Syria

See also: Sýria

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiə/

• Audio (US)

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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:

  Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ ‎(sūrīā’)

  Hebrew: סוריא ‎(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:), ဆီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ ‎(hci:ri:ya:nuingngam)
• 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
• 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
• Kazakh: Сирия ‎(Sïrïya)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសស៊ីរី ‎(prɑteeh siirii), ស៊ីរី ‎(siirii)
• Kikuyu: Siria

• Korean: 시리아 ‎(Siria)
• 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: Syria (no)
• 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)
• Tajik: Сурия ‎(Suriya)

  Roman: Surija

• Tatar: Сүрия ‎(Süriya)
• Telugu: సిరియా (te) ‎(siriyā)
• Thai: ประเทศซีเรีย ‎(bprà-têet sii-riia), 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

• 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 (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 & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Syria in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

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

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

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