برطانية

Arabic

Probably from Latin Britannia.

بِرِطَانِيَة or بَرْطَانِيَة • (biriṭāniya or barṭāniya) f

(rare or obsolete) Britain (an island of Northern Europe), Britannia
Synonyms: إنْكِلْتِرَة (ʔinkiltira, “England”), إنْكِلْترا, إنْجِلْتِرَا (ʔinjiltirā), إنْقِلْطَارَّة (ʔinqilṭārra)
- 1165 C.E., Al-Idrisi, نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق, 1st edition, volume 1, Beirut: عالم الكتب, published 1989, page 93:
  ...، فَنَقُولُ إِنَّ الْمَدَّ وَالْجَزْرَ الَّذِي رَأَيْنَاهُ عَيَانًا فِي بَحْرِ الظُّلُمَاتِ وَهُوَ الْبَحْرُ الْمُحِيطُ بِغَرْبَيْ الْأَنْدَلُسِ وَبِلَادِ بِرْطَانِيَهْ...
  ..., fanaqūlu ʔinna l-madda wāljazra llaḏī raʔaynāhu ʕayānan fī baḥri ẓ-ẓulumāti wahuwa l-baḥru l-muḥīṭu biḡarbay al-ʔandalusi wabilādi birṭāniyah...
  ...we say that the ebb and flow (tide) which we observed directly with our own eyes in the Sea of Darkness which is the ocean surrounding the western coasts of al-Andalus and the land of Britain...
Brittany (a cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France)
Brittany (an administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany)

→ Classical Persian: برطانیه (biritâniya)
- → Pashto: برطانيه (bartānya)
- → Urdu: بَرْطانِیَہ (bartāniya)