Syrian

See also: syrian

English

Etymology

From Syria +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭrʹē-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ən/, (US) /ˈsi.ɹi.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Syr‧i‧an
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiən

Adjective

Syrian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language.
   • 1970, Time, volume 96:

     The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.

   • 1999, Steven Heydemann, Authoritarianism in Syria, page 139:

     In contrast to the political dynamics of the preunion period, these struggles were heavily influenced by the new prominence of Syrian capitalists […]

   • 2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Representatives of the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria signed an agreement late Friday in Cairo for a transition in a post-Assad era, the NCB said on its Facebook page.

2. (sometimes proscribed) Of, from, or pertaining to the Assyrian people or the Syriac language

Derived terms

• Syrian Arab Republic
• Syrian arch
• Syrian asphalt
• Syrian bear
• Syrian bear
• Syrian brown bear
• Syrian Desert
• Syrian hamster
• Syrian hamster
• Syrianism
• Syrianist
• Syrianization
• Syrianize
• Syrianness
• Syrian onager
• Syrian rhubarb
• Syrian serin
• Syrian soap
• Syrian woodpecker

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language

• Arabic: سُورِيّ (sūriyy)
• Armenian: սիրիական (hy) (siriakan)
• Asturian: siriu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: suriyalı
• Belarusian: сіры́йскі (sirýjski)
• Catalan: (Modern Syria) sirià (ca); (Ancient Syria) siríac (ca), siri (ca)
• Czech: syrský (cs)
• Danish: syrisk (da)
• Esperanto: siria
• Finnish: syyrialainen (fi)
• French: syrien (fr)
• Galician: sirio (gl)
• German: syrisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: Σύριος (Súrios)

• Hindi: सीरियाई (sīriyāī)
• Hungarian: szír (hu), szíriai (hu)
• Icelandic: sýrlenskur (is)
• Italian: siriano (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوری (surî)

• Latvian: sīriešu, sīrisks
• Malayalam: സുറിയാനി (ml) (suṟiyāni)
• Manx: (Syria or the Syrian people) Seeragh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syrisk

  Nynorsk: syrisk (nn)

• Persian: سوری (fa) (suri), سوریه‌ای (suriye-'i)
• Polish: syryjski (pl)
• Portuguese: sírio (pt)
• Romanian: sirian (ro)
• Russian: сири́йский (ru) (siríjskij)
• Slovak: sýrsky (sk)
• Spanish: sirio (es)
• Swedish: syrisk (sv)
• Turkish: Suriyeli (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سوریه‌لو (sûriyye-li)

• Ukrainian: сирі́йський (syríjsʹkyj)
• Urdu: سوری (sūrī)
• Uyghur: سۇرىيەلىك (suriyelik)
• Uzbek: suriyalik
• Vietnamese: Xi-ri

Noun

Syrian (plural Syrians)

1. A person from Syria or of Syrian descent.
   • 1970, Time, volume 96:

     The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.

   • 2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     He said the agreement calls for the refusal of any non-Arab foreign intervention, an important issue because some Syrians want international intervention to overthrow the al-Assad regime.

2. (sometimes proscribed) A person of Assyrian descent.

Translations

a person from Syria or of Syrian descent

• Arabic: سُورِيّ m (sūriyy), سُورِيَّة (ar) f (sūriyya)
• Armenian: սիրիացի (siriacʻi)
• Asturian: siriu (ast) m, siria (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: suriyalı
• Belarusian: сіры́ец m (sirýjec), сіры́йка f (sirýjka)
• Catalan: Modern Syria sirià (ca) m, siriana (ca) f; Ancient Syria siri (ca) m, síria (ca) f
• Czech: Syřan (cs) m
• Danish: syrer (da) c
• Esperanto: siriano (man or woman), sirianino (woman)
• Finnish: syyrialainen (fi)
• French: Syrien (fr) m, Syrienne (fr) f
• Galician: sirio (gl) m
• German: Syrer (de) m, Syrerin (de) f, Syrier m, Syrierin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌹 f (saurini), 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂 m (saur)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: Σύρος m (Súros)

• Hebrew: סורי (he) m (súri), סורית (he) f (súrit)
• Hindi: सीरियाई m or f (sīriyāī)
• Hungarian: szír (hu)
• Icelandic: Sýrlendingur m
• Italian: siriano (it) m, siriana (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوری (surî)

• Latvian: sīrietis m, sīriete f
• Manx: Seeragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syrer m

  Nynorsk: syrar (nn) m

• Persian: سوری (fa) (suri), سوریه‌ای (suriye-'i)
• Polish: Syryjczyk (pl) m, Syryjka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sírio (pt) m
• Romanian: sirian (ro) m, siriană (ro) f
• Russian: сири́ец (ru) m (siríjec), сири́йка (ru) f (siríjka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сири́јац m

  Latin: Siríjac (sh) m

• Slovak: Sýrčan (sk) m, Sýrčanka (sk) f
• Spanish: sirio (es)
• Swahili: Msiria (sw), Msyria
• Swedish: syrier (sv) c
• Turkish: Suriyeli (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سوریه‌لو (sûriyye-li)

• Ukrainian: сирі́єць m (syríjecʹ), сирі́йка f (syríjka)
• Urdu: سوری (sūrī)
• Uyghur: سۇرىيەلىك (suriyelik)
• Uzbek: suriyalik

See also

• Syriac

References

• “Syrian”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyr.jɑn/, [ˈsyrˠ.jɑn]

Proper noun

Syrian

1. accusative/genitive/dative singular of Syria