Siberia

Etymology
Adopted in the 17th century, from. In origin the Tatar name of a 14th-century fortress at Qashliq (Tobolsk) which became the capital of the 16th-century Khanate of Sibir, in 16th century Russian usage extended to the entire area of what is now Tyumen Oblast, and with the ongoing Russian conquest of Siberia by the 19th century to the larger area of Russia's Asian territories beyond the Ob River.

The figurative sense in English arises in the 19th century (attested in 1841 according to OED).

Translations

 * Abkhaz: Сбыр, Сибра
 * Adyghe: Сыбыр
 * Afrikaans: Siberië
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሳይቤሪያ
 * Arabic: سِيبِيرِيَا
 * Armenian: Սիբիր
 * Azerbaijani: Sibir
 * Bashkir: Себер
 * Belarusian: Сібі́р, Сыбі́р
 * Bengali: সাইবেরিয়া
 * Bulgarian: Сиби́р
 * Burmese: ဆိုက်ဘေးရီးယား
 * Buryat: Шэбэр
 * Catalan: Sibèria
 * Chechen: Сибаре, Сибрех
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 西伯利亞
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: Ҫӗпӗр
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Sibirien
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Siberio
 * Estonian: Siber
 * Faroese: Sibiria
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ციმბირი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סִיבִּיר
 * Hindi: साइबेरिया
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: Siberia
 * Ingrian: Siberi
 * Ingush: Сибарегӏе
 * Irish: Sibéir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabardian: Сыбыр
 * Kalmyk: Сивр
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ស៊ីបេរី
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: Сибирь
 * Lao: ຊີເບຣີ, ໄຊບີເລຍ, ຊີເບລີ
 * Latin: Siberia, Sibiria
 * Latvian: Sibīrija
 * Lithuanian: Sibiras
 * Livonian: Tsībõrmō
 * Macedonian: Сибир
 * Malay: Siberia
 * Maori: Haipīria
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: Сивыр
 * Western Mari: Сӹвӹр
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Сибирь
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Sibir
 * Occitan: Siberia
 * Ossetian: Сыбыр
 * Pashto: سايبيريا
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, Sybir
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Siberia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Сѝбӣр
 * Roman:
 * Shor: Сибир
 * Sicilian: Sibbìria, Sibbèria
 * Slovak:, Sibíria
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Siberia
 * Tajik: Сибир
 * Tatar: Себер
 * Telugu: సైబేరియా
 * Thai: ไซบีเรีย
 * Tibetan: སེ་པོ་རི་ཡ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Sibir
 * Tuvan:
 * Udmurt: Сибыр
 * Ukrainian: Сибі́р
 * Urdu: سائبیریا
 * Uyghur: سىبىرىيە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Xi-be-ri-a, Tây Bá Lợi Á (西伯利亞)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: Siberia
 * Yakut: Сибиир
 * Yiddish: סיביר

Noun

 * 1)  A cold, inhospitable place or place of exile.