# nord
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔrt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈnɔɾt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɾt

### Noun

nord m (uncountable)
* north
    Synonym: septentrió
    Antonym: sud

#### Derived terms

* nord-africà
* nord-americà
* nord-coreà
* nord-est
* nord-oest

### Adjective

nord (invariable)
* northern

### Related terms

* nòrdic

### See also

compass points: punts cardinals:
| nord-oest nord-occidental | nord septentrional | nord-est nord-oriental |
| oest occidental | | est oriental |
| sud-oest sud-occidental | sud meridional | sud-est sud-oriental |

### Further reading

* “nord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “nord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “nord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “nord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Corsican
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔrd/
* Hyphenation: nord

### Noun

nord m (uncountable)
* Alternative form of nordu

### References

* “nordu, nord” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Danish north, from Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noːr/, [noɐ̯ˀ]
* Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

### Noun

nord c (singular definite norden, not used in plural form)
* north

#### Derived terms

* nordøst
* nordvest

### Adverb

nord
* toward the north, northwards

### References

* “nord” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French nord, nort, from Old French nort(h), borrowed from Old English norþ (“north”), which see. The English (rather than Dutch or Norse) origin of the French compass points is evidenced by the vowel in est.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔʁ/
** (southern France) IPA: [n̪ɔʁ̥]
** (Quebec) IPA: [naɔ̯ʁ], [nɑɔ̯ʁ]
* Audio (France):(file)

### Noun

nord m (plural nord)
* north
    Synonym: septentrion

#### Coordinate terms

compass points: points cardinaux:
| nord-ouest | nord septentrion | nord-est |
| ouest couchant ponant occident | | est levant orient |
| sud-ouest | sud midi méridien | sud-est |

#### Derived terms

* perdre le nord

#### Related terms

* nord-africain, Nord-Africain
* nordique

#### Descendants

* → Asturian: norte
* → Catalan: nord
* → Galician: norte, norde
* → Italian: nord
* → Portuguese: norte
* → Romanian: nord
* → Romansch: nord
* → Spanish: norte

### Further reading

* “nord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* rond

## Interlingua
### Noun

nord (uncountable)
* north

### Adjective

nord (not comparable)
* north

### See also

compass points:
| | nord | |
| west occidente | | est oriente levante |
| | sud | |

## Italian
### Etymology

Via Spanish and French, ultimately from Old English norþ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔrd/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrd
* Hyphenation: nòrd

### Noun

nord m (invariable)
* north
    Synonyms: settentrione, mezzanotte
    Antonym: sud

#### Derived terms

* nord magnetico
* nordest, nord-est
* nordico
* nordista
* nord-nord-est
* nord-nord-ovest
* nordovest, nord-ovest

### Adjective

nord (invariable)
* northern

#### Coordinate terms

compass points (Germanic-origin): punti cardinali:
| nordovest | nord | nordest |
| ovest | | est |
| sudovest | sud | sudest |

#### See also

* stella polare

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* nor (Sark)

### Etymology

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”).

### Noun

nord m (uncountable)
* north

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Danish nord, from Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nuːɾ/

### Adverb

nord
* north (for / of)

### Noun

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)
* north, a compass direction
* a land area towards the north
    det høye nord - the far north
* indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries
* (dialectal, obsolete) upriver (in the mountain valleys of eastern Norway, without considering the actual orientation of the valley)

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør, syd

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| nordvest | nord | nordøst |
| vest | | øst |
| sørvest | sør | sørøst |

#### Derived terms

* Nord-Europa
* Nord-Irland
* Nord-Korea
* Nord-Marianene
* Nord-Norge
* Nord-Trøndelag
* nordafrikansk
* nordamerikansk
* nordavind
* nordende
* nordfra
* nordirsk
* Nordishavet
* Nordkapp
* nordkoreansk
* nordkyst
* nordlending
* nordnorsk
* nordover
* nordpol
* nordside
* nordvest
* nordvestre
* nordøst, nordaust
* nordøstre

### References

* “nord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “nord” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą. Akin to English north.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nuːr/, [nu̞ːr], [nu̞ːɾ], [nu̞ːʁ]
* (thick L) IPA: [nu̞ːɽ]

### Adverb

nord
* north (for / of)

### Noun

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)
* north, a compass direction
* a land area towards the north
    det høge nord - the far north
* indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør

#### Derived terms

* Nord-Europa
* Nord-Irland
* Nord-Noreg
* Nord-Trøndelag
* nordafrikansk
* nordamerikansk
* nordaust
* nordavind
* nordende
* nordirsk
* Nordishavet
* nordkaper
* Nordkapp
* nordkoreansk
* nordkyst
* nordlending
* nordnorsk
* nordover
* nordpol
* nordre
* nordside
* nordspisskval
* nordvest
* nordvestre

### References

* “nord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *norþr, akin to Old English norþ, Old Norse norðr.

### Noun

nord ?
* north

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: nort
** German: Nord
** Luxembourgish: Nord

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French nord or German Nord, both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *norþr (“north”), the French via Old English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nord/

### Noun

nord n (uncountable)
* north
    Synonym: (archaic or poetic) miazănoapte

#### Coordinate terms

compass points (French/Germanic origin): puncte cardinale:
| nord-vest | nord | nord-est |
| vest | | est |
| sud-vest | sud | sud-est |

### Further reading

* nord in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
* Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

## Romansch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French nord, from Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-West Germanic *norþr (“north”).

### Noun

nord m
* north

#### Antonyms

* sid

#### Derived terms

* nordost
* nordvest

#### Related terms

* ost
* oriaint
* vest
* sidost
* sidvest

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* norr

### Etymology

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nuːɖ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nord c
* north, a compass direction
* indefinite form singular of Norden = the Nordic countries

### Adverb

nord (not comparable)
* north

#### Derived terms

* Nordafrika
* Nordamerika
* Nordcypern
* Nordirland
* Nordkorea
* Nordmakedonien
* Nordmarianerna
* Nordsjön

#### Related terms

* nordost
* nordväst
* norr
* ost
* syd
* sydost
* sydväst
* söder
* väst
* väster
* öst
* öster

#### See also

compass points: kompasspunkter:
| nordväst | norr nord | nordost nordöst |
| väster väst | | öster öst ost |
| sydväst | söder syd | sydost sydöst |