Sierra Leone

See also: Síerra Leóne

English

Etymology

Spanish sierra (mountain) + leona (lioness), from Portuguese Serra Leoa, in the reference to the Lion Mountains (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siˌɛɹə liˈoʊn/
  • (Sierra Leone) IPA(key): /sˈehɛrə lˈowoʊn/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

Hypernyms

Translations

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Czech

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Sierra Leona, from Portuguese Serra Leoa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌʃɛ.raː.leːˈoː.nə/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Si‧er‧ra Le‧o‧ne
  • Rhymes: -oːnə

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Finnish

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Sierra Leone (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative Sierra Leone
genitive Sierra Leonen
partitive Sierra Leonea
illative Sierra Leoneen
singular plural
nominative Sierra Leone
accusative nom. Sierra Leone
gen. Sierra Leonen
genitive Sierra Leonen
partitive Sierra Leonea
inessive Sierra Leonessa
elative Sierra Leonesta
illative Sierra Leoneen
adessive Sierra Leonella
ablative Sierra Leonelta
allative Sierra Leonelle
essive Sierra Leonena
translative Sierra Leoneksi
instructive
abessive Sierra Leonetta
comitative
Possessive forms of Sierra Leone (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person Sierra Leoneni Sierra Leonemme
2nd person Sierra Leonesi Sierra Leonenne
3rd person Sierra Leonensa

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (proper noun, genitive Sierra Leones or (optionally with an article) Sierra Leone)

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Declension


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsijɛrːɒ ˌlɛoːnɛ]
  • Hyphenation: Si‧er‧ra Le‧o‧ne
  • Rhymes: -nɛ

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Sierra Leone
accusative Sierra Leonét
dative Sierra Leonénak
instrumental Sierra Leonéval
causal-final Sierra Leonéért
translative Sierra Leonévá
terminative Sierra Leonéig
essive-formal Sierra Leoneként
essive-modal
inessive Sierra Leonéban
superessive Sierra Leonén
adessive Sierra Leonénál
illative Sierra Leonéba
sublative Sierra Leonéra
allative Sierra Leonéhoz
elative Sierra Leonéból
delative Sierra Leonéról
ablative Sierra Leonétól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Sierra Leonéé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Sierra Leonééi
Possessive forms of Sierra Leone
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Sierra Leoném
2nd person sing. Sierra Leonéd
3rd person sing. Sierra Leonéja
1st person plural Sierra Leonénk
2nd person plural Sierra Leonétok
3rd person plural Sierra Leonéjuk

Derived terms

  • Sierra Leone-i

Italian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsjɛr.ra lɛˈɔ.nɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɛ

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (undeclinable)

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

adjective
  • sierraleoński
nouns
  • Sierraleonka
  • Sierraleończyk

Further reading

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

Romanian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

  1. Sierra Leone

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

See also


Tatar

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa)

Turkish

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone (a country in Central Africa)

Declension

See also

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