Syria

See also: Sýria

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Syria, from Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Syria

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.

Related terms

• Assyria
• Syriac
• Syrian

See also

• United Arab Republic

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Š̍āmṭ°əlā)
• Afrikaans: Sirië
• Albanian: Siria
• Amharic: ሶርያ (sorəya)
• Arabic: سوريا (ar) f (súrya), سورية (ar) f (súrya)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ (Sūrīā’)

  Hebrew: סוריא (Sūrīā’)

• Armenian: Սիրիա (Siria), Ասորիք (Asorikʿ)
• Asturian: Siria (ast)
• Belarusian: Сі́рыя f (Síryja), Сы́рыя f (Sýryja)
• Bengali: সিরিয়া (siria)
• Breton: Siria
• Bulgarian: Си́рия (bg) f (Sírija)
• Catalan: Síria (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵓⵔⵢⴰ (surya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 敘利亞, 叙利亚 (zeoi6 lei6 aa3)

  Mandarin: 敘利亞 (Xùlìyà), 叙利亚 (zh) (Xùlìyà)

• Czech: Sýrie (cs) f
• Danish: Syrien
• Dutch: Syrië (nl)
• Esperanto: Sirio
• Estonian: Süüria (et)
• Faroese: Sýria n
• Finnish: Syyria (fi)
• French: Syrie (fr) f

  Middle French: Surie f

  Old French: Surie f

• Galician: Siria (gl) f
• Georgian: სირია (siria)
• German: Syrien (de) n
• Greek: Συρία (el) f (Syría)
• Hausa: Shâm f
• Hebrew: סוריה (he) f (Suria)
• Hindi: सीरिया (hi) m (sīriyā), सूरिया m (sūriyā)
• Hungarian: Szíria (hu)
• Icelandic: Sýrland (is)
• Indonesian: Suriah
• Interlingua: Syria
• Irish: an tSiria f
• Italian: Siria (it)
• Japanese: シリア (ja) (Shiria)
• Jèrriais: Syrie f
• Kalenjin: Siria
• Kamba: Siria
• Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ (siriyā)
• Kashubian: Syrëjô
• Khmer: ប្រទេសស៊ីរី (prɑteih siirii), ស៊ីរី (siirii)
• Kikuyu: Siria
• Korean: 시리아 (ko) (Siria)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Sûriya (ku), Sûriye (ku)

  Sorani: سوریا

• Latvian: Sīrija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Sirija (lt) f
• Luhya: Siria
• Luo: Siria
• Macedonian: Сирија (mk) f (Sirija)
• Malay: Syria
• Marathi: सीरिया m (sīriyā)
• Meru: Siria
• Navajo: Sííwiya
• Norwegian: Syria (no)
• Old French: Surie f
• Old Norse: Sýrland n, Sýría n
• Pashto: سوريه
• Persian: سوریه (fa) (Suriye)
• Polish: Syria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Síria (pt)
• Romanian: Siria f
• Russian: Си́рия (ru) f (Sírija)
• Sanskrit: सिरिया (siriyā)
• Scots: Sirie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сирија f

  Roman: Sirija (sh) f

• Slovak: Sýria (sk) f
• Slovene: Sírija f
• Spanish: Siria (es) f
• Swahili: Siria (sw)
• Swedish: Syrien (sv)
• Tajik:

  Cyrillic: Сурия (Suriya)

  Persic: سوریه (سوریه)

  Roman: Surija

• Tatar: Сүрия (Süriya)
• Telugu: సిరియా (te) (siriyā)
• Thai: ประเทศซีเรีย (bpràtêt seeria), ซีเรีย (th) (seeria)
• Tibetan: སི་རི་ཡ་ (si ri ya), ཞུ་ལི་ཡ་ (zhu li ya)
• Turkish: Suriye (tr)
• Ukrainian: Си́рія (uk) f (Sýrija)
• Urdu: سیریا m (sīriyā), سوریا m (sūriyā)
• Uyghur:

  Persic: سۇرىي (suriy), سۈرىيە (süriye)

  Roman: Suriye, Süriye

• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Сурия

  Roman: Suriya (uz)

• Vietnamese: Syria
• Yakut: Сирия (Siriya)
• Yiddish: סיריע (siriye)
• Zazaki:

  Persic: سووریە

  Roman: Sûrîye

See also

• Countries of the world

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Siria, Suria

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Συρίᾱ (Suríā, “Syria”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː.ri.a/

Proper noun

Sȳria f (genitive Sȳriae); first declension

1. Syria (a country in Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea)
2. (transferred sense) Assyria

Declension

First declension with locative.

Number	Singular
nominative	Sȳria
genitive	Sȳriae
dative	Sȳriae
accusative	Sȳriam
ablative	Sȳriā
vocative	Sȳria
locative	Sȳriae

Derived terms

Sȳrī Sȳriacē Sȳriacus

Sȳriāticus Sȳricus Sȳriī

Sȳriscus Sȳrius Sȳrus

References

• Sȳrĭa in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

• syrar (Nynorsk)
• syrer (Bokmål)
• syrisk

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɨrja/

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Proper noun

Syria f

1. Syria

Declension

declension of Syria

	singular only
nominative	Syria
genitive	Syrii
dative	Syrii
accusative	Syrię
instrumental	Syrią
locative	Syrii
vocative	Syrio

Derived terms

• Syryjczyk m, Syryjka f
• adjective: syryjski

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Syria f

1. obsolete spelling of Síria