Africa

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• Canada, Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə/
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• /ˈæf.ɹə.kə/ weak vowel merger
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• General-South-African: /ɛfrɨkə/
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• rhymes with -æfɹɪkə
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• South-Asia: /ˈɑːfrɪkɑː/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 F R AH0 K AA0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AE1 F R IH0 K AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 3: AE1 F ER0 K AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Latin Āfer Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin āfricus Latin āfrica Latin Āfricabor. Old French Affriquebor. Middle English Affrike English Africa Inherited from Middle English Affrike, from Old French Affrique, Affrike, from Latin Āfrica, from Āfrī, singular Āfer (inhabitant of the country of Carthage), in turn either from: * The Punic or Phoenician word 𐤏𐤐𐤓 (ʿpr /⁠ʿafar⁠/, “dust”), from Proto-Semitic *ʕapar- (“dust, soil”), which has cognates in other Semitic languages. * The Berber word ifri (“cave”), plural ifran, in reference to cave dwellers of Tunisia (see Tataouine). Folk etymologies include: * Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + φρίκη f (phríkē), meaning "without cold" * Latin aprica (“sunny”).

211 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: Afrika — continent
• Afrikaans: Afrika — continent
• Akan: Afrika — continent
• Albanian: Afrikë — continent
• Albanian: Afrika — continent
• Amharic: አፍሪቃ (ʾäfriḳa) — continent
• Amharic: አፍሪካ (ʾäfrika) — continent
• Arabic: أَفْرِيقِيَا (ʔafrīqiyā) — continent
• Arabic: إِفْرِيقِيَا (ʔifrīqiyā) — continent
• Arabic: أفريقيا (ʔafrīgya) — continent
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦܪܝܼܩܵܐ (Āfrīqa) — continent
• Armenian: Աֆրիկա — continent
• Asturian: África — continent
• Azerbaijani: Afrika — continent
• Bambara: Afrika — continent
• Bashkir: Африка — continent
• Basque: Afrika — continent
• Belarusian: А́фрыка (Áfryka) — continent
• Bengali: আফ্রিকা (aphrika) — continent
• Betawi: Aprika — continent
• Brahui: Afríká — continent
• Breton: Afrika — continent
• Bulgarian: А́фрика (Áfrika) — continent
• Burmese: အာဖရိက (ahpa.ri.ka.) — continent
• Carpathian Rusyn: А́фрика (Áfryka) — continent
• Catalan: Àfrica — continent
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵔⴽⴰ (taferka) — continent
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⵔⵉⵇⵜ (tafriqt) — continent
• Chechen: Африка — continent
• Chechen: Африк (Afrik) — continent
• Cherokee: ᎬᎿᎨᏍᏛ (gvhnagesdv) — continent
• Chichewa: Afirika — continent
• Chinese Cantonese: 非洲 (fei1 zau1) — continent
• Eastern Min Chinese: 非洲 (Hĭ-ciŭ) — continent
• Hakka Chinese: 非洲 (Fî-chû) — continent
• Chinese: 非洲 (Hui-chiu) — continent
• Chinese Mandarin: 非洲 (Fēizhōu) — continent
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿非利加 (Āfēilìjiā) — continent
• Wu Chinese: 非洲 (1fi-tseu) — continent
• West Circassian: Африкэ (Afrikɛ) — continent
• Cornish: Afrika — continent
• Corsican: Africa — continent
• Crimean Tatar: Afrika — continent
• Czech: Afrika — continent
• Danish: Afrika — continent
• Dhivehi: އެފްރިކާ (efrikā) — continent
• Dinka: Apirïka — continent
• Dutch: Afrika — continent
• Dzongkha: ཨཕ་རི་ཀ (aph ri ka) — continent
• Esperanto: Afriko — continent
• Estonian: Aafrika — continent
• Faroese: Afrika — continent
• Finnish: Afrikka — continent
• French: Afrique — continent
• Old French: Affrique — continent
• Old French: Affrike — continent
• West-Frisian: Afrika — continent
• Friulian: Afriche — continent
• Galician: África — continent
• Georgian: აფრიკა (apriḳa) — continent
• German: Afrika — continent
• Bavarian German: Afrika — continent
• Greek: Αφρική (Afrikí) — continent
• Ancient Greek: Ἀφρική (Aphrikḗ) — continent
• Ancient Greek: Λιβύη (Libúē) — continent
• Greenlandic: Afrika — continent
• Gujarati: આફ્રિકા (āphrikā) — continent
• Haitian Creole: Afrik — continent
• Hausa: Afirka — continent
• Hawaiian: ʻApelika — continent
• Hebrew: אַפְרִיקָה (áfrika) — continent
• Hindi: अफ़्रीका (afrīkā) — continent
• Hungarian: Afrika — continent
• Icelandic: Afríka — continent
• Ido: Afrika — continent
• Igbo: Eluàlà — continent
• Ingrian: Afrikka — continent
• Irish: an Afraic — continent
• Middle Irish: Afraicc — continent
• Old Irish: Afraicc — continent
• Italian: Africa — continent
• Japanese: アフリカ (Afurika) — continent
• Japanese: 阿弗利加 (Afurika) — continent
• Javanese: Afrika — continent
• Kabyle: Tafrikt — continent
• Kalmyk: Априк (Aprik) — continent
• Kannada: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ (āphrikā) — continent
• Karakalpak: Afrika — continent
• Kashmiri: اَفریٖقہ (afrīqh) — continent
• Kashubian: Afrika — continent
• Kazakh: Африка — continent
• Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិក (ʼaafrɨk) — continent
• Kongo: Afelika — continent
• Kongo: Afrika — continent
• Kongo: Katiopa — continent
• Korean: 아프리카 (Apeurika) — continent
• Northern Kurdish: Efrîqa — continent
• Kyrgyz: Африка — continent
• Ladino: Afrika — continent
• Lao: ອາຟຣິກກາ (ʼāp rik kā) — continent
• Lao: ອາຟຣິກາ (ʼāp ri kā) — continent
• Lao: ອາຝະລິກາ (ʼā fa li kā) — continent
• Lao: ອາຟຣິກ (ʼāp rik) — continent
• Lao: ອາຟະລິກ (ʼā fa lik) — continent
• Latin: Āfrica — continent
• Latin: Libya — continent
• Latvian: Āfrika — continent
• Lingala: Afríka — continent
• Lithuanian: Afrika — continent
• Lü: ᦵᦝᧀᧈᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ (foey1tsoew1) — continent
• Macedonian: Африка — continent
• Malagasy: Afrika — continent
• Malay: Afrika — continent
• Malayalam: ആഫ്രിക്ക (āphrikka) — continent
• Maltese: Afrika — continent
• Manx: Yn Affrick — continent
• Māori: Āwherika — continent
• Marathi: आफ्रिका (āphrikā) — continent
• Mauritian Creole: Lafrik — continent
• Mongolian: Африк (Afrik) — continent
• Mongolian: ᠠᠹᠷᠢᠺᠠ (afrika) — continent
• Moore: Afriki — continent
• Navajo: Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah — continent
• Southern Ndebele: Afrika — continent
• Nepali: अफ्रिका (aphrikā) — continent
• Northern Sotho: Afrika — continent
• Norwegian Bokmål: Afrika — continent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Afrika — continent
• Occitan: Africa — continent
• Odia: ଆଫ୍ରିକା (āphrikā) — continent
• Church Slavic: Афріка — continent
• Church Slavic: Ⰰⱇⱃⰻⰽⰰ — continent
• Old English: Affrica — continent
• Ossetian: Африкӕ (Afrikæ) — continent
• Pangasinan: Afrika — continent
• Papiamentu: Afrika — continent
• Pashto: افريقا (afrīqā) — continent
• Persian: آفْرِیقَا (āfrīqā) — continent
• Dari: آفْرِیقَا (āfrīqā) — continent
• Iranian Persian: آفْریقا (âfriġâ) — continent
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afreka — continent
• Plautdietsch: Afrika (nds) — continent
• Pohnpeian: Aprika — continent
• Polish: Afryka — continent
• Portuguese: África — continent
• Punjabi: ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ (afarīkā) — continent
• Romanian: Africa — continent
• Russian: А́фрика (Áfrika) — continent
• Rwanda-Rundi: Afurika — continent
• Northern Sami: Afrihkká — continent
• Sanskrit: अफ्रीका (aphrīkā) — continent
• Sardinian: Afrika — continent
• Scottish Gaelic: Afraga — continent
• Serbo-Croatian: А̀фрика — continent
• Serbo-Croatian: Àfrika — continent
• Silesian: Afrika — continent
• Sindhi: آفريڪا (āfrekā) — continent
• Sinhalese: අප්රිකාව (aprikāwa) — continent
• Slovak: Afrika — continent
• Slovene: Áfrika — continent
• Somali: Afrika — continent
• Lower Sorbian: Afrika — continent
• Upper Sorbian: Afrika — continent
• Sotho: Afrika — continent
• Spanish: África — continent
• Sranan Tongo: Afrika — continent
• Sundanese: Afrika — continent
• Swahili: Afrika — continent
• Swazi: Afrika — continent
• Swedish: Afrika — continent
• Tagalog: Aprika — continent
• Tajik: Африқо (Afriqo) — continent
• Tamil: ஆப்பிரிக்கா (āppirikkā) — continent
• Tatar: Африка (Afriqa) — continent
• Telugu: ఆఫ్రికా (āphrikā) — continent
• Thai: แอฟริกา (ɛ́p-frí-gaa) — continent
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཧྥེ་རི་ཁ (a hphe ri kha) — continent
• Tigrinya: ኣፍሪቃ (ʾafriḳa) — continent
• Tsonga: Afrika — continent
• Tswana: Aforika — continent
• Turkish: Afrika — continent
• Turkmen: Afrika — continent
• Ukrainian: А́фрика (Áfryka) — continent
• Urdu: اَفْرِیقَہ (afrīqa) — continent
• Urdu: اَفْرِیقا (afrīqā) — continent
• Uyghur: ئافرىقا (afriqa) — continent
• Uzbek: Afrika — continent
• Vai: ꕉꔱꔸꕪ (Áfíríka) — continent
• Venda: Afurika — continent
• Veps: Afrik — continent
• Vietnamese: Châu Phi — continent
• Vietnamese: Phi Châu — continent
• Vietnamese: Phi — continent
• Volapük: Frikop — continent
• Volapük: Fikop — continent
• Volapük: Filop — continent
• Võro: Afriga — continent
• Walloon: Afrike — continent
• Waray-Waray: Aprika — continent
• Welsh: (yr) Affrica — continent
• Wolaytta: Afrikkaa — continent
• Wolof: Afrig — continent
• Xhosa: i-Afrika — continent
• Yiddish: אַפֿריקע (afrike) — continent
• Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Adúláwọ̀ — continent
• Yoruba: Áfíríkà — continent
• Zazaki: Afrika (diq) — continent
• Zhuang: Feihcouh — continent
• Zulu: i-Afrika — continent
• Finnish: Africa — historical: province of the Roman Empire
• Marathi: आफ्रिका (āphrikā) — historical: province of the Roman Empire