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 West Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic. Capital: Damascus.
4. (historical) Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria).
6. (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 (Sirije)
• Afrikaans: Sirië
• Albanian: Siria (sq)
• Amharic: ሶርያ (sorya)
• Arabic: سُورِيَا (ar) f (sūriyā), سُورِيَّة (ar) f (sūriyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: سُورْيا f (sūrya)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܘܼܪܝܼܵܐ f (suriya)

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

  Jewish Aramaic: סוּרְיָא f (sūryā)

• Armenian: Սիրիա (Siria), Ասորիք (Asorikʻ)
• Assamese: চিৰিয়া (siria)
• Asturian: Siria (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Suriya (az)
• Bashkir: Сүриә (Süriə)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 敘利亞／敍利亞／叙利亚 (Sū-lī-a, Su-lī-a)

  Mandarin: 敘利亞／敍利亞／叙利亚 (Xùlìyà)

• Coptic: ϯⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ f (tisuria)
• Crimean Tatar: Suriye
• Czech: Sýrie (cs) f
• Danish: Syrien (da) n
• Dutch: Syrië (nl) n
• 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) f
• Japanese: シリア (ja) (Shiria)
• Kalenjin: Siria
• Kamba: Siria
• Kannada: ಸಿರಿಯಾ (siriyā)
• Kashubian: Syrëjô, Syrijskô f
• Kazakh: Сирия (kk) (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), ຊີຣີ (sī rī)
• Latvian: Sīrija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Sirija (lt) f
• Luhya: Siria
• Luo: Siria
• Macedonian: Сирија (mk) f (Sirija)
• Malay: Syria (ms)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡵᡳᠶᠠ (siriya)
• Maori: Hiria
• Marathi: सीरिया m (sīriyā)
• Meru: Siria
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Сири (Siri)

• Navajo: Sííwiya
• Norman: Syrie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Syria (no) n

  Nynorsk: Syria (nn) n

• Old French: Surie f
• Old Norse: Sýrland n, Sýría n
• Oromo: Siiriyaa
• Pashto: سوريه (ps) f (surya)
• Persian:

  Dari: سُورِیَه (fa) (sūriya), شَام (fa) (šām) (historical)

  Iranian Persian: سورِیِه (fa) (suriye), شام (fa) (šâm) (historical)

• Polish: Syria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Síria (pt)
• Romanian: Siria f
• Russian: Си́рия (ru) f (Sírija)
• Sanskrit: सिरिया (siriyā)
• Scots: Sirie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Си̑рија f

  Roman: Sȋrija (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) n
• Tagalog: Sirya
• Tajik: Сурия (tg) (Suriya)

  Roman: Surija

• Tatar: Сүрия (Süriyä)
• 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), سُورِیَہ m (sūriya)
• Uyghur: سۇرىيە (suriye)
• Uzbek: Suriya (uz)

  Cyrillic: Сурия (Suriya)

• Vietnamese: Xi-ri, Xy-ri
• Yakut: Сирия (Siriya)
• Yiddish: סיריע f (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, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• United Arab Republic

Anagrams

• syair

Latin

Alternative forms

• Suria, Siria

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ʏriä]
• (modern Italianate 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. (historical) An ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria
2. (historical, historical) An ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE
3. (transferred sense) Assyria
4. (New Latin) Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

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

Derived terms

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

 

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.
• “Syria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “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

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Related terms

• syrer
• syrisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Syria

1. Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Related terms

• syrar
• syrisk

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, in the Middle East)

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

Portuguese

Proper noun

Syria f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Síria.