Sumer
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒋗𒈨𒊒 (Šumeru), in Assyriology since the 1870s; compare French sumérien since 1872. Compare Shumer, Sumir. More at Sumer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uːmə/
- (General American) enPR: sōōmʹər, IPA(key): /ˈsuːmɚ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: Su‧mer
Proper noun
Sumer
- A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
Derived terms
Translations
civilization
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sumer m inan (relational adjective sumerský)
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Proper noun
Sumer m anim
- Sumerian (native or inhabitant of the land of Sumer in modern Iraq) (usually male)
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- “Sumer”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Proper noun
Sumer ?
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sumer
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Declension
| Inflection of Sumer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Sumer | — | |
| genitive | Sumerin | — | |
| partitive | Sumeria | — | |
| illative | Sumeriin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Sumer | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Sumer | — |
| gen. | Sumerin | ||
| genitive | Sumerin | — | |
| partitive | Sumeria | — | |
| inessive | Sumerissa | — | |
| elative | Sumerista | — | |
| illative | Sumeriin | — | |
| adessive | Sumerilla | — | |
| ablative | Sumerilta | — | |
| allative | Sumerille | — | |
| essive | Sumerina | — | |
| translative | Sumeriksi | — | |
| abessive | Sumeritta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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French
Proper noun
Sumer ?
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Sumer
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Italian
Proper noun
Sumer ?
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Norwegian
Proper noun
Sumer
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sumer
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Further reading
- Sumer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sumer n
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
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| nominative-accusative | Sumer | Sumerul |
| genitive-dative | Sumer | Sumerului |
| vocative | Sumerule | |
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sùmēr m (Cyrillic spelling Су̀ме̄р)
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Declension
Declension of Sumer
Swedish
Proper noun
Sumer ? (genitive Sumers)
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)