Dictionary

Flemish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈflɛmɪʃ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
   • […] 1302, in which Flemish farmers and civilians armed with goedendags stand in battle formation. The goedendags resemble long clubs, but they have a much wider beating ring around the top and it is possible that a daring combatant […] 2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 245:
   • But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders. 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times:
2. Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
3. Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

Forms

Deriveds

Flemish brick · Flemish beauty · Flemish account · Flemish bond · flemish · Flemishize · Flemish coil · Flemishness · Flemish horse · Flemish Giant · Flemish Brabant · Flemish eye · Flemishization · Flemish gable

Translations (61)

sv flamländsk (of or relating to Flanders) · pl flamandzki (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · is flæmskur (of or relating to Flanders) · fr flamand (of or relating to Flanders) · eo flandralingva (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · fo flamskt (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · eo flandra (of or relating to Flanders) · sv flamländsk (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · wa flamind (of or relating to Flanders) · ka ფლანდრიული (of or relating to Flanders) · ka ფლამანდიური (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · es flamenco (of or relating to Flanders) · vo Flanänik (of or relating to Flanders) · fi flaamilainen (of or relating to Flanders) · fi flaamilainen (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ro flamand (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · hy ֆլամանդական (of or relating to Flanders) · nl Vlaams (of or relating to Flanders) · cs vlámský (of or relating to Flanders) · ast flamencu (of or relating to Flanders) · nb flamsk (of or relating to Flanders) · es flamenco (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · gv Flandrynagh (of or relating to Flanders) · ca flamenc (of or relating to Flanders) · cmn 佛拉芒语 (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ka ფლამანდიური (of or relating to Flanders) · de flämisch (of or relating to Flanders) · fr flamand (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ga Pléimeannaise (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · bg фламандски (of or relating to Flanders) · de flämisch (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ru фла́ндрский (of or relating to Flanders) · ca flamenc (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · fo flamskur (of or relating to Flanders) · nb flamsk (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ga Pléimeannach (of or relating to Flanders) · wa flamind (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · pl flamandzki (of or relating to Flanders) · mr फ्लेमिश (of or relating to Flanders) · hu flamand (of or relating to Flanders) · ru флама́ндский (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · non flæmskr (of or relating to Flanders) · fa فلامان (of or relating to Flanders) · mr फ्लेमिश (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ru флама́ндский (of or relating to Flanders) · ka ფლამანდური ენა (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · bg фламандски (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · nl Vlaams (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · da flamsk (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · eo flandra (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · it fiammingo (of or relating to Flanders) · nn flamsk (of or relating to Flanders) · da flamsk (of or relating to Flanders) · pt flamengo (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · hu flamand (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · oc flamenc (of or relating to Flanders) · it fiammingo (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language) · ro flamand (of or relating to Flanders) · gl flamengo (of or relating to Flanders) · pt flamengo (of or relating to Flanders) · cmn 佛兰德语 (of or relating to the Flemish variety of the Dutch language)

Flemish en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈflɛmɪʃ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.

Meanings

1. Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
   • I think the politicians have missed the opportunity to make education bilingual for all. Then there would be no language issue. Even though people laugh when Elio Di Rupo [leader of the largest francophone Socialist party] speaks Flemish, at least he makes an effort. 2011 June 10, Tamara Gausi, quoting Ilse Marien, “Are chips really the best thing about Belgium?”, in The Guardian:
   • The government project for rendering the Flemish language official at the University of Ghent, which was responsible for the recent Cabinet crisis, caused warm discussion when it was resubmitted to the Chamber this afternoon. 1929 December 12, “Language Bill Stirs the Belgian Chamber; Compromise Measure Submitted to Make Flemish Official Tongue at University of Ghent”, in New York Times:
2. West Flemish (including French Flemish and Zeelandic Flemish) and East Flemish dialects of Dutch.
   • Its Middle Dutch successor (c.1100 to c.1500) is well documented from the end of the twelfth century, especially in the western (Flemish) and centre (Brabantic) dialects of the economically more prosperous southern area, now Belgium. 1994, Carol Henriksen and Johan van der Auwera, “The Germanic Languages”, in Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera, editors, The Germanic Languages, Routledge, page 14:
3. Any of the Low Franconian dialects or languages spoken in northern Belgium, mainly West Flemish, East Flemish, Brabantian dialects of Dutch and Limburgish.
   • That was in the Roman Catholic region of Limburg, a district stretching from northeast Belgium across southern Holland, where the local dialect of Flemish is not easily understood in the rest of the two countries, and where even the artists - the writer's parents are an example - are apt to be born into families of impeccably bourgeois, commercial and conservative orientation. 1989 July 2, Julian Moynahan, New York Times:

Relateds

Netherlandish · Fleming · Flanders

Translations (45)

tr flamandaca (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · kmr flamî (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · pl flamandzki (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · fi flaami (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · sv flamländska (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · fy Flaamsk (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · es flamenco (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ia flamingo (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ca flamenc (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ru флама́ндский (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · hu flamand (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · fo flamskt (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · gl flamengo (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ne फ्लेमिश (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · nb flamsk (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · cmn 佛蘭芒語 /佛兰芒语 (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · mr फ्लेमिश (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · wa flamind (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · gv Flandrynish (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ko 플랑드르의 (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ms bahasa Flemish (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · bg фламандски (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ja フラマン語 (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · cmn 佛蘭芒 /佛兰芒 (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · cmn 弗拉茫 (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ms bahasa Belanda Belgium (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · de Flämisch (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ka ფლამანდური ენა (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · oc flamenc (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ka ფლამანდიური (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · nl Vlaams (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · fr flamand (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · non flæmska (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · da flamsk (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ga Pléimeannais (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · it fiammingo (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · cs vlámština (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · pt flamengo (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · eo la flandra (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ast flamencu (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ru фла́ндрский (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · ro flamandă (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · mn Фламандын (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · uz flamancha (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders) · is flæmska (the Dutch language as it is spoken in Flanders)