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English
Etymology
From Eritrea + -an (suffix forming adjectives).
Adjective
Eritrean (comparative more Eritrean, superlative most Eritrean)
- Of, belonging to, or relating to Eritrea or its people.
Derived terms
Translations
Of, from, or pertaining to Eritrea, the Eritrean people or the Eritrean culture
Noun
Eritrean (plural Eritreans)
- A native or inhabitant of Eritrea, or a descendant of such person.
Hypernyms
Translations
A person from Eritrea or of Eritrean descent
- Afrikaans: Eritreër
- Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيّ m (ʔirītriyy), إِرِيتْرِيَّة f (ʔiritriyya)
- Catalan: eritreu (ca) m
- Czech: Eritrejec (cs) m
- Danish: eritreer m
- Dutch: Eritreeër (nl) m, Eritrese (nl) f
- Esperanto: eritreano
- Finnish: eritrealainen (fi)
- French: Érythréen (fr) m, Érythréenne (fr) f
- Galician: eritreo m
- German: Eritreer (de) m, Eritreerin (de) f
- Greek: Ερυθραία (el) f (Erythraía), Ερυθραίος (el) m (Erythraíos)
- Icelandic: Erítreumaður m, Erítreumenn m pl
- Irish: Eiritréach m
- Italian: eritreo (it) m, eritrea (it) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: eritreer m
- Nynorsk: eritrear (nn) m
- Polish: Erytrejczyk (pl) m, Erytrejka (pl) f
- Portuguese: eritreu (pt) m, eritreia f
- Romanian: eritreean m, eritreeană f
- Russian: эритре́ец (ru) m (eritréjec), эритре́йка (ru) f (eritréjka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Еритре́јац m, Еритрејка f
- Roman: Eritréjac (sh) m, Eritrejka f
- Sicilian: eritreu m
- Spanish: eritreo (es) m, eritrea (es) f
- Swahili: Mweritrea
- Swedish: eritrean (sv) m, eritreanska (sv) f
- Tigrinya: ኤርትራዊ m (ʾertərawi), ኤርትራዊት f (ʾertərawit)
- Turkish: Eritreli (tr)
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Proper noun
Eritrean
- genitive singular of Eritrea