Afrika

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See also: Afríka, Āfrika, Āfrikā, afrika, and Áfrika

English

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. (African-American Vernacular, uncommon) Alternative spelling of Africa

Related terms

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑfɾikä/
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

See also

Albanian

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. definite nominative singular of Afrikë

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika f (related adjective africký, demonym Afričan, female demonym Afričanka)

  1. Africa (a continent)
    Severní Afrika ― North Africa

Declension

Declension of Afrika (sg-only hard feminine)
singular
nominative Afrika
genitive Afriky
dative Africe
accusative Afriku
vocative Afriko
locative Africe
instrumental Afrikou

See also

Further reading

  • Afrika in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • Afrika in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • Afrika in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Proper noun

Afrika c

  1. Africa (a continent)

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Āfrica, from Āfer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.fri.kaː/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Afri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika n

  1. Africa (a continent)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: Afrika
  • Petjo: aprik

Gagauz

Gagauz Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia gag

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika n (proper noun, genitive Afrikas or (optionally with an article) Afrika)

  1. Africa (a continent)

Coordinate terms

(continents) Erdteil, Kontinent; Afrika, Amerika (Nordamerika, Südamerika), Antarktika, Asien, Europa, Ozeanien (Category: de:Continents)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Afrika” in Duden online
  • “Afrika” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Afrika —
accusative Afrikát —
dative Afrikának —
instrumental Afrikával —
causal-final Afrikáért —
translative Afrikává —
terminative Afrikáig —
essive-formal Afrikaként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Afrikában —
superessive Afrikán —
adessive Afrikánál —
illative Afrikába —
sublative Afrikára —
allative Afrikához —
elative Afrikából —
delative Afrikáról —
ablative Afrikától —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Afrikáé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Afrikáéi —
Possessive forms of Afrika
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Afrikám —
2nd person sing. Afrikád —
3rd person sing. Afrikája —
1st person plural Afrikánk —
2nd person plural Afrikátok —
3rd person plural Afrikájuk —

Derived terms

(Compound words):

See also

Ido

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

See also

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

From Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /afˈrika/,
  • Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Kashubian

Kashubian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia csb

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Afryka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈfrʲika/
  • Syllabification: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Further reading

  • Bernard Sychta (1967-1973) “Afrika”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich, volume 1, page 2
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “Afryka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “Afryka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
  • “Afrika”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Afrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

    declension of Afrika
nominative Afrika
genitive Afrikos
dative Afrikai
accusative Afriką
instrumental Afrika
locative Afrikoje
vocative Afrika

Related terms

See also

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika f inan

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Declension of Afrika
singular (uncountable)
Nominative Afrika
Genitive Afriki
Dative Africe
Accusative Afriku
Instrumental Afriku
Locative Africe

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “Afrika”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “Afrika”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Luxembourgish

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Proper noun

Afrika n

  1. Africa (a continent)

Malay

Afrika

Etymology

From English Africa, from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Africa.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

L-Afrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb
Afrika

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Derived terms

See also

(continents) verdsdelar; Afrika, Amerika, Antarktis, Asia, Europa, Nord-Amerika, Oseania, Sør-Amerika/Sud-Amerika (Category: nn:Continents)

Plautdietsch

Proper noun

Afrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎfrika/
  • Hyphenation: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

Àfrika f (Cyrillic spelling А̀фрика)

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Declension of Afrika
singular
nominative Afrika
genitive Afrike
dative Africi
accusative Afriku
vocative Afriko
locative Africi
instrumental Afrikom

References

  • “Afrika” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika f (genitive singular Afriky, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Declension of Afrika
singulare tantum
nominative Afrika
genitive Afriky
dative Afrike
accusative Afriku
locative Afrike
instrumental Afrikou

Derived terms

References

  • “Afrika”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ȃfrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nominative Áfrika
genitive Áfrike
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		Áfrika
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		—
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		—
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		—
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		Áfriki
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		Áfriko

Related terms

Swahili

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Africa, either by way of German Afrika or English Africa.

Pronunciation

  • (Tanzania) IPA(key): /ɑ.fri.kɑ/
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Derived terms

See also

(continents) mabara; Afrika (“Africa”), Amerika (“America”), Antaktika (“Antarctica”) or Antaktiki, Asia (“Asia”), Ulaya (“Europe”) or Uropa, Amerika ya Kaskazini (“North America”), Australia (“Oceania”), Amerika ya Kusini (“South America”) (Category: sw:Continents) [edit]

Swedish

Proper noun

Afrika n (genitive Afrikas)

  1. Africa (a continent)

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English Africa.

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Tsonga

Noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آفریقه.

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian А́фрика (Áfrika), from Latin Āfrica.

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈafʀika/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

Afrika f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Declension of Afrika
singular dual plural
nominative Afrika — —
genitive Afriki — —
dative Africe — —
accusative Afriku — —
instrumental Afriku — —
locative Africe — —
vocative Afrika — —

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns
proper nouns

Further reading

Uzbek

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Afrika

  1. Africa (a continent)

Declension

Declension of Afrika
singular plural
nominative Afrika Afrikalar
genitive Afrikaning Afrikalarning
dative Afrikaga Afrikalarga
definite accusative Afrikani Afrikalarni
locative Afrikada Afrikalarda
ablative Afrikadan Afrikalardan
Possessive forms of Afrika
my singular plural
nominative Afrikam Afrikalarim
genitive Afrikamning Afrikalarimning
dative Afrikamga Afrikalarimga
definite accusative Afrikamni Afrikalarimni
locative Afrikamda Afrikalarimda
ablative Afrikamdan Afrikalarimdan
your singular plural
nominative Afrikang Afrikalaring
genitive Afrikangning Afrikalaringning
dative Afrikangga Afrikalaringga
definite accusative Afrikangni Afrikalaringni
locative Afrikangda Afrikalaringda
ablative Afrikangdan Afrikalaringdan
her/his/its singular plural
nominative Afrikasi Afrikalari
genitive Afrikasining Afrikalarining
dative Afrikasiga Afrikalariga
definite accusative Afrikasini Afrikalarini
locative Afrikasida Afrikalarida
ablative Afrikasidan Afrikalaridan
our singular plural
nominative Afrikamiz Afrikalarimiz
genitive Afrikamizning Afrikalarimizning
dative Afrikamizga Afrikalarimizga
definite accusative Afrikamizni Afrikalarimizni
locative Afrikamizda Afrikalarimizda
ablative Afrikamizdan Afrikalarimizdan
your singular plural
nominative Afrikangiz Afrikalaringiz
genitive Afrikangizning Afrikalaringizning
dative Afrikangizga Afrikalaringizga
definite accusative Afrikangizni Afrikalaringizni
locative Afrikangizda Afrikalaringizda
ablative Afrikangizdan Afrikalaringizdan
their singular plural
nominative Afrikasi Afrikalari
genitive Afrikasining Afrikalarining
dative Afrikasiga Afrikalariga
definite accusative Afrikasini Afrikalarini
locative Afrikasida Afrikalarida
ablative Afrikasidan Afrikalaridan

Yoruba

Etymology

English Africa

Proper noun

Áfríkà

  1. Archaic spelling of Afíríkà (“Africa”).
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