Syrian

See also: syrian

English

Etymology

Syria +‎ -an

Pronunciation

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

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

Derived terms

• Syrian Arab Republic
• 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 woodpecker

 

Translations

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

• Arabic: سُورِيّ (sūriyy)
• Armenian: սիրիական (hy) (siriakan)
• 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
• German: syrisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Σύριος (Súrios)

• Hungarian: szír (hu), szíriai (hu)
• Icelandic: sýrlenskur
• Italian: siriano (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوری (surî)

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

  Bokmål: syrisk

  Nynorsk: syrisk (nn)

• Ottoman Turkish: سوریه‌لو (sûriyye-li)
• 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)
• 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.
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)
• 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 m
• German: Syrer (de) m, Syrerin (de) f, Syrier m, Syrierin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌹 f (saurini), 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂 m (saur)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Σύρος m (Súros)

• Hebrew: סורי (he) m (súri), סורית (he) f (súrit)
• 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

• Ottoman Turkish: سوریه‌لو (sûriyye-li)
• 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

  Roman: Siríjac (sh) m

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