Singapore

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Etymology

Via Malay singa (“lion”) and pura (“city”), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) and पुर (pura, “city”).

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Proper noun

Singapore

1. An island city state in Southeast Asia located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony. Official name: Republic of Singapore.

Synonyms

• Lion City (informal)
• S'pore (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• Singaporean
• Singlish

Translations

Republic of Singapore

• Arabic: سنغافورة (ar) (singhafuura) f
• Armenian: Սինգապուր (hy) (Singapur) 
• Bengali: সিঙ্গাপুর (bn)
• Breton: Singapour (br)
• Burmese: စင်ကာပူ (my), စင်္ကာပူ (my)
• Catalan: Singapur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新加坡 (cmn) (Xīnjiāpō), 星加坡 (cmn) (Xīngjiāpō), (nickname) 星洲 (cmn) (Xīngzhōu)

  Min Nan: 新加坡 (nan) (Sin-ka-pho)

• Czech: Singapur (cs) m
• Danish: Singapore (da)
• Dutch: Singapore (nl)
• Esperanto: Singapuro (eo)
• Faroese: Singapor (fo) n
• Finnish: Singapore (fi)
• French: Singapour (fr) m
• German: Singapur (de)
• Greek: Σιγκαπούρη (el) (Singapoúri) f 
• Hindi: सिंगापुर (hi) (siṅgāpur)
• Hungarian: Szingapúr (hu)
• Indonesian: Singapura (id)
• Interlingua: Singhapur (ia)
• Irish: Singeapór (ga) m, Poblacht Shingeapór (ga) f
• Italian: Singapore (it) f
• Japanese: シンガポール (ja) (Shingapōru) (新嘉坡 (ja))
• Jèrriais: Sîngapour m

• Khmer: សិង្ហបុរី (km) (sing hak bo rei)
• Korean: 싱가포르 (ko) (Singgaporeu)
• Macedonian: Сингапур (mk) (Síngapur) m
• Malay: Singapura (ms)
• Maltese: is-Singapor (mt)
• Marathi: सिंगापुर (mr) (siṅgāpur) m
• Navajo: Sį́ʼgaboo
• Norwegian: Singapore (no)
• Persian: سنگاپور (fa) (Sangâpur)
• Polish: Singapur (pl)
• Portuguese:

  (Brazil): Cingapura (pt) f

  Portugal and Africa: Singapura (pt) f

• Romanian: Singapore (ro)
• Russian: Сингапур (ru) (Singapúr) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сингапур (sh) m

  Roman: Singapur (sh) m

• Spanish: Singapur (es) m
• Swedish: Singapore (sv)
• Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் (ta) (singgappūr)
• Telugu: సింగపూర్ (te)
• Thai: สิงคโปร์ (th) (sĭngkábpoh)
• Turkish: Singapur (tr)
• Urdu: سنگاپور (ur) (siṅgāpur)

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore

Declension

Declension of Singapore (type nalle) singular plural nominative Singapore – genitive Singaporen – partitive Singaporea – accusative Singapore Singaporen – inessive Singaporessa – elative Singaporesta – illative Singaporeen – adessive Singaporella – ablative Singaporelta – allative Singaporelle – essive Singaporena – translative Singaporeksi – instructive – – abessive Singaporetta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Singapore m

1. Singapore

Derived terms

• singaporiano

Anagrams

• riesponga
• saprogeni
• sporigena
• spregiano

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore

Related terms

• singaporer
• singaporsk