Singapore

English

Etymology

From Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) +‎ पुर (pura, “city”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪŋəˈpɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋəpoɹ/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋəpɔː/, /ˈsɪŋʌ-/
• (dated) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡəpɔː(ɹ)/, /sɪŋɡəˈpɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Singapore

2. An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony. Official name: Republic of Singapore.

Synonyms

• Fine City (informal)
• Lion City (informal)
• S'pore (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• Singaporean
• Singaporeanization
• Singaporeanize
• Singapore English
• Singapore grip
• Singapore Inc
• Singapore-on-Thames
• Singapore-on-the-Thames
• Singapore-upon-Thames
• Singlish
• S'pore

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: シンガポール (Shingapōru)

Translations

an island and city-state in Southeast Asia

• Afrikaans: Singapoer
• Albanian: Singapor m, Singapori m (definite)
• Amharic: ሲንጋፖር (singapor)
• Arabic: سِنْغَافُورَة (ar) f (sinḡāfūra)

  Hijazi Arabic: سِنْقافورة f (singāfōra, singāfūra)

• Armenian: Սինգապուր (Singapur)
• Assamese: ছিংগাপুৰ (siṅgapur)
• Asturian: Singapur (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Sinqapur (az)
• Bashkir: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Belarusian: Сінгапу́р m (Sinhapúr), Сынгапу́р m (Synhapúr) (Taraškievica), Сынґапу́р m (Syngapúr) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সিঙ্গাপুর (bn) (śiṅgapur)
• Breton: Singapour
• Bulgarian: Сингапу́р (bg) m (Singapúr)
• Burmese: စင်ကာပူ (cangkapu), စင်္ကာပူ (cangkapu)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Сінґапу́р m (Singapúr)
• Catalan: Singapur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新加坡 (san¹ gaa^1-3 bo¹, san¹ gaa^1-3 po¹), 星加坡 (sing¹ gaa^1-3 bo¹)

  Eastern Min: 新嘉波 (Sĭng-gă-pŏ̤)

  Hakka: 新加坡 (Sîn-kâ-phô, Sîn-kâ-po, Sìn-kà-phô)

  Hokkien: 新加坡 (Sin-ka-pho)

  Mandarin: 新加坡 (zh) (Xīnjiāpō), 新國 / 新国 (Xīnguó)

  Wu: 新加坡 (¹shin-ka-phu)

• Czech: Singapur (cs) m
• Danish: Singapore n
• Dhivehi: ސިންގަޕޫރު (sin̊gapūru)
• Dutch: Singapore (nl) n
• Esperanto: Singapuro (eo)
• Estonian: Singapur (et)
• Farefare: Sɩŋapɔra
• Faroese: Singapor n
• Finnish: Singapore (fi)
• French: Singapour (fr) m
• Friulian: Singapôr
• Galician: Singapur (gl)
• Georgian: სინგაპური (ka) (singaṗuri)
• German: Singapur (de) n
• Greek: Σιγκαπούρη (el) f (Sigkapoúri)
• Gujarati: સિંગાપુર (siṅgāpur)
• Hausa: Singapur
• Hawaiian: Sinapoa
• Hebrew: סִינְגָּפּוּר (he) (singapúr)
• Hindi: सिंगापुर (hi) m (siṅgāpur)
• Hungarian: Szingapúr (hu)
• Icelandic: Singapúr (is) n
• Ido: Singapur (io)
• Indonesian: Singapura (id)
• Interlingua: Singapur, Singapore
• Irish: Singeapór m
• Italian: Singapore (it) f
• Japanese: シンガポール (ja) (Shingapōru) (新嘉坡 (ja) (シンガポール, Shingapōru)), 昭南 (しょうなん, Shōnan) (historical)
• Kannada: ಸಿಂಗಾಪುರ (kn) (siṅgāpura)
• Kazakh: Сингапур (kk) (Siñapur)
• Khmer: សិង្ហបុរី (km) (sənghaʼborəy), សាំងកាប៉ូ (sangkaapou)
• Korean: 싱가포르 (ko) (Singgaporeu)
• Kyrgyz: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Lao: ສິງກະໂປ (lo) (sing ka pō)
• Latvian: Singapūra (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Singapūras (lt) m
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧂᦂᦷᦔ (ṡiingk̇ṗo)
• Macedonian: Сингапур (mk) m (Singapur)
• Malay: Singapura (ms), Temasik (colloquial)

  Jawi: سيڠاڤورا (ms)

• Malayalam: സിംഗപ്പൂർ (siṅgappūṟ)
• Maltese: is-Singapor
• Maori: Hingapoa
• Marathi: सिंगापूर m (siṅgāpūr)
• Mingrelian: სინგაპური (singaṗuri)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Сингапур (Singapur)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠩᠭᠠᠫᠤᠷ (singɣapur)

• Navajo: Sį́ʼgaboo
• Nepali: सिङ्गापुर (siṅgāpura)
• Norman: Sîngapour m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Singapore (no) n

• Occitan: Singapor (oc) m
• Odia: ସିଙ୍ଗାପୁର (siṅgāpura)
• Paiwan: Singapura
• Pashto: سينگاپور m (singāpūr)
• Persian:

  Dari: سِینْگَاپُور (sīngāpūr), سَنْگَاپُور (sangāpūr)

  Iranian Persian: سَنْگاپور (sangâpur)

• Polish: Singapur (pl) m
• Portuguese: Singapura (pt) f, (obsolete) Cingapura (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਿੰਗਾਪੁਰ (pa) m (siṅgāpur)

• Romanian: Singapore (ro)
• Russian: Сингапу́р (ru) m (Singapúr)
• Samogitian: Singapūrs
• Sanskrit: सिंहपुर (sa) (siṃhá-pura)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱝᱜᱟᱯᱩᱨ (siṅgapur)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сѝнгапӯр m

  Roman: Sìngapūr (sh) m

• Sindhi: سنگاپور
• Sinhalese: සිංගප්පූරුව (si) (siṁgappūruwa)
• Slovak: Singapur m
• Slovene: Singapur (sl) m
• Spanish: Singapur (es) m
• Swedish: Singapore (sv) n
• Tagalog: Singgapur, Singapura
• Tajik: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் (ta) (ciṅkappūr)
• Tatar: Сингапур (Singapur)
• Telugu: సింగపూర్ (te) (siṅgapūr)
• Thai: สิงคโปร์ (th) (sǐng-ká-bpoo)
• Tibetan: སེང་ག་ཕོར (seng ga phor)
• Turkish: Singapur (tr)
• Turkmen: Singapur
• Ukrainian: Сінгапу́р (uk) m (Sinhapúr), Сингапу́р m (Synhapúr), Сінґапу́р m (Singapúr), Синґапу́р m (Syngapúr)
• Urdu: سِن٘گاپُور m (siṅgāpūr)
• Uyghur: سىنگاپور (sin'gapor)
• Uzbek: Singapur (uz)
• Vietnamese: Tân Gia Ba (新加坡), Xin-ga-po, Xing-ga-po, Sing (colloquial)
• Welsh: Singapôr
• Yiddish: סינגאַפּור (singapur)
• Yoruba: Singapo
• Zhuang: Sinhgyahboh

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• resoaping

Finnish

Etymology

From English Singapore, from Malay Singapura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋːɑpore/, [ˈs̠iŋːɑ̝ˌpo̞re̞]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation^(key): Sin‧ga‧po‧re

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)

Declension

Inflection of Singapore (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Singapore	—
genitive		Singaporen	—
partitive		Singaporea	—
illative		Singaporeen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Singapore	—
accusative	nom.	Singapore	—
	gen.	Singaporen
genitive		Singaporen	—
partitive		Singaporea	—
inessive		Singaporessa	—
elative		Singaporesta	—
illative		Singaporeen	—
adessive		Singaporella	—
ablative		Singaporelta	—
allative		Singaporelle	—
essive		Singaporena	—
translative		Singaporeksi	—
abessive		Singaporetta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Singapore (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Singaporeni — accusative nom. Singaporeni — gen. Singaporeni genitive Singaporeni — partitive Singaporeani — inessive Singaporessani — elative Singaporestani — illative Singaporeeni — adessive Singaporellani — ablative Singaporeltani — allative Singaporelleni — essive Singaporenani — translative Singaporekseni — abessive Singaporettani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Singaporesi — accusative nom. Singaporesi — gen. Singaporesi genitive Singaporesi — partitive Singaporeasi — inessive Singaporessasi — elative Singaporestasi — illative Singaporeesi — adessive Singaporellasi — ablative Singaporeltasi — allative Singaporellesi — essive Singaporenasi — translative Singaporeksesi — abessive Singaporettasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Singaporemme — accusative nom. Singaporemme — gen. Singaporemme genitive Singaporemme — partitive Singaporeamme — inessive Singaporessamme — elative Singaporestamme — illative Singaporeemme — adessive Singaporellamme — ablative Singaporeltamme — allative Singaporellemme — essive Singaporenamme — translative Singaporeksemme — abessive Singaporettamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Singaporenne — accusative nom. Singaporenne — gen. Singaporenne genitive Singaporenne — partitive Singaporeanne — inessive Singaporessanne — elative Singaporestanne — illative Singaporeenne — adessive Singaporellanne — ablative Singaporeltanne — allative Singaporellenne — essive Singaporenanne — translative Singaporeksenne — abessive Singaporettanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Singaporensa — accusative nom. Singaporensa — gen. Singaporensa genitive Singaporensa — partitive Singaporeaan Singaporeansa — inessive Singaporessaan Singaporessansa — elative Singaporestaan Singaporestansa — illative Singaporeensa — adessive Singaporellaan Singaporellansa — ablative Singaporeltaan Singaporeltansa — allative Singaporelleen Singaporellensa — essive Singaporenaan Singaporenansa — translative Singaporekseen Singaporeksensa — abessive Singaporettaan Singaporettansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• singaporelainen

 

French

Proper noun

Singapore ?

1. Obsolete form of Singapour.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin.ɡaˈpo.re/
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: Sin‧ga‧pó‧re

Proper noun

Singapore m

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)

Derived terms

• singaporiano

Anagrams

• riesponga, saprogeni, spaginerò, sporigena, spregiano

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪn.ɡaˈpɔː.rɛ/

Proper noun

Is-Singapore m

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony; official name: Repubblika ta’ Singapore)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)

Related terms

• singaporer
• singaporsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Singapore

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)

Related terms

• singaporar
• singaporsk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Singapore n (genitive Singapores)

1. Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)

Related terms

• singaporian
• singaporiansk
• singaporianska

Further reading

• Singapore in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH