Syria

EnglishEdit

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Syria

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Syria, from Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.

PronunciationEdit

enPR: sĭrʹē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ə/
Audio (US)
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Hyphenation: Syr‧ia
Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper nounEdit

Syria

A country in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
(historical) An Ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

country in the Middle East

Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Š̍āmṭ°əlā)
Adyghe: Сирие (Sirie)
Afrikaans: Sirië f
Albanian: Siria (sq)
Amharic: ሶርያ (sorya)
Arabic: سُورِيَا‎ (ar) f (sūriyā), سُورِيَّة‎ (ar) f (sūriyya)
Hijazi Arabic: سُورْيا‎ f (sūrya)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: סוריא‎ (sūrīā’)

Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ‎ (sūrīā’), ܫܐܡ‎, ܐܪܡ‎, ܐܖܡ‎ (archaic)
Armenian: Սիրիա (Siria), Ասորիք (Asorikʿ)
Assamese: চিৰিয়া (siria)
Asturian: Siria (ast)
Azerbaijani: Suriya (az)
Belarusian: Сі́рыя f (Síryja), Сы́рыя f (Sýryja)
Bengali: সিরিয়া (bn) (śiriẏa)
Breton: Siria
Bulgarian: Си́рия (bg) f (Sírija)
Burmese: ဆီးရီးယား (hci:ri:ya:)
Catalan: Síria (ca) f
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵓⵔⵢⴰ (surya)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (zeoi⁶ lei⁶ aa³)

Hakka: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Si-li-á, Si-li-â)

Mandarin: 敘利亞 (zh), 敍利亞 (zh), 叙利亚 (zh) (Xùlìyà)

Min Nan: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Sū-lī-a, Su-lī-a)
Crimean Tatar: Suriye
Czech: Sýrie (cs) f
Danish: Syrien (da)
Dutch: Syrië (nl)
Esperanto: Sirio (eo)
Estonian: Süüria (et)
Faroese: Sýria n
Finnish: Syyria (fi)
French: Syrie (fr) f
Middle French: Surie f

Old French: Surie f
Galician: Siria (gl) f
Georgian: სირია (ka) (siria)
German: Syrien (de) n
Greek: Συρία (el) f (Syría)
Ancient: Συρία f (Suría)
Hausa: Shâm f, Siriya
Hebrew: סוּרְיָה‎ (he) f (súrya)
Hindi: सीरिया (hi) m (sīriyā), सूरिया m (sūriyā), शाम (hi) m (śām), हलब (hi) m (halab) (historical)
Hungarian: Szíria (hu)
Icelandic: Sýrland (is) n
Indonesian: Suriah (id)
Interlingua: Syria
Irish: an tSiria f
Italian: Siria (it)
Japanese: シリア (ja) (Shiria)
Kalenjin: Siria
Kamba: Siria
Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ (siriyā)
Kashubian: Syrëjô, Syrijskô f
Kazakh: Сирия (Sïrïya)
Khmer: ស៊ីរី (siirii)
Kikuyu: Siria
Korean: 시리아 (Siria)
Krymchak: Шам
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: Sûriya (ku), Sûriye (ku)

Sorani: سوریا‎ (ku) (surya)

Kyrgyz: Сирия (ky) (Siriya)
Lao: ຊີລີ (sī lī), ຊີເຣຍ (sī rīa)
Latvian: Sīrija (lv) f
Lithuanian: Sirija (lt) f
Luhya: Siria
Luo: Siria
Macedonian: Сирија (mk) f (Sirija)
Malay: Syria
Manchu: ᠰᡳᡵᡳᠶᠠ (siriya)
Maori: Hiria
Marathi: सीरिया m (sīriyā)
Meru: Siria
Mongolian: Сири (Siri)
Navajo: Sííwiya
Norman: Syrie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Syria (no)

Nynorsk: Syria (nn)
Old French: Surie f
Old Norse: Sýrland n, Sýría n
Oromo: Siiriyaa
Pashto: سوريه‎ (ps)
Persian: سوریه‎ (fa) (suriye)
Polish: Syria (pl) f
Portuguese: Síria (pt)
Romanian: Siria f
Russian: Си́рия (ru) f (Sírija)
Sanskrit: सिरिया (siriyā)
Scots: Sirie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сирија f

Roman: Sirija (sh) f
Sinhalese: සිරියාව (siriyāwa)
Slovak: Sýria (sk) f
Slovene: Sírija (sl) f
Spanish: Siria (es) f
Swahili: Siria (sw)
Swedish: Syrien (sv)
Tagalog: Sirya
Tajik: Сурия (tg) (Suriya)
Roman: Surija
Tatar: Сүрия (Süriya)
Telugu: సిరియా (te) (siriyā)
Thai: ซีเรีย (th) (sii-riia)
Tibetan: སི་རི་ཡ (si ri ya), ཞུ་ལི་ཡ (zhu li ya)
Turkish: Suriye (tr)
Turkmen: Siriýa
Ukrainian: Си́рія (uk) f (Sýrija)
Urdu: سیریا‎ m (sīriyā), سوریا‎ m (sūriyā), شام‎ (śām)
Uyghur: سۇرىي‎ (suriy), سۈرىيە‎ (süriye)
Uzbek: Suriya (uz)
Cyrillic: Сурия
Vietnamese: Xi-ri
Yakut: Сирия (Siriya)
Yiddish: סיריע‎ (sirye)
Yoruba: Siria
Zazaki:
Persic: سووریە‎

Roman: Sûrîye

See alsoEdit

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, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
United Arab Republic

LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Sīria, Sūria

EtymologyEdit

From the Ancient Greek Συρίᾱ (Suríā, “Syria”).

PronunciationEdit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː.ri.a/
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ri.a/, [ˈsiː.ri.a]

Proper nounEdit

Sȳria f sg (genitive Sȳriae); first declension

Syria (region in the ancient Near East, loosely corresponding to modern Syria)
(transferred sense) Assyria
(New Latin) Syria (modern country)

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sȳria
Genitive	Sȳriae
Dative	Sȳriae
Accusative	Sȳriam
Ablative	Sȳriā
Vocative	Sȳria

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Sȳrĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Syria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Syria in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
Syria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Syria in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Syria

Proper nounEdit

Syria

Syria

Related termsEdit

syrer
syrisk

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Syria

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper nounEdit

Syria

Syria

Related termsEdit

syrar
syrisk

PolishEdit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Syria

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈsɨrʲ.ja/
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Proper nounEdit

Syria f

Syria

DeclensionEdit

declension of Syria

	singular
nominative	Syria
genitive	Syrii
dative	Syrii
accusative	Syrię
instrumental	Syrią
locative	Syrii
vocative	Syrio

Derived termsEdit

Syryjczyk m, Syryjka f
adjective: syryjski

PortugueseEdit

Proper nounEdit

Syria f

Obsolete spelling of Síria

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