Syria

See also: Sýria

English

Etymology

From Middle English Sirie, from Latin Sȳria, from Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Suríā), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭrʹē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ə/

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• Hyphenation: Syr‧ia
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Syria

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

Related terms

• Assyria
• Assyrian
• Syriac
• Syrian

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Š̍amṭ°əla)
• 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:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ‎ f (sūrīā), ܫܐܡ‎ f (šām), ܐܪܡ‎ f (ʾārām)

  Jewish Aramaic: סוּרְיָא‎ f (sūryā)

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܣܘܼܪܝܼܵܐ‎ f (suriya)

• 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)
• Farefare: Sirigo, Siria
• 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 (ko) (Siria)
• Krymchak: Шам

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوریا‎ (surya)

  Northern Kurdish: Sûriya (ku), Sûriye (ku)

• 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, Xy-ri
• Yakut: Сирия (Siriya)
• Yiddish: סיריע‎ (sirye)
• Yoruba: Siria
• Zazaki:

  Persic: سووریە‎

  Roman: Sûrîye

See also

• 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

Anagrams

• syair

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Latin

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• Suria, Siria

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ʏriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ri.a/, [ˈsiːriä]
• Older: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ʊriä]
• Newer: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ɪriä]

Proper noun

Syria f sg (genitive Syriae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Syria
Genitive	Syriae
Dative	Syriae
Accusative	Syriam
Ablative	Syriā
Vocative	Syria

Derived terms

• Syrī
• Syriacē
• Syriacus
• Syriāticus
• Syricus
• Syriī
• Syriscus
• Syrius
• Syrus

 

Descendants

• Asturian: Siria
• Catalan: Síria
• French: Syrie
• → Irish: An tSiria
• Italian: Siria
• Portuguese: Síria
• Spanish: Siria

Further reading

• 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

• syrer
• syrisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria

Related terms

• syrar
• syrisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɨ.rja/

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Proper noun

Syria f

1. Syria

Declension

Declension of Syria

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

Derived terms

• Syryjczyk m, Syryjka f
• adjective: syryjski

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Syria f

1. Obsolete spelling of Síria