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/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

Hypernyms

Translations

See also

  • Countries of the world

Czech

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

  1. Sierra Leone

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɛ.ra.le.ˈjo.nə/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n

  1. Sierra Leone

Finnish

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone

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

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (genitive Sierra Leones)

  1. Sierra Leone

Italian

Proper noun

Sierra Leone f

  1. Sierra Leone

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsjɛ.rra lɛˈɔ.nɛ/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sierra Leone n (undeclinable)

  1. Sierra Leone

Derived terms

  • Sierraleończyk m, Sierraleonka f
  • adjective: sierraleoński

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Proper noun

Sierra Leone

  1. Sierra Leone
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