Coat of arms of Syria
English
Proper noun
Syria
- A country in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
- (historical) An Ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.
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Translations
country in the Middle East
- Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Š̍āmṭ°əlā)
- Afrikaans: Sirië f
- Albanian: Siria (sq)
- Amharic: ሶርያ (sorya)
- Arabic: سُورِيَا (ar) f (sūriyā), سُورِيَّة (ar) f (sūriyya)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ (sūrīā’)
- Hebrew: סוריא (sūrīā’)
- Armenian: Սիրիա (Siria), Ասորիք (Asorikʿ)
- Asturian: Siria (ast)
- Azeri: Suriya (az)
- Belarusian: Сі́рыя f (Síryja), Сы́рыя f (Sýryja)
- Bengali: সিরিয়া (siriya)
- Breton: Siria
- Bulgarian: Си́рия (bg) f (Sírija)
- Burmese: ဆီးရီးယား (hci:ri:ya:), ဆီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ (hci:ri:ya:nuingngam)
- Catalan: Síria (ca) f
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵓⵔⵢⴰ (surya)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (zeoi6 lei6 aa3)
- Hakka: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Si-li-á, Si-li-â)
- Mandarin: 敘利亞 (zh), 敍利亞 (zh), 叙利亚 (zh) (Xùlìyà)
- Min Nan: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Sū-lī-a, Su-lī-a)
- Crimean Tatar: Suriye
- Czech: Sýrie (cs) f
- Danish: Syrien (da)
- Dutch: Syrië (nl)
- Esperanto: Sirio
- Estonian: Süüria (et)
- Faroese: Sýria n
- Finnish: Syyria (fi)
- French: Syrie (fr) f
- Middle French: Surie f
- Old French: Surie f
- Galician: Siria (gl) f
- Georgian: სირია (siria)
- German: Syrien (de) n
- Greek: Συρία (el) f (Syría)
- Hausa: Shâm f
- Hebrew: סוּרְיָה (he) f (súrya)
- Hindi: सीरिया (hi) m (sīriyā), सूरिया m (sūriyā)
- Hungarian: Szíria (hu)
- Icelandic: Sýrland (is) n
- Indonesian: Suriah (id)
- Interlingua: Syria
- Irish: an tSiria f
- Italian: Siria (it)
- Japanese: シリア (ja) (Shiria)
- Kalenjin: Siria
- Kamba: Siria
- Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ (siriyā)
- Kashubian: Syrëjô
- Kazakh: Сирия (Sïrïya)
- Khmer: ប្រទេសស៊ីរី (prɑteeh siirii), ស៊ីរី (siirii)
- Kikuyu: Siria
- Korean: 시리아 (Siria)
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Συρίᾱ (Suríā, “Syria”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sȳria f (genitive Sȳriae); first declension
- Syria (region in the ancient Near East, loosely corresponding to modern Syria)
- (transferred sense) Assyria
- (New Latin) Syria (modern country)
Declension
First declension.
Derived terms
References
- Sȳrĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Syria”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Syria in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- Syria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Syria in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Syria
- Syria
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Syria
- Syria
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Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Syria f
- Syria
Declension
declension of Syria
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singular |
| nominative |
Syria
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| genitive |
Syrii
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| dative |
Syrii
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| accusative |
Syrię
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| instrumental |
Syrią
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| locative |
Syrii
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| vocative |
Syrio
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Derived terms
- Syryjczyk m, Syryjka f
- adjective: syryjski
Portuguese
Proper noun
Syria f
- Obsolete spelling of Síria