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English
Etymology
Calque of Italian Città del Vaticano , from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna ( “ Vatican City ” ) , referring to the Vatican hill, ultimately from vāticinor ( “ I prophesy ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Vatican City
A city-state in Southern Europe , an enclave within the city of Rome , Italy . Official name: Vatican City State .
Derived terms
Translations
State of the Vatican City
Afrikaans: Vatikaanstad , Vatikaan
Albanian: Vatikan m , Vatikani (sq) m ( definite )
Amharic: ቫቲካን ( vatikan ) , ቫቲካን ከተማ ( vatikan kätäma )
Arabic: الْفَاتِيكَان f ( al-fatikān )
Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) ( Vatikan )
Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
Bashkir: Ватикан ( Vatikan )
Bavarian: Vatikanstod
Belarusian: Ватыка́н m ( Vatykán )
Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি (bn) ( bhêṭikan śiṭi ) , ভ্যাটিকান (bn) ( bhêṭikan )
Breton: ar Vatikan
Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f ( Vatikána )
Burmese: ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး ( batikanci:ti: ) , ဗာတီကန် ( batikan )
Carpathian Rusyn: Ватікан m ( Vatikan )
Catalan: Ciutat del Vaticà (ca) f , el Vaticà (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ ( wedikani gaduhv )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 / 梵蒂冈 (zh) ( Fàndìgāng ) , 梵蒂岡城國 / 梵蒂冈城国 ( Fàndìgāng chéngguó ) , 梵蒂岡城 / 梵蒂冈城 (zh) ( Fàndìgāng chéng )
Czech: Vatikán (cs) m
Danish: Vatikanstaten (da) c , Vatikanet n
Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން ސިޓީ (dv) ( veṭikan̊ siṭī ) , ވެޓިކަން ( veṭikan̊ )
Dutch: Vaticaanstad (nl) f , het Vaticaan (nl) n
Esperanto: Vatikano (eo)
Estonian: Vatikan (et)
Farefare: Vatikan-gãn
Faroese: Vatikanið n
Finnish: Vatikaani (fi) , Vatikaanivaltio (fi)
French: Vatican (fr) m , Cité du Vatican (fr) f
Galician: O Vaticano m , Cidade do Vaticano (gl)
Georgian: ვატიკანი ( vaṭiḳani )
German: Vatikanstadt (de) f , Vatikan (de) m
Rhine Franconian: Wadigaan ( Palatine )
Greek: Βατικανό (el) n ( Vatikanó )
Hebrew: קִרְײַת הָװַתִיקָן ( kiryat ha-vatikan ) , הָװַתִיקָן / הָוָתִיקָן f ( ha-vatikan )
Hindi: वेटिकन सिटी m ( veṭikan siṭī ) , वेटिकन m ( veṭikan )
Hungarian: Vatikán (hu) , Vatikánváros (hu)
Icelandic: Vatíkanborg f , Vatíkanið (is) n , Páfagarður m
Ido: Vatikano (io)
Indonesian: Vatikan (id)
Interlingua: Vaticano
Irish: Cathair na Vatacáine f
Italian: Città del Vaticano (it) f
Japanese: バチカン (ja) ( Bachikan ) , バチカン市国 (ja) ( バチカンしこく, Bachikan Shikoku ) , 法王庁 (ja) ( ほうおうちょう, Hōōchō )
Kashubian: Watikan
Kazakh: Ватикан (kk) ( Vatikan )
Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់ (km) ( borəy vaatiikɑng ) , វ៉ាទីកង់ ( vaatiikɑng )
Korean: 바티칸 (ko) ( Batikan ) , 바티칸 시국 ( Batikan siguk )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Vatîkan (ku)
Kyrgyz: Ватикан ( Vatikan )
Lao: ວາຕິກັນ ( wā ti kan )
Latin: Civitas Vaticana f
Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m
Limburgish: Vatikaanstad (li)
Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m
Lombard: Cità del Vatican
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Vatikaanstad f
German Low German: Vatikaan m
Luxembourgish: Vatikanstad
Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m ( Vátikan )
Malay: Kota Vatikan (ms) , Vatikan (ms)
Maltese: Vatikan , il- Belt tal-Vatikan
Manx: Ard-Valley yn Phaab m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Ватикан ( Vatikan )
Navajo: Bádikin Sídii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Vatikanstaten (no) n , Vatikanet n
Nynorsk: Vatikanstaten (nn) n , Vatikanet n
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Ватиканъ m ( Vatikanŭ )
Pashto: واتيکان m ( wātikān )
Persian: واتیکان (fa) ( vâtikân )
Piedmontese: Sità dël Vatican
Polish: Watykan (pl) m
Portuguese: Cidade do Vaticano (pt) f , Vaticano (pt) m
Romanian: Vatican (ro) n , ( sometimes ) Sfântul Scaun (ro) n , Statul Cetății Vaticanului n
Romansch: Citad dal Vatican f
Russian: Ватика́н (ru) m ( Vatikán )
Scots: Vatican Ceety
Scottish Gaelic: Cathair na Bhatacain
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ва̏тика̄н m , Све̑та̄ Сто̀лица f
Latin: Vȁtikān (sh) m , Svȇtā Stòlica f
Sicilian: Cità dû Vaticanu f
Silesian: Watykůn n
Slovak: Vatikán (sk) m
Slovene: Vatikan (sl) m , Sveti sedež (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Vatikańske město n
Upper Sorbian: Vatikanske město n
Spanish: el Vaticano (es) m , Ciudad del Vaticano (es)
Swedish: Vatikanstaten (sv) n , Vatikanen (sv) n
Tagalog: Lungsod Batikano , Batikano
Tajik: Вотикон (tg) ( Votikon )
Tatar: Ватикан ( Watikan )
Thai: วาติกัน ( waa-dtì-gan ) , นครรัฐวาติกัน (th) ( ná-kɔɔn waa-dtì-gan )
Tibetan: ཝ་ཏི་ཀན ( wa ti kan ) , ཝ་ཏི་ཀན་གྲོང་ཁྱོར ( wa ti kan grong khyor )
Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
Turkmen: Watikan
Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m ( Vatykán )
Urdu: ویٹیکن سٹی m ( vēṭikan siṭī ) , ویٹیکن m ( vēṭikan )
Uyghur: ۋاتىكان ( watikan ) , ۋاتىكان شەھىرى ( watikan shehiri )
Uzbek: Vatikan (uz) , Vatikan shahri
Vietnamese: Thành Va-ti-căng , Va-ti-căng , Thành Quốc Vatican , Thành Vatican
Welsh: Dinas y Fatican f
Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן ( vatikan )
See also
Papal States
Countries of the world
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