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yemen

/ˈjɛmən//ˈjɪmən/

yemen is the plural of yeman.

Proper noun capitalized: Yemen

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.

Forms of yemen

pluralYemens
alternative formYaman

Origin of yemen

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

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Phrases with yemen

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Questions about yemen

What does yemen mean?
Yemen means a country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.
What is yemen the plural of?
Yemen is the plural of yeman.
What part of speech is yemen?
Yemen is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yemen?
Yemen is pronounced /ˈjɛmən/ (UK).

Words near yemen in the dictionary

  1. Yemasee
  2. Yemasees
  3. Yemassee
  4. Yemassees
  5. yeme
  6. yemen
  7. Yemen Arab Republic
  8. Yemeni
  9. Yemenic
  10. Yemeniness
  11. Yemenis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yemen (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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