proper noun plural proper nouns
Examples
Mike , London , United Nations , Europe
( grammar ) noun denoting a particular person , place , organization , ship, animal, event, or other individual entity .
Synonyms: proper name ( sometimes strictly coordinate ) , nomen proprium noun substantive proper proper substantive substantive proper selfname Antonyms: common noun common name appellative noun nomen appellativum In English, a proper noun is normally not preceded by an article or limiting modifier and is normally written with an initial capital letter . However, some proper nouns are preceded by articles (such as the Netherlands ) and some are uncapitalized (kd lang ), and many common (non-proper) nouns are also capitalized, like European . Some references erroneously conflate whether a noun is common or proper with whether it is capitalized or not, although these are not the same.
the name of a particular person, place, organization, or other individual entity
Albanian: emër i përveçëm m
Amharic: የተፀውኦ ስም ( yätäṣ́äwʾo səm )
Arabic: عَلَم (ar) ( ʕalam )
Armenian: հատուկ անուն (hy) ( hatuk anun )
Asturian: nome propiu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: xüsusi isim
Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ исем ( yañğıźlıq isem )
Belarusian: ула́снае імя́ n ( ulásnaje imjá ) , імя́ ўла́снае n ( imjá ŭlásnaje )
Bulgarian: со́бствено и́ме n ( sóbstveno íme )
Catalan: nom propi (ca) m
Cebuano: pangpiho
Chinese:
Cantonese: 專有名詞 ／ 专有名词 ( zyun1 jau5 ming4 ci4 )
Mandarin: 專有名詞 ／ 专有名词 (zh) ( zhuānyǒu míngcí ) , 固有名詞 ／ 固有名词 (zh) ( gùyǒu míngcí )
Czech: vlastní jméno (cs) n proprium (cs) n
Danish: proprium (da) n egennavn (da) n
Dutch: eigennaam (nl) m
Esperanto: propra nomo
Estonian: pärisnimi
Faroese: sernavn n
Finnish: erisnimi (fi) , propri (fi)
French: nom propre (fr) m
Galician: nome propio (gl) m
Georgian: საკუთარი სახელი ( saḳutari saxeli ) , საკუთარი არსებითი სახელი ( saḳutari arsebiti saxeli )
German: Eigenname (de) m Nomen proprium (de) n
Greek: κύριο όνομα (el) n ( kýrio ónoma )
Ancient Greek: ὄνομα κύριον n ( ónoma kúrion )
Hebrew: שֵׁם פְּרָטִי (he) m ( shem pratí )
Hindi: नामवाचक संज्ञा m ( nāmvācak sañjñā )
Hungarian: tulajdonnév (hu)
Icelandic: eiginnafn n sérnafn (is) n
Indonesian: nomina diri
Interlingua: nomine proprie (ia)
Irish: ainmfhocal dílis m
Italian: nome proprio (it) m
Japanese: 固有名詞 (ja) ( こゆうめいし, koyūmeishi )
Kalmyk: эврә нерн ( evrä nern )
Kazakh: жалқы есім ( jalqy esım )
Khmer: អសាធារណនាម ( ʼaʼsaathiə niəm ) , នាមអសាធារណ៍ ( niəm ʼaʼsaathiə )
Korean: 고유명사(固有名詞) (ko) ( goyumyeongsa )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: serenav (ku) m navê şexsî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: жеке ат ( jeke at )
Lao: ວິສາມັນນາມ ( wi sā man nām )
Latin: nōmen prōprium n
Latvian: īpašvārds (lv) m
Lithuanian: tikrinis daiktavardis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Eegennumm (lb) m
Macedonian: ли́чна и́менка f ( líčna ímenka )
Malay: kata nama khas (ms)
Malayalam: സംജ്ഞാനാമം (ml) ( sañjñānāmaṁ )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: оноосон нэр (mn) ( onooson ner )
Norman: nom propre m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: egennavn (no) n
Nynorsk: eigennamn n
Occitan: nom pròpri m
Old English: āgen nama m
Pashto: خاص نوم m ( xās num )
Persian:
Dari: اِسْمِ خَاصّ (fa) ( ism-i xāss )
Iranian Persian: اِسْمِ خاصّ (fa) ( esm-e xâss )
Polish: nazwa własna (pl) f
Portuguese: substantivo próprio (pt) m nome próprio m
Romanian: nume propriu (ro) n substantiv propriu (ro) n
Russian: и́мя со́бственное (ru) n ( ímja sóbstvennoje ) , о́ним (ru) m ( ónim )
Scots: proper noon
Scottish Gaelic: ainmear sònrachaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: властита и̏меница f лична и̏меница f особна и̏меница f
Roman: vlastita ȉmenica f lična ȉmenica f osobna ȉmenica f
Slovak: vlastné meno n proprium n
Slovene: lastno ime (sl) n
Spanish: nombre propio (es) m
Swedish: egennamn (sv) n
Tagalog: pangngalang pantangi (tl)
Tajik: исми хос ( ism-i xos )
Tatar: ялгызлык исем (tt) ( yalgızlıq isem )
Telugu: సంజ్ఞానామము ( sañjñānāmamu ) , సంజ్ఞావిశేష్యము ( sañjñāviśēṣyamu )
Thai: วิสามานยนาม (th) ( wí-sǎa-maan-yá-naam )
Turkish: özel ad (tr) , özel isim (tr)
Turkmen: has at (tk)
Udmurt: асним ( asńim )
Ukrainian: вла́сна на́зва f ( vlásna názva ) , вла́сне ім'я́ n ( vlásne imʺjá )
Urdu: اِسْمِ خاص (ur) m ( ism-i xās ) , اِسْمِ مَعْرِفَہ (ur) m ( ism-i ma'rifa )
Uyghur: خاس ئىسىم ( xas isim ) , خاس نام ( xas nam ) , خاس ئات ( xas at )
Uzbek: atoqli ot
Vietnamese: danh từ riêng
Welsh: enw priod m
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