Syria

See also: Sýria

Coat of arms of Syria

English

Etymology

From Latin Syria, from Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Syria

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
2. (historical) An Ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.

Related terms

• Assyria
• Syriac
• Syrian

See also

• United Arab Republic

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Š̍āmṭ°əlā)
• Afrikaans: Sirië f
• Albanian: Siria (sq)
• Amharic: ሶርያ (sorya)
• Arabic: سُورِيَا‏‎ (ar) f (sūriyā), سُورِيَّة‏‎ (ar) f (sūriyya)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: סוריא‏‎ (sūrīā’)

  Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ‏‎ (sūrīā’)

• Armenian: Սիրիա (Siria), Ասորիք (Asorikʿ)
• Asturian: Siria (ast)
• Azeri: Suriya (az)
• Belarusian: Сі́рыя f (Síryja), Сы́рыя f (Sýryja)
• Bengali: সিরিয়া (siriya)
• Breton: Siria
• Bulgarian: Си́рия (bg) f (Sírija)
• Burmese: ဆီးရီးယား (hci:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Síria (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵓⵔⵢⴰ (surya)
• Chinese:

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

  Hakka: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Si-li-á, Si-li-â)

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

  Min Nan: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Sū-lī-a, Su-lī-a)

• Crimean Tatar: Suriye
• Czech: Sýrie (cs) f
• Danish: Syrien (da)
• Dutch: Syrië (nl)
• Esperanto: Sirio (eo)
• 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: סוּרְיָה‏‎ (he) f (súrya)
• Hindi: सीरिया (hi) m (sīriyā), सूरिया m (sūriyā)
• Hungarian: Szíria (hu)
• Icelandic: Sýrland (is) n
• Indonesian: Suriah (id)
• Interlingua: Syria
• Irish: an tSiria f
• Italian: Siria (it)
• Japanese: シリア (ja) (Shiria)
• Kalenjin: Siria
• Kamba: Siria
• Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ (siriyā)
• Kashubian: Syrëjô, Syrijskô f
• Kazakh: Сирия (Sïrïya)
• Khmer: ស៊ីរី (siirii)
• Kikuyu: Siria
• Korean: 시리아 (Siria)
• Krymchak: Шам
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Sûriya (ku), Sûriye (ku)

  Sorani: سوریا‏‎

• Kyrgyz: Сирия (ky) (Siriya)
• Lao: ຊີລີ (sī lī), ຊີເຣຍ (sī rīa)
• Latvian: Sīrija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Sirija (lt) f
• Luhya: Siria
• Luo: Siria
• Macedonian: Сирија (mk) f (Sirija)
• Malay: Syria
• Maori: Hiria
• Marathi: सीरिया m (sīriyā)
• Meru: Siria
• Mongolian: Сири (Siri)
• Navajo: Sííwiya
• Norman: Syrie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Syria (no)

  Nynorsk: Syria (nn)

• Old French: Surie f
• Old Norse: Sýrland n, Sýría n
• Pashto: سوريه‏‎ (ps)
• 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

• Sinhalese: සිරියාව (siriyāva)
• Slovak: Sýria (sk) f
• Slovene: Sírija (sl) f
• Spanish: Siria (es) f
• Swahili: Siria (sw)
• Swedish: Syrien (sv)
• Tagalog: Sirya
• Tajik: Сурия (Suriya)

  Roman: Surija

• Tatar: Сүрия (Süriya)
• Telugu: సిరియా (te) (siriyā)
• Thai: ซีเรีย (th) (sii-riia)
• Tibetan: སི་རི་ཡ (si ri ya), ཞུ་ལི་ཡ (zhu li ya)
• Turkish: Suriye (tr)
• Turkmen: Siriýa
• Ukrainian: Си́рія (uk) f (Sýrija)
• Urdu: سیریا‏‎ m (sīriyā), سوریا‏‎ m (sūriyā)
• Uyghur: سۇرىي‏‎ (suriy), سۈرىيە‏‎ (süriye)
• Uzbek: Suriya (uz)

  Cyrillic: Сурия

• Vietnamese: Xi-ri
• Yakut: Сирия (Siriya)
• Yiddish: סיריע‏‎ (sirye)
• Zazaki:

  Persic: سووریە‏‎

  Roman: Sûrîye

See also

• Countries of the world

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Sīria, Sūria

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 (region in the ancient Near East, loosely corresponding to modern Syria)
2. (transferred sense) Assyria
3. (New Latin) Syria (modern country)

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Sȳria
genitive	Sȳriae
dative	Sȳriae
accusative	Sȳriam
ablative	Sȳriā
vocative	Sȳria

Derived terms

• Sȳrī
• Sȳriacē
• Sȳriacus

• Sȳriāticus
• Sȳricus
• Sȳriī

• Sȳriscus
• Sȳrius
• Sȳrus

References

• Sȳrĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Syria” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Syria in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[2]
• Syria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Syria in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

• syrer
• syrisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

• syrar
• syrisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɨrja/

• audio

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Proper noun

Syria f

1. Syria

Declension

declension of Syria

	singular
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