Feminine
Syria

Syria

  1. (declension-1, feminine, historical, singular) 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. (declension-1, feminine, historical, singular) Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE)
  3. (declension-1, feminine, singular) Assyria
  4. (New-Latin, declension-1, feminine, singular) Syria (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈsy.ri.a]
Etymology

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

Related words

History of Syria

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