Syria

From Middle English Sirie, from Latin Sȳria, from Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Sŭrĭ́ā), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.

• enPR: sĭrʹē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹi.ə/

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• Hyphenation: Syr‧ia
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Syria

2. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic. Capital: Damascus.
4. (historical) A region in West Asia extending from modern-day southeast Turkey to the north, the Euphrates and Arabian Desert to the east, the Sinai Peninsula to the south, and the Mediterranean sea to the west; Greater Syria.
   • 1866, Carl Ritter, translated by William L. Gage, Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula‎^[1], volume II, New York: D. Appleton and Co., page 11:

     The belt which runs along the eastern frontier from north to south, traversing all Syria from the extreme limits of the Taurus to the Sinai desert, is not remarkable for any marked grandeur in its physical features, and is tolerably uniform in its characteristics, being made up to a considerable extent of a broad plateau of steppe land, rock and sand and debris being freely intermingled in its formation, and forming an immeasurable succession of high plains, whose effect is manifest in the course of the Euphrates, which has been driven to the eastward thereby, and removed from the immediate neighbourhood of the Mediterranean Sea.

6. (historical) An ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.

• Assyria
• Assyrian
• Syriac
• Syrian

• Countries of the world

• United Arab Republic

• Syria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• syair

• Suria, Siria

Borrowed from the Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Sŭrĭ́ā, “Syria”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsy.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.ri.a]
• Older: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊ.ri.a]
• Newer: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.ri.a]

Syria f sg (genitive Syriae); first declension

1. (historical) Syria (a region in West Asia extending from modern-day southeast Turkey to the north, the Euphrates and Arabian Desert to the east, the Sinai Peninsula to the south, and the Mediterranean sea to the west; Greater Syria)
2. (historical) Syria (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)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Asturian: Siria
• Catalan: Síria
• French: Syrie
• → Irish: An tSiria
• Italian: Siria
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: Siria, Syria
  • Fala: Siria
  • Galician: Siria
  • Portuguese: Síria, Syria (pre-standardization spelling)
    • → Hunsrik: Siria
• Romanian: Siria
• Spanish: Siria

• “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^[2]
• “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

Unadapted borrowing from English Syria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsirja/ [ˈsi.rja]

Syria (Jawi spelling سيريا)

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

• (Indonesian, Indonesian Malay) Suriah

• Republik Arab Syria (“Arab Republic of Syria”)

Syria

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

• syrer
• syrisk

Syria

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

• syrar
• syrisk

Borrowed from Latin Syria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsy.ri.ɑ/

Syria m

1. Syria

Weak:

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɘ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɘrja
• Syllabification: Sy‧ria

Syria f

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

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

Syria f

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Síria

• IPA^(key): /ˈsərja/

Syria f (not mutable)

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

• Syrieg (“Syriac language”)
• Syriad (“Syrian person”)
• Syriaidd (“Syrian”, adjective)