national anthem

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Noun

national anthem (plural national anthems)

1. The official song of a nation or sovereign state, generally of a patriotic nature and played at events to celebrate or honor said state.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph‎^[1]:

     With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

2. (nonstandard) The official song of a constituent state of a country.

   The national anthem of Wales

   The national anthem of the Russian SFSR

Translations

national song of a country

• Afrikaans: volkslied
• Albanian: himni kombëtar
• Amharic: የሕዝብ መዝሙር m (yäḥzəb mäzmur)
• Arabic: نَشِيد وَطَنِيّ m (našīd waṭaniyy)
• Armenian: օրհներգ (hy) (ōrhnerg), ազգային օրհներգ (azgayin ōrhnerg)
• Azerbaijani: dövlət himni
• Bashkir: дәүләт гимны (dəwlət gimnı)
• Basque: nazio erezerki
• Belarusian: дзяржа́ўны гі́мн m (dzjaržáŭny hímn)
• Bengali: জাতীয় সঙ্গীত (jatiẏo śoṅgit)
• Breton: kan broadel
• Bulgarian: национален химн (nacionalen himn)
• Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း (my) (nuingngamtausihkyang:)
• Catalan: himne nacional m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國歌／国歌 (zh) (guógē)

• Czech: národní hymna f
• Danish: nationalsang (da) c
• Dutch: volkslied (nl) n
• Esperanto: nacia himno
• Estonian: riigihümn
• Faroese: tjóðsangur m
• Finnish: kansallislaulu (fi), kansallishymni (fi)
• French: hymne national (fr) m
• Galician: himno nacional m
• Georgian: სახელმწიფო ჰიმნი (saxelmc̣ipo himni)
• German: Nationalhymne (de) f
• Greek: εθνικός ύμνος (el) m (ethnikós ýmnos)
• Greenlandic: inuiaqatigiinni erinaq
• Hawaiian: mele aupuni
• Hebrew: המנון לאמי (himnon leumi)
• Hindi: राष्ट्रगान (rāṣṭragān)
• Hungarian: nemzeti himnusz, himnusz (hu)
• Icelandic: þjóðsöngur m
• Indonesian: lagu kebangsaan (id)
• Irish: amhrán náisiúnta m
• Italian: inno nazionale m
• Japanese: 国歌 (ja) (こっか, kokka)
• Kannada: ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಗೀತೆ (kn) (rāṣṭragīte)
• Kazakh: ұлттық әнұран (ūlttyq änūran), мемлекеттік әнұран (memlekettık änūran)
• Korean: 국가(國歌) (ko) (gukga)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sirûda neteweyî

• Lao: ເພງຊາດ (phēng sāt)
• Latvian: valsts himna f
• Lithuanian: valstybinis himnas m
• Luxembourgish: Nationalhymn
• Macedonian: државна хи́мна f (državna hímna), национа́лна хи́мна f (nacionálna hímna)
• Malagasy: hiram-pirenena
• Malay: lagu kebangsaan
• Malayalam: ദേശീയഗാനം (ml) (dēśīyagānaṁ)
• Maltese: innu nazzjonali m
• Manx: arrane ashoonagh
• Maori: ngaringari a te motu
• Marathi: राष्ट्रगीत n (rāṣṭragīt)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төрийн дуулал (töriin duulal), улсын дуу (ulsyn duu) (China)

• Nahuatl: tlacatiyancuicatl
• Nepali: राष्ट्रिय गान (rāṣṭriya gān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nasjonalsang m

  Nynorsk: nasjonalsong m

• Occitan: imne nacional m
• Persian: سرود ملی (sorud-e melli)
• Polish: hymn narodowy m
• Portuguese: hino nacional (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕੌਮੀ ਗੀਤ (kaumī gīt)
• Quechua: llaqta taki
• Romanian: imn național n
• Romansch: imni naziunal m
• Russian: госуда́рственный гимн m (gosudárstvennyj gimn)
• Samoan: vii o le atunuu
• Scottish Gaelic: laoidh nàiseanta
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: народна химна f, државна химна f, национална himna f

  Roman: narodna himna f, državna himna f, nacionalna himna f

• Slovak: štátna hymna f
• Slovene: državna himna f
• Somali: heesta qaranka
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: narodna hymna f

  Upper Sorbian: narodna hymna f

• Spanish: himno (es) m, himno nacional m
• Swahili: wimbo wa taifa
• Swedish: nationalsång (sv) c
• Tagalog: pambansang awit
• Tamil: நாட்டுப்பண் (ta) (nāṭṭuppaṇ)
• Tatar: дәүләт гимны (däwlät gimnı)
• Telugu: జాతీయ గీతం (jātīya gītaṁ)
• Thai: เพลงชาติ (th) (pleeng-châat)
• Tongan: fasi fakafonua
• Turkish: ulusal marş (tr)
• Turkmen: döwlet gimni
• Ukrainian: держа́вний гімн m (deržávnyj himn)
• Urdu: قومی ترانہ (qaumī tarānā)
• Uzbek: davlat madhiyasi
• Vietnamese: quốc ca (vi) (國歌)
• Welsh: anthem genedlaethol
• West Frisian: folksliet
• Yiddish: נאַציאָנאַלער הימען (natsyonaler himen)