Syrian

See also: syrian

English

Etymology

Syria +‎ -an

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭrʹē-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ən/
• Hyphenation: Syr‧i‧an
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiən

Adjective

Syrian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language.

Derived terms

• Syrian Arab Republic
• Syrian bear
• Syrian Desert
• Syrian hamster
• Syrianism
• Syrianist
• Syrianization
• Syrianize
• Syrianness
• Syrian onager
• Syrian rhubarb
• Syrian serin
• Syrian woodpecker

 

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language

• Arabic: سُورِيّ‎ (sūriyy)
• Armenian: սիրիական (hy) (siriakan)
• Catalan: (Modern Syria) sirià (ca); (Ancient Syria) siríac (ca), siri (ca)
• Czech: syrský (cs)
• Danish: syrisk (da)
• Esperanto: siria
• Finnish: syyrialainen (fi)
• French: syrien (fr)
• Galician: sirio
• German: syrisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Σύριος (Súrios)

• Hungarian: szír (hu), szíriai (hu)
• Icelandic: sýrlenskur
• Italian: siriano (it)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوری‎ (ku) (surî)

• Latvian: sīriešu, sīrisks
• Manx: (Syria or the Syrian people) Seeragh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syrisk

  Nynorsk: syrisk (nn)

• Polish: syryjski (pl)
• Portuguese: sírio (pt)
• Romanian: sirian (ro)
• Russian: сири́йский (ru) (siríjskij)
• Slovak: sýrsky (sk)
• Spanish: sirio (es)
• Swedish: syrisk (sv)

Noun

Syrian (plural Syrians)

1. A person from Syria or of Syrian descent.

Translations

a person from Syria or of Syrian descent

• Arabic: سُورِيّ‎ m (sūriyy), سُورِيَّة‎ (ar) f (sūriyya)
• Armenian: սիրիացի (siriacʿi)
• Catalan: Modern Syria sirià (ca) m, siriana (ca) f; Ancient Syria siri (ca) m, síria (ca) f
• Czech: Syřan (cs) m
• Danish: syrer (da) c
• Esperanto: siriano (man or woman), sirianino (woman)
• Finnish: syyrialainen (fi)
• French: Syrien (fr) m, Syrienne (fr) f
• Galician: sirio m
• German: Syrer (de) m, Syrerin (de) f, Syrier m, Syrierin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌹 f (saurini), 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂 m (saur)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Σύρος m (Súros)

• Hebrew: סורי‎ (he) m (súri), סורית‎ (he) f (súrit)
• Hungarian: szír (hu)
• Icelandic: Sýrlendingur m
• Italian: siriano (it) m, siriana f

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوری‎ (ku) (surî)

• Latvian: sīrietis m, sīriete f
• Manx: Seeragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syrer m

  Nynorsk: syrar (nn) m

• Polish: Syryjczyk (pl) m, Syryjka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sírio (pt) m
• Romanian: sirian (ro) m, siriană (ro) f
• Russian: сири́ец (ru) m (siríjec), сири́йка (ru) f (siríjka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сири́јац m

  Roman: Siríjac (sh) m

• Slovak: Sýrčan (sk) m, Sýrčanka (sk) f
• Spanish: sirio (es)
• Swahili: Msiria (sw)
• Swedish: syrier (sv) c
• Turkish: Suriyeli (tr)

References

• “Syrian”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.