Mauritania

See also Mauritánia, Mauritânia, and Mauritània

English

Etymology

From Latin Mauritania, from Maurus (“Moor”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Mauritania

1. A country in Northern Africa. Official name: Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Translations

Islamic Republic of Mauritania

• Arabic: موريتانيا (ar) (muritaaniya) f
• Armenian: Մավրիտանիա (hy) (Mavritania)
• Bengali: মৌরিতানিয়া (bn)
• Breton: Maouritania (br)
• Catalan: Mauritània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛里塔尼亞 (cmn), 毛里塔尼亚 (cmn) (Máolǐtǎníyà)

• Czech: Mauritánie (cs) f, Mauretánie (cs) f
• Danish: Mauretanien (da)
• Dutch: Mauretanië (nl)
• Esperanto: Maŭritanio (eo), Maŭritanujo (eo)
• Faroese: Móritania (fo)
• Finnish: Mauritania (fi)
• French: Mauritanie (fr) f
• German: Mauretanien (de)
• Greek: Μαυριτανία (el) (Mavritanía) f
• Hungarian: Mauritánia (hu)
• Interlingua: Mauritania (ia)
• Irish: An Mháratáin (ga) f, Poblacht Ioslamach na Máratáine (ga) f
• Italian: Mauritania (it) f
• Japanese: モーリタニア (ja) (Mōritania)
• Kalenjin: Moritenia

• Kamba: Moritania
• Kikuyu: Moritenia
• Korean: 모리타니 (ko) (Moritani)
• Luhya: Moritenia
• Luo: Moritenia
• Macedonian: Мавританија (mk) (Mavritánija) f
• Maltese: il-Mawritanja (mt)
• Meru: Moritania
• Navajo: Moowitéínya
• Norwegian: Mauritania (no)
• Polish: Mauretania (pl)
• Portuguese: Mauritânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Mauritania (ro) f
• Russian: Мавритания (ru) (Mavritánija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: Mauretanija (sh) f
• Slovene: Mavretánija (sl) f
• Spanish: Mauritania (es) f
• Swahili: Moritania (sw), Umoritani (sw)
• Swedish: Mauretanien (sv)
• Turkish: Moritanya (tr)
• Volapük: Moritän (vo)

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Nouakchott

External links

• Mauritania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Mauritania

1. Mauritania

Declension

Declension of Mauritania (type kulkija) singular plural nominative Mauritania – genitive Mauritanian – partitive Mauritaniaa – accusative Mauritania Mauritanian – inessive Mauritaniassa – elative Mauritaniasta – illative Mauritaniaan – adessive Mauritanialla – ablative Mauritanialta – allative Mauritanialle – essive Mauritaniana – translative Mauritaniaksi – instructive – – abessive Mauritaniatta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

Derived terms

• mauritanialainen

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Mauritania

1. Mauritania

Derived terms

• mauritano

Anagrams

• umanitaria

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Latin

Etymology

From Maurus (“Moor”)

Proper noun

Mauritānia (genitive Mauritāniae); f, first declension

1. Mauritania

Inflection

nominative	Mauritānia
genitive	Mauritāniae
dative	Mauritāniae
accusative	Mauritāniam
ablative	Mauritāniā
vocative	Mauritānia
locative	Mauritāniae

Synonyms

• Maurūsia

Related terms

Maurī Mauricātim Mauricē

Mauricus Mauritānicus Maurus

Descendants

• English: Mauritania

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Mauritania

1. Mauritania

Related terms

• mauritanier
• mauritansk

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Romanian

Noun

Mauritania f

1. Mauritania

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Mauritania f

1. Mauritania