Apulia

See also: Apúlia

English

Etymology

From Latin Apulia.

Proper noun

Apulia

1. A region in southern Italy.

Synonyms

• Puglia

Derived terms

• Apulian

Translations

region of Italy

• Afrikaans: Apulië
• Albanian: Pulia f
• Amharic: አፑሊያ (ʾäpuliya)
• Arabic: بوليا‎ f
• Aragonese: Pulla f
• Armenian: Ապուլիա (Apulia)
• Asturian: Puglia f
• Azerbaijani: Apuliya
• Belarusian: Апулія f (Apulija)
• Bulgarian: Апулия f (Apulija)
• Catalan: Pulla f
• Chechen: Апули (Apuli)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普利亞, 普利亚 (Pǔlìyā, Pǔlìyà)

• Chuvash: Апули (Ap̬uli)
• Cornish: Apuli f
• Corsican: Puglia f
• Czech: Apulie (cs) f
• Danish: Apulien c
• Dutch: Apulië n
• Esperanto: Apulio
• Estonian: Apuulia
• Finnish: Apulia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Poulyes f, Poulye f
• French: Pouille (fr) f, Pouilles (fr) f pl, (obsolete) Apulie (fr) f
• Friulian: Pulie f
• Georgian: აპულია (aṗulia)
• German: Apulien (de) n

  Alemannic German: Apulie n

• Greek: Απουλία (el) f (Apoulía)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀπουλία f (Apoulía)

• Hebrew: פוליה‎ f (Pulia)
• Hindi: पुलिया (hi) (puliyā)
• Icelandic: Apúlía f
• Italian: Puglia (it) f
• Japanese: プッリャ州 (プッリャしゅう, Purrya shū), プッリャ (Purrya), プーリャ (Pūrya), プーリア (Pūria)
• Kazakh: Апулия (Apuliä)
• Korean: 아풀리아 주 (apullia ju), 아풀리아 (apullia)
• Latin: Apulia f, Iapygia f
• Latvian: Apūlija f
• Ligurian: Puggia f
• Limburgish: Apulië
• Lithuanian: Apulija f
• Lombard: Püja f
• Macedonian: Апулија f (Apulija)
• Marathi: पुलीया (pulīyā)
• Neapolitan: Pùglia f
• North Frisian: Apuulien
• Occitan: Polha f
• Old English: Puilla f
• Old Norse: Púll m, Púl n
• Old Portuguese: Pulla f
• Ossetian: Апули (Apuli)
• Ottoman Turkish: پولیه‎
• Persian: پولیا‎ (Puliyâ)
• Picard: Poulles f pl
• Piedmontese: Pulia f
• Polish: Apulia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Apúlia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਪੂਲੀਆ (pūlīā)
• Romanian: Apulia f
• Russian: Апу́лия (ru) f (Apúlija)
• Sardinian: Pùglia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀пӯлија f

  Roman: Àpūlija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Pugghia f
  • Salentino: Puia f
• Slovak: Apúlia f
• Slovene: Apulija (sl) f
• Spanish: Apulia (es) f, Pulla (es) f
• Swedish: Apulien
• Tagalog: Apulya
• Tarantino: Pugghie
• Thai: แคว้นปูลยา
• Ukrainian: Апулія f (Apulija)
• Venetian: Puia f
• West Flemish: Apulië n
• West Frisian: Apûlje n

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Latin

Etymology

• Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”).

• From Ancient Greek Ἰαπυγία (Iapugía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aːˈpuː.li.a/, [äːˈpuːlʲiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpu.li.a/, [äˈpuːliä]

Proper noun

Āpūlia f sg (genitive Āpūliae); first declension

1. (geography) A province in lower Italy, at the north of Calabria and east of Samnium, now Italian Puglia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Āpūlia
Genitive	Āpūliae
Dative	Āpūliae
Accusative	Āpūliam
Ablative	Āpūliā
Vocative	Āpūlia

Derived terms

• Āpūlicus
• Āpūlus

Descendants

• Italian: Puglia

References

• Apulia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “Apulia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Apulia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpu.lja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ulja
• Syllabification: A‧pu‧lia

Proper noun

Apulia f

1. Apulia (a region of Italy)

Declension

Declension of Apulia

	singular
nominative	Apulia
genitive	Apulii
dative	Apulii
accusative	Apulię
instrumental	Apulią
locative	Apulii
vocative	Apulio

Further reading

• Apulia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Apulia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Proper noun

Apulia f

1. Apulia (a region of Italy)

   Synonym: Pulla