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Etymology

From Middle English Denemarke, Denmarke, from Old English Denemearc, from Dene (“Dane”) +‎ mearc (“march”), a calque of Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.mɑːk/
- Audio (UK): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.mɑɹk/
- Audio (US): (file)
(Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈden.mɐːk/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.maɾk/

Proper noun

Denmark

A country in Northern Europe. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen.
Synonym: Denmark proper
- 2025 July 5, Sebastian Shukla, “Denmark has long been Euroskeptic. Donald Trump helped change that”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 July 2025:
  As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump.
A sovereign nation consisting of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Synonym: Kingdom of Denmark
A number of places in other countries:
1. A town and local government area (Shire of Denmark) in the Great Southern region, Western Australia.
2. A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
3. A parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada, named for the community of New Denmark.
4. A place in the United States:
  1. An unincorporated community in Bulloch County, Georgia.
  2. An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana.
  3. A census-designated place and township in Lee County, Iowa.
  4. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kansas.
  5. A town in Oxford County, Maine.
  6. A township in Tuscola County, Michigan.
  7. A township in Washington County, Minnesota.
  8. A town in Lewis County, New York.
  9. An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
  10. A township in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
  11. An unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon.
  12. A city in Bamberg County, South Carolina.
  13. An unincorporated community and former city in Madison County, Tennessee.
  14. A village in the town of New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsin.
A surname.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: डेनमार्क (ḍenmārk)

Urdu: ڈِنْمارْک (ḍinmārk)
→ Japanese: デンマーク (Denmāku)
→ Korean: 덴마크 (Denmakeu)
→ Malay: Denmark
- Indonesian: Denmark
→ Swahili: Denmaki
→ Thai: เดนมาร์ก (den-màak)

Translations

country in Northern Europe

Abkhaz: Даттәыла (Datʼtʷʼəla), Даниа (Danja)
Acehnese: Denmark
Afrikaans: Denemarke (af)
Akan: Dɛnmaak
Albanian: Danimarkë f (indefinite), Danimarka (sq) f (definite)
Amharic: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
Antillean Creole: Danmàk
Arabic: الدَّانِمَرْك f (ad-dānimark) or الدَّنِمَرْك f (ad-danimark) or الدِّنَمَرْك f (ad-dinamark) or الدِّنْمَرك f (ad-dinmark) or الدَّنْمَرك f (ad-danmark) (definite), الدَّنْمَارْك (ar) f (ad-danmārk)
Egyptian Arabic: الدنمرك f (ad-danimark)

Hijazi Arabic: الدنمارك f (ad-dinmārk)
Aragonese: Dinamarca m
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܢܝܼܵܐ f (Dania)
Armenian: Դանիա (hy) (Dania)
Aromanian: Danimarca f
Assamese: ডেনমাৰ্ক (denmark)
Asturian: Dinamarca (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Danimarka (az)
Bashkir: Дания (Daniya)
Basque: Danimarka (eu)
Belarusian: Да́нія f (Dánija)
Bengali: ডেনমার্ক (bn) (ḍenmark)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: Denmark
Bislama: Denmark
Breton: Danmark (br) f
Bulgarian: Да́ния (bg) f (Dánija)
Burmese: ဒိန်းမတ် (din:mat)
Buryat: Дани (Dani)
Carpathian Rusyn: Да́ньско n (Dánʹsko)
Catalan: Dinamarca (ca) f, Danimarca f
Cebuano: Denmark, Dinamarka
Chechen: Дани (Dani)
Cherokee: ᏕᏂᎹᎩ (denimagi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (daan¹ mak⁶)

Eastern Min: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (Dăng-măk)

Hakka: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (Tan-ma̍k)

Hokkien: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (Tan-be̍h)

Mandarin: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (zh) (Dānmài)

Wu: 丹麥 / 丹麦 (¹te-maq)
Chuvash: Дани (Dani)
Circassian:
East Circassian: Даниэ (Daniɛ)
Cornish: Danmark m
Corsican: Danimarca f
Crimean Tatar: Danimarka
Czech: Dánsko (cs) n
Danish: Danmark (da)
Dhivehi: ޑެންމާކު (dv) (ḍen̊māku)
Dutch: Denemarken (nl) n
Dzongkha: ཌེན་མཱཀ་ (ḍen māk)
Esperanto: Danio, Danujo, Danlando
Estonian: Taani (et)
Ewe: Denmark
Extremaduran: Dinamarca
Farefare: Daŋɔ
Faroese: Danmørk f, Danmark f
Fiji Hindi: Denmark
Finnish: Tanska (fi)
Franco-Provençal: Danemârc m
French: Danemark (fr) m
Frisian:
North Frisian: Dånmark n

West Frisian: Denemark (fy) n
Friulian: Danimarcje f
Gagauz: Daniya
Galician: Dinamarca (gl) f
Georgian: დანია (dania)
German: Dänemark (de) n
Bavarian: Dänemark, Denemark
Greek: Δανία (el) f (Danía), Δανιμαρκία (el) (Danimarkía)
Pontic Greek: Δανία (Danía)
Greenlandic: Danmarki (kl)
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Ndinamayka, ^{(please verify)} Ndinamayka
Gujarati: ડેનમાર્ક (ḍenmārk)
Haitian Creole: Danmak
Hausa: Denmark
Hawaiian: Kenemaka
Hebrew: דֶּנְמַרְק (he) f (dénmark), דַּנְיָה f (Dánya) (dated)
Hindi: डेनमार्क (hi) m (ḍenmārk)
Hungarian: Dánia (hu)
Icelandic: Danmörk (is) f
Ido: Dania (io)
Ilocano: Denmark
Indonesian: Denmark (id)
Interlingua: Danmark
Irish: An Danmhairg (ga) f
Italian: Danimarca (it) f
Jamaican Creole: Denmaak
Japanese: デンマーク (ja) (Denmāku), 丁抹 (ja) (デンマーク, Denmāku) (obsolete)
Javanese: Dhènemarken, Dènmark
Kalenjin: Denmak
Kalmyk: Данскгин Нутг (Danskgin Nutg)
Kamba: Denmak
Kannada: ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್ (ḍenmārk‌)
Kapampangan: Denmark, Dinamarka
Karachay-Balkar: Дания (Daniya)
Karakalpak: Daniya
Kashmiri: डेनमार्क (ḍēnamārk)
Kashubian: Duńskô f
Kazakh: Дания (kk) (Danıya)
Khmer: ដាណឺម៉ាក (km) (daanəɨmaak)
Kikuyu: Denmak
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: Данмарк (Danmark)

Komi-Zyrian: Дания (Dańija)
Kongo: Danemark
Korean: 덴마크 (ko) (Denmakeu), 단마르크 (ko) (Danmareukeu) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دانمارک (danmark)

Northern Kurdish: Danmarka (ku), Danîmarka (ku)
Kven: Tanmarkku, Tanska
Kyrgyz: Дания (Daniya)
Ladino: Danimarka
Lao: ດານມາກ (dān māk), ແດນມາກ (dǣn māk)
Latgalian: Daneja f
Latin: Dānia f (Medieval Latin)
Latvian: Dānija (lv) f
Ligurian: Danemarca f
Limburgish: Dieënemerk
Lingala: Danemark
Lithuanian: Danija (lt) f
Livonian: Dēņmō
Lombard: Danimarca (lmo) f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Denmaark (nds)

German Low German: Däänmark (nds)
Lower Sorbian: Dańska
Luganda: Denimaaka
Luhya: Denmak
Luo: Denmak
Luxembourgish: Dänemark (lb) n
Macedonian: Данска (mk) f (Danska)
Malagasy: Danmarka
Malay: Denmark (ms)
Malayalam: ഡെന്മാർക്ക് (ḍenmāṟkkŭ)
Maltese: id-Danimarka
Manipuri:
Bishnupriya Manipuri: ডেনমার্ক (ḍēnamārk)
Manx: Danvarg
Māori: Tenemāka
Marathi: डेन्मार्क (ḍenmārka)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Даний (Dańij)
Meru: Denmak
Mingrelian: დანია (dania)
Moksha: Данмастор (Danmastor)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Дани (Dani)

Mongolian script: ᠳ᠋ᠠᠨ᠋ᠢ (dani)
Nahuatl: Dinamarca
Nauruan: Denemark
Navajo: Chʼah Bideeʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí
Neapolitan: Danemarca f
Nepali: डेनमार्क (ḍenmārka)
Norman: Dannemar m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Danmark (no) n

Nynorsk: Danmark (nn) n
Occitan: Dinamarca (oc) f
Odia: ଡେନମାର୍କ (ḍenamārka)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Данїꙗ f (Danija) (modern)
Old East Slavic: Донь f (Donĭ)
Old English: Denemearc f
Old Norse: Danmǫrk f
Ossetian: Дани (Dani)
Papiamentu: Dinamarka
Pashto: دانمارک m (dānmārk), ډنمارک m (ḍanmārk)
Pennsylvania German: Denemarrick
Persian:
Dari: دَانْمَارْک (dānmārk), دَنْمَارْک (danmārk)

Iranian Persian: دانْمارْک (dânmârk)
Piedmontese: Danimarca f
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Denmark
Polish: Dania (pl) f
Portuguese: Dinamarca (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਡੈੱਨਮਾਰਕ m (ḍainnamārak)

Western Punjabi: ڈنمارک (pnb) (ḍnmārk)
Quechua: Dansuyu
Romanian: Danemarca (ro) f
Russian: Да́ния (ru) f (Dánija)
Rwanda-Rundi: Danimarike, Danemarke
Sami:
Northern Sami: Dánmárku

Skolt Sami: Danskk
Samogitian: Danėjė
Sardinian: Danimarca f
Scots: Denmark
Scottish Gaelic: An Danmhairg f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Да̑нска̄ f

Latin: Dȃnskā (sh) f
Sicilian: Danimarca f
Silesian: Dańijo f
Sinhalese: ඩෙන්මාකය (si) (ḍenmākaya)
Slovak: Dánsko (sk) n
Slovene: Dánska (sl) f
Somali: Denmark
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Dańska f

Upper Sorbian: Danska f
Spanish: Dinamarca (es) f
Swahili: Denmaki (sw), Udeni
Swedish: Danmark (sv) n
Tagalog: Dinamarka (tl)
Tajik: Дания (tg) (Daniya)
Tamil: டென்மார்க் (ṭeṉmārk)
Tatar: Дания (Daniyä)
Telugu: డెన్మార్క్ (te) (ḍenmārk)
Tetum: Dinamarka
Thai: เดนมาร์ก (th) (den-màak)
Tibetan: དན་མྲག (dan mrag)
Tigrinya: ዴንማርክ (denmark)
Tok Pisin: Denmak
Turkish: Danimarka (tr)
Turkmen: Daniýa
Udmurt: Дания (Dańija)
Ukrainian: Да́нія (uk) f (Dánija)
Urdu: ڈِنْمارْک m (ḍinmārk)
Uyghur: دانىيە (daniye)
Uzbek: Daniya (uz)
Venetan: Danimarca f
Vietnamese: Đan Mạch (vi)
Volapük: Danän (vo)
Võro: Taani
Waray-Waray: Dinamarka
Welsh: Denmarc (cy) f
West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Denemarkn
Wolof: Danmaark
Yiddish: דענמאַרק n (denmark)
Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Danimarka
Zealandic: Denemarken
Zhuang: Danhmwz
Zulu: IDenimaki

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Denmark is the 9859^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3281 individuals. Denmark is most common among White (61.38%) individuals.

See also

Anagrams

end mark, endmark

Acehnese

Acehnese Wikipedia has an article on:

Denmark

Proper noun

Denmark

Denmark (a country in Northern Europe)

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Denmark

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English Denmark, from Danish Danmark, from Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnma(r)k/ [ˈden.ma(r)k̚]
Rhymes: -ɛnma(r)k

Proper noun

Dènmark

Denmark (a country in Northern Europe)

See also

Further reading

“Denmark”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Middle English

Proper noun

Denmark

alternative form of Denemarke

Scots

Scots Wikipedia has an article on:

Denmark

Etymology

From Danish Danmark, from Old Norse Danmǫrk.

Proper noun

Denmark

Denmark (a country in Northern Europe)

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