Sierra Leone

See also: Síerra Leóne

English

Etymology

Spanish sierra (“mountain”) + leona (“lioness”), from Portuguese Serra Leoa, in the reference to the Lion Mountains (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˌɛɹə liˈoʊn/
• (Sierra Leone) IPA^(key): /sˈehɛrə lˈowoʊn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Republic of Sierra Leone

• Afrikaans: Sierra Leone
• Amharic: ሴየራ ሌዎን (seyära lewon)
• Arabic: سِيرَالِيُون‎ (ar) f (sīrāliyūn)
• Armenian: Սիերա Լեոնե (Siera Leone)
• Azerbaijani: Syerra-Leone
• Belarusian: Сье́ра-Лео́нэ f (Sʹjéra-Ljeóne)
• Bengali: সিয়েরা লিওন (bn) (śiẏera lion)
• Breton: Sierra Leone
• Bulgarian: Сие́ра Лео́не f (Siéra Leóne)
• Burmese: ဆီရာလီယွန် (hciraliywan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞拉利昂 (zh) (Sàilālì'áng)

• Czech: Sierra Leone (cs) f
• Danish: Sierra Leone (da)
• Dutch: Sierra Leone (nl)
• Esperanto: Sieraleono
• Finnish: Sierra Leone (fi)
• French: Sierra Leone (fr) f
• Georgian: სიერა-ლეონე (siera-leone)
• German: Sierra Leone (de)
• Greek: Σιέρρα Λεόνε f (Siérra Leóne)
• Hausa: Saliyo
• Hebrew: סיירה לאון‎
• Hindi: सिएरा लियोन (hi) (sierā liyon)
• Icelandic: Síerra Leóne (is) n
• Interlingua: Sierra Leone
• Italian: Sierra Leone (it) f
• Japanese: シエラレオネ (ja) (Shierareone)
• Kazakh: Сьерра-Леоне (Serra-Leone)
• Khmer: សៀរ៉ាឡេអូន (km) (siəraaleeʼoun)
• Korean: 시에라 리온 (Siera Rion)
• Krio: Salon
• Kyrgyz: Сьерра-Леоне (Sʹyerra-Leone)
• Latin: Mons Leoninus m
• Latvian: Sjerraleone f
• Limba:

  West-Central Limba: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: Siera Leonė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Сие́ра Лео́не f (Siéra Leóne)
• Maori: Te Araone
• Mende: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: Сьерра-Леоне (Sʹjerra-Leone)
• Navajo: Náshdóítsoh Bitsiijįʼ Daditłʼooʼígíí Dziil
• Norman: Sierra Leone f
• Norwegian: Sierra Leone (no)
• Oromo: Seraa Liyoon
• Persian: سیرالئون‎ (siyerâle'ōn)
• Polish: Sierra Leone (pl)
• Portuguese: Serra Leoa (pt)
• Romanian: Sierra Leone
• Russian: Сье́рра-Лео́не (ru) f (Sʹjérra-Leónɛ)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱭᱮᱨᱟ ᱞᱤᱭᱚᱱ (siyera liyôn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сијера Леоне f

  Roman: Sijera Leone (sh) f

• Shan: မိူင်းသီႇဢႄႇရႃႇလီႇယူၼ်ႇ (móeng sìi ʼàae ràa lìi yùun)
• Sinhalese: සියෙරා ලියෝන් (siyerā liyōn)
• Spanish: Sierra Leona (es)
• Swahili: Siera Leoni (sw)
• Swedish: Sierra Leone (sv)
• Tagalog: Bulubunduking Leyona
• Tajik: Сиерра Леоне (Siyerra Leone)
• Tamil: சியேரா லியோனி (ciyērā liyōṉi)
• Tatar: Sierra Leone (tt)
• Temne: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เซียร์ราลีโอน (th) (siia-râa-lii-oon)
• Turkish: Sierra Leone (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сьє́рра-Лео́не (uk) f (Sʹjérra-Leóne)
• Urdu: سِیرا لِیون‎ m (sīrā liyon)
• Uyghur: سيېررا لېئونې‎ (syërra lë'onë)
• Uzbek: Syerra-Leone
• Vietnamese: Si-ê-ra Lê-ôn
• Yoruba: Sàró

See also

• Countries of the world
• (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) [edit]}

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Czech

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• sierraleonský
• Sierraleoňan

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Sierra Leona, from Portuguese Serra Leoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɛ.raː.leːˈoː.nə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Si‧er‧ra Le‧o‧ne
• Rhymes: -oːnə

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Sierra Leone (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Sierra Leone	—
genitive		Sierra Leonen	—
partitive		Sierra Leonea	—
illative		Sierra Leoneen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Sierra Leone	—
accusative	nom.	Sierra Leone	—
	gen.	Sierra Leonen
genitive		Sierra Leonen	—
partitive		Sierra Leonea	—
inessive		Sierra Leonessa	—
elative		Sierra Leonesta	—
illative		Sierra Leoneen	—
adessive		Sierra Leonella	—
ablative		Sierra Leonelta	—
allative		Sierra Leonelle	—
essive		Sierra Leonena	—
translative		Sierra Leoneksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Sierra Leonetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Sierra Leone (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Sierra Leoneni	Sierra Leonemme
2nd person	Sierra Leonesi	Sierra Leonenne
3rd person	Sierra Leonensa

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (proper noun, genitive Sierra Leones or (optionally with an article) Sierra Leone)

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sierra Leone [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Sierra Leone
genitive	des	Sierra Leones, Sierra Leone1
dative	dem	Sierra Leone
accusative	das	Sierra Leone

¹Optionally with an article.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsijɛrːɒ ˌlɛoːnɛ]
• Hyphenation: Si‧er‧ra Le‧o‧ne
• Rhymes: -nɛ

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Sierra Leone	—
accusative	Sierra Leonét	—
dative	Sierra Leonénak	—
instrumental	Sierra Leonéval	—
causal-final	Sierra Leonéért	—
translative	Sierra Leonévá	—
terminative	Sierra Leonéig	—
essive-formal	Sierra Leoneként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Sierra Leonéban	—
superessive	Sierra Leonén	—
adessive	Sierra Leonénál	—
illative	Sierra Leonéba	—
sublative	Sierra Leonéra	—
allative	Sierra Leonéhoz	—
elative	Sierra Leonéból	—
delative	Sierra Leonéról	—
ablative	Sierra Leonétól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Sierra Leonéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Sierra Leonééi	—

Possessive forms of Sierra Leone
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Sierra Leoném	—
2nd person sing.	Sierra Leonéd	—
3rd person sing.	Sierra Leonéja	—
1st person plural	Sierra Leonénk	—
2nd person plural	Sierra Leonétok	—
3rd person plural	Sierra Leonéjuk	—

Derived terms

• Sierra Leone-i

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Italian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• sierraleoner
• sierraleonsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• sierraleonar
• sierraleonsk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjɛr.ra lɛˈɔ.nɛ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔnɛ

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (undeclinable)

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

adjective

• sierraleoński

 

nouns

• Sierraleonka
• Sierraleończyk

 

Further reading

• Sierra Leone in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sierra Leone in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

1. Sierra Leone

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

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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Tatar

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)