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Yaman

Yaman is the rare form of Yemen.

Meaning of Yemen

Proper noun

Yemen (plural Yemens)

  1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.
    • Unlike in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, in Yemen they are trying to implement sharia by winning over the hearts and minds of the people.2012 April 30, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, “Al-Qaida's wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds”, in The Guardian
  2. (historical) A region in the southern Arabian Peninsula; the Arabia Felix.
  3. (historical) A province of the Ottoman Empire: the Yemen eyalet, later Yemen vilayet.

Origin of Yaman

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman), from Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right; right hand”).

Questions about Yaman

What is Yaman the rare form of?
Yaman is the rare form of Yemen.

Words near Yaman in the dictionary

  1. yamamomo
  2. Yamamoto
  3. Yamamotos
  4. Yamamura
  5. Yamamuras
  6. Yaman
  7. Yamanaka
  8. Yamanakas
  9. Yamanashi
  10. yamanba
  11. yamanbas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yaman (page history and authors); Yemen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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