The Hague

See also: Hague and hague

English

Alternative forms

• the Hague (now nonstandard)

Etymology

From the French translation (confused with La Hague) of Dutch Den Haag, short form of 's-Gravenhage, from Middle Dutch des Graven hage (1400s), literally, "the Count's hedge[-enclosed hunting grounds]",

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ðə ˈheɪɡ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

The Hague

1. A city and capital of South Holland, Netherlands; administrative capital of the Netherlands.
2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
3. (metonymically) The International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice.

Related terms

Related terms

• Hagenaar
• haw
• hedge

Translations

Dutch city

• Afrikaans: Den Haag
• Albanian: Haga (sq)
• Arabic: لَاهَاي f (lāhāy)
• Armenian: Հաագա (Haaga)
• Azerbaijani: Haaqa (az)
• Basque: Haga (eu)
• Belarusian: Гаа́га f (Haáha)
• Bengali: হেগ (heg)
• Bulgarian: Ха́га (bg) f (Hága)
• Burmese: ဟိတ် (my) (hit)
• Catalan: la Haia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海牙 (zh) (Hǎiyá)

• Chuvash: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Czech: Haag (cs) m
• Danish: Haag
• Dutch: Den Haag (nl) n, 's-Gravenhage (nl) n, De Haag n (Hague dialect)
• Esperanto: Hago
• Estonian: Haag (et)
• Farefare: Dɛn-Haɣa, Haɣa
• Finnish: Haag (fi)
• French: La Haye (fr) f
• Galician: A Haia f
• Georgian: ჰააგა (haaga)
• German: Den Haag (de) m
• Greek: Χάγη (el) f (Chági)
• Haitian Creole: Layè
• Hebrew: האג f (hag)
• Hindi: हेग (heg)
• Hungarian: Hága (hu)
• Icelandic: Haag
• Indonesian: Den Haag
• Irish: an Háig f
• Italian: L'Aia (it) f
• Japanese: ハーグ (Hāgu), デン・ハーグ (Den-Hāgu)
• Kazakh: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Khmer: ទីក្រុង​ហេគ (tii krong-heek), ក្រុង​ហេគ (krong-heek), ហេគ (heek)
• Korean: 헤이그 (Heigeu)
• Kyrgyz: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Latin: Haga f
• Latvian: Hāga f
• Limburgish: D'n Haog
• Lithuanian: Haga f
• Low German: N Heeg
• Macedonian: Хаг m (Hag)
• Malay: Den Haag
• Maltese: Il-Hague m
• Mongolian: Гааг (Gaag)
• Norwegian: Haag
• Occitan: L'Aia f
• Persian: لاهه (lâhe)
• Polish: Haga (pl) f
• Portuguese: Haia (pt) f
• Romanian: Haga (ro)
• Russian: Гаа́га (ru) f (Gaága)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ха̑г m

  Roman: Hȃg (sh) m

• Sicilian: L'Aia f
• Slovak: Haag m
• Slovene: Haag (sl) m
• Somali: Den Haag
• Spanish: La Haya (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Aga
• Swahili: Den Haag
• Swedish: Haag (sv)
• Tajik: Гаага (Gaaga)
• Tamil: டென் ஹாக் (ṭeṉ hāk)
• Tatar: Гаага (Ğaağa)
• Thai: กรุงเฮก (grung-hék)
• Turkish: Lahey (tr)
• Turkmen: Gaaga
• Ukrainian: Гаа́га f (Haáha), Гаа́ґа f (Haága)
• Urdu: ہیگ (heg)
• Uzbek: Gaaga
• Vietnamese: Den Haag, La Hay
• Volapük: 's-Gravenhage
• Welsh: Den Haag, Yr Hâg
• West Frisian: De Haach

Noun

The Hague (uncountable)

1. A conviction and/or punishment for crimes against humanity or war crimes delivered by the International Criminal Court.

   Those men deserve The Hague for what they did.

2. (by extension, figurative) A conviction and/or punishment for a destructive, harmful or immoral act.