África

See also: africa, Africa, áfrica, africà, and Àfrica

Asturian

Proper noun

África f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Galician

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

África f

  1. Africa (a continent)

Coordinate terms

(continents) continente; África, América (Norteamérica/América do Norte, Suramérica/América do Sur), Antártida, Asia, Europa, Oceanía (Category: gl:Continents)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.fɾi.kɐ/

  • Hyphenation: Á‧fri‧ca

Proper noun

África f

  1. Africa (a continent)
  2. (historical, Ancient Rome) Africa (a province of the Roman Empire; modern Tunisia and western Libya)

Coordinate terms

(continents) continente; África, América (América do Norte, América Central, América do Sul), Antártica/Antártida, Ásia, Europa, Oceânia/Oceania (Category: pt:Continents) [edit]

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈafɾika/ [ˈa.fɾi.ka]
  • Rhymes: -afɾika
  • Syllabification: Á‧fri‧ca

Proper noun

África f

  1. Africa (a continent)
  2. a female given name from Latin shortened from María (de) África, an epithet of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Africa

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el África, un África
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

See also

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