Samoa

See also: samoa, Samóa, Sámoa, samoà, Samôa, Sāmoa, and șamoa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. Sa is sacred, forbidden, not allowed. Sa also mean pertaining to or 'of the'; for example Sa Malietoa is of the family or lineage of Malietoa. Moa is center or middle, the most inner and deepest part of anything or heart. It is also a word for chicken.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /səˈməʊ.ə/
  • (US) enPR: sə-mō'ə, IPA(key): /səˈmoʊ.ə/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. A country in Oceania.
    Synonym: Independent State of Samoa (officially)

Derived terms

Translations

See also
  • Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Samoa m

  1. Samoa

Derived terms
  • illes Samoa (“Samoan Islands”)
  • samoà (“Samoan”)
  • Samoa Alemanya (“German Samoa”)
  • Samoa Nord-americana (“American Samoa”)
  • Samoa Occidental (“Western Samoa”)

Further reading

Czech

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. Samoa

Further reading
  • Samoa in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • Samoa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌsaːˈmoː.aː/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

Samoa n

  1. Samoa

Derived terms

Finnish

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. Samoa

Declension
Inflection of Samoa (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)
nominative Samoa —
genitive Samoan —
partitive Samoaa
Samoata		 —
illative Samoaan —
singular plural
nominative Samoa —
accusative nom. Samoa —
gen. Samoan
genitive Samoan —
partitive Samoaa
Samoata		 —
inessive Samoassa —
elative Samoasta —
illative Samoaan —
adessive Samoalla —
ablative Samoalta —
allative Samoalle —
essive Samoana —
translative Samoaksi —
instructive — —
abessive Samoatta —
comitative — —

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zaˈmoːa/
  • Audio (Austria)(file)
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Samoa n (genitive Samoas)

  1. Samoa

Derived terms

Italian

Proper noun

Samoa f

  1. Samoa

Derived terms

Latin

Proper noun

Sāmoa f (genitive Sāmoae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Samoa

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Sāmoa
Genitive Sāmoae
Dative Sāmoae
Accusative Sāmoam
Ablative Sāmoā
Vocative Sāmoa
Locative Sāmoae

Latvian

Proper noun

Samoa f (4th declension)

  1. Samoa

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. Samoa

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. Samoa

See also

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /saˈmɔ.a/
  • audio(file)

Proper noun

Samoa n

  1. Samoa

Derived terms
  • Samoańczyk m
  • samoański (adjective)
  • Samoanka f

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Samoa f

  1. Samoa (an archipelago in Oceania)
  2. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Oceania)

Slovak

Etymology

From Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsamɔa/

Proper noun

Samoa f (genitive Samoy) declension pattern žena

  1. Samoa

Declension
Declension of Samoa
singulare tantum
nominative Samoa
genitive Samoy
dative Samoe
accusative Samou
locative Samoe
instrumental Samoou

Derived terms
  • Samojčan m
  • Samojčanka f
  • samojský
  • Samojský nezávislý štát m

Further reading
  • Samoa in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /saˈmoa/

Proper noun

Samoa f

  1. Samoa

Turkmen

Proper noun

Samoa

  1. Samoa
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