Africa

See also África, Àfrica, and africa

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Afric (poetic, archaic)

Etymology

Wikipedia

From Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈæfɹɪkə/

Proper noun

Africa

1. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
2. The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries:

Countries of Africa

Central Africa Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Eastern Africa Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Seychelles Rwanda Somalia – Somaliland – Puntland Tanzania Uganda Northern Africa Algeria Ceuta Egypt Libya Mauritania Melilla Morocco South Sudan Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara

Southern Africa Angola Botswana Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Reunion Swaziland South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Western Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Derived terms

• African
• Afrikaans
• Horn of Africa
• North Africa
• South Africa

Translations

continent south of Europe

• Acehnese: Afrika
• Afrikaans: Afrika (af)
• Akan: Afrika (ak)
• Arabic: أفريقيا (ar) (ʾafrīqiyā) f, إفريقية (ar) (ʾifrīqiya) f
• Armenian: Աֆրիկա (hy) (Afrika)
• Asturian: África (ast)
• Bambara: Afrika (bm)
• Basque: Afrika (eu)
• Bavarian: Afrika
• Belarusian: Афрыка (be) (Áfryka) f
• Bengali: আফ্রিকা (bn) (aphrika)
• Bulgarian: Африка (bg) (Áfrika) f
• Burmese: အာဖရိက (my) (ahpări.ka.)
• Campidanese Sardinian: Afrika
• Catalan: Àfrica (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎬᎿᎨᏍᏛ (chr) (gvhnagesdv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 非洲 (fei1 zau1)

  Mandarin: 非洲 (cmn) (Fēizhōu), (rare) 阿非利加洲 (cmn) (Āfēilìjiā zhōu)

• Cornish: Afrika (kw)
• Crimean Tatar: Afrika
• Czech: Afrika (cs) f
• Danish: Afrika (da)
• Dutch: Afrika (nl)
• Esperanto: Afriko (eo)
• Estonian: Aafrika (et)
• Faroese: Afrika (fo) f and n
• Finnish: Afrikka (fi)
• West Flemish: Afrika
• French: l’Afrique (fr) f
• Galician: África (gl) f
• Georgian: აფრიკა (ka) (ap'rika)
• German: Afrika (de) n
• Greek: Αφρική (el) (Afrikí) f
• Greenlandic: Afrika (kl)
• Hebrew: אפריקה (he) (afriqa) n
• Hindi: कालद्वीप (hi) (kāladvīpa), अफ़्रीका (hi) (afrīkā)
• Hungarian: Afrika (hu)
• Icelandic: Afríka (is) f
• Ido: Afrika (io)
• Irish: an Afraic (ga) f
• Italian: Africa (it) f
• Japanese: アフリカ (ja) (Afurika), (dated) 阿弗利加 (ja)
• Javanese: Afrika (jv)
• Kannada: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ (kn)
• Karakalpak: Afrika
• Kashubian: Afrika (csb) f
• Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិក (km) ('āfrika)
• Kongo: Afelika, Afrika, Katiopa
• Korean: 아프리카 (ko) (Apeurika)
• Ladino: Afrika

• Lao: ອາຟຣິກກາ (lo) (āflikkā)
• Latin: Africa (la) f, Libya (la) f
• Latvian: Āfrika (lv) f
• Lower Sorbian: Afrika f
• Macedonian: Африка (mk) (Áfrika) f
• Malagasy: Afrika (mg)
• Malay: Afrika (ms)
• Maltese: Afrika (mt)
• Manx: Yn Affrick (gv) f
• Mongolian: Африк (mn) (Áfrik)
• Navajo: Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
• Novial: Afrika
• Old French: Affrique f, Affrike f
• Old Irish: Afraic f
• Oriya: ଆଫ୍ରିକା (or)
• Pangasinan: Afrika
• Papiamentu: Afrika
• Persian: آفریقا (fa) (Afriqâ)
• Polish: Afryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: África (pt) f
• Romanian: Africa (ro) f
• Russian: Африка (ru) (Áfrika) f
• Sanskrit: अफ्रीका (sa)
• Scottish Gaelic: Afraga (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Африка (sh) f

  Roman: Afrika (sh) f

• Silesian: Afrika
• Sinhalese: අප්‍රිකාව (si) (aprikāva)
• Slovak: Afrika (sk) f
• Slovene: Áfrika (sl) f
• Sotho: Afrika (st)
• Spanish: África (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Afrika
• Sundanese: Afrika (su)
• Swahili: afrika (sw)
• Swedish: Afrika (sv)
• Telugu: ఆఫ్రికా (te)
• Thai: แอฟริกา (th) (àefrígaa), ทวีปแอฟริกา (th) (táwêep àefrígaa)
• Tosk Albanian: Afrika (als)
• Tsonga: Afrika (ts)
• Turkish: Afrika (tr)
• Ukrainian: Африка (uk) (Áfryka) f
• Upper Sorbian: Afrika (hsb) f
• Urdu: افریقہ (ur) (afrīkā)
• Uzbek: Afrika (uz)
• Vietnamese: Châu Phi (vi) (洲非 (vi)), Phi Châu (vi) (非洲 (vi))
• Volapük: Frikop (vo), (obsolete) Fikop (vo)
• Yiddish: אַפֿריקע (yi)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Afrika

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents)}
• Appendix:Place names in Africa

External links

• Africa Time Zones with current time

Anagrams

• AFAICR

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈafrika/, X-SAMPA: /"afrika/

Proper noun

Africa f

1. Africa.

Related terms

• africanismo
• africanista
• africanistica
• africano
• africo
• afroasiatico

See also

• (continents) continente; Africa, America meridionale, America settentrionale, Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents)}

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Latin

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Etymology

Feminine of āfricus, as a noun elliptic of terra Africa. The adjective āfricus comes from the name of the Āfri (singular Afer), a tribal people of the area near Carthage, by addition of the -icus suffix. The Latin term formed alongside Greek ἡ Ἀφρική, both terms being attested since the first century.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈaːf.ri.ka/

• Audio (Classical)

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Proper noun

Āfrica (genitive Āfricae); f, first declension

1. Northwestern Africa, the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of the Nile

   Nilus Africam ab Aethiopiā dispescens (Pliny 5, 9, 10, § 53)

2. Name of a Roman province from 146 BC to AD 293 (later split into Africa Zeugitana and Africa Byzacena under Diocletian)
3. Africa as a continent, understood as the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean

   Si probare possemus Ligarium in Āfricā omnino non fuisse.

   If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.

Inflection

nominative	Āfrica
genitive	Āfricae
dative	Āfricae
accusative	Āfricam
ablative	Āfricā
vocative	Āfrica
locative	Āfricae

Related terms

• āfricānus
• āfricus

Descendants

• English: Africa

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Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

Etymology

Latin Africa

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈa.fri.ka]

Proper noun

Africa f

1. Africa

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Africa
Gen/Dat	Africii