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Yemen.

A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.

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name/ˈjɛmən/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈjɪmən/US, pin-pen-merger/ˈjemən/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.

  2. A region in the southern Arabian Peninsula; the Arabia Felix.

    historical

  3. A province of the Ottoman Empire: the Yemen eyalet, later Yemen vilayet.

    historical
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman)bor. Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen)bor. English Yemen Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یمن (yemen), from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman), from Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right; right hand”).

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