Africa

//ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə//

Synonyms for "africa" (19 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Proper Noun(1 words)
dark continent

Strong matches (6)

Noun(1 words)
dark continent

Related words (9)

Related word relations

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12 relation types

More general

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Related terms

5 entries

dbpedia capital

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derived

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Showing 16 of 29 words.

has a

7 entries

has context

1 entries

has property

1 entries

holonym

1 entries

is a

8 entries

meronym

110 entries

Showing 16 of 110 words.

part of

1 entries

related to

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Translations

207 translations across 180 languages.

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Acehnese

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Adyghe

1 entries
  • Африкэ name (continent)

Afrikaans

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Akan

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Albanian

2 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)
  • Afrikë name (continent)

Amharic

2 entries
  • አፍሪቃ name (continent)
  • አፍሪካ name (continent)

Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • Λιβύη name (continent)
  • Ἀφρική name (continent)

Arabic

3 entries
  • أفريقيا name (continent)
  • أَفْرِيقِيَا name (continent)
  • إِفْرِيقِيَا name (continent)

Armenian

1 entries
  • Աֆրիկա name (continent)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

1 entries
  • ܐܲܦܪܝܼܩܵܐ name (continent)

Asturian

1 entries
  • África name (continent)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Bambara

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • Африка name (continent)

Basque

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Bavarian German

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • А́фрыка name (continent)

Bengali

1 entries
  • আফ্রিকা name (continent)

Betawi

1 entries
  • Aprika name (continent)

Brahui

1 entries
  • Afríká name (continent)

Breton

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • А́фрика name (continent)

Burmese

1 entries
  • အာဖရိက name (continent)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries
  • А́фрика name (continent)

Catalan

1 entries
  • Àfrica name (continent)

Central Atlas Tamazight

2 entries
  • ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵔⴽⴰ name (continent)
  • ⵜⴰⴼⵔⵉⵇⵜ name (continent)

Chechen

2 entries
  • Африк name (continent)
  • Африка name (continent)

Cherokee

1 entries
  • ᎬᎿᎨᏍᏛ name (continent)

Chichewa

1 entries
  • Afirika name (continent)

Chinese

1 entries
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 阿非利加 name (continent)
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Church Slavic

2 entries
  • Афріка name (continent)
  • Ⰰⱇⱃⰻⰽⰰ name (continent)

Cornish

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Corsican

1 entries
  • Africa name (continent)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Czech

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Danish

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Dari

1 entries
  • آفْرِیقَا name (continent)

Dhivehi

1 entries
  • އެފްރިކާ name (continent)

Dinka

1 entries
  • Apirïka name (continent)

Dutch

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Dzongkha

1 entries
  • ཨཕ་རི་ཀ name (continent)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • Afriko name (continent)

Estonian

1 entries
  • Aafrika name (continent)

Faroese

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Finnish

2 entries
  • Africa name (historical: province of the Roman Empire)
  • Afrikka name (continent)

French

1 entries
  • l’Afrique name (continent)

Friulian

1 entries
  • Afriche name (continent)

Galician

1 entries
  • África name (continent)

Georgian

1 entries
  • აფრიკა name (continent)

German

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Greek

1 entries
  • Αφρική name (continent)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Gujarati

1 entries
  • આફ્રિકા name (continent)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Hausa

1 entries
  • Afirka name (continent)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • ʻApelika name (continent)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • אַפְרִיקָה name (continent)

Hindi

1 entries
  • अफ़्रीका name (continent)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • Afríka name (continent)

Ido

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Igbo

1 entries
  • Eluàlà name (continent)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • Afrikka name (continent)

Iranian Persian

1 entries
  • آفْریقا name (continent)

Irish

1 entries
  • an Afraic name (continent)

Italian

1 entries
  • Africa name (continent)

Japanese

2 entries
  • アフリカ name (continent)
  • 阿弗利加 name (continent)

Javanese

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Kabyle

1 entries
  • Tafrikt name (continent)

Kalmyk

1 entries
  • Априк name (continent)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ name (continent)

Karakalpak

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Kashmiri

1 entries
  • اَفریٖقہ name (continent)

Kashubian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • Африка name (continent)

Khmer

1 entries
  • អាហ្វ្រិក name (continent)

Kongo

3 entries
  • Afelika name (continent)
  • Afrika name (continent)
  • Katiopa name (continent)

Korean

1 entries
  • 아프리카 name (continent)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • Африка name (continent)

Ladino

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Lao

4 entries
  • ອາຝະລິກາ name (continent)
  • ອາຟຣິກ name (continent)
  • ອາຟຣິກກາ name (continent)
  • ອາຟຣິກາ name (continent)

Latin

2 entries
  • Libya name (continent)
  • Āfrica name (continent)

Latvian

1 entries
  • Āfrika name (continent)

Lingala

1 entries
  • Afríka name (continent)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Lü

1 entries
  • ᦵᦝᧀᧈᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ name (continent)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • Африка name (continent)

Malagasy

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Malay

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • ആഫ്രിക്ക name (continent)

Maltese

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Manx

1 entries
  • Yn Affrick name (continent)

Marathi

2 entries
  • आफ्रिका name (continent)
  • आफ्रिका name (historical: province of the Roman Empire)

Middle Irish

1 entries
  • Afraicc name (continent)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • Африк name (continent)
  • ᠠᠹᠷᠢᠺᠠ name (continent)

Moore

1 entries
  • Afriki name (continent)

Māori

1 entries
  • Āwherika name (continent)

Navajo

1 entries
  • Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah name (continent)

Nepali

1 entries
  • अफ्रिका name (continent)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • Efrîqa name (continent)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • Afrihkká name (continent)

Northern Sotho

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Northwestern Ojibwa

1 entries
  • Makadewiiyaas-gichi-aki name (continent)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Occitan

1 entries
  • Africa name (continent)

Odia

1 entries
  • ଆଫ୍ରିକା name (continent)

Old English

1 entries
  • Affrica name (continent)

Old French

2 entries
  • Affrike name (continent)
  • Affrique name (continent)

Old Irish

1 entries
  • Afraicc name (continent)

Ossetian

1 entries
  • Африкӕ name (continent)

Pangasinan

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Papiamentu

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Pashto

1 entries
  • افريقا name (continent)

Persian

1 entries
  • آفْرِیقَا name (continent)

Pitcairn-Norfolk

1 entries
  • Afreka name (continent)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Afrika (nds) name (continent)

Polish

1 entries
  • Afryka name (continent)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • África name (continent)

Punjabi

1 entries
  • ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ name (continent)

Romanian

1 entries
  • Africa name (continent)

Russian

1 entries
  • А́фрика name (continent)

Rwanda-Rundi

1 entries
  • Afurika name (continent)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • अफ्रीका name (continent)

Sardinian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • Afraga name (continent)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • Àfrika name (continent)
  • А̀фрика name (continent)

Silesian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Sindhi

1 entries
  • آفريڪا name (continent)

Sinhalese

1 entries
  • අප්රිකාව name (continent)

Slovak

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Slovene

1 entries
  • Áfrika name (continent)

Somali

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Sotho

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Southern Ndebele

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Spanish

1 entries
  • África name (continent)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Sundanese

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Swahili

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Swazi

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Swedish

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • Aprika name (continent)

Tajik

1 entries
  • Африқо name (continent)

Tamil

1 entries
  • ஆப்பிரிக்கா name (continent)

Tatar

1 entries
  • Африка name (continent)

Telugu

1 entries
  • ఆఫ్రికా name (continent)

Thai

1 entries
  • แอฟริกา name (continent)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • ཨ་ཧྥེ་རི་ཁ name (continent)

Tigrinya

1 entries
  • ኣፍሪቃ name (continent)

Tsonga

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Tswana

1 entries
  • Aforika name (continent)

Turkish

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • А́фрика name (continent)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Urdu

2 entries
  • اَفْرِیقا name (continent)
  • اَفْرِیقَہ name (continent)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • ئافرىقا name (continent)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Vai

1 entries
  • ꕉꔱꔸꕪ name (continent)

Venda

1 entries
  • Afurika name (continent)

Veps

1 entries
  • Afrik name (continent)

Vietnamese

3 entries
  • Châu Phi name (continent)
  • Phi name (continent)
  • Phi Châu name (continent)

Volapük

2 entries
  • Fikop name (continent)
  • Frikop name (continent)

Võro

1 entries
  • Afriga name (continent)

Walloon

1 entries
  • Afrike name (continent)

Waray-Waray

1 entries
  • Aprika name (continent)

Welsh

1 entries
  • (yr) Affrica name (continent)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • Afrika name (continent)

Wolof

1 entries
  • Afrig name (continent)

Wu Chinese

1 entries
  • 非洲 name (continent)

Xhosa

1 entries
  • i-Afrika name (continent)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • אַפֿריקע name (continent)

Yoruba

2 entries
  • Ilẹ̀ Adúláwọ̀ name (continent)
  • Áfíríkà name (continent)

Zazaki

1 entries
  • Afrika (diq) name (continent)

Zhuang

1 entries
  • Feihcouh name (continent)

Zulu

1 entries
  • i-Afrika name (continent)

Sample sentences

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Mali is one of the poorest countries in Subsaharan Africa.

Source: tatoeba (2381)

On leaving school, he went to Africa.

Source: tatoeba (21478)

The greatest number came from Europe, but many also came from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Canada.

Source: tatoeba (27245)

The war in Europe was carried into Africa.

Source: tatoeba (30016)

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