holland

See also: Holland

English

Etymology

After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

Noun

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollands)

1. (now historical) A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
   • 1768, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 23:

     I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table

Derived terms

• brown holland

Translations

linen cloth

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: грубо ленено платно n (grubo leneno platno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: hollande (fr) f
• German: Hollandzeug n (obsolete)
• Italian: olanda f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: holanda (pt) f
• Russian: холст (ru) m (xolst)
• Spanish: holanda (es) f

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from Hollandia. Ultimately from Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈholːɒnd]
• Hyphenation: hol‧land
• Rhymes: -ɒnd

Adjective

holland (not comparable)

1. (relational) of the Netherlands; Dutch

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	holland	hollandok
accusative	hollandot	hollandokat
dative	hollandnak	hollandoknak
instrumental	hollanddal	hollandokkal
causal-final	hollandért	hollandokért
translative	hollanddá	hollandokká
terminative	hollandig	hollandokig
essive-formal	hollandként	hollandokként
essive-modal	hollandul	—
inessive	hollandban	hollandokban
superessive	hollandon	hollandokon
adessive	hollandnál	hollandoknál
illative	hollandba	hollandokba
sublative	hollandra	hollandokra
allative	hollandhoz	hollandokhoz
elative	hollandból	hollandokból
delative	hollandról	hollandokról
ablative	hollandtól	hollandoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	hollandé	hollandoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hollandéi	hollandokéi

Noun

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollandok)

1. Dutch (person)
2. Dutch (language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	holland	hollandok
accusative	hollandot	hollandokat
dative	hollandnak	hollandoknak
instrumental	hollanddal	hollandokkal
causal-final	hollandért	hollandokért
translative	hollanddá	hollandokká
terminative	hollandig	hollandokig
essive-formal	hollandként	hollandokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hollandban	hollandokban
superessive	hollandon	hollandokon
adessive	hollandnál	hollandoknál
illative	hollandba	hollandokba
sublative	hollandra	hollandokra
allative	hollandhoz	hollandokhoz
elative	hollandból	hollandokból
delative	hollandról	hollandokról
ablative	hollandtól	hollandoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	hollandé	hollandoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hollandéi	hollandokéi

Possessive forms of holland

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hollandom	hollandjaim
2nd person sing.	hollandod	hollandjaid
3rd person sing.	hollandja	hollandjai
1st person plural	hollandunk	hollandjaink
2nd person plural	hollandotok	hollandjaitok
3rd person plural	hollandjuk	hollandjaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• Holland Antillák

Related terms

• Hollandia

Further reading

• holland in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN