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The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
William Hague

Meaning of "Syrian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SYRIAN

Syrian  [ˈsɪrɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYRIAN

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Syrian can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SYRIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Syrian

Syrian people

The Syrian people are the inhabitants of the Syrian Arab Republic and their ancestors who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry. The term also refers to the citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic, regardless of ancestry, mother tongue, ethnic identity, or culture. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years. The Syrian republic has a population of 17,951,639, including ethnic minorities mainly Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Turkmens, Circassians and Greeks. the dominant racial group is Syrians descendants of the old indigenous peoples who mixed with Arabs and identify themselves as such in addition to ethnic Aramean Syriacs. The Syrian diaspora consists of over 18 million people of Syrian ancestry who emigrated to North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Africa. Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the longest continuously-inhabited cities in the world.

Definition of Syrian in the English dictionary

The first definition of Syrian in the dictionary is of, relating to, or characteristic of Syria, its people, or their dialect of Arabic. Other definition of Syrian is of or relating to Christians who belong to churches with Syriac liturgies. Syrian is also a native or inhabitant of Syria.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SYRIAN


Adrian
ˈeɪdrɪən
Assyrian
əˈsɪrɪən
Austrian
ˈɒstrɪən
Bulgarian
bʌlˈɡɛərɪən
fustilirian
ˌfʌstɪˈlɪrɪən
fustillirian
ˌfʌstɪˈlɪrɪən
historian
hɪˈstɔːrɪən
humanitarian
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪən
Hungarian
hʌŋˈɡɛərɪən
librarian
laɪˈbrɛərɪən
Marian
ˈmɛərɪən
Nigerian
naɪˈdʒɪərɪən
Osirian
əʊˈsaɪrɪən
ovarian
əʊˈveərɪən
papyrian
pəˈpɪrɪən
Tyrian
ˈtɪrɪən
vegetarian
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪən
Victorian
vɪkˈtɔːrɪən
virion
ˈvaɪrɪən
Zyrian
ˈzɪrɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SYRIAN

Syr Darya
Syr.
Syracuse
Syrah
syrette
Syria
Syriac
syringa
syringe
syringeal
syringes
syringitis
syringomyelia
syringomyelic
syringotomy
syrinx
syrphid
syrtis
Syrtis Major
Syrtis Minor

WORDS THAT END LIKE SYRIAN

Algerian
Arian
authoritarian
barbarian
Bavarian
Brian
Dorian
durian
equestrian
Gregorian
Illyrian
Liberian
libertarian
pedestrian
presbyterian
sectarian
Siberian
Silurian
Valkyrian
veterinarian

Synonyms and antonyms of Syrian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Syrian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SYRIAN

Find out the translation of Syrian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Syrian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Syrian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

叙利亚的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sirio
570 millions of speakers

English

Syrian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सीरिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Syrian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сирийский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sírio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিরিয়ার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

syrien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Syria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

syrisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シリアの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시리아의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong Siria
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc nước/người Syria
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிரிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सीरियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Suriye
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

siriano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

syryjski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сирійський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sirian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συριακός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Siriese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

syrisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

syrisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Syrian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SYRIAN»

The term «Syrian» is very widely used and occupies the 8.340 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SYRIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Syrian

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10 QUOTES WITH «SYRIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Syrian.
1
Elliott Abrams
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
2
Bashar al-Assad
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
3
Timothy Garton Ash
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
4
Robert Fisk
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
5
Robert Fisk
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
6
Robert Fisk
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.
7
Stephen Hadley
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
8
William Hague
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
9
Luke Harding
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
10
Rafik Hariri
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYRIAN»

Discover the use of Syrian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Syrian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Syrian Rebellion
He was wrong. This book tells how a proud people finally came to demand something more than a drab regime of dictatorship and plunder.
Fouad Ajami, 2012
2
Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design
Authors Malu Halasa and Rana Salam have brought together a diverse and dramatic collection of photography and writing, including the voices of Syrian women, celebrating this little-known niche of fashion design in all its playful glory.
Malu Halasa, 2008
3
A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic: English-Arabic
A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic provides Syrian terms for the language spoken in everyday life by Muslims primarily in Damascus, but understandable throughout Syria as well as in the broader linguistic areas of present-day Lebanon, Jordan, ...
Karl Stowasser, Moukhtar Ani, 2004
4
The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
In this work, Michael Provence uses newly released secret colonial intelligence sources, neglected memoirs, and popular memory to tell the story of the revolt from the perspective of its participants.
Michael Provence, 2009
5
Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns
In this volume is a translation of a collection of hymns of Christ, composed by Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373), the most famous and prolific of the Fathers of the Syriac-speaking Church.
Saint Ephraem (Syrus), 1989
6
Syrian Christians Under Islam: The First Thousand Years
These papers from the Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on "Arab Christianity in Greater Syria in the pre-Ottoman Period" portray aspects of the distinctive character developed by Arab Christianity as it endeavoured to preserve its ...
David Richard Thomas, 2001
7
The Origins of Syrian Nationhood: Histories, Pioneers and ...
A valuable addition to the present scholarship on nationalism in the Middle East, this book will be of interest to many professionals as well as to scholars of history, Middle East studies and political science.
Adel Beshara, 2012
8
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient
This collection bears witness to the profound contributions women made to early Chistianity: their various roles, their leadership inside and outside the church structure, and their power to influence others.
‎1987
9
Syrian Ismailism: The Ever Living Line of the Imamate, AD ...
This book is a welcome addition to an all too scant literature on the Ismaili communities of Syria.
Nasseh Ahmad Mirza, 1997
10
Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early ...
"Between Arab and White "focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present.
Sarah Gualtieri, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYRIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Syrian is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Syria: Isis advance on Aleppo aided by Assad regime air strikes, US …
A man evacuates a child from a building in Aleppo following a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces. A US embassy tweet said: 'We have ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
2
Islamic State 'seizes key Syria-Iraq border crossing'
Islamic State militants have seized the last Syrian government-controlled border crossing between Syria and Iraq, a Syria monitoring group says. Government ... «BBC News, May 15»
3
Exclusive: Weapons inspectors find undeclared sarin and VX traces …
In 2013, the United States threatened military intervention against Syria's government ... in Ghouta, a rebel-controlled suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. «Reuters, May 15»
4
CSI Refugee Center Expects Influx of Syrians
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard said during a recent visit to Lebanon that between 1,000 and 2,000 Syrian refugees will be brought to the U.S. by ... «Twin Falls Times-News, Apr 15»
5
An Eroding Syrian Army Points to Strain
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian Army has suffered a string of defeats from re-energized insurgents and is struggling to replenish its ranks as even ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
6
Syria: Chemicals Used in Idlib Attacks
Remnants of refrigerant canister found by Syria Civil Defence among the remnants of a barrel bomb dropped by Syrian government forces on Sarmin on March ... «Human Rights Watch, Apr 15»
7
Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route
The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
8
US to Give Some Syria Rebels Ability to Call Airstrikes
WASHINGTON—The U.S. has decided to provide pickup trucks equipped with machine guns and radios for calling in U.S. airstrikes to some moderate Syrian ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
9
Needs soar as number of Syrian refugees tops 3 million
This Syrian family used to lead a happy life in Aleppo. Now the parents and children sleep on the streets of Istanbul in Turkey. They are among the 3 million ... «UNHCR, Aug 14»
10
Syria: The story of the conflict
More than 200,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil ... «BBC News, Mar 14»

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