , though this construction has declined in use.[ 1]
^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020 ), “Greece ,the Netherlands and(the) Ukraine : A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, inA Journal of Onomastics , volume68 , number 1,→DOI , pages1–16 IPA (key ) : /ˈʝemen/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.mẽŋ] Rhymes:-emen Syllabification:Ye‧men Yemen m
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Yemen (acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East )Borrowed fromEnglish Yemen , fromArabic اَلْيَمَن ( al-yaman ) .
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Yemen (acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East )Alternative spellings Arabic [[یمن ]]Soviet Latin Jemen Romanian Latin [[]] Cyrillic Емен Ukranian Latin Yemen
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alternative spelling ofJemen :Yemen (acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East )Yemen m
alternative spelling ofIêmen / Iémen ThePortuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 recommends the use of nativized placenames (instead ofunadapted borrowings orpartial calques ) if these are established in the language. As such, the formsIêmen orIémen are preferred.
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Yemen (acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East )The definite article is optional when referring to Yemen in Spanish (i.e.el Yemen). Borrowed fromSpanish Yemen ( “ Yemen ” ) .
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Yemen (acountry inWest Asia in theMiddle East )Declension ofYemen singular plural nominative Yemen - definite accusative Yemen'i - dative Yemen'e - locative Yemen'de - ablative Yemen'den - genitive Yemen'in -