Senegal

See also: Sénégal

English

Etymology

Probably from a Portuguese transliteration of the name of the Zenaga, or combination of the supreme deity in Serer religion (Rog Sene) and o gal meaning body of water in the Serer language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛn.ɪ.ˈɡɔːl/, /ˌsɛn.ɪ.ˈɡɑːl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl, -ɑːl

Proper noun

Senegal

1. A river in West Africa.
3. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Senegal.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Senegalese

Translations

Republic of Senegal

• Amharic: ሴኔጋል (senegal)
• Arabic: السِّنْغَال‎ f (as-sinḡāl)
• Armenian: Սենեգալ (Senegal)
• Belarusian: Сенега́л m (Sjenjehál)
• Bengali: সেনেগাল (bn) (śenegal)
• Breton: Senegal (br)
• Bulgarian: Сенега́л m (Senegál)
• Burmese: ဆီနီဂေါ (hcinigau:)
• Catalan: Senegal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞內加爾 (zh), 塞内加尔 (zh) (Sàinèijiā'ěr)

• Czech: Senegal (cs) m
• Danish: Senegal (da)
• Dhatki: Senegol
• Dhivehi: ސެނެގާލް‎ (dv) (senegāl)
• Dutch: Senegal (nl)
• Esperanto: Senegalo (eo), Senegalio
• Estonian: Senegal (et)
• Finnish: Senegal (fi)
• French: Sénégal (fr) m
• Georgian: სენეგალი (ka) (senegali)
• German: Senegal (de)
• Greek: Σενεγάλη (el) f (Senegáli)
• Hausa: Sinigal, Senegal
• Hebrew: סנגל‎ (senegal)
• Hindi: सेनेगल (hi) (senegal)
• Hungarian: Szenegál (hu)
• Interlingua: Senegal
• Irish: An tSeineagáil f
• Italian: Senegal (it)
• Japanese: セネガル (ja) (Senegaru)
• Kalenjin: Senegol
• Kamba: Senegol
• Khmer: សេណេហ្គាល់ (km) (seeneegiəl)
• Kikuyu: Senegol

• Korean: 세네갈 (ko) (Senegal)
• Latvian: Senegāla (lv) f
• Luhya: Senegol
• Luo: Senegol
• Macedonian: Сенегал m (Senegal)
• Maltese: is-Senegal
• Maori: Henekara
• Meru: Senegol
• Norman: Sénégal m
• Norwegian: Senegal (no)
• Persian: سنگال‎ (fa) (senegâl)
• Polish: Senegal (pl)
• Portuguese: Senegal (pt)
• Romanian: Senegal (ro) n
• Russian: Сенега́л (ru) m (Senegál)
• Sanskrit: सेनेगल (senegala)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сенегал m

  Roman: Senegal (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සෙනගල් (senagal)
• Slovak: Senegal (sk) m
• Slovene: Senegal (sl) m
• Spanish: Senegal (es)
• Swahili: Senegali (sw)
• Swedish: Senegal (sv)
• Tagalog: Senegal (tl)
• Tatar: Senegal (tt)
• Thai: เซเนกัล (th) (see-nee-gâl)
• Turkish: Senegal (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сенега́л (uk) m (Senehál)
• Vietnamese: Xê-nê-gan
• Welsh: Senegal f
• Wolof: Senegaal (wo)
• Yoruba: Sẹ̀nẹ̀gà

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Angeles, Leganés, Neagles, Selenga

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /sə.nəˈɡal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.neˈɡal/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Senegal m

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• senegalès

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Senegal

1. Senegal (a country in Africa)

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Czech

Proper noun

Senegal m

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• senegalský
• Senegalec

Further reading

• Senegal in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Senegal in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Finnish

Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Senegal (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Senegal	—
genitive		Senegalin	—
partitive		Senegalia	—
illative		Senegaliin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Senegal	—
accusative	nom.	Senegal	—
	gen.	Senegalin
genitive		Senegalin	—
partitive		Senegalia	—
inessive		Senegalissa	—
elative		Senegalista	—
illative		Senegaliin	—
adessive		Senegalilla	—
ablative		Senegalilta	—
allative		Senegalille	—
essive		Senegalina	—
translative		Senegaliksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Senegalitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Senegal (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Senegalini	Senegalimme
2nd person	Senegalisi	Senegalinne
3rd person	Senegalinsa

Derived terms

• senegalilainen

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Gagauz

Proper noun

Senegal

1. Senegal (a country in Africa)

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

der Senegal m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Senegal or des Senegals)
Senegal n (proper noun, genitive Senegals or (optionally with an article) Senegal)

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Senegal [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der	Senegal
genitive	des	Senegal, Senegals
dative	dem	Senegal
accusative	den	Senegal

Declension of Senegal [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Senegal
genitive	des	Senegals, Senegal1
dative	dem	Senegal
accusative	das	Senegal

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Senegaler
• Senegalese
• senegalesisch

Proper noun

der Senegal m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Senegals)

1. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ne.ɡal/, (traditional) /se.neˈɡal/
• Rhymes: -ɛneɡal, (traditional) -al
• Hyphenation: Sè‧ne‧gal, (traditional) Se‧ne‧gàl

Proper noun

Senegal m

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
3. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Related terms

• senegalese

Anagrams

• segnale

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
3. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Related terms

• senegaleser
• senegalesisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
3. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Related terms

• senegalesar
• senegalesisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnɛ.ɡal/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡal
• Syllabification: Se‧ne‧gal

Proper noun

Senegal m

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
3. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Senegal

	singular
nominative	Senegal
genitive	Senegalu
dative	Senegalowi
accusative	Senegal
instrumental	Senegalem
locative	Senegalu
vocative	Senegalu

Derived terms

nouns

• Senegalczyk
• Senegalka

 

adjective

• senegalski

 

Further reading

• Senegal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Senegal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /se.neˈɡaw/, [se.neˈɡaʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /sɨ.nɨˈɡal/, [sɨ.nɨˈɣaɫ]

• Hyphenation: Se‧ne‧gal

Proper noun

Senegal m

1. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
2. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Derived terms

• senegalês

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêneɡaːl/
• Hyphenation: Se‧ne‧gal

Proper noun

Sȅnegāl m (Cyrillic spelling Се̏нега̄л)

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)
3. Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Senegal

	singular
nominative	Senegal
genitive	Senegala
dative	Senegalu
accusative	Senegal
vocative	Senegale
locative	Senegalu
instrumental	Senegalom

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seneˈɡal/, [se.neˈɣ̞al]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Senegal m

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Usage notes

The definite article is used when referring to Senegal in Spanish (i.e. el Senegal). However, occasionally, you may see the definite article omitted in colloquial use.

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Senegal (“Senegal”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Se‧na‧gal
• IPA^(key): /seneˈɡal/, [seneˈɰal]

Proper noun

Senegál

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

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Tatar

Proper noun

Senegal

2. Senegal (a country in West Africa)

Declension

    declension of Senegal

Nominative	Senegal
Genitive	Senegalnıñ
Dative	Senegalga
Accusative	Senegalnı
Locative	Senegalda
Ablative	Senegaldan