Afrika

See also: Afríka, Āfrika, Āfrikā, afrika, and Áfrika

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English

Proper noun

Afrika

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of Africa: the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Related terms

• Afrikan

Anagrams

• kaafir

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑfɾikä/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

See also

continents: kontinenteedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Noord-Amerika
  • Suid-Amerika
• Antarktika
• Asië
• Europa
• Oseanië

Albanian

Proper noun

Afrika f

1. definite nominative of Afrikë

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Africa, from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaf.rɪ.ka/

Proper noun

Afrika m

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Derived terms

• Afrika Dyghow (“South Africa”)
• afrikan (“African”, adjective)
• Afrikan m, Afrikanes f (“African”, noun)
• prysk kaja Afrika (“African bush daisies”)
• Repoblek Afrika Kres (“Central African Republic”)

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Āfer

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin āfricus

Latin āfrica

Latin Africabor.

Czech Afrika

Borrowed from Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈafrɪka]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika f (relational adjective africký, demonym Afričan, female demonym Afričanka)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

   Severní Afrika ― North Africa

2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

Declension of Afrika (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Afrika
genitive	Afriky
dative	Africe
accusative	Afriku
vocative	Afriko
locative	Africe
instrumental	Afrikou

See also

continents: světadílyedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Jižní Amerika
  • Severní Amerika
• Antarktida
• Asie
• Austrálie
• Evropa
• Oceánie

Further reading

• “Afrika”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Afrika”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Afrika”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From Latin Āfrica.

Proper noun

Afrika c

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Āfrica, from Āfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.fri.kaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Afri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika n (adjective Afrikaans, male demonym Afrikaan, female demonym Afrikaanse)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

   Meronyms: Centraal-Afrika, Equatoriaal-Afrika, Midden-Afrika, Noord-Afrika, Oost-Afrika, West-Afrika, Zuid-Afrika, Zuidwest-Afrika

Derived terms

• Afrikaan
• afrikaniseren
• Centraal-Afrika
• Equatoriaal-Afrika
• Hoorn van Afrika
• Midden-Afrika
• Moffrika
• Noord-Afrika
• Oost-Afrika
• West-Afrika
• Zuid-Afrika
• Zuidwest-Afrika
• Zwart Afrika

Descendants

• → Indonesian: Afrika
• Petjo: aprik

Gagauz

Etymology

Likely from Ottoman Turkish آفریقه, ultimately from Latin Āfrica, from Āfer.

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

German

Alternative forms

• Africa (obsolete)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa(ː)fʁika/

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Afrika n (proper noun, genitive Afrikas or (optionally with an article) Afrika)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Coordinate terms

continents: Erdteile, Kontinenteedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nordamerika
  • Südamerika
• Antarktika
• Asien
• Europa
• Ozeanien

Derived terms

• Afrikaner
• afrikanisch
• afrikanisieren
• Afrikanisierung
• Horn von Afrika
• Nordafrika
• Ostafrika
• Schwarzafrika
• Südafrika
• Westafrika
• Zentralafrika

Further reading

• “Afrika” in Duden online
• “Afrika”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒfrikɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -kɒ
• Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Afrika	—
accusative	Afrikát	—
dative	Afrikának	—
instrumental	Afrikával	—
causal-final	Afrikáért	—
translative	Afrikává	—
terminative	Afrikáig	—
essive-formal	Afrikaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Afrikában	—
superessive	Afrikán	—
adessive	Afrikánál	—
illative	Afrikába	—
sublative	Afrikára	—
allative	Afrikához	—
elative	Afrikából	—
delative	Afrikáról	—
ablative	Afrikától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Afrikáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Afrikáéi	—

Possessive forms of Afrika

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Afrikám	—
2nd person sing.	Afrikád	—
3rd person sing.	Afrikája	—
1st person plural	Afrikánk	—
2nd person plural	Afrikátok	—
3rd person plural	Afrikájuk	—

Derived terms

• afrikai

Compound words

• Afrika-kutató
• Dél-Afrika
• Észak-Afrika
• Kelet-Afrika
• Közép-Afrika
• Nyugat-Afrika

See also

continents: kontinensek, földrészekedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Dél-Amerika
  • Észak-Amerika
• Antarktisz (more common; loosely speaking), Antarktika (technical term)
• Ázsia
• Európa
• Óceánia

Hunsrik

Etymology

Etymology tree

German Afrikabor.

Latin Āfer

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin āfricus

Latin āfrica

Latin Africalbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese Africa

Brazilian Portuguese Áfricabor.

Hunsrik Afrika

Borrowed from German Afrika and Brazilian Portuguese África.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrika/
• Rhymes: -afrika
• Syllabification: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika n (demonym Afrikaaner or afrikaanisch)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
   • 2021, Piter Kehoma Boll, “Afrika”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 9, column 2:

     Die fliehe noh Afrika […]

     They are going to Africa.

Coordinate terms

continents: Kontinenteedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nordamerika
  • Siedamerika
• Asje
• Ëuropa

Ido

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

See also

continents: kontinentiedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nord-Amerika
  • Sud-Amerika
• Antarktika
• Australia
• Azia
• Europa

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /afˈrika/ [afˈri.ka]
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

• Afrika Barat
• Afrika Barat Daya
• Afrika Selatan
• Afrika Timur
• Afrika Utara

See also

continents: benua-benuaedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Amerika Selatan
  • Amerika Utara
• Antarktika
• Asia
• Eropa
• Oseania

Further reading

• “Afrika”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Kashubian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Āfer

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin āfricus

Latin āfrica

Latin Āfricalbor.

Polish Afrykabor.

Kashubian Afrika

Borrowed from Polish Afryka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈfri.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Further reading

• Sychta, Bernard (1967), “Afrika”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 2
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “Afryka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “Afryka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “Afrika”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lithuanian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [²ˈɑːfʲrʲɪkɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːfʲrʲɪkɐ
• Syllabification: Ã‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Ãfrika f stress pattern 1

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

Declension of Ãfrika

	singular
nominative	Ãfrika
genitive	Ãfrikos
dative	Ãfrikai
accusative	Ãfriką
instrumental	Ãfrika
locative	Ãfrikoje
vocative	Ãfrika

Related terms

• afrikiẽtis m, afrikiẽtė f

See also

continents: žemýnaiedit

• Ãfrika
• Amèrika
  • Pietų̃ Amèrika
  • Šiáurės Amèrika
• Antarktidà
• Austrãlija, Okeãnija
• Ãzija
• Europà

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrʲika/

Proper noun

Afrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

Declension of Afrika

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	Afrika
genitive	Afriki
dative	Africe
accusative	Afriku
instrumental	Afriku
locative	Africe

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “Afrika”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “Afrika”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Luxembourgish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Afrika n

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Malagasy

Etymology

Possibly from Spanish África.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈfɾika/

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Further reading

• Afrika in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Malay

Afrika

Etymology

Borrowed from English Africa or Dutch Afrika, from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• (Literary Standard, Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA^(key): /afˈrika/ [ʔafˈri.ka]
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika (Jawi spelling افريکا)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

See also

continents: benua-benuaedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Amerika Selatan
  • Amerika Utara
• Antartika
• Asia
• Eropah
• Oceania

Further reading

• "Afrika" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "Afrika" at PRPM first version)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːf.rɪ.ka/

• Audio (Gozo):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːfrɪka

Proper noun

L-Afrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

See also

continents: kontinentiedit

• L-Afrika
• L-Amerika
  • L-Amerika ta’ Fuq
  • L-Amerika Ċentrali
  • L-Amerika t’Isfel
• L-Antartika
• L-Asja
• L-Ewropa
• L-Oċeanja (L-Oċjanja)

Norwegian Bokmål

Satellite image of Africa.

Etymology

Derived from Latin Āfrica, the substantivized feminine of āfricus (“African”), from Āfer (“African; member of the Afri”) + -icus (“adjectival suffix”). The Latin name originally referred to the region around Carthage in present-day northeastern Tunisia, and subsequently to the Roman province of Africa. It was later extended to the southern coast of the Mediterranean and, by the Middle Ages, to the entire continent.

The ultimate origin of the ethnonym Āfrī (“the Afri”) is uncertain. Proposed explanations connect it with a Phoenician word meaning “dust” or Berber ifri meaning “cave”, but neither derivation is established.

Compare Danish Afrika, Swedish Afrika, German Afrika, Dutch Afrika and English Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːf.rɪ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɑːfrɪka
• Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika

1. a continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
   • 1892, Hans E. Kinck, chapter I, in Huldren:

     Ja, var det ikke storarta, saameget de fik gjort dernede i Afrika, disse missionærerne!

     Yes, was it not magnificent, how much those missionaries accomplished down there in Africa!

   • 1919, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “I. Bourgeoisi og proletariat”, in Valborg Sønstevold, transl., Det kommunistiske manifest, Kristiania: Det norske arbeiderpartis forlag:

     Opdagelsen av Amerika, omseilingen av Afrika skapte et nytt felt for det opkommende bourgeoisi.

     The discovery of America and the circumnavigation of Africa opened up a new field for the rising bourgeoisie.

Derived terms

• afrikaner (“African”)
• afrikansk (“African”)
• Nord-Afrika (“North Africa”)
• Sentral-Afrika (“Central Africa”)
• Sør-Afrika (“South Africa”)
• Vest-Afrika (“West Africa”)
• Øst-Afrika (“East Africa”)

See also

continents: verdensdeleredit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nord-Amerika
  • Sør-Amerika
• Antarktis
• Asia
• Europa
• Oseania

References

• “Afrika” in Store norske leksikon.
• W. Vycichl (1985), “Africa”, in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 2, pages 216–217.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Derived terms

• afrikansk
• Sør-Afrika
• Vest-Afrika

See also

continents: verdsdelaredit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nord-Amerika
  • Sør-Amerika, Sud-Amerika
• Antarktis
• Asia
• Europa
• Oseania

Plautdietsch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Afrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎfrika/
• Hyphenation: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Àfrika f (Cyrillic spelling А̀фрика)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

Declension of Afrika

	singular
nominative	Afrika
genitive	Afrike
dative	Africi
accusative	Afriku
vocative	Afriko
locative	Africi
instrumental	Afrikom

References

• “Afrika”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Āfer

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin āfricus

Latin āfrica

Latin Āfricabor.

Slovak Afrika

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrika/

Proper noun

Afrika f (genitive singular Afriky, declension pattern of žena)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

Declension of Afrika

	singulare tantum
nominative	Afrika
genitive	Afriky
dative	Afrike
accusative	Afriku
locative	Afrike
instrumental	Afrikou

Derived terms

• africký
• Afričan m
• Afričanka f

References

• “Afrika”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /áːfrika/

Proper noun

Ȃfrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Áfrika
genitive	Áfrike
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Áfrika
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Áfrike
dative (dajȃlnik)	Áfriki
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Áfriko
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Áfriki
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Áfriko

Related terms

• Afričàn / Afričánka
• áfriški

Swahili

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Africa, either by way of German Afrika or English Africa.

Pronunciation

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ɑfˈɾi.kɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

• Mwafrika

See also

continents: mabaraedit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Amerika ya Kaskazini
  • Amerika ya Kusini
• Antaktika ~ Antaktiki
• Asia
• Australia
• Ulaya, Uropa

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːfrɪka/

Proper noun

Afrika n (genitive Afrikas)

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Related terms

• afrikansk
• afrikanska

See also

continents: världsdelaredit

• Afrika
• Amerika
  • Nordamerika
  • Sydamerika
• Antarktis
• Asien
• Europa
• Oceanien

countries in Africa: Afrikas länder (appendix)edit

• Algeriet
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Centralafrikanska republiken
• Demokratiska republiken Kongo
• Djibouti
• Egypten
• Ekvatorialguinea
• Elfenbenskusten
• Eritrea
• Etiopien
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenya
• Komorerna
• Kongo-Brazzaville
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marocko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Moçambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé och Príncipe
• Senegal
• Seychellerna
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Sydafrika
• Sydsudan
• Tanzania
• Tchad
• Togo
• Tunisien
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

References

• “Afrika”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• Aprika

Etymology

From English Africa.

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

References

• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008), Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 1

Tsonga

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آفریقه.

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

• Afrika çekirgesi
• Afrika domuzu
• Afrika menekşesi
• Afrika sümbülü
• Afrikalı

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	Afrika
Cyrillic	Африка
Arabic	آفریقا

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian А́фрика (Áfrika), from Latin Āfrica.

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.fʀʲi.ka/
• Rhymes: -afʀʲika
• Syllabification: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

Declension of Afrika (feminine velar stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Afrika	Africe	Afriki
genitive	Afriki	Afrikow	Afrikow
dative	Africe	Afrikomaj	Afrikam
accusative	Afriku	Africe	Afriki
instrumental	Afriku	Afrikomaj	Afrikami
locative	Africe	Afrikomaj	Afrikach
vocative	Afrika	Africe	Afriki

Derived terms

adjectives

• afrikaanski
• afriski

nouns

• Afričan m pers
• Afričanka f
• afrikanistika f
• afrikata f

proper nouns

• Južna Afrika f

Further reading

• “Afrika”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
• “Afrika” in Soblex

Uzbek

Other scripts

Arabic	Afghan Uzbek	افریقا
	Yangi Imlo	ئەفرىقا
Cyrillic		Африка
Latin		Afrika

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian А́фрика (Áfrika), ultimately from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrika/, /afriˈqɒ/
• Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

Declension of Afrika

	singular	plural
nominative	Afrika	Afrikalar
genitive	Afrikaning	Afrikalarning
dative	Afrikaga	Afrikalarga
definite accusative	Afrikani	Afrikalarni
locative	Afrikada	Afrikalarda
ablative	Afrikadan	Afrikalardan
similative	Afrikadek	Afrikalardek

Possessive forms of Afrika

1st person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikam	Afrikalarim
genitive	Afrikamning	Afrikalarimning
dative	Afrikamga	Afrikalarimga
definite accusative	Afrikamni	Afrikalarimni
locative	Afrikamda	Afrikalarimda
ablative	Afrikamdan	Afrikalarimdan
similative	Afrikamdek	Afrikalarimdek
2nd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikang	Afrikalaring
genitive	Afrikangning	Afrikalaringning
dative	Afrikangga	Afrikalaringga
definite accusative	Afrikangni	Afrikalaringni
locative	Afrikangda	Afrikalaringda
ablative	Afrikangdan	Afrikalaringdan
similative	Afrikangdek	Afrikalaringdek
3rd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikasi	Afrikalari
genitive	Afrikasining	Afrikalarining
dative	Afrikasiga	Afrikalariga
definite accusative	Afrikasini	Afrikalarini
locative	Afrikasida	Afrikalarida
ablative	Afrikasidan	Afrikalaridan
similative	Afrikasidek	Afrikalaridek
1st person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikamiz	Afrikalarimiz
genitive	Afrikamizning	Afrikalarimizning
dative	Afrikamizga	Afrikalarimizga
definite accusative	Afrikamizni	Afrikalarimizni
locative	Afrikamizda	Afrikalarimizda
ablative	Afrikamizdan	Afrikalarimizdan
similative	Afrikamizdek	Afrikalarimizdek
2nd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikangiz	Afrikalaringiz
genitive	Afrikangizning	Afrikalaringizning
dative	Afrikangizga	Afrikalaringizga
definite accusative	Afrikangizni	Afrikalaringizni
locative	Afrikangizda	Afrikalaringizda
ablative	Afrikangizdan	Afrikalaringizdan
similative	Afrikangizdek	Afrikalaringizdek
3rd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	Afrikasi	Afrikalari
genitive	Afrikasining	Afrikalarining
dative	Afrikasiga	Afrikalariga
definite accusative	Afrikasini	Afrikalarini
locative	Afrikasida	Afrikalarida
ablative	Afrikasidan	Afrikalaridan
similative	Afrikasidek	Afrikalaridek

Yoruba

Etymology

English Africa

Proper noun

Áfríkà

1. archaic spelling of Afíríkà (“Africa”)