English Explanatory Dictionary

Eritrea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
  2. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
  3. A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
  4. A former colony of Italy.

Pronunciation

/ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/ /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹiː.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Eritrea.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Eritrea.wav

Word forms

Eritrea

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”).

Related words

Asmara Countries of the world Italian Eritrea

Derived words

Eritrean

Translations

Afrikaans: Eritrea Albanian: Eritrea Amharic: ኤርትራ Arabic: إِرِتْرِيَا Armenian: Էրիտրեա Asturian: Eritrea Azerbaijani: Eritreya Belarusian: Эрытрэ́я Bengali: ইরিত্রিয়া Breton: Eritrea Bulgarian: Еритре́я Burmese: အီရီထရီးယား Catalan: Eritrea Cherokee: ᎡᎵᏟᏯ Chinese Mandarin: 厄立特里亞 Czech: Eritrea Danish: Eritrea Dhivehi: އެރިތުރިއާ Dutch: Eritrea Esperanto: Eritreo Estonian: Eritrea Finnish: Eritrea Franco-Provençal: Èritrê French: Érythrée Galician: Eritrea Georgian: ერიტრეა German: Eritrea Greek: Ερυθραία Hausa: Eriteria Hausa: Iritiriya Hebrew: אֶרִיתְרֵאָה Hindi: इरिट्रिया Hungarian: Eritrea Icelandic: Erítrea Indonesian: Eritrea Interlingua: Eritrea Irish: An Eiritré Italian: Eritrea Japanese: エリトリア Kalenjin: Eritrea Kamba: Eritrea
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