Syria

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

1. A country in West Asia. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
2. (historical) An Ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.

Derived terms

• Greater Syria

Related terms

• Assyria
• Assyrian
• Syriac
• Syrian

Translations

country in Western Asia

Abkhaz: Шьамтәыла (Šamtʷʼəla) Adyghe: Сирие (Siiriije) 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) Bashkir: Сүриә (Süriä) Belarusian: Сі́рыя f (Síryja), Сы́рыя f (Sýryja) Bengali: সিরিয়া (bn) (siriya) 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／叙利亚 (zh), 敍利亞／敍利亚 (zh), 叙利亚 (zh) (Xùlìyà) Min Nan: 敘利亞, 敍利亞, 叙利亚 (Sū-lī-a, Su-lī-a) Coptic: ϯⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ f (tisuria) 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 (Siriä) Khmer: ស៊ីរី (siirii) Kikuyu: Siria Korean: 시리아 (ko) (Siria), 수리아 (ko) (Suria) (North Korea, Yanbian) 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 Sindhi: شام‎ 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: شام‎ m (śām) Uyghur: سۇرىيە‎ (suriye) Uzbek: Suriya (uz) Cyrillic: Сурия (Suriya) 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, 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
• United Arab Republic

Anagrams

• syair

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Suria, Siria

Etymology

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

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
• “Syria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “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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• Rhymes: -ɨrja
• Syllabification: Sy‧ria

Proper noun

Syria f

1. Syria (a country in West Asia)

Declension

Declension of Syria

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

Derived terms

adjective

• syryjski

 

nouns

• Syryjczyk
• Syryjka

 

Further reading

• Syria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Syria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Syria f

1. Obsolete spelling of Síria