Seychelles

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English

Seychelles on a globe.

Etymology

After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /seɪˈʃɛlz/, /seɪˈʃɛl/, /ˈseɪʃɛlz/, /ˈseɪʃɛl/
(US)
(file)
Rhymes: -ɛlz, -ɛl

Proper noun

the Seychelles

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

Usage notes

Treated as singular or plural. The presence of the definite article also varies, though "the Seychelles" is more common.

Hypernyms

Subsahara

Derived terms

Translations

country in East Africa

Afrikaans: Seychelle
Amharic: ሲሸልስ (sišäls)
Arabic: سِيشِيل m (sišīl), سيشل f (sēšil)
Hijazi Arabic: سِيشِل f (sēšil)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: Сейшэ́лы f pl (Sjejšély), Сейшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sjejšélʹskija astravý), Сэйшэ́лы f pl (Sejšély), Сэйшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sejšélʹskija astravý)
Bengali: সেশেল (bn) (śeśel)
Breton: Sechelez
Bulgarian: Сейше́ли m pl (Sejšéli)
Burmese: ဆေးရှဲ (hce:hrai:)
Catalan: Seychelles (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 塞舌爾／塞舌尔 (zh) (Sàishé'ěr)
Czech: Seychely (cs) pl
Danish: Seychellerne pl
Dutch: Seychellen (nl) pl
Esperanto: Sejŝeloj (eo) pl
Farefare: Seesello pl
Finnish: Seychellit (fi)
French: Seychelles (fr) f pl
Galician: Seixeles (gl) f pl
Georgian: სეიშელის კუნძულები (ka) (seišelis ḳunʒulebi)
German: Seychellen (de) pl
Greek: Σεϋχέλλες (el) f pl (Seÿchélles)
Hebrew: סֵיְשֶׁל / סיישל (seyshel)
Hindi: सेशेल्स (hi) (seśels)
Hungarian: Seychelle-szigetek (hu)
Interlingua: Seychelles
Irish: Na Séiséil m or pl, Poblacht na Séiséal f
Italian: Seychelles (it) f pl, Seicelle f pl
Japanese: セイシェル (ja) (Seisheru), セーシェル (ja) (Sēsheru)
Kalenjin: Shelisheli
Kamba: Shelisheli
Kazakh: Сейшель аралдары (kk) (Seişel araldary)
Khmer: សេសែល (seesael)
Kikuyu: Shelisheli
Korean: 세이셸 (ko) (Seisyel), 세이쉘 (ko) (Seiswel) (North Korea)
Kyrgyz: Сейшел аралдары (Seyşel araldarı)
Latvian: Seišelas f pl
Lithuanian: Seišeliai (lt) m pl
Luhya: Bushelisheli
Luo: sishel
Macedonian: Сејшели m pl (Sejšeli)
Malay: Seychelles (ms)
Maltese: is-Sejxell
Maori: Heikere
Meru: ushelisheli
Navajo: Seishel
Norman: Seychelles f pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Seychellene (no)

Nynorsk: Seychellane (nn)
Persian: سیشل (seyšel)
Polish: Seszele (pl)
Portuguese: Seicheles (pt) f pl
Romanian: Seychelles (ro), Seișele
Russian: Сейше́лы (ru) f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льские острова́ m pl (Sejšélʹskije ostrová)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сејшели m pl

Roman: Sejšeli (sh) m pl
Seychellois Creole: Sesel
Sinhalese: සීෂෙල්ස් (sīṣels)
Slovak: Seychely pl
Slovene: Sejšéli (sl) m pl
Spanish: Seychelles (es) f pl
Swahili: Shelisheli (sw)
Swedish: Seychellerna (sv) pl
Tagalog: Seysyels
Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Сейшел (Jazirahoyi Seyšel), Сейшел (Seyšel)
Thai: เซเชลส์ (th) (see-cheel)
Turkish: Seyşeller (tr) pl
Ukrainian: Сейше́ли f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льські Острови́ m pl (Sejšélʹsʹki Ostrový)
Vietnamese: Xây-sen
West Frisian: Seysjellen pl
Yoruba: Seṣẹlẹsi

See also

Countries of the world
(countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa)} ^[edit]

References

^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020) “Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, number 1, →DOI, pages 1–16

Further reading

Seychelles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Seychelles on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
Seychelles on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Category:Seychelles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Seychelles

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /se.ʃɛl/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Seychelles

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.lis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.liʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.les/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈt͡ʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /seˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl

Alternative spelling of Seicheles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Seychelles

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /seiˈt͡ʃeles/
Rhymes: -eles
Syllabification: Sey‧che‧lles

Proper noun

Seychelles f

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

seychellense

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