Samoa

See also: samoa, Samóa, Sámoa, samoà, Samôa, Sāmoa, and șamoa

Coat of arms of Samoa

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈməʊ.ə/
• (US) enPR: sə-mō'ə, IPA^(key): /səˈmoʊ.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Samoa

1. A country in Oceania.

Synonyms

• Independent State of Samoa (officially)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• American Samoa
• German Samoa

• Samoan
• Western Samoa

Translations

Independent State of Samoa

• Arabic: سَامُوَّا‏‎ f (samuwwā)
• Bengali: সামোয়া (samoya)
• Bislama: Samoa
• Breton: Samoa
• Bulgarian: Самоа (Samoa)
• Catalan: Samoa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩摩亞 (zh), 萨摩亚 (zh) (Sàmóyǎ)

• Czech: Samoa (cs)
• Danish: Samoa (da)
• Dutch: Samoa (nl)
• Esperanto: Okcidenta Samoo, Samoo (eo)
• Faroese: Sámoa n
• Fiji Hindi: Samoa
• Finnish: Samoa (fi)
• French: Samoa (fr)
• German: Samoa (de)
• Greek: Σαμόα (el) f (Samóa)
• Hawaiian: Kāmoa, Haʻamoa
• Hungarian: Szamoa (hu)
• Interlingua: Samoa
• Irish: Samó m, Stát Neamhspleách Shamó m
• Italian: Samoa
• Japanese: サモア (Samoa)
• Korean: 사모아 (ko) (Samoa)

• Latvian: Samoa f
• Macedonian: Самоа f (Samóa)
• Maori: Hāmoa ki te Uru
• Nahuatl: Samoa
• Navajo: Samóa
• Norman: Samoa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Samoa

  Nynorsk: Samoa (nn)

• Persian: ساموآ‏‎ (Sâmoâ)
• Polish: n
• Portuguese: Samoa (pt)
• Romanian: Samoa (ro) f
• Russian: Само́а (ru) f, n (Samóa)
• Samoan: Sāmoa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Самоа f

  Roman: Samoa (sh) f

• Spanish: Samoa (es)
• Swedish: Samoa (sv)
• Tahitian: Hāmoa
• Tongan: Haʻamoa
• Turkish: Samoa (tr)
• Turkmen: Samoa
• Wallisian: Haʻamoa

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Osama, omasa

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Catalan

Proper noun

Samoa m

1. Samoa

Derived terms

• illes Samoa (“Samoan Islands”)
• samoà (“Samoan”)
• Samoa Alemanya (“German Samoa”)
• Samoa Nord-americana (“American Samoa”)
• Samoa Occidental (“Western Samoa”)

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Czech

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa

Related terms

• samojský
• samojština
• Samojec
• Samojka

Further reading

• Samoa in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Samoa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Finnish

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa

Declension

Inflection of Samoa (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)
nominative		Samoa	—
genitive		Samoan	—
partitive		Samoaa Samoata	—
illative		Samoaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Samoa	—
accusative	nom.	Samoa	—
	gen.	Samoan
genitive		Samoan	—
partitive		Samoaa Samoata	—
inessive		Samoassa	—
elative		Samoasta	—
illative		Samoaan	—
adessive		Samoalla	—
ablative		Samoalta	—
allative		Samoalle	—
essive		Samoana	—
translative		Samoaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Samoatta	—
comitative		—	—

Anagrams

• Aamos

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmoːa/

• Audio (Austria)

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• Audio

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Proper noun

Samoa n (genitive Samoas)

1. Samoa

Derived terms

• Amerikanisch-Samoa
• Ostsamoa
• Samoa-Insel
• Samoaner
• samoanisch
• Westsamoa

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Italian

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa

Derived terms

• samoano

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Latin

Proper noun

Sāmoa f (genitive Sāmoae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Samoa

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Sāmoa
genitive	Sāmoae
dative	Sāmoae
accusative	Sāmoam
ablative	Sāmoā
vocative	Sāmoa
locative	Sāmoae

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Latvian

Proper noun

Samoa f (4th declension)

1. Samoa

Related terms

• Amerikāņu Samoa
• Rietumsamoa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa

Related terms

• samoaner
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa

Related terms

• samoan, samoanar
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈmɔa/

• audio

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Proper noun

Samoa n

1. Samoa

Derived terms

• Samoańczyk m, Samoanka f
• adjective: samoański

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Samôa (obsolete)

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa (an archipelago in Oceania)
2. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoano

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Slovak

Etymology

From Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsamɔa/

Proper noun

Samoa f (genitive Samoy) declension pattern žena

1. Samoa

Declension

Declension of Samoa

	singulare tantum
nominative	Samoa
genitive	Samoy
dative	Samoe
accusative	Samou
locative	Samoe
instrumental	Samoou

Derived terms

• Samojčan m
• Samojčanka f
• samojský
• Samojský nezávislý štát m

Further reading

• Samoa in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa

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Turkmen

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa