Syria (a country in West Asia in the Middle East) · Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 198 CE)
çekim: çoğul sírias
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Sŭrĭ́ā)bor. Latin Syrialbor. Old Galician-Portuguese Siria Portuguese Síria Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Siria, a learned borrowing from Latin Syria, borrowed from Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Sŭrĭ́ā).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšápā Proto-Iranian *xšápā Proto-Iranian *-yah Proto-Iranian *xšáfnyah Classical Persian شامbor. Hindi शाम Borrowed from Classical Persian شام (šām), from Proto-Iranian *xšáfnyah. Cognate with Sanskrit क्षप् (kṣap, “night”); despite phonetic and semantic similarity, not related to Sanskrit श्यामा (śyāmā, “night, shadow”), which…
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.