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

1. An island between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea
   2. since 1960 the place of an independent country in the Middle East or Southeastern Europe, governed by the Republic of Cyprus, which is a member state of the European Union since 2004, however not exerting state power over Northern Cyprus since 1974, after which in 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was proclaimed.

Related terms

• Cypriot
• CYP

Translations

island or country

• Albanian: Qipro
• Amharic: ቆጵሮስ (ḳop̣ros)
• Arabic: قُبْرُص‎ (ar) f (qubruṣ)

  Hijazi Arabic: قُبْرُص‎ f (qubruṣ, gubruṣ)

• Armenian: Կիպրոս (hy) (Kipros)

  Old Armenian: Կիպրոս (Kipros)

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܸܘܦܪܘܿܣ‎ f (qupros)
• 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:

  Cantonese: 塞浦路斯 (coi³ pou² lou⁶ si¹)

  Mandarin: 塞浦路斯 (zh) (Sāipǔlùsī)

• Corsican: Cipru
• Crimean Tatar: Qıbrız
• Czech: Kypr (cs) m
• Danish: Cypern (da) n
• Dutch: Cyprus (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kipro (eo)
• Estonian: Küpros (et)
• Farefare: Kipro
• 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) f (kafrisin)
• 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: Қыбрыс (Qıbrıs)
• 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:

  Cyrillic: 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 Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Кѷпръ m (Kü̏prŭ)

• Old Norse: Kípr f
• Ottoman Turkish: قبرس‎ (Kıbrıs, Kıbrız)
• Pashto: قبرس‎ (ps) m (qebrés)
• Persian: قبرس‎ (fa) (qebres)
• Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋𐤔𐤉‎ f (ʾlšy /ʾalašiya/)
• Polish: Cypr (pl) m
• Portuguese: Chipre (pt) m
• Rarotongan: Kuro
• Romanian: Cipru (ro) n
• Romansch: Cipra f
• Russian: Кипр (ru) m (Kipr)
• Rusyn: Ціпрус m (Ciprus)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ки̏пар m, Ци̏пар m (Croatia)

  Roman: Kȉpar m, Cȉpar (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) n
• 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 (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Küprüs
• Yiddish: ציפּערן‎ n (tsipern), ציפּרוס‎ n (tsiprus)
• Yoruba: Kúrúsì

Noun

Cyprus (uncountable)

1. (historical, textiles) A thin, translucent, usually black fabric, a kind of crape.
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 131:

     Seated in an arm-chair, covered with cloth of gold, was the Queen; her robe was of black velvet, edged with the richest sable; and the diadem at the back of her head confined the folds of a long black Cyprus veil.

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/, [ˈkʏprʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.prus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːprus]

Proper noun

Cyprus m sg (genitive Cyprī); second declension

1. Cyprus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative.

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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Cyprus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette