Earth - Wiktionary
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Earth
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also earth
Contents
1 English
1.1 Etymology
1.2 Pronunciation
1.3 Proper noun
1.3.1 Quotations
1.3.2 Synonyms
1.3.3 Translations
1.3.4 Derived terms
1.3.5 See also
1.3.6 External links
1.4 Anagrams
English
Etymology
Old English eorþe.
Pronunciation
IPA: /ɜː(ɹ)θ/
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Rhymes: -ɜː(r)θ
The Earth
Proper noun
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Earth
1. The third planet in order from the Sun, upon which humans live. Represented in astronomy
and astrology by ♁ and ⊕.
2. (paganism) The Earth Goddess in Heathenry. [quotations ▼]
Quotations
For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
Synonyms
(third planet from Sun): Terra, world
Translations
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third planet from the Sun
Select targeted languages
Albanian: Toka (sq)
Aleut: tanax̂
American Sign Language:
Open8@BackHand-PalmDownS@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Twist
Arabic: ‫( ﺍﻷﺭﺽ‬ar) (al-'arD) f
Armenian: Երկիր (hy) (Erkir)
Basque: Lurra (eu)
Belarusian: Зямля (be) (Zjamljá) f
(bn) (prithibi),
Bengali:
(bn)
Bosnian: Zemlja (bs) f
Breton: Douar m
Bulgarian: Земя (bg) (Zémja) f
Burmese: (kăba-jo)
Catalan: La Terra (ca), Terra (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地球 (cmn) (Dìqiú)
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Korean: 지구 (ko) (Jigu) (地球)
Kölsch: Ääd
Latin: orbis (la) m, terra (la) f
Latvian: Zeme (lv) , zeme (lv) f
Lithuanian: Žemė (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Äerd f
Macedonian: Земја (mk) (Zémja) f
Malayalam:
(bhoomi)
Maltese: l-Art
Mongolian: Дэлхий (mn) (Delkhiy)
Nahuatl: tlālticpactli (nah)
Navajo: nahasdzáán
Norwegian: jorden (no) m
Occitan: la Tèrra (oc) f
Old English: middanġeard (ang) m
Persian: ‫( ﺯﻣﯿﻦ‬zamin)
Polish: Ziemia (pl) f
Portuguese: Terra (pt) f
Romanian: Pământ (ro) n
Russian: Земля (ru) (Zemljá) f
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Crimean Tatar: Zemin
Croatian: Zemlja (hr) f
Czech: Země (cs) f
Danish: Jorden (da), jorden (da)
Dutch: de Aarde c, aarde f
Esperanto: Tero (eo)
Estonian: Maa (et) , maakera (et)
Ewe: Anyigba
Finnish: Maa (fi), maapallo (fi), maa (fi)
French: la Terre, terre f
Georgian: დედამიწა (ka) (dedamica)
German: Erde (de) f
(el) (gí) f
Greek:
Greenlandic: nuna (kl)
Gujarati: !"વી
Haitian Creole: latè
Hawaiian: ao, honua, āina
Hebrew: ‫( ארץ‬he) (eretz)
Hindi: प"#वी (hi) (prithvī) f,
ज़मीन (hi) (zamīn) f
Hungarian: Föld (hu)
Icelandic: jörð (is) f
Indonesian: bumi (id) , Bumi (id)
Irish: domhan (ga) m, An Domhan (ga) m
Italian: la Terra (it) f
Japanese: 地球 (ja) (ちきゅう, Chikyū)
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Scottish Gaelic: cruinne-cè (gd) m and f,
talamh (gd) m and f
Serbian:
Cyrillic: Земља (sr) f
Roman: Zemlja f
Slovak: Zem (sk) f, zem (sk) f
Slovene: Zemlja (sl) f
Spanish: la Tierra (es), tierra (es) f
Swahili: dunia (sw)
Swedish: jorden (sv)
Taos: p ’óna
Tatar: Cir
Telugu:
(bhoomi)
Thai: โลก (th) (lōk)
Turkish: Dünya (tr), acun (tr)
Ukrainian: Земля (uk) (Zemljá) f
Urdu: ‫( ﺯﻣﯿﻦ‬zamīn) f, ‫ﻮﯼ‬+‫( ﭘﺮﺗ‬ur) (prithvī) f
Vietnamese: trái đ t (vi)
Volapük: tal
Welsh: y Ddaear
West Frisian: ierde
Zulu: umhlabathi
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Derived terms
Earthan
Earth Day
Earther
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Earthian
Earthican
Earthite
earthlight
earthling
Earthling
Earthman
Earth Mother
earthrise
Earthscape
earth science
Earth science
Earth Science
earth sciences
Earth sciences
Earth Sciences
earth-shattering
earthshine
Earthshine
Earth Summit
Earthwoman
hell on earth
Hell on Earth
middle-earth
Middle-earth
middle earth
Middle Earth
Mother Earth
transearth
See also
(planets of the solar system) planet of the solar system; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (Category: Planets) [edit (http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?
title=Template:list:planets_of_the_solar_system/en&action=edit) ]
(moons of Earth) Luna/Moon/moon [edit (http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?
title=Template:list:moons_of_Earth/en&action=edit) ]
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External links
Earth on Wikipedia.
Anagrams
hater, heart, rathe, rehat, Terah
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