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Definition: Syria |
SyriaNoun1. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Syria" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Bible | Syria (Heb. Aram), the name in the Old Testament given to the whole country which lay to the north-east of Phoenicia, extending to beyond the Euphrates and the Tigris. Mesopotamia is called (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4) Aram-naharain (=Syria of the two rivers), also Padan-aram (Gen. 25:20). Other portions of Syria were also known by separate names, as Aram-maahah (1 Chr. 19:6), Aram-beth-rehob (2 Sam. 10:6), Aram-zobah (2 Sam. 10:6, 8). All these separate little kingdoms afterwards became subject to Damascus. In the time of the Romans, Syria included also a part of Palestine and Asia Minor. "From the historic annals now accessible to us, the history of Syria may be divided into three periods: The first, the period when the power of the Pharaohs was dominant over the fertile fields or plains of Syria and the merchant cities of Tyre and Sidon, and when such mighty conquerors as Thothmes III. and Rameses II. could claim dominion and levy tribute from the nations from the banks of the Euphrates to the borders of the Libyan desert. Second, this was followed by a short period of independence, when the Jewish nation in the south was growing in power, until it reached its early zenith in the golden days of Solomon; and when Tyre and Sidon were rich cities, sending their traders far and wide, over land and sea, as missionaries of civilization, while in the north the confederate tribes of the Hittites held back the armies of the kings of Assyria. The third, and to us most interesting, period is that during which the kings of Assyria were dominant over the plains of Syria; when Tyre, Sidon, Ashdod, and Jerusalem bowed beneath the conquering armies of Shalmaneser, Sargon, and Sennacherib; and when at last Memphis and Thebes yielded to the power of the rulers of Nineveh and Babylon, and the kings of Assyria completed with terrible fulness the bruising of the reed of Egypt so clearly foretold by the Hebrew prophets.", Boscawen. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Syria says Richardson, derives its name from Suri (a delicate rose); hence Suristan (the land of roses). The Jews called Syria Aram. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs, and, in part, Crusaders before finally coming under the control of the Ottoman Turks. Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
In 1920, an independent Arab Kingdom of Syria was established under King Faisal of the Hashemite family, who later became King of Iraq. However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the battle of Maysalun. French troops occupied Syria later that year after the League of Nations put Syria under French mandate. With the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Syria came under the control of the Vichy Government until the British and Free French occupied the country in July 1941. Continuing pressure from Syrian nationalist groups forced the French to evacuate their troops in April 1946, leaving the country in the hands of a republican government that had been formed during the mandate.
Although rapid economic development followed the declaration of independence of April 17, 1946, Syrian politics from independence through the late 1960s was marked by upheaval. In 1948, Syria was involved in the Arab-Israeli War. The Syrian army was pressed out of the Israel area, but fortified their strongholds on the Golan Heights and managed to keep their old borders. A series of military coups, begun in 1949, undermined civilian rule and led to army colonel Adib Shishakli's seizure of power in 1951. After the overthrow of President Shishakli in a 1954 coup, continued political maneuvering supported by competing factions in the military eventually brought Arab nationalist and socialist elements to power.
Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdal Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt. On February 1, 1958, the two countries merged to create the United Arab Republic, and all Syrian political parties ceased overt activities.
The union was not a success, however. Following a military coup on September 28, 1961, Syria seceded, reestablishing itself as the Syrian Arab Republic. Instability characterised the next 18 months, with various coups culminating on March 8, 1963, in the installation by leftist Syrian Army officers of the National Council of the Revolutionary Command (NCRC), a group of military and civilian officials who assumed control of all executive and legislative authority. The takeover was engineered by members of the Arab Socialist Resurrection Party (Ba'ath Party), which had been active in Syria and other Arab countries since the late 1940s. The new cabinet was dominated by Ba'ath members.
The Ba'ath takeover in Syria followed a Ba'ath coup in Iraq the previous month. The new Syrian Government explored the possibility of federation with Egypt and with Ba'ath-controlled Iraq. An agreement was concluded in Cairo on April 17, 1963, for a referendum on unity to be held in September 1963. However, serious disagreements among the parties soon developed, and the tripartite federation failed to materialize. Thereafter, the Ba'ath regimes in Syria and Iraq began to work for bilateral unity. These plans foundered in November 1963, when the Ba'ath regime in Iraq was overthrown. In May 1964, President Amin Hafiz of the NCRC promulgated a provisional constitution providing for a National Council of the Revolution (NCR), an appointed legislature composed of representatives of mass organisations—labour, peasant, and professional unions—a presidential council, in which executive power was vested, and a cabinet. On February 23, 1966, a group of army officers carried out a successful, intra-party coup, imprisoned President Hafiz, dissolved the cabinet and the NCR, abrogated the provisional constitution, and designated a regionalist, civilian Ba'ath government on March 1. The coup leaders described it as a "rectification" of Ba'ath Party principles. The defeat of the Syrians (with the loss of the Golan Heights) and Egyptians in the June 1967 war with Israel weakened the radical socialist regime established by the 1966 coup.
Conflict developed between a moderate military wing and a more extremist civilian wing of the Ba'ath Party. The 1970 retreat of Syrian forces sent to aid the PLO during the "Black September" hostilities with Jordan reflected this political disagreement within the ruling Ba'ath leadership. On November 13, 1970, Minister of Defense Hafiz al-Asad effected a bloodless military coup, ousting the civilian party leadership and assuming the role of prime minister.
Upon assuming power, Hafiz al-Asad moved quickly to create an organizational infrastructure for his government and to consolidate control. The Provisional Regional Command of Asad's Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party nominated a 173-member legislature, the People's Council, in which the Ba'ath Party took 87 seats. The remaining seats were divided among "popular organizations" and other minor parties. In March 1971, the party held its regional congress and elected a new 21-member Regional Command headed by Asad. In the same month, a national referendum was held to confirm Asad as President for a 7-year term. In March 1972, to broaden the base of his government, Asad formed the National Progressive Front, a coalition of parties led by the Ba'ath Party, and elections were held to establish local councils in each of Syria's 14 governorates. In March 1973, a new Syrian constitution went into effect followed shortly thereafter by parliamentary elections for the People's Council, the first such elections since 1962.
On October 6 1973, Syria and Egypt staged a surprise attack against Israel in what Arabs call the Ramadan War. (Israelis call it the Yom Kippur War, since the war started on the Jewish Yom Kippur day.) But despite the element of surprise, Egypt and Syria lost the war, and Israel continued to hold the Golan Heights.
The authoritarian regime was not without its critics, though most were quickly murdered. A serious challenge arose in the late 1970s, however, from fundamentalist Sunni Muslims, who reject the basic values of the secular Ba'ath program and object to rule by the Alawis, whom they consider heretical. From 1976 until its suppression in 1982, the arch-conservative Muslim Brotherhood led an armed insurgency against the regime. In response to an attempted uprising by the brotherhood in February 1982, the government crushed the fundamentalist opposition centered in the city of Hama, leveling parts of the city with artillery fire and causing many thousands of dead and wounded. Since then, public manifestations of anti-regime activity have been very limited.
Syria's 1990 participation in the U.S.-led multinational coalition aligned against Saddam Hussein marked a dramatic watershed in Syria's relations both with other Arab states and with the West. Syria participated in the multilateral Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid in October 1991, and during the 1990s engaged in direct, face-to-face negotiations with Israel. These negotiations failed, and there have been no further Syrian-Israeli talks since President Hafiz Al-Asad's meeting with then President Bill Clinton in Geneva in March 2000.
Hafiz Al-Asad died on June 10, 2000, after 30 years in power. Immediately following Al-Asad's death, the Parliament amended the constitution, reducing the mandatory minimum age of the President from 40 to 34 years old, which allowed his son, Bashar Al-Asad legally to be eligible for nomination by the ruling Ba'ath party. On July 10, 2000, Bashar Al-Asad was elected President by referendum in which he ran unopposed, garnering 97.29% of the vote, according to Syrian government statistics.
On October 5, 2003, Israel bombed a site near Damascus, claiming it was a terrorist training facility for members of Islamic Jihad.
The raid was in retaliation for the bombing of a restaurant in the Israeli town of Haifa that killed 19.
Islamic Jihad said the camp was not in use; Syria said the attack was on a civilian area.
The Israeli action was widely condemned.
The German Chancellor said it "cannot be accepted" and the French Foreign Ministry said "The Israeli operation... constituted an unacceptable violation of international law and sovereignty rules."
The Spanish UN Ambassador Inocencio Arias called it an attack of "extreme gravity" and "a clear violation of international law."
However, the United States moved closer to slapping sanctions on Syria, following the adoption of the Syria Accountability Act by the House of Representatives International Relations committee.
French Occupation
Independence to 1970
1970 onwards
21st century
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "History of Syria."
Synonym: SyriaSynonym: Syrian Arab Republic (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | And we cant watch Fox because they own those chemical weapons plants in Syria. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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 | Home accidents are as frequent in Syria as anywhere else. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by G. Nemeh.. |  | Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol, center, visiting the Ein-Gev settlement on the Sea of Galilee, April 8, 1967, to inspect damage from the previous day's border clash between Israel and Syria. At left is Gen. Yitzhak Rabin; Israeli chief of staff Brig. David E. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sinking of the British battle ship Victoria off Tripoli, Syria, June 22, 1893. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lest we perish Campaign for $30,000,000 ; American Committee for Relief in the Near East ; Armenia - Greece - Syria - Persia ; One Madison Ave., New York, Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Syria | Residency permits require demonstration of employment and a fixed address in Syria. (references) |
Jordan | The majority of such persons now live in Syria, Lebanon, and Libya as stateless persons. (references) | |
Lebanon | In view of the risk of prosecution, journalists censor themselves on matters related to Syria. (references) | |
Economic History | Syria | Six other free zones exist in Syria. (references) |
Syria | Recently, Syria and Iraq also resumed rail service. (references) | |
Jordan | Road connections with Syria and Saudi Arabia are good. (references) | |
Human Rights | Lebanon | In August 2000, Syria released Shaykh Heshem Mingara, a radical Sunni member of the Islamic Unification Movement ("Tawheed"), who was arrested by Syrian forces in 1985 and transferred to Syria. (references) |
Lebanon | A military tribunal in 1999 sentenced Captain Camille Yared to 10 years in prison and 4 Lebanese Forces militiamen to death in absentia for carrying out a 1996 bus bombing in Syria, which killed 11 persons. (references) | |
Lebanon | Amnesty International reported in 1999 that "hundreds of Lebanese, Palestinians, and Jordanians have been arbitrarily arrested, some over two decades ago, and remain in prolonged and often secret detention in Syria." According to Amnesty International, Syrian forces operating in Lebanon carried out searches, arrests, and detentions of Lebanese nationals outside any legal framework. (references) | |
Minorities | Syria | Although the Asad Government stopped the previous practice of stripping Kurds in Syria of their Syrian nationality (some 120,000 lost Syrian nationality under this program in the 1960's), it never restored their nationality. (references) |
Political Economy | Lebanon | The Government's relationship with Syria does not reflect the will of most of the country's citizens. (references) |
Syria | Syria, a country that plays an important regional role, has a dichotomous relationship with the United States. (references) | |
Trade | Syria | Syria enforces the Arab League Boycott of Israel. (references) |
Syria | Goods of Israeli origin are prohibited for import into Syria. (references) | |
Syria | Syria appears on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. (references) | |
Travel | Morocco | Entry visas are required for foreign nationals from certain countries, including Egypt, Iran, Sudan and Syria. (references) |
Worker Rights | Somalia | In 2000 Djibouti law enforcement authorities arrested members of a group that was smuggling Somali women to destinations such as Lebanon and Syria to work in brothels. (references) |
Moldova | There also were reports that women were trafficked to Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Portugal, France, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Australia. (references) | |
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Rostom al-Zoubi | I can't say that even the people there, if they know that there's some people from the Iraqi regime is in Syria they will tell the authorities there that there are persons or people from Iraqi regime. |
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| "Syria" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.85% of the time. "Syria" is used about 678 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.85% | 677 | 9,752 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 678 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Syria" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Syria | Last name | 100 | 77,412 |
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1. Syria, VA |
Expression using "Syria": capital of Syria. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Syria": syria-based, syria-were. | |
Ending with "Syria": Coele-Syria, Israel-syria. | |
Containing "Syria": Turkey-syria-iraq. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
syria | 1,382 | idlib syria | 14 |
syria hotel | 738 | syria newspaper | 14 |
damascus syria | 530 | airline syria | 14 |
aleppo syria | 331 | egypt once syria | 13 |
map of syria | 87 | duma syria | 13 |
hims syria | 48 | government syria | 13 |
airport assad basel international syria | 42 | al mismiyah syria | 13 |
syria news | 34 | capital syria | 12 |
embassy syria | 32 | abu nidal syria | 12 |
kamishli syria | 31 | shinshar syria | 12 |
syria picture | 30 | travel to syria | 12 |
egypt syria | 23 | flag of syria | 12 |
chat syria | 22 | syria tv | 11 |
palmyra syria | 21 | manbij syria | 10 |
sex syria | 21 | syria visa | 10 |
daraa syria | 20 | diplomatic relations syria | 10 |
history of syria | 20 | mosque syria | 10 |
syria photo | 16 | al qutayfah syria | 10 |
deir ezzor syria | 15 | president syria | 10 |
maskanah syria | 14 | canadian embassy in syria | 9 |
syria va | 9 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "Syria"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سوريا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 叙利亚 (Syrian), 敘利亞 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Syrien (Syrian Arab Republic, The Syrian Arab Republic), SY (sew), Den Syriske Arabiske Republik (Syrian Arab Republic), Den arabiske republik Syrien (The Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Syrië (Syrian Arab Republic, The Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Sirio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Syyria (Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Syrie (Syrian Arab Republic, The Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Syrien (Syrian Arab Republic, The Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Συρία (Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ׁורי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szíria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | An tSiria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Siria (Syrian Arab Republic, The Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シュタイナー学 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シリア . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시리아 (Syrian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Yn Teer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yriasay Síria (Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) сирия. (various references) sirija. (various references) Siria (Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) Sham. (various references) Syrien (Syrian Arab Republic). (various references) Sirya. (various references) ประเทศซีเรีย. (various references) Suriye (syrian), Suríye. (various references) Сирія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | assyriis, coelesyriae, coelesyriam, Syria, syriae, syriam. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AnafananteV de thn kupron kai kataliponteV authn euwnumon epleomen eiV surian kai kathcqhmen eiV turon ekeise gar hn to ploion apofortizomenon ton gomon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum paruissemus autem Cypro et relinquentes eam ad sinistram navigabamus in Syriam et venimus Tyrum ibi enim navis erat expositura onus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne we apperiden to Cipre, we leften it at the left half, and seiliden in to Sirie, and camen to Tire. For there the schip schulde be vnchargid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then appered vnto vs Cyprus and we lefte it on the lefte honde and sayled vnto Syria and came vnto Tyre. For there the shyppe vnladed her burthen. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | Pamë nga larg Qipron dhe e lamë në të majtë, vazhduam lundrimin për në Siri dhe dolëm në Tiro, sepse atje anija kishte për të shkarkuar. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakita na namo ang Cipro, sa paghisaylo namo niini dapit sa wala, milawig kami padulong sa Siria ug midunggo sa Tiro; kay didto ang sakayan pagahaw-asan man sa mga karga. |
| Croatian | Kad bijasmo napomol Cipru, ostavismo ga slijeva jedreæi prema Siriji. Pristadosmo u Tiru jer je ondje laða imala iskrcati tovar. |
| Danish | Men da vi havde fået Kypern i Sigte og vare komne den forbi til venstre for os, sejlede vi til Synen og landede i Tyrus; thi der skulde Skibet losse sin Ladning. |
| Dutch | En als wij Cyprus in het gezicht gekregen, en dat aan de linker hand gelaten hadden, voeren wij naar Syrie, en kwamen aan te Tyrus; want het schip zoude aldaar den last ontladen. |
| Finnish | Ja kun Kypro rupesi näkymään ja oli jäänyt meistä vasemmalle, purjehdimme Syyriaan ja nousimme maihin Tyyrossa; siellä näet laivan oli määrä purkaa lastinsa. |
| German | Als wir aber Zypern ansichtig wurden, ließen wir es zur linken Hand und schifften nach Syrien und kamen an zu Tyrus; denn daselbst sollte das Schiff die Ware niederlegen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan berlayar sampai kami melihat pulau Siprus di sebelah kiri kami; tetapi kami berlayar terus menuju Siria. Kami mendarat di Tirus, sebab di situ kapal yang kami tumpangi itu akan membongkar muatannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah Kiperus kelihatan kepada kami di sebelah kiri, lalu berlayarlah kami ke benua Syam serta turun di negeri Tsur; karena di situlah kapal itu memunggah muatannya. |
| Italian | Giunti in vista di Cipro, ce la lasciammo a sinistra e, continuando a navigare verso la Siria, giungemmo a Tiro, dove la nave doveva scaricare. |
| Latvian | Bet kad ieraudzîjâm Kipru un atstâjâm to pa kreisi, braucâm uz Sîriju un nonâcâm Tirâ, jo tur kuìim bija jâizkrauj krava. |
| Maori | A ka kitea Kaiperu, ka mahue ake i te taha ki maui, ka rere atu matou ki Hiria, a ka u ki Taira: hei reira hoki te kaipuke ruke ai i tona utanga. |
| Norwegian | Efterat vi hadde fått Kypern i sikte og latt den efter oss på venstre hånd, seilte vi til Syria og løp inn til Tyrus; for der skulde skibet losse sin ladning. |
| Portuguese | E quando avistamos Chipre, deixando-a á esquerda, navegamos para a Síria e chegamos a Tiro, pois o navio havia de ser descarregado ali. |
| Rumanian | Am trecut prin faya insulei Cipru, am lqsat -o la stknga, wi ne-am urmat drumul spre Siria; apoi ne-am dat jos kn Tir, unde avea sq se descarce corabia. |
| Shuar | Nui wésar Chipri nunkaka Wáinkiamji. Chíprikia menanmaani aa ikiuakur Sírianam jeamji. Kánuka Tiru péprunam Jeá pujustiniuyi, Káarak Núkap ikiuktin akui. Tuma asamtai iisha Tírunam jear kanunmaya Jíinkir péprunam wayamji. |
| Spanish | Después de avistar Chipre y de dejarla a la izquierda, navegábamos a Siria y arribamos a Tiro, porque el barco debía descargar allí. |
| Swahili | Baada ya kufika mahali ambapo tuliweza kuona Kupro, tulipitia upande wake wa kusini tukaelekea Siria. Tulitia nanga katika mji wa Tiro ambapo ile meli ilikuwa ipakuliwe shehena yake. |
| Swedish | Och när vi hade fått Cypern i sikte, lämnade vi denna ö på vänster hand och seglade till Syrien och landade vid Tyrus; ty där skulle skeppet lossa sin last. |
| Uma | Bula pomako' -kai toe, mpohilo-kai lewuto' Siprus hi mali ngki'ii-kai, tapi' kaliliu moto-ka-kaiwo, rata hi tana' Siria. Mana'u-makai ngkai kapal hi ngata Tirus, apa' kapal toe kana rapopana'u kenia-na hi ree. |
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Misspellings | |
"Syria" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cryiia, Escriva, Ryrie, Serica, Seyrig, Sgriob, Sidia, Sidiya, Smyrnium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: airs, airy, rays, rias, ryas, sari. | |
-2 letters: air, ais, ars, ays, ras, ray, ria, rya, say, sir, sri, yar. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, as, ay, is, si, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: riyals, yairds. | |
+2 letters: airways, dysuria, grayish, myriads, myricas, ostiary, pirayas, piscary, pyurias, raisiny, satyric, satyrid, scarify, scarily, syringa, trysail, varsity, yttrias. | |
+3 letters: acrylics, advisory, airplays, artistry, asperity, basilary, bestiary, bilayers, boyarism, brassily, cramoisy, crayfish, cyprians, dialyser, disarray, dysurias, emissary, fairways, fairyism, frayings, garishly, grassily, grayfish, greasily, hayricks, hayrides, haywires, hysteria, inlayers, isocracy, janisary, jaybirds, midyears, misandry, miscarry, mislayer, papistry, pyralids, pyramids, pyrexias, railways, rakishly, rallyist, ramosity, resaying, royalism, royalist, sacristy, sailorly, salivary, sanitary, satyrids, savorily, scarcity, seminary, serially, shipyard, smarmily, solidary, solitary, spagyric, sparkily, sparsity, spirally, spraying, stairway, stingray, straitly, stratify, straying, sybarite, synergia, syringas, syrphian, tanistry, trashily, trysails, varnishy, vespiary, vestiary, virelays, whiprays, wireways, yearlies, yeastier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Cities | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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