Seychelles

English

Seychelles on a globe.

Etymology

After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɪˈʃɛlz/, /seɪˈʃɛl/, /ˈseɪʃɛlz/, /ˈseɪʃɛl/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlz, -ɛl

Proper noun

the Seychelles

2. An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

Usage notes

Treated as singular or plural. The presence of the definite article also varies, though "the Seychelles" is more common.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Seyche
• Seychellean
• Seychelles Time
• Seychellois

Descendants

• → Japanese: セイシェル (Seisheru)

Translations

country in East Africa

• Afrikaans: Seychelle
• Amharic: ሲሸልስ (sišäls)
• Arabic: سِيشِيل m (sišīl), سيشل f (sēšil)

  Hijazi Arabic: سِيشِل f (sēšil)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: Seixeles (ast) f pl
• Belarusian: Сейшэ́лы f pl (Sjejšély), Сейшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sjejšélʹskija astravý), Сэйшэ́лы f pl (Sejšély), Сэйшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sejšélʹskija astravý)
• Bengali: সেশেল (bn) (śeśel)
• Breton: Sechelez
• Bulgarian: Сейше́ли (bg) m pl (Sejšéli)
• Burmese: ဆေးရှဲ (hce:hrai:)
• Catalan: Seychelles (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞舌爾 / 塞舌尔 (zh) (Sàishé'ěr)

• Czech: Seychely (cs) pl
• Danish: Seychellerne pl
• Dutch: Seychellen (nl) pl
• Esperanto: Sejŝeloj (eo) pl
• Farefare: Seesello pl
• Finnish: Seychellit (fi)
• French: Seychelles (fr) f pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Seysjellen pl

• Galician: Seixeles (gl) f pl
• Georgian: სეიშელის კუნძულები (ka) (seišelis ḳunʒulebi)
• German: Seychellen (de) pl
• Greek: Σεϋχέλλες (el) f pl (Seÿchélles)
• Hebrew: סֵיְשֶׁל / סיישל (seyshel)
• Hindi: सेशेल्स (hi) (seśels)
• Hungarian: Seychelle-szigetek (hu)
• Interlingua: Seychelles
• Irish: Na Séiséil m or pl, Poblacht na Séiséal f
• Italian: Seychelles (it) f pl, Seicelle (it) f pl
• Japanese: セイシェル (ja) (Seisheru), セーシェル (ja) (Sēsheru)
• Kalenjin: Shelisheli
• Kamba: Shelisheli
• Kazakh: Сейшель аралдары (kk) (Seişel araldary)
• Khmer: សេសែល (seesael)
• Kikuyu: Shelisheli
• Korean: 세이셸 (ko) (Seisyel), 세이쉘 (ko) (Seiswel) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Сейшел аралдары (Seyşel araldarı)
• Latvian: Seišelas f pl
• Lithuanian: Seišeliai (lt) m pl
• Luhya: Bushelisheli
• Luo: sishel
• Macedonian: Сејшели m pl (Sejšeli)
• Malay: Seychelles (ms)
• Maltese: is-Sejxell
• Māori: Heikere
• Meru: ushelisheli
• Navajo: Seishel
• Norman: Seychelles f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Seychellene (no)

  Nynorsk: Seychellane (nn)

• Persian: سیشل (seyšel)
• Polish: Seszele (pl)
• Portuguese: Seicheles (pt) f pl
• Romanian: Seychelles (ro), Seișele
• Russian: Сейше́лы (ru) f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льские острова́ m pl (Sejšélʹskije ostrová)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сејшели m pl

  Latin: Sejšeli (sh) m pl

• Seychellois Creole: Sesel
• Sinhalese: සීෂෙල්ස් (sīṣels)
• Slovak: Seychely pl
• Slovene: Sejšéli (sl) m pl
• Spanish: Seychelles (es) f pl
• Swahili: Shelisheli (sw)
• Swedish: Seychellerna (sv) pl
• Tagalog: Seysyels
• Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Сейшел (Jaziraho-yi Seyšel), Сейшел (Seyšel)
• Thai: เซเชลส์ (th) (see-cheel)
• Turkish: Seyşeller (tr) pl
• Ukrainian: Сейше́ли f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льські Острови́ (uk) m pl (Sejšélʹsʹki Ostrový)
• Vietnamese: Xây-sen
• Yoruba: Seṣẹlẹsi

See also

• Countries of the world

countries in Africa (appendix)edit

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
• 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

Further reading

• Seychelles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Seychelles on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Seychelles on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Seychelles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Seychelles

1. Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ʃɛl/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

1. Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

• Seychellois
• seychellois

Indonesian

Etymology

After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.

Proper noun

Seychelles

1. Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Noun

Seychelles (plural Seychelles-Seychelles or para Seychelles)

1. Seychellois

Adjective

Seychelles (comparative lebih Seychelles, superlative paling Seychelles)

1. Seychellois

See also

countries in Africa: negara-negara di Afrika (appendix)edit

• Afrika Selatan
• Aljazair
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cad
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Etiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Khatulistiwa
• Guinea-Bissau
• Jibuti
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Komoro
• Lesoto
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Maroko
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mesir
• Mozambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Pantai Gading
• Republik Afrika Tengah
• Republik Demokratik Kongo
• Republik Kongo
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome dan Principe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Selatan
• Tanjung Verde
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Further reading

• “Seychelles”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

1. Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.lis/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.lis]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.lis/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.lis]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.liʃ/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.liʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.les/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.les]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈt͡ʃɛ.lɨʃ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /seˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

1. alternative spelling of Seicheles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seiˈt͡ʃeles/ [sei̯ˈt͡ʃe.les]
• Rhymes: -eles
• Syllabification: Sey‧che‧lles

Proper noun

Seychelles f

1. Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

• seychellense

Welsh

Proper noun

y Seychelles

1. the Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Coordinate terms

countries in Africa: gwledydd Affrica (appendix)edit

• Angola
• Algeria
• Benin
• Botswana
• Bwrcina Ffaso
• Bwrwndi
• Cabo Verde
• Camerŵn
• Cenia
• De Affrica
• De Swdan
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gini
• Gini Bisaw
• Gini Gyhydeddol
• Gorllewin Sahara
• Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica
• Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo
• Gweriniaeth y Congo
• Jibwti
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagasgar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mawrisiws
• Mawritania
• Moroco
• Mosambic
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Swdan
• São Tomé a Príncipe
• Tansania
• Tiwnisia
• Togo
• Tsiad
• Wganda
• y Comoros
• y Seychelles
• y Traeth Ifori
• yr Aifft