Cyprus

See also: cyprus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: cypress

Proper noun

Cyprus

2. A country in the Middle East or Southeastern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea. Official name: Republic of Cyprus. Member state of the European Union since 2004.
3. Island between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea.

Related terms

• Cypriot
• CYP

Translations

country

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

  Old Armenian: Կիպրոս (Kipros)

• Asturian: Chipre (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Kipr (az)
• Basque: Zipre (eu)
• Belarusian: Кіпр m (Kipr)
• Bengali: সাইপ্রাস (bn) (śaipraś)
• Breton: Kiprenez
• Bulgarian: Ки́пър (bg) m (Kípǎr)
• Burmese: ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ် (hcuikpa.rapc)
• Catalan: Xipre (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏌᎢᏆᏍ (saiquas)
• 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

• Friulian: Cipri m
• Galician: Chipre (gl) m
• Georgian: კვიპროსი (ka) (ḳviṗrosi)
• German: Zypern (de) n
• Greek: Κύπρος (el) f (Kýpros)

  Ancient: Κύπρος f (Kúpros)

• Gujarati: કિબ્રિસ (kibris)
• Hausa: Cyprus
• Hebrew: קַפְרִיסִין‎ (he) (kaf'risin)
• Hindi: साइप्रस (hi) (sāipras), किब्रिस (kibris), क़िब्रिस (qibris)
• Hungarian: Ciprus (hu)
• Icelandic: Kýpur (is) f or n
• Ido: Chipro (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• 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) (siip)
• Kikuyu: Saipras
• Korean: 키프로스 (ko) (Kipeuroseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Qibris (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Кипр (ky) (Kipr)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: please add this translation if you can

• 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:

  Bokmål: Kypros (no) n

  Nynorsk: Kypros (nn) n

• Occitan: Chipre (oc) f, Cipre (oc) f
• Old Norse: Kípr f
• Pashto: قبرس‎ (ps) m (qebrés)
• 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 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
• Swahili: Kupro, Kuprosi
• Swedish: Cypern (sv)
• Tagalog: Tsipre
• Tajik: Кипр (tg) (Kipr)
• Tatar: Кипр (Kipr)
• Thai: ไซปรัส (th) (sai-bprás)
• Tibetan: སེ་པི་རི་སི (se pi ri si)
• Tigrinya: ቆጵሮስ (ḳop̣ros)
• Turkish: Kıbrıs (tr)
• Turkmen: Kipr
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎍𐎘𐎊 (ảlṯy)
• Ukrainian: Кіпр (uk) m (Kipr)
• Urdu: قبرص‎ (qibris)
• Uyghur: سىپرۇس‎ (siprus)
• Uzbek: Kipr (uz)
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Síp
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Küprüs
• Yiddish: ציפּערן‎ (tsipern), ציפּרוס‎ (tsiprus)
• Yoruba: Kúrúsì

Noun

Cyprus (uncountable)

1. (historical, textiles) A thin, translucent, usually black fabric, a kind of crape.

Alternative forms

• cypres (obsolete)
• cypress

See also

• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• (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, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.prʏs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Cy‧prus

Proper noun

Cyprus n

1. Cyprus

Derived terms

• Cyprioot

Descendants

• → Indonesian: Siprus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈky.prus/, [ˈkʏpɾʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.prus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːpɾus]

Proper noun

Cyprus m sg (genitive Cyprī); second declension

1. Cyprus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cyprus
Genitive	Cyprī
Dative	Cyprō
Accusative	Cyprum
Ablative	Cyprō
Vocative	Cypre
Locative	Cyprī

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette