Eritrea
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== 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, General American) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/, /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹiː.ə/
Rhymes: -eɪə, -iːə
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
(historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
(historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.
==== Hypernyms ====
Subsahara
==== Derived terms ====
Eritrean (adjective/noun)
==== Translations ====
=== See also ===
Asmara
Countries of the world
Italian Eritrea
=== Anagrams ===
Eretria, tearier
== Afrikaans ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea; capital: Asmara)
==== Derived terms ====
Eritrees
Eritreër
== Breton ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
== Catalan ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾiˈtɾe.ə]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾiˈtɾe.a]
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
eritreu
== Central Huasteca Nahuatl ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
== Central Nahuatl ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
== Czech ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f (relational adjective eritrejský, demonym Eritrejec)
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“Eritrea”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
“Eritrea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
“Eritrea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
== Danish ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
== 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/
Hyphenation: Eri‧trea
Rhymes: -eːaː
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea n
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Derived terms ====
Eritreeër
Eritrees
=== Further reading ===
Eritrea on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Italian Eritrea.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈeritreɑ/, [ˈe̞rit̪ˌre̞ɑ̝]
Rhymes: -eɑ
Syllabification(key): E‧rit‧re‧a
Hyphenation(key): E‧rit‧rea
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
== Galician ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
eritreo
== 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/
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Derived terms ====
eritreisch
Eritreer
=== See also ===
== Hungarian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɛritrɛɒ]
Hyphenation: Erit‧rea
Rhymes: -ɒ
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
eritreai
=== See also ===
== Indonesian ==
=== 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 ===
(Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /eritˈrea/ [e.rit̪̚ˈre.a]
Rhymes: -ea
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
=== Noun ===
Eritrea (plural Eritrea-Eritrea or para Eritrea)
Eritrean
=== Adjective ===
Eritrea (comparative lebih Eritrea, superlative paling Eritrea)
Eritrean
=== See also ===
=== Further reading ===
“Eritrea”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
== Interlingua ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
== 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
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== 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
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
eritreer
eritreisk
== Norwegian Nynorsk ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
eritrear
eritreisk
== Slovak ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈeritrea]
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f (genitive singular Eritrey, declension pattern of žena)
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
=== References ===
“Eritrea”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]
Rhymes: -ea
Syllabification: E‧ri‧tre‧a
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
== Swahili ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
=== See also ===
== Swedish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɛrɪˈtreːa/
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
eritrean
eritreansk
eritreanska
==== See also ====
=== References ===
Eritrea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Svensk MeSH
== Welsh ==
=== Proper noun ===
Eritrea f
Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
==== Related terms ====
Eritreaidd (“Eritrean”, adjective)
=== See also ===