Eritrea

See also: eritrea and Erítrea

English

Map of 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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪə

  • Audio (UK):

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  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Eritrea

2. A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
   1. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
   2. (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
   3. (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Eritrean (adjective/noun)

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

• Afrikaans: Eritrea
• Albanian: Eritrea (sq) f
• Amharic: ኤርትራ (ʾertəra)
• Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا f (ʔirītriyā)
• Armenian: Էրիտրեա (Ēritrea)
• Asturian: Eritrea (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Eritreya (az)
• Belarusian: Эрытрэ́я f (Erytréja)
• Bengali: ইরিত্রিয়া (bn) (iritriẏa)
• Breton: Eritrea
• Bulgarian: Еритре́я f (Eritréja)
• Burmese: အီရီထရီးယား (irihta.ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Eritrea (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厄立特里亞 (zh) (Èlìtèlǐyà)

• Czech: Eritrea (cs) f
• Danish: Eritrea n
• Dhivehi: އެރިތުރިއާ (erituriā)
• Dutch: Eritrea (nl) n
• Esperanto: Eritreo (eo)
• Estonian: Eritrea (et)
• Finnish: Eritrea (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Èritrê
• French: Érythrée (fr) f
• Galician: Eritrea (gl)
• Georgian: ერიტრეა (ka) (eriṭrea)
• German: Eritrea (de) n
• Greek: Ερυθραία (el) f (Erythraía)
• Hausa: Eriteria, Iritiriya
• Hebrew: אֶרִיתְרֵאָה \ אריתריאה f (eritre'a)
• Hindi: इरीट्रिया (hi) (irīṭriyā)
• Hungarian: Eritrea (hu)
• Icelandic: Erítrea (is) f
• Indonesian: Eritrea (id)
• Interlingua: Eritrea
• Irish: An Eiritré f
• Italian: Eritrea (it) f
• Japanese: エリトリア (ja) (Eritoria)
• Kalenjin: Eritrea
• Kamba: Eritrea
• Kazakh: Эритрея (kk) (Éritreä)
• Khmer: អេរីត្រេ (km) (ʼeeriitree)
• Kikuyu: Eritrea
• Korean: 에리트레아 (ko) (Eriteurea)
• Kyrgyz: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Lao: ເອຣີເຕຣ (ʼē rī tē)
• Latvian: Eritreja (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Eritrėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Eritrea
• Luo: Eritrea
• Macedonian: Еритре́ја f (Eritréja)
• Malay: Eritrea (ms)
• Maltese: Eritrea f
• Maori: Eritēria
• Marathi: एरिट्रेया (eriṭreyā)
• Meru: Eritrea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Эритрей (Eritrej)

• Norman: Eritrea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Eritrea (no) n

• Pashto: اریتره
• Persian: اریتره (eritre)
• Polish: Erytrea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eritreia (pt) f
• Romanian: Eritreea (ro) f
• Russian: Эритре́я (ru) f (Eritréja)
• Samogitian: Eritrėjė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Еритре́ја f

  Roman: Eritréja (sh) f

• Silesian: Erytryja f
• Sinhalese: එරිත්‍රියාව (eritriyāwa)
• Slovak: Eritrea f
• Slovene: Eritrêja (sl) f
• Spanish: Eritrea (es) f
• Swahili: Eritrea (sw)
• Swedish: Eritrea (sv) n
• Tagalog: Eritreya
• Tajik: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Tatar: Эритрея (Eritreya)
• Thai: เอริเทรีย (th) (ee-rí-triia)
• Tibetan: ཨི་རི་ཏྲའ (i ri tra')
• Tigrinya: ኤርትራ (ti) (ʾertəra)
• Turkish: Eritre (tr)
• Turkmen: Eritreýa
• Ukrainian: Еритре́я (uk) f (Erytréja)
• Urdu: ارتریا m (iritriyā), اریٹریا m (irīṭriyā)
• Uyghur: ئېرىترېيە (ëritrëye)
• Uzbek: Eritreya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a
• Volapük: Leritreyän (vo)
• Yiddish: עריטרעאַ (eritrea)
• Yoruba: Eritira

See also

• Asmara
• Countries of the world
• Italian Eritrea

countries in Africa (appendix)edit

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republic of the Congo
• Rwanda
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Western Sahara
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Anagrams

• Eretria, tearier

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea; capital: Asmara)

Derived terms

• Eritrees
• Eritreër

Breton

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. 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]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• eritreu

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea f (relational adjective eritrejský, demonym Eritrejec)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Declension

Declension of Eritrea (sg-only feminine in -ea)

	singular
nominative	Eritrea
genitive	Eritrey, Eritreje
dative	Eritreji
accusative	Eritreu
vocative	Eritreo
locative	Eritreji
instrumental	Eritreou, Eritrejí

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), 2008–2025

Danish

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. 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/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Eri‧trea
• Rhymes: -eːaː

Proper noun

Eritrea n

1. 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
• Hyphenation^(key): E‧rit‧rea

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Declension

Inflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Eritrea	—
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Eritrea	—
accusative	nom.	Eritrea	—
	gen.	Eritrean
genitive		Eritrean	—
partitive		Eritreaa	—
inessive		Eritreassa	—
elative		Eritreasta	—
illative		Eritreaan	—
adessive		Eritrealla	—
ablative		Eritrealta	—
allative		Eritrealle	—
essive		Eritreana	—
translative		Eritreaksi	—
abessive		Eritreatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Eritreani — accusative nom. Eritreani — gen. Eritreani genitive Eritreani — partitive Eritreaani — inessive Eritreassani — elative Eritreastani — illative Eritreaani — adessive Eritreallani — ablative Eritrealtani — allative Eritrealleni — essive Eritreanani — translative Eritreakseni — abessive Eritreattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Eritreasi — accusative nom. Eritreasi — gen. Eritreasi genitive Eritreasi — partitive Eritreaasi — inessive Eritreassasi — elative Eritreastasi — illative Eritreaasi — adessive Eritreallasi — ablative Eritrealtasi — allative Eritreallesi — essive Eritreanasi — translative Eritreaksesi — abessive Eritreattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Eritreamme — accusative nom. Eritreamme — gen. Eritreamme genitive Eritreamme — partitive Eritreaamme — inessive Eritreassamme — elative Eritreastamme — illative Eritreaamme — adessive Eritreallamme — ablative Eritrealtamme — allative Eritreallemme — essive Eritreanamme — translative Eritreaksemme — abessive Eritreattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Eritreanne — accusative nom. Eritreanne — gen. Eritreanne genitive Eritreanne — partitive Eritreaanne — inessive Eritreassanne — elative Eritreastanne — illative Eritreaanne — adessive Eritreallanne — ablative Eritrealtanne — allative Eritreallenne — essive Eritreananne — translative Eritreaksenne — abessive Eritreattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Eritreansa — accusative nom. Eritreansa — gen. Eritreansa genitive Eritreansa — partitive Eritreaansa — inessive Eritreassaan Eritreassansa — elative Eritreastaan Eritreastansa — illative Eritreaansa — adessive Eritreallaan Eritreallansa — ablative Eritrealtaan Eritrealtansa — allative Eritrealleen Eritreallensa — essive Eritreanaan Eritreanansa — translative Eritreakseen Eritreaksensa — abessive Eritreattaan Eritreattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• eritrealainen

Galician

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. 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/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Derived terms

• eritreisch
• Eritreer

See also

countries in Africa: Staaten Afrikas (appendix)edit

• Ägypten
• Algerien
• Angola
• Äquatorialguinea
• Äthiopien
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Demokratische Republik Kongo
• Dschibuti
• Elfenbeinküste
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Gabun
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenia
• Komoren
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Mosambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republik Kongo
• Ruanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Seychellen
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Südafrika
• Sudan
• Südsudan
• São Tomé und Príncipe
• Tansania
• Togo
• Tschad
• Tunesien
• Uganda
• Zentralafrikanische Republik

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛritrɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Erit‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Eritrea	—
accusative	Eritreát	—
dative	Eritreának	—
instrumental	Eritreával	—
causal-final	Eritreáért	—
translative	Eritreává	—
terminative	Eritreáig	—
essive-formal	Eritreaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Eritreában	—
superessive	Eritreán	—
adessive	Eritreánál	—
illative	Eritreába	—
sublative	Eritreára	—
allative	Eritreához	—
elative	Eritreából	—
delative	Eritreáról	—
ablative	Eritreától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Eritreáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Eritreáéi	—

Possessive forms of Eritrea

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Eritreám	—
2nd person sing.	Eritreád	—
3rd person sing.	Eritreája	—
1st person plural	Eritreánk	—
2nd person plural	Eritreátok	—
3rd person plural	Eritreájuk	—

Related terms

• eritreai

Interlingua

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. 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

1. 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

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• eritreer
• eritreisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• eritrear
• eritreisk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: E‧ri‧tre‧a

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• eritreo

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

See also

countries in Africa: nchi za Afrika (appendix)edit

• Afrika Kusini
• Algeria ~ Aljeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Chad ~ Chadi
• Cote d'Ivoire ~ Kodivaa
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia, Uhabeshi ~ Habeshi
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea Bisau ~ Guinea-Bisau ~ Ginebisau
• Guinea ya Ikweta ~ Ginekweta
• Guinea ~ Gine ~ Gini
• Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati
• Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo, Kongo-Kinshasa
• Jamhuri ya Kongo, Kongo-Brazzaville
• Jibuti ~ Djibouti
• Kamerun ~ Cameroon ~ Kameruni
• Kenya
• Komori, Visiwa vya Ngazija
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagaska, Bukini
• Malawi, Unyasa
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mayotte
• Misri, Umisri
• Morisi
• Moroko ~ Maroko
• Msumbiji, Mozambik
• Mtakatifu Helena
• Namibia
• Niger ~ Nijeri
• Nigeria ~ Nijeria ~ Naijeria
• Rwanda ~ Ruanda
• Réunion
• Sahara ya Magharibi
• Sao Tome na Principe
• Senegal ~ Senegali
• Shelisheli
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Kusini
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Uswazi, Swaziland
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• eritrean
• eritreansk
• eritreanska

References

• Eritrea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Welsh

Proper noun

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Related terms

• Eritreaidd (“Eritrean”, adjective)

See also

countries in Africa: gwledydd Affrica (appendix)edit

• Angola
• Algeria
• Benin
• Botswana
• Bwrcina Ffaso
• Bwrwndi
• Cabo Verde
• Camerŵn
• Cenia
• De Affrica
• De Swdan
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gini
• Gini Bisaw
• Gini Gyhydeddol
• Gorllewin Sahara
• Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica
• Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo
• Gweriniaeth y Congo
• Jibwti
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagasgar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mawrisiws
• Mawritania
• Moroco
• Mosambic
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Swdan
• São Tomé a Príncipe
• Tansania
• Tiwnisia
• Togo
• Tsiad
• Wganda
• y Comoros
• y Seychelles
• y Traeth Ifori
• yr Aifft