Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin Syria (adapted to fit Latvian patterns, + -ija), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría), perhaps a shortened form of Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), possibly from Akkadian Ashshur, the name of the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom, and also of the main Assyrian deity.
Sīrija f (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | Sīrija | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | Sīrijas | — |
dative (datīvs) | Sīrijai | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | Sīriju | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | Sīriju | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | Sīrijā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | Sīrija | — |