Cyprus

Cyprus

See also: cyprus

English

Etymology

Via Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: cypress

Proper noun

Cyprus

1. An island and country in the Mediterranean Sea between the regions Europe and Middle East. Official name: Republic of Cyprus
2. A suburban area of Beckton, borough of Newham, Greater London, England, named after the Mediterranean island (OS grid ref TQ4380).

Related terms

• Cypriot
• CYP

Translations

island or country

Albanian: Qipro Amharic: ቆጵሮስ (ḳop̣ros) Arabic: قُبْرُص‎ (ar) f (qubruṣ) Hijazi Arabic: قُبْرُص‎ f (qubruṣ, gubruṣ) Armenian: Կիպրոս (hy) (Kipros) Old Armenian: Կիպրոս (Kipros) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܸܘܦܪܘܿܣ‎ f (qupros) Asturian: Chipre (ast) Azerbaijani: Kipr (az) Basque: Zipre (eu) Belarusian: Кіпр m (Kipr) Bengali: সাইপ্রাস (bn) (saipras) Breton: Kiprenez Bulgarian: Ки́пър (bg) m (Kípǎr) Burmese: ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ် (hcuikpa.rapc) Catalan: Xipre (ca) Cherokee: ᏌᎢᏆᏍ (saiquas) Chinese: Cantonese: 塞浦路斯 (coi3 pou2 lou6 si1) Mandarin: 塞浦路斯 (zh) (Sāipǔlùsī) Corsican: Cipru Crimean Tatar: Qıbrız Czech: Kypr (cs) m Danish: Cypern (da) n Dutch: Cyprus (nl) n Esperanto: Kipro (eo) Estonian: Küpros (et) Farefare: Kipro Faroese: Kýpros n Finnish: Kypros (fi) Franco-Provençal: Ch·ipre French: Chypre (fr) f Middle French: Cyppre Friulian: Cipri m Galician: Chipre (gl) m Georgian: კვიპროსი (ka) (ḳviṗrosi) German: Zypern (de) n Greek: Κύπρος (el) f (Kýpros) Ancient: Κύπρος f (Kúpros) Gujarati: કિબ્રિસ (kibris) Hausa: Cyprus Hebrew: קַפְרִיסִין‎ (he) f (kafrisin) Hindi: साइप्रस (hi) (sāipras), किब्रिस (kibris), क़िब्रिस (qibris) Hungarian: Ciprus (hu) Icelandic: Kýpur (is) f or n Ido: Chipro (io) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: Siprus (id) Interlingua: Cypro Irish: an Chipir f Italian: Cipro (it) Japanese: キプロス (ja) (Kipurosu) Kalenjin: Saipras Kamba: Saipras Kazakh: Қыбрыс (Qybrys) Khmer: ស៊ីប (km) (siip) Kikuyu: Saipras Korean: 키프로스 (ko) (Kipeuroseu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Qibris (ku) Kyrgyz: Кипр (ky) (Kipr) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Ladino: please add this translation if you can Lao: ຊີບ (sīp) Latin: Cyprus (la) f Latvian: Kipra f Lithuanian: Kipras (lt) m Luhya: Saipras Luo: Saipras Macedonian: Кипар m (Kipar) Malay: Cyprus Maltese: Ċipru Maori: Haipara, Kaiperu Marathi: किब्रिस (kibris) Meru: Saipras Mongolian: Cyrillic: Кипр (Kipr) Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii bikéyah Norman: Chypre f Northern Sami: Kypros Norwegian: Bokmål: Kypros (no) n Nynorsk: Kypros (nn) n Occitan: Chipre (oc) f, Cipre (oc) f Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: Кѷпръ m (Kü̏prŭ) Old Norse: Kípr f Ottoman Turkish: قبرس‎ (Kıbrıs, Kıbrız) Pashto: قبرس‎ (ps) m (qebrés) Persian: قبرس‎ (fa) (qebres) Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋𐤔𐤉‎ f (ʾlšy /ʾalašiya/) Polish: Cypr (pl) m Portuguese: Chipre (pt) m Rarotongan: Kuro Romanian: Cipru (ro) n Romansch: Cipra f Russian: Кипр (ru) m (Kipr) Rusyn: Ціпрус m (Ciprus) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ки̏пар m, Ци̏пар m (Croatia) Roman: Kȉpar m, Cȉpar (sh) m (Croatia) Silesian: Cypr m Sinhalese: සයිප්‍රස් (sayipras) Slovak: Cyprus (sk) m Slovene: Cíper (sl) m Spanish: Chipre (es) m Swahili: Kupro, Kuprosi Swedish: Cypern (sv) n Tagalog: Tsipre Tajik: Кипр (tg) (Kipr) Tatar: Кипр (Kipr) Thai: ไซปรัส (th) (sai-bprás) Tibetan: སེ་པི་རི་སི (se pi ri si) Tigrinya: ቆጵሮስ (ḳop̣ros) Turkish: Kıbrıs (tr) Turkmen: Kipr Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎍𐎘𐎊 (ảlṯy) Ukrainian: Кіпр (uk) m (Kipr) Urdu: قبرص‎ (qibris) Uyghur: سىپرۇس‎ (siprus) Uzbek: Kipr (uz) Veps: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: Síp (vi) Volapük: Sipreän (vo) Votic: please add this translation if you can Võro: Küprüs Yiddish: ציפּערן‎ n (tsipern), ציפּרוס‎ n (tsiprus) Yoruba: Kúrúsì

Noun

Cyprus (uncountable)

1. (historical, textiles) A thin, translucent, usually black fabric, a kind of crape.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 131:

     Seated in an arm-chair, covered with cloth of gold, was the Queen; her robe was of black velvet, edged with the richest sable; and the diadem at the back of her head confined the folds of a long black Cyprus veil.

Alternative forms

• cypres (obsolete)
• cypress

See also

• (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
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Cyprus, from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.prʏs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Cy‧prus

Proper noun

Cyprus n

1. Cyprus

Derived terms

• Cyprioot

Descendants

• → Indonesian: Siprus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈky.prus/, [ˈkʏprʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.prus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːprus]

Proper noun

Cyprus f sg (genitive Cyprī); second declension

1. Cyprus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cyprus
Genitive	Cyprī
Dative	Cyprō
Accusative	Cyprum
Ablative	Cyprō
Vocative	Cypre
Locative	Cyprī

Related terms

• cupressoides
• cuprum
• Cypria
• Cypriacus
• Cypriānus
• Cypriarches
• Cypriī
• Cypris
• Cyprius

 

References

• “Cyprus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cyprus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette