Sierra Leone
English
Etymology
Spanish sierra (“mountain”) + leona (“lioness”), from Portuguese serra (“mountain”) + leoa (“lioness”) (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siˌɛɹə liˈoʊn/
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Audio (US) (file)
Proper noun
- Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.
Hypernyms
Translations
Republic of Sierra Leone
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See also
- Countries of the world
Czech
Proper noun
Sierra Leone f
Related terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɛ.ra.le.ˈjo.nə/
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Proper noun
Finnish
Proper noun
Declension
| Inflection of Sierra Leone (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| 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 | — | — | |
German
Proper noun
Sierra Leone n (genitive Sierra Leones)
Italian
Proper noun
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsjɛ.rra lɛˈɔ.nɛ/
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Proper noun
Derived terms
- Sierraleończyk m, Sierraleonka f
- adjective: sierraleoński
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Proper noun
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