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Svalbard

Svalbard

Coat of arms of the Governor (Sysselmannen) of Svalbard

English

Proper noun

Svalbard

A group of islands north east of Greenland; a territory of Norway. Official name: Svalbard.

Synonyms

Spitzbergen
(obsolete) Greenland

Derived terms

Svalbardian

Translations

islands north east of Greenland

Arabic: سْفَالْبَارْد m ‎(sfalbard)
Belarusian: Шпіцбе́рген m ‎(Špicbjérhjen), Шпіцбэ́рген m ‎(Špicbérhjen) (taraškievica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 斯瓦爾巴, 斯瓦尔巴 ‎(Sīwǎ'ěrbā)
Czech: Špicberky (cs) pl
Danish: Svalbard
Dutch: Spitsbergen (nl)
Esperanto: Svalbardo
Faroese: Svalbarð n
Finnish: Huippuvuoret (fi) pl, Svalbard (fi)
French: Svalbard (fr) m
German: Svalbard n, Spitzbergen (de) n
Greek: Σφάλμπαρ m ‎(Sfálmpar), Σβάλμπαρντ m ‎(Sválmparnt)

Italian: Svalbard
Japanese: スバールバル ‎(Subārubaru), スヴァールバル諸島 ‎(suvārubaru shotō)
Korean: 스발바르 ‎(Seubalbareu)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Svalbard

Nynorsk: Svalbard
Polish: Svalbard (pl) m inan
Portuguese: Svalbard f
Romanian: Svalbard n
Russian: Сва́льбард m ‎(Sválʹbard), Шпицбе́рген m ‎(Špicbérgen)
Slovak: Špicbergy m pl
Spanish: Svalbard m
Swedish: Svalbard (sv)
Turkish: Svalbard (tr)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse Svalbarði

Proper noun

Svalbard

Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, to the north of Norway)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Svalbarði

Proper noun

Svalbard

Svalbard (as above)

Polish

Proper noun

Svalbard m

Svalbard (group of islands in the Arctic)

Declension

declension of Svalbard

	singular
nominative	Svalbard
genitive	Svalbardu
dative	Svalbardowi
accusative	Svalbard
instrumental	Svalbardem
locative	Svalbardzie
vocative	Svalbardzie

Portuguese

Proper noun

Svalbard f

Svalbard (an archipelago and territory of Norway in the Arctic Ocean)