Sierra Leone

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Etymology

Spanish sierra (“mountain”) + leona (“lioness”), from Portuguese serra (“mountain”) + leoa (“lioness”) (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

Translations

Republic of Sierra Leone

• Arabic: سيراليون (ar) (siraliyuun) m
• Breton: Sierra Leone (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞拉利昂 (cmn) (Sàilālì'áng)

• Czech: Sierra Leone (cs) f
• Danish: Sierra Leone (da)
• Dutch: Sierra Leone (nl)
• Esperanto: Siera-Leono (eo)
• Finnish: Sierra Leone (fi)
• French: Sierra Leone (fr) f
• German: Sierra Leone (de)
• Greek: Σιέρρα Λεόνε (el) (Siérra Leóne) f
• Hindi: सिएरा लियोन (hi) (si'ērā liyōn)
• Interlingua: Sierra Leon (ia)
• Italian: Sierra Leone (it) f
• Japanese: シエラレオネ (ja) (Shierareone)
• Korean: 시에라 리온 (ko) (Siera Lion)

• Krio: Salone
• Macedonian: Сиера Леоне (mk) (Siéra Leóne) f
• Navajo: Náshdóítsoh Bitsiijįʼ Daditłʼooʼígíí Bidził
• Norwegian: Sierra Leone (no)
• Polish: Sierra Leone (pl)
• Portuguese: Serra Leoa (pt)
• Romanian: Sierra Leone (ro)
• Russian: Сьерра-Леоне (ru) (S’jérra-Leóne) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сијера Леоне (sh) f

  Roman: Sijera Leone (sh) f

• Spanish: Sierra Leona (es)
• Swahili: Siera Leoni (sw)
• Swedish: Sierra Leone (sv)
• Tatar: Sierra Leone (tt) (Sierra Leone)
• Turkish: Sierra Leone (tr)

See also

• Countries of the world

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Czech

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

1. Sierra Leone

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Dutch

Proper noun

Sierra Leone ?

1. Sierra Leone

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone

Declension

Declension of Sierra Leone (type nalle) singular plural nominative Sierra Leone – genitive Sierra Leonen – partitive Sierra Leonea – accusative Sierra Leone Sierra Leonen – inessive Sierra Leonessa – elative Sierra Leonesta – illative Sierra Leoneen – adessive Sierra Leonella – ablative Sierra Leonelta – allative Sierra Leonelle – essive Sierra Leonena – translative Sierra Leoneksi – instructive – – abessive Sierra Leonetta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n

1. Sierra Leone

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

1. Sierra Leone

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone

Related terms

• sierraleoner
• sierraleonsk

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Polish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (undeclinable)

1. Sierra Leone

Derived terms

• Sierraleończyk m, Sierraleonka f
• adjective: sierraleoński

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Tatar

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone