Samoa

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

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. See there for more.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ.məʊ.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːˌmaʉ̯.ə/
• (Samoa) IPA^(key): /saː.mo.a/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈməʊ.ə/
• (US) enPR: sə-mō'ə, IPA^(key): /səˈmoʊ.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Samoa

2. A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.
3. A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.

Derived terms

• American Samoa
• German Samoa
• Samoan
• Samoa Standard Time
• Samoa time
• Western Samoa

Translations

Independent State of Samoa

• Afrikaans: Samoa
• Arabic: سَامُوَّا f (samuwwā)
• Armenian: Սամոա (Samoa)
• Bengali: সামোয়া (bn) (śamōẇa)
• Bislama: Samoa
• Breton: Samoa
• Bulgarian: Самоа̀ f (Samoà)
• Burmese: ဆမိုးအား (hca.mui:a:)
• Catalan: Samoa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩摩亞 / 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)
• Georgian: სამოა (samoa)
• 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 (ja) (Samoa)
• Khmer: សាម័រ (km) (saamɔə)
• Korean: 사모아 (ko) (Samoa)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: Samoa f
• Macedonian: Само́а f (Samóa)
• Maori: Hāmoa
• Nahuatl: Samoa
• Navajo: Samóa
• Norman: Samoa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Samoa

  Nynorsk: Samoa (nn)

• Persian: ساموآ (sâmo-â)
• Polish: Samoa (pl) n
• Portuguese: Samoa (pt)
• Rarotongan: ‘Āmoa
• Romanian: Samoa (ro) f
• Russian: Само́а (ru) f or n (Samóa)
• Samoan: Sāmoa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Само̀а f

  Roman: Samòa (sh) f

• Spanish: Samoa (es)
• Swedish: Samoa (sv)
• Tahitian: Hāmoa
• Telugu: సమోవా (te) (samōvā)
• Thai: ซามัว (th) (saa-muua)
• Tongan: Haʻamoa
• Turkish: Samoa (tr)
• Turkmen: Samoa
• Vietnamese: Xa-moa
• Wallisian: Haʻamoa
• Yoruba: Samọ

Noun

Samoa (plural Samoas)

1. (US) A kind of cookie with coconut flavoring, often sold by Girl Scouts.

See also

countries in Oceania (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Masao, Osama, omasa

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania; capital and largest city: Apia)

Related terms

• Samoaan
• Samoaans

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈmo.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈmo.a]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Samoa m

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

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

Further reading

• “Samoa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsamoa]

Proper noun

Samoa f (relational adjective samojský, demonym Samojec, female demonym Samojka)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Declension

Declension of Samoa (sg-only feminine in -oa/-ua)

	singular
nominative	Samoa
genitive	Samoy
dative	Samoi
accusative	Samou
vocative	Samoo
locative	Samoi
instrumental	Samoou

Related terms

• samojština

Further reading

• “Samoa”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Samoa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Samoa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoaner
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaːˈmoː.aː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧moa
• Rhymes: -oːaː

Proper noun

Samoa n

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• Amerikaans-Samoa
• Samoaan m / Samoaanse f
• Samoaans
• West-Samoa

Finnish

Etymology

From Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmoɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝mo̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmoɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sa‧mo‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Sa‧moa

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

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	—
abessive		Samoatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Samoa (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Samoani — accusative nom. Samoani — gen. Samoani genitive Samoani — partitive Samoaani Samoatani — inessive Samoassani — elative Samoastani — illative Samoaani — adessive Samoallani — ablative Samoaltani — allative Samoalleni — essive Samoanani — translative Samoakseni — abessive Samoattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Samoasi — accusative nom. Samoasi — gen. Samoasi genitive Samoasi — partitive Samoaasi Samoatasi — inessive Samoassasi — elative Samoastasi — illative Samoaasi — adessive Samoallasi — ablative Samoaltasi — allative Samoallesi — essive Samoanasi — translative Samoaksesi — abessive Samoattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Samoamme — accusative nom. Samoamme — gen. Samoamme genitive Samoamme — partitive Samoaamme Samoatamme — inessive Samoassamme — elative Samoastamme — illative Samoaamme — adessive Samoallamme — ablative Samoaltamme — allative Samoallemme — essive Samoanamme — translative Samoaksemme — abessive Samoattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Samoanne — accusative nom. Samoanne — gen. Samoanne genitive Samoanne — partitive Samoaanne Samoatanne — inessive Samoassanne — elative Samoastanne — illative Samoaanne — adessive Samoallanne — ablative Samoaltanne — allative Samoallenne — essive Samoananne — translative Samoaksenne — abessive Samoattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Samoansa — accusative nom. Samoansa — gen. Samoansa genitive Samoansa — partitive Samoataan Samoaansa Samoatansa — inessive Samoassaan Samoassansa — elative Samoastaan Samoastansa — illative Samoaansa — adessive Samoallaan Samoallansa — ablative Samoaltaan Samoaltansa — allative Samoalleen Samoallensa — essive Samoanaan Samoanansa — translative Samoakseen Samoaksensa — abessive Samoattaan Samoattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• samoalainen

compounds

• Länsi-Samoa
• samoanlentäväkoira

Anagrams

• Aamos

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.mɔ.a/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Samoa m

1. Samoa (a country in Polynesia)

Proper noun

Samoa f pl (plural only)

1. Samoa (an archipelago in Polynesia)

Derived terms

• Samoa américaines

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmoːa/

• Audio (Austria):

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Proper noun

Samoa n (proper noun, genitive Samoas or (optionally with an article) Samoa)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

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

Italian

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• samoano

Japanese

Romanization

Samoa

1. Rōmaji transcription of サモア

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.mo.a/, [ˈsäːmoä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.mo.a/, [ˈsäːmoä]

Proper noun

Sāmoa f sg (genitive Sāmoae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sāmoa
genitive	Sāmoae
dative	Sāmoae
accusative	Sāmoam
ablative	Sāmoā
vocative	Sāmoa
locative	Sāmoae

Latvian

Proper noun

Samoa f (4th declension)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• Amerikāņu Samoa
• Rietumsamoa

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoaner
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoan, samoanar
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈmɔ.a/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Syllabification: Sa‧mo‧a

Proper noun

Samoa n (indeclinable, related adjective samoański)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

adjective

nouns

• Samoanka
• Samoańczyk

See also

countries in Oceania: kraje Oceanii (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Fidżi
• Kiribati
• Mikronezja
• Nauru
• Niue
• Nowa Zelandia
• Palau
• Papua-Nowa Gwinea
• Samoa
• Tonga
• Tuvalu ~ Tuwalu
• Vanuatu
• Wyspy Cooka
• Wyspy Marshalla
• Wyspy Salomona

Further reading

• Samoa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Samôa (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈmo.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈmo.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈmo.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈmo.ɐ/, /saˈmo.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈmo.ɐ/, /saˈmo.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈmo(w).ɐ/, /saˈmo(w).ɐ/

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧mo‧a

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoano

Samoan

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Alternative form of Sāmoa: Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsamɔa/

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

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 Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈmoa/ [saˈmo.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: Sa‧mo‧a

Proper noun

Samoa f

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• Samoa Americana
• Samoa Occidental

Swedish

Proper noun

Samoa n (genitive Samoas)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoan
• samoansk
• samoanska

Further reading

• Samoa in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Declension

Declension of Samoa

	singular
nominative	Samoa
accusative	Samoa'yı
dative	Samoa'ya
locative	Samoa'da
ablative	Samoa'dan
genitive	Samoa'nın

Possessive forms of Samoa

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Samoa'm	Samoalarım Samoa'larım
senin (your)	Samoa'n	Samoaların Samoa'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Samoa'sı	Samoaları Samoa'ları
bizim (our)	Samoa'mız	Samoalarımız Samoa'larımız
sizin (your)	Samoa'nız	Samoalarınız Samoa'larınız
onların (their)	Samoa'sı Samoaları Samoa'ları	Samoaları Samoa'ları

Derived terms

• Samoalı

See also

countries in Oceania: Okyanusya ülkesi (appendix)edit

• Avustralya
• Cook Adaları
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Adaları
• Mikronezya
• Nauru
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua Yeni Gine
• Samoa
• Solomon Adaları
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Yeni Zelanda

Turkmen

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Welsh

Proper noun

Samoa (not mutable)

1. Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• Samoaidd (“Samoan”, adjective)
• Samoiad (“Samoan person”)

See also

countries in Oceania: gwledydd Oceania (Ynysoedd y De) (appendix)edit

• Awstralia
• Ciribati
• Fanwatw
• Ffiji
• Micronesia
• Nawrw
• Niue
• Palaw
• Papwa Gini Newydd
• Samoa
• Seland Newydd
• Tonga
• Twfalw
• Ynysoedd Cook
• Ynysoedd Marshall
• Ynysoedd Solomon