Singapore

English

Etymology

From Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) +‎ पुर (pura, “city”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋəpɔː/, /sɪŋəˈpɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋəpoɹ/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /siŋaˈpɔ/
• (dated) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡəpɔː(ɹ)/, /sɪŋɡəˈpɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Proper noun

Singapore

2. An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony. Official name: Republic of Singapore.

Synonyms

• Lion City (informal)
• S'pore (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• Singapore English
• Singapore-on-Thames
• Singaporean
• Singaporeanization
• Singaporeanize
• Singlish
• S'pore

 

Translations

An island and city-state in Southeast Asia

• Afrikaans: Singapoer
• Albanian: Singapur m
• Amharic: ሲንጋፖር (singapor)
• Arabic: سِنْغَافُورَة‎ (ar) f (sinḡāfūra)

  Hijazi Arabic: سِنْقافورة‎ f (singāfōra, singāfūra)

• Armenian: Սինգապուր (Singapur)
• Asturian: Singapur (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Sinqapur (az)
• Bashkir: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Belarusian: Сінгапу́р m (Sinhapúr), Сынгапу́р m (Synhapúr) (Taraškievica), Сынґапу́р (Syngapúr) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সিঙ্গাপুর (bn) (siṅgapur)
• Breton: Singapour
• Bulgarian: Сингапу́р (bg) m (Singapúr)
• Burmese: စင်ကာပူ (cangkapu), စင်္ကာပူ (cangkapu)
• Catalan: Singapur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新加坡 (san¹ gaa^1-3 bo¹, san¹ gaa^1-3 po¹), 星加坡 (sing¹ gaa^1-3 bo¹)

  Hakka: 新加坡 (Sîn-kâ-phô, Sîn-kâ-po, Sìn-kà-phô)

  Mandarin: 新加坡 (zh) (Xīnjiāpō), 新國／新国 (Xīnguó)

  Min Dong: 新嘉波 (Sĭng-gă-pŏ̤)

  Min Nan: 新加坡 (Sin-ka-pho)

  Wu: 新加坡 (xin ka phu)

• Czech: Singapur (cs) m
• Danish: Singapore
• Dutch: Singapore (nl) n
• Esperanto: Singapuro (eo)
• Estonian: Singapur (et)
• Faroese: Singapor n
• Finnish: Singapore (fi)
• French: Singapour (fr) m
• Friulian: Singapôr
• Galician: Singapur (gl)
• Georgian: სინგაპური (ka) (singaṗuri)
• German: Singapur (de) n
• Greek: Σιγκαπούρη (el) f (Sigkapoúri)
• Gujarati: સિંગાપુર (siṅgāpur)
• Hausa: Singapur
• Hawaiian: Sinapoa
• Hebrew: סִינְגָּפּוּר‎ (he) (singapúr)
• Hindi: सिंगापुर (hi) (siṅgāpur)
• Hungarian: Szingapúr (hu)
• Icelandic: Singapúr (is) n
• Ido: Singapur (io)
• Indonesian: Singapura (id)
• Interlingua: Singapur, Singapore
• Irish: Singeapór m, Poblacht Shingeapór f
• Italian: Singapore (it) f
• Japanese: シンガポール (ja) (Shingapōru) (新嘉坡 (ja)), 昭南 (しょうなん)
• Kannada: ಸಿಂಗಾಪುರ (kn) (siṅgāpura)
• Kazakh: Сингапур (kk) (Siñapur)
• Khmer: សិង្ហបុរី (km) (sənghaʼborəy), សាំងកាប៉ូ (sangkaapou)
• Korean: 싱가포르 (ko) (singgaporeu)
• Kyrgyz: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Lao: ສິງກະໂປ (lo) (sing ka pō)
• Latvian: Singapūra f
• Lithuanian: Singapūras (lt) m
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧂᦂᦷᦔ (ṡiingk̇ṗo)
• Macedonian: Сингапур (mk) m (Singapur)
• Malay: Singapura, سيڠاڤورا‎
• Malayalam: സിംഗപ്പൂർ (siṅgappūṟ)
• Maltese: is-Singapor
• Maori: Hingapoa
• Marathi: सिंगापुर m (siṅgāpur)
• Mingrelian: სინგაპური (singaṗuri)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Сингапур (Singapur)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠩᠭᠠᠫᠤᠷ (siŋɣapur)

• Navajo: Sį́ʼgaboo
• Norman: Sîngapour m
• Norwegian: Singapore (no)
• Paiwan: Singapura
• Pashto: سينگاپور‎
• Persian: سنگاپور‎ (sangâpur)
• Polish: Singapur (pl) m
• Portuguese: Singapura (pt) f, (obsolete) Cingapura (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਿੰਗਾਪੁਰ (pa) (siṅgāpur)
• Romanian: Singapore (ro)
• Russian: Сингапу́р (ru) m (Singapúr)
• Rusyn: Сінґапу́р m (Singapúr)
• Samogitian: Singapūrs
• Sanskrit: सिंहपुर (sa) (siṃhá-pura)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱝᱜᱟᱯᱩᱨ (siṅgapur)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сингапур m

  Roman: Singapur (sh) m

• Sindhi: سنگاپور‎
• Sinhalese: සිංගප්පූරුව (siṁgappūruwa)
• Slovak: Singapur m
• Slovene: Singapur (sl) m
• Spanish: Singapur (es) m
• Swedish: Singapore (sv)
• Tagalog: Singgapur, Singapura
• Tajik: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் (ta) (ciṅkappūr)
• Tatar: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Telugu: సింగపూర్ (te) (siṅgapūr)
• Thai: สิงคโปร์ (th) (sǐng-ká-bpoo)
• Tibetan: སེང་ག་ཕོར (seng ga phor)
• Turkish: Singapur (tr)
• Turkmen: Singapur
• Ukrainian: Сінгапу́р (uk) m (Sinhapúr), Сингапу́р m (Synhapúr), Сінґапу́р m (Singapúr), Синґапу́р m (Syngapúr)
• Urdu: سنگاپور‎ (siṅgāpūr)
• Uyghur: سىنگاپور‎ (sin'gapor)
• Uzbek: Singapur (uz)
• Vietnamese: Tân Gia Ba, Xin-ga-po
• Welsh: Singapôr
• Yiddish: סינגאַפּור‎ (singapur)
• Yoruba: Singapo
• Zhuang: Sinhgyahboh

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• resoaping

Finnish

Etymology

From English Singapore, from Malay Singapura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋːɑpore/, [ˈs̠iŋːɑˌpo̞re̞]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification^(key): Sin‧ga‧po‧re

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Singapore (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Singapore	—
genitive		Singaporen	—
partitive		Singaporea	—
illative		Singaporeen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Singapore	—
accusative	nom.	Singapore	—
	gen.	Singaporen
genitive		Singaporen	—
partitive		Singaporea	—
inessive		Singaporessa	—
elative		Singaporesta	—
illative		Singaporeen	—
adessive		Singaporella	—
ablative		Singaporelta	—
allative		Singaporelle	—
essive		Singaporena	—
translative		Singaporeksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Singaporetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Singapore (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Singaporeni	Singaporemme
2nd person	Singaporesi	Singaporenne
3rd person	Singaporensa

French

Proper noun

Singapore ?

1. Obsolete form of Singapour.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin.ɡaˈpo.re/
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification: Sin‧ga‧pó‧re

Proper noun

Singapore m

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia)

Derived terms

• singaporiano

Anagrams

• riesponga, saprogeni, spaginerò, sporigena, spregiano

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• singaporer
• singaporsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• singaporar
• singaporsk

Swedish

Proper noun

Singapore n (genitive Singapores)

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• singaporian
• singaporiansk