Cyprus

Contents

EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

Via Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος ‎(Kúpros).

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: cypress

Proper nounEdit

Cyprus

1. Country between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea. Member state of the European Union since 2004. Official name: Republic of Cyprus.
2. Island between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea.

TranslationsEdit

country

• Albanian: Qipro
• Amharic: ቆጵሮስ ‎(ḳop̣ros)
• Arabic: قُبْرُص f ‎(qubruṣ)
• Armenian: Կիպրոս ‎(Kipros)

  Old Armenian: Կիպրոս ‎(Kipros)

• Asturian: Chipre (ast)
• Azeri: Kipr (az)
• Basque: Zipre (eu)
• Belarusian: Кіпр m ‎(Kipr)
• Bengali: সাইপ্রাস ‎(saipras)
• Breton: Kiprenez
• Bulgarian: Ки́пър (bg) m ‎(Kípǎr)
• Burmese: ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ်နိုင်ငံ ‎(hcuikpa.rapc nuingngam), ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ် ‎(hcuikpa.rapc)
• Catalan: Xipre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞浦路斯 (zh) ‎(Sāipǔlùsī)

• Corsican: Cipru
• Crimean Tatar: Qıbrız
• Czech: Kypr (cs) m
• Danish: Cypern (da)
• Dutch: Cyprus (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kipro (eo)
• Estonian: Küpros (et)
• Faroese: Kýpros n
• Finnish: Kypros (fi)
• French: Chypre (fr) f

  Middle French: Cyppre

• Galician: Chipre (gl) m
• Georgian: კვიპროსი ‎(ḳviṗrosi)
• German: Zypern (de) n
• Greek: Κύπρος (el) f ‎(Kýpros), Ὀφίουσα ‎(Ὀfíousa)
• Gujarati: કિબ્રિસ ‎(kibris)
• Hebrew: קַפְרִיסִין ‎(kaf'risin)
• Hindi: साइप्रस (hi) ‎(sāipras), किब्रिस ‎(kibris)
• Hungarian: Ciprus (hu)
• Icelandic: Kýpur (is) f, n
• Ido: Chipro (io)
• Indonesian: Siprus (id)
• Interlingua: Cypro
• Irish: An Chipir f, Poblacht na Cipire f
• Italian: Cipro (it)
• Japanese: キプロス (ja) ‎(Kipurosu)
• Kalenjin: Saipras
• Kamba: Saipras
• Kazakh: Кипр ‎(Kïpr)
• Khmer: ស៊ីប (km) ‎(sib)
• Kikuyu: Saipras

• Korean: 키프로스 ‎(Kipeuroseu)
• Kurdish: Qibris (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Кипр ‎(Kipr)
• Lao: ຊີບ ‎(sīp)
• Latin: Cyprus (la) f
• Latvian: Kipra f
• Lithuanian: Kipras (lt) m
• Luhya: Saipras
• Luo: Saipras
• Macedonian: Кипар m ‎(Kipar)
• Malay: Cyprus
• Maltese: Ċipru
• Maori: Haipara, Kaiperu
• Marathi: किब्रिस ‎(kibris)
• Meru: Saipras
• Mongolian: Кипр ‎(Kipr)
• Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii bikéyah
• Norman: Chypre f
• Northern Sami: Kypros
• Norwegian: Kypros (no)
• Occitan: Chipre (oc) f, Cipre (oc) f
• Old Norse: Kípr f
• Persian: قبرس (fa) ‎(qebres)
• Polish: Cypr (pl) m
• Portuguese: Chipre (pt) m
• Romanian: Cipru (ro) n
• Romansch: Cipra f
• Russian: Кипр (ru) m ‎(Kipr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кипар m, Ципар m (Croatia)

  Roman: Kipar m, Cipar (sh) m (Croatia)

• Silesian: Cypr m
• Sinhalese: සයිප්‍රස් ‎(sayip‍ras)
• Slovak: Cyprus (sk) m
• Slovene: Cíper (sl) m
• Spanish: Chipre (es) m
• Swedish: Cypern (sv)
• Tagalog: Tsipre
• Tajik: Кипр ‎(Kipr)
• Thai: ไซปรัส (th) ‎(sai-bprát)
• Turkish: Kıbrıs (tr)
• Turkmen: Kipr
• Ukrainian: Кіпр (uk) m ‎(Kipr)
• Urdu: قبرص ‎(qibris)
• Uzbek: Kipr
• Vietnamese: Síp
• Võro: Küprüs
• Yiddish: ציפּערן ‎(tsipern), ציפּרוס ‎(tsiprus)

Related termsEdit

• Cypriot
• CYP

See alsoEdit

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Europe)}

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PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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Proper nounEdit

Cyprus n

1. Cyprus

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LatinEdit

Wikipedia ^la

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek Κύπρος ‎(Kúpros)

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈky.prus/, [ˈkʏ.prʊs]

Proper nounEdit

Cyprus m ‎(genitive Cyprī); second declension

1. Cyprus

InflectionEdit

Second declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Cyprus
genitive	Cyprī
dative	Cyprō
accusative	Cyprum
ablative	Cyprō
vocative	Cypre
locative	Cyprī

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• cupressoides
• cuprum
• Cypriacus

• Cypria
• Cypriānus
• Cypriarches

• Cypriī
• Cypris
• Cyprius

ReferencesEdit

• Cyprus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cyprus in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.