Eritrea

Eritrea

See also: eritrea and Erítrea

English

Map of Eritrea.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪə

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Proper noun

Eritrea

1. A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
   1. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s)
   2. (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
   3. (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Eritrean (adjective/noun)

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

Afrikaans: Eritrea Albanian: Eritrea (sq) f Amharic: ኤርትራ (ʾertəra) Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا‎ f (ʔirītriyā) Armenian: Էրիտրեա (Ēritrea) Azerbaijani: Eritreya (az) Belarusian: Эрытрэ́я f (Erytréja) Bengali: ইরিত্রিয়া (bn) (irit‌ôriya) Breton: Eritrea Bulgarian: Еритре́я f (Eritréja) Burmese: အီရီထရီးယား (irihta.ri:ya:) Catalan: Eritrea (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 厄立特里亞／厄立特里亚 (zh) (Èlìtèlǐyà) Czech: Eritrea (cs) f Danish: Eritrea n Dhivehi: އެރިތުރިއާ‎ (erituriā) Dutch: Eritrea (nl) n Esperanto: Eritreo (eo) Estonian: Eritrea (et) Finnish: Eritrea (fi) Franco-Provençal: Èritrê French: Érythrée (fr) f Galician: Eritrea (gl) Georgian: ერიტრეა (eriṭrea) German: Eritrea (de) n Greek: Ερυθραία (el) f (Erythraía) Hausa: Eriteria, Iritiriya Hebrew: אֶרִיתְרֵאָה \\ אריתריאה‎ f (eritre'a) Hindi: इरीट्रिया (hi) (irīṭriyā) Hungarian: Eritrea (hu) Icelandic: Erítrea (is) f Indonesian: Eritrea (id) Interlingua: Eritrea Irish: An Eiritré f Italian: Eritrea (it) f Japanese: エリトリア (ja) (Eritoria) Kalenjin: Eritrea Kamba: Eritrea Kazakh: Эритрея (Eritreä) Khmer: អេរីត្រេ (km) (ʼeeriitree) Kikuyu: Eritrea Korean: 에리트레아 (ko) (Eriteurea) Kyrgyz: Эритрея (Eritreya) Lao: ເອຣີເຕຣ (ʼē rī tē) Latvian: Eritreja (lv) f Lithuanian: Eritrėja (lt) f Luhya: Eritrea Luo: Eritrea Macedonian: Еритре́ја f (Eritréja) Malay: Eritrea Maltese: Eritrea f Maori: Eritēria Meru: Eritrea Mongolian: Cyrillic: Эритрей (Eritrej) Norman: Eritrea Norwegian: Bokmål: Eritrea (no) n Pashto: اریتره‎ Persian: اریتره‎ (eritre) Polish: Erytrea (pl) f Portuguese: Eritreia (pt) f Romanian: Eritreea (ro) f Russian: Эритре́я (ru) f (Eritréja) Samogitian: Eritrėjė Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Еритре́ја f Roman: Eritréja (sh) f Silesian: Erytryja f Sinhalese: එරිත්‍රියාව (eritriyāwa) Slovak: Eritrea f Slovene: Eritrêja (sl) f Spanish: Eritrea (es) f Swahili: Eritrea (sw) Swedish: Eritrea (sv) n Tagalog: Eritreya Tajik: Эритрея (Eritreya) Tatar: Эритрея (Eritreya) Thai: เอริเทรีย (th) (ee-rí-triia) Tibetan: ཨི་རི་ཏྲའ (i ri tra') Tigrinya: ኤርትራ (ti) (ʾertəra) Turkish: Eritre (tr) Turkmen: Eritreýa Ukrainian: Еритре́я (uk) f (Erytréja) Urdu: ارتریا‎ m (iritriyā), اریٹریا‎ m (irīṭriyā) Uyghur: ئېرىترېيە‎ (ëritrëye) Uzbek: Eritreya (uz) Vietnamese: Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a Volapük: Leritreyän (vo) Yiddish: עריטרעאַ‎ (eritrea) Yoruba: Eritira

See also

• Asmara
• Countries of the world
• Italian Eritrea
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Eretria, tearier

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Breton

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.ɾiˈtɾɛ.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.ɾiˈtɾɛ.a/

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Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• eritreu

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]

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Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritrejský
• Eritrejec

Further reading

• Eritrea in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Eritrea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.riˈtreː.aː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Eri‧trea
• Rhymes: -eːaː

Proper noun

Eritrea n

1. Eritrea

Derived terms

• Eritreeër
• Eritrees

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian Eritrea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeritreɑ/, [ˈe̞rit̪ˌre̞ɑ]
• Rhymes: -eɑ
• Syllabification^(key): E‧rit‧re‧a

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Declension

Inflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Eritrea	—
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Eritrea	—
accusative	nom.	Eritrea	—
	gen.	Eritrean
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
inessive		Eritreassa	—
elative		Eritreasta	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
adessive		Eritrealla	—
ablative		Eritrealta	—
allative		Eritrealle	—
essive		Eritreana	—
translative		Eritreaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Eritreatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Eritrea (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Eritreani	Eritreamme
2nd person	Eritreasi	Eritreanne
3rd person	Eritreansa

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German

Alternative forms

• Erythräa

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eʁiˈtʁeː.a/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• eritreisch
• Eritreer

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛritrɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Erit‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Eritrea	—
accusative	Eritreát	—
dative	Eritreának	—
instrumental	Eritreával	—
causal-final	Eritreáért	—
translative	Eritreává	—
terminative	Eritreáig	—
essive-formal	Eritreaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Eritreában	—
superessive	Eritreán	—
adessive	Eritreánál	—
illative	Eritreába	—
sublative	Eritreára	—
allative	Eritreához	—
elative	Eritreából	—
delative	Eritreáról	—
ablative	Eritreától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Eritreáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Eritreáéi	—

Possessive forms of Eritrea
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Eritreám	—
2nd person sing.	Eritreád	—
3rd person sing.	Eritreája	—
1st person plural	Eritreánk	—
2nd person plural	Eritreátok	—
3rd person plural	Eritreájuk	—

Related terms

• eritreai

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

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Italian

Etymology

First used as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l‿e.riˈtrɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa

Proper noun

l'Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• eritreo
• l'Eritreo

Descendants

• → Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا‎ (ʔirītriyā)
• → English: Eritrea
• → French: Érythrée, Erythrée (semantic loan)
  • Haitian Creole: Eritre
  • → Persian: اریتره‎ (eritre)
  • → Turkish: Eritre
• → German: Eritrea
• → New Latin: Erythraea (“Eritrea”) (learned)
  • → German: Erythräa

Anagrams

• arterie, artiere, erriate, iterare, itererà, ratiere, reitera, tarerei

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritreer
• eritreisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritrear
• eritreisk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: E‧ri‧tre‧a

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea

Related terms

• eritreo

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (country)

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Swedish

Proper noun

Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa)

Related terms

• eritrean
• eritreansk
• eritreanska