Cyprus

English

Etymology

Via Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

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• Homophone: cypress

Proper noun

Cyprus

1. Country between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea. Member state of the European Union since 2004. Official name: Republic of Cyprus.
2. Island between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea.

Translations

country

• Albanian: Qipro
• Amharic: ቆጵሮስ (ḳop̣ros)
• Arabic: قُبْرُص‏‎ f (qubruṣ)
• Armenian: Կիպրոս (Kipros)

  Old Armenian: Կիպրոս (Kipros)

• Asturian: Chipre (ast)
• Azeri: Kipr (az)
• Basque: Zipre (eu)
• Belarusian: Кіпр m (Kipr)
• Bengali: সাইপ্রাস (saipras)
• Breton: Kiprenez
• Bulgarian: Ки́пър (bg) m (Kípǎr)
• Burmese: ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ် (hcuikpa.rapc)
• Catalan: Xipre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞浦路斯 (zh) (Sāipǔlùsī)

• Corsican: Cipru
• Crimean Tatar: Qıbrız
• Czech: Kypr (cs) m
• Danish: Cypern (da)
• Dutch: Cyprus (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kipro (eo)
• Estonian: Küpros (et)
• Faroese: Kýpros n
• Finnish: Kypros (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Ch·ipre
• French: Chypre (fr) f

  Middle French: Cyppre

• Galician: Chipre (gl) m
• Georgian: კვიპროსი (ḳviṗrosi)
• German: Zypern (de) n
• Greek: Κύπρος (el) f (Kýpros)
• Gujarati: કિબ્રિસ (kibris)
• Hebrew: קַפְרִיסִין‏‎ (kaf'risin)
• Hindi: साइप्रस (hi) (sāipras), किब्रिस (kibris)
• Hungarian: Ciprus (hu)
• Icelandic: Kýpur (is) f, n
• Ido: Chipro (io)
• Indonesian: Siprus (id)
• Interlingua: Cypro
• Irish: An Chipir f
• Italian: Cipro (it)
• Japanese: キプロス (ja) (Kipurosu)
• Kalenjin: Saipras
• Kamba: Saipras
• Kazakh: Кипр (Kïpr)
• Khmer: ស៊ីប (km) (sib)
• Kikuyu: Saipras
• Korean: 키프로스 (Kipeuroseu)

• Kurdish: Qibris‏‎ (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Кипр (Kipr)
• Lao: ຊີບ (sīp)
• Latin: Cyprus (la) f
• Latvian: Kipra f
• Lithuanian: Kipras (lt) m
• Luhya: Saipras
• Luo: Saipras
• Macedonian: Кипар m (Kipar)
• Malay: Cyprus
• Maltese: Ċipru
• Maori: Haipara, Kaiperu
• Marathi: किब्रिस (kibris)
• Meru: Saipras
• Mongolian: Кипр (Kipr)
• Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii bikéyah
• Norman: Chypre f
• Northern Sami: Kypros
• Norwegian: Kypros (no)
• Occitan: Chipre (oc) f, Cipre (oc) f
• Old Norse: Kípr f
• Persian: قبرس‏‎ (fa) (qebres)
• Polish: Cypr (pl) m
• Portuguese: Chipre (pt) m
• Romanian: Cipru (ro) n
• Romansch: Cipra f
• Russian: Кипр (ru) m (Kipr)
• Rusyn: Ціпрус (rue) m (Ciprus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кипар m, Ципар m (Croatia)

  Roman: Kipar m, Cipar (sh) m (Croatia)

• Silesian: Cypr m
• Sinhalese: සයිප්‍රස් (sayip‍ras)
• Slovak: Cyprus (sk) m
• Slovene: Cíper (sl) m
• Spanish: Chipre (es) m
• Swedish: Cypern (sv)
• Tagalog: Tsipre
• Tajik: Кипр (Kipr)
• Thai: ไซปรัส (th) (sai-bprát)
• Turkish: Kıbrıs (tr)
• Turkmen: Kipr
• Ukrainian: Кіпр (uk) m (Kipr)
• Urdu: قبرص‏‎ (qibris)
• Uzbek: Kipr (uz)
• Vietnamese: Síp
• Võro: Küprüs
• Yiddish: ציפּערן‏‎ (tsipern), ציפּרוס‏‎ (tsiprus)

Related terms

• Cypriot
• CYP

See also

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Category: en:Countries of Europe)}

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Proper noun

Cyprus n

1. Cyprus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈky.prus/, [ˈkʏ.prʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.prus/, [ˈt͡ʃiː.prus]

Proper noun

Cyprus m (genitive Cyprī); second declension

1. Cyprus

Inflection

Second declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Cyprus
genitive	Cyprī
dative	Cyprō
accusative	Cyprum
ablative	Cyprō
vocative	Cypre
locative	Cyprī

Related terms

Related terms

• cupressoides
• cuprum
• Cypria

• Cypriacus
• Cypriānus
• Cypriarches

• Cypriī
• Cypris
• Cyprius

References

• Cyprus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cyprus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)