Eritrea

See also: eritrea and Erítrea

English

Map of Eritrea.

Etymology

From Latin Erythraea, from Ancient Greek Ἐρυθρά Θάλασσα (Eruthrá Thálassa, “Red Sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪə

Proper noun

Eritrea

2. The State of Eritrea, a country (since the 1990s) in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea, having Asmara as its capital city, formerly in union with or a province of Ethiopia or a colony of Italy (from 1890).

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

• Afrikaans: Eritrea
• Albanian: Eritrea (sq)
• Amharic: ኤርትራ (ʾertəra)
• Arabic: إِرِتْرِيَا f (ʔiritriyā)
• Armenian: Էրիտրեա (Ēritrea)
• Azerbaijani: Eritreya (az)
• Belarusian: Эрытрэ́я f (Erytréja)
• Bengali: ইরিত্রিয়া (iritriẏa)
• Breton: Eritrea
• Bulgarian: Еритре́я f (Eritréja)
• Burmese: အီရီထရီးယား (irihta.ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Eritrea (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厄立特里亞 (zh) (Èlìtèlǐyà), 厄立特里亚 (zh) (Èlìtèlǐyà)

• Czech: Eritrea (cs) f
• Danish: Eritrea
• Dhivehi: އެރިތުރިއާ (erituriā)
• Dutch: Eritrea (nl)
• Esperanto: Eritreo (eo)
• Estonian: Eritrea (et)
• Finnish: Eritrea (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Èritrê
• French: Érythrée (fr) f
• Galician: Eritrea (gl)
• Georgian: ერიტრეა (eriṭrea)
• German: Eritrea (de)
• Greek: Ερυθραία (el) f (Erythraía)
• Hausa: Eriteria, Iritiriya
• Hebrew: אֶרִיתְרֵאָה \ אריתריאה f (eritre'a)
• Hindi: इरीट्रिया (hi) (irīṭriyā)
• Hungarian: Eritrea (hu)
• Icelandic: Erítrea (is)
• Indonesian: Eritrea (id)
• Interlingua: Eritrea
• Irish: An Eiritré f
• Italian: Eritrea (it) f
• Japanese: エリトリア (ja) (Eritoria)
• Kalenjin: Eritrea
• Kamba: Eritrea
• Kazakh: Эритрея (Éritreä)
• Khmer: អេរីត្រេ (km) (ʼeeriitree)
• Kikuyu: Eritrea
• Korean: 에리트레아 (Eriteurea)
• Kyrgyz: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Lao: ເອຣີເຕຣ ('ē rī trē)
• Latvian: Eritreja (lv) f
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• Lithuanian: Eritrėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Eritrea
• Luo: Eritrea
• Macedonian: Еритре́ја f (Eritréja)
• Malay: Eritrea
• Maltese: Eritrea f
• Maori: Eritēria
• Meru: Eritrea
• Mongolian: Эритрей (Eritrej)
• Norman: Eritrea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Eritrea (no)

• Pashto: اریتره
• Persian: اریتره (eritre)
• Polish: Erytrea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eritreia (pt) f
• Romanian: Eritreea (ro) f
• Russian: Эритре́я (ru) f (Eritréja)
• Samogitian: Eritrėjė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Еритреја f

  Roman: Eritreja (sh) f

• Silesian: Erytryja f
• Sinhalese: එරිත්‍රියාව (eritriyāwa)
• Slovak: Eritrea f
• Slovene: Eritrêja (sl) f
• Spanish: Eritrea (es)
• Swahili: Eritrea (sw)
• Swedish: Eritrea (sv)
• Tagalog: Eritreya
• Tajik: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Tatar: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Thai: เอริเทรีย (th) (ee-rí-triia)
• Tibetan: ཨི་རི་ཏྲའ (i ri tra')
• Tigrinya: ኤርትራ (ti) (ʾertəra)
• Turkish: Eritre (tr)
• Turkmen: Eritreýa
• Ukrainian: Еритре́я (uk) f (Erytréja)
• Urdu: ارتریا (iritriyā), اریٹریا (irīṭriyā)
• Uyghur: ئېرىترېيە (ëritrëye)
• Uzbek: Eritreya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a
• Volapük: Leritreyän (vo)
• Yiddish: עריטרעאַ (eritrea)
• Yoruba: Eritira

Derived terms

• Eritrean (“of Eritrea”, adjective)

See also

• Asmara
• Countries of the world
• Italian Eritrea
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Eretria, tearier

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Breton

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritrejský
• Eritrejec

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea n

1. Eritrea

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeritreɑ/, [ˈe̞rit̪ˌre̞ɑ̝]

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Declension

Inflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Eritrea	—
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Eritrea	—
accusative	nom.	Eritrea	—
	gen.	Eritrean
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
inessive		Eritreassa	—
elative		Eritreasta	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
adessive		Eritrealla	—
ablative		Eritrealta	—
allative		Eritrealle	—
essive		Eritreana	—
translative		Eritreaksi	—
abessive		Eritreatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Eritreani — accusative nom. Eritreani — gen. Eritreani genitive Eritreani — partitive Eritreaani — inessive Eritreassani — elative Eritreastani — illative Eritreaani — adessive Eritreallani — ablative Eritrealtani — allative Eritrealleni — essive Eritreanani — translative Eritreakseni — abessive Eritreattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Eritreasi — accusative nom. Eritreasi — gen. Eritreasi genitive Eritreasi — partitive Eritreaasi — inessive Eritreassasi — elative Eritreastasi — illative Eritreaasi — adessive Eritreallasi — ablative Eritrealtasi — allative Eritreallesi — essive Eritreanasi — translative Eritreaksesi — abessive Eritreattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Eritreamme — accusative nom. Eritreamme — gen. Eritreamme genitive Eritreamme — partitive Eritreaamme — inessive Eritreassamme — elative Eritreastamme — illative Eritreaamme — adessive Eritreallamme — ablative Eritrealtamme — allative Eritreallemme — essive Eritreanamme — translative Eritreaksemme — abessive Eritreattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Eritreanne — accusative nom. Eritreanne — gen. Eritreanne genitive Eritreanne — partitive Eritreaanne — inessive Eritreassanne — elative Eritreastanne — illative Eritreaanne — adessive Eritreallanne — ablative Eritrealtanne — allative Eritreallenne — essive Eritreananne — translative Eritreaksenne — abessive Eritreattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Eritreansa — accusative nom. Eritreansa — gen. Eritreansa genitive Eritreansa — partitive Eritreaansa — inessive Eritreassaan Eritreassansa — elative Eritreastaan Eritreastansa — illative Eritreaansa — adessive Eritreallaan Eritreallansa — ablative Eritrealtaan Eritrealtansa — allative Eritrealleen Eritreallensa — essive Eritreanaan Eritreanansa — translative Eritreakseen Eritreaksensa — abessive Eritreattaan Eritreattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eʁiˈtʁeː.a/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea n (proper noun, strong, genitive Eritreas)

1. Eritrea

Derived terms

• eritreisch
• Eritreer
• Eritreerin

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Hungarian

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Italian

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritreo

Anagrams

• arterie
• artiere
• erriate
• reitera
• tarerei

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritreer
• eritreisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritrear
• eritreisk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritreo

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Swahili

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (country)

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Swedish

Proper noun

Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)

1. Eritrea