Africa

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , singular (inhabitant of the country of Carthage), in turn either from:
 * The or  word, which has cognates in other Semitic languages.
 * The word, plural , in reference to cave dwellers of Tunisia (see Tataouine).

Folk etymologies include:
 * +, meaning "without cold"

Proper noun

 * 1) The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
 * the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa
 * , contrasted with the Maghreb.
 * 1)   containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
 * 1)   containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
 * 1)   containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.

Meronyms
Central Africa

Eastern Africa

Northern Africa

Southern Africa

Western Africa



Translations

 * Acehnese: Afrika
 * Adyghe: Африкэ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Akan: Afrika
 * Albanian: Afrikë ,
 * Amharic: አፍሪቃ
 * Arabic: ,
 * Hijazi Arabic: أفريقيا
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦܪܝܼܩܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bambara: Afrika
 * Bashkir: Африка
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian: Afrika
 * Belarusian: А́фрыка
 * Bengali:
 * Brahui: Afríká
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အာဖရိက
 * Carpathian Rusyn: А́фрика
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵔⴽⴰ, ⵜⴰⴼⵔⵉⵇⵜ
 * Chechen: Африка, Африк
 * Cherokee: ᎬᎿᎨᏍᏛ
 * Chichewa: Afirika
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 非洲
 * Eastern Min: 非洲
 * Hakka: 非洲
 * Hokkien: 非洲
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 非洲
 * Cornish: Afrika
 * Corsican:
 * Crimean Tatar: Afrika
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dinka: Apirïka
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: ཨཕ་རི་ཀ
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Afrika
 * Finnish:
 * French: l’Afrique
 * Friulian: Afriche
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Ἀφρική, Λιβύη
 * Ancient Greek: Ἀφρικὴ
 * Greenlandic: Afrika
 * Gujarati: આફ્રિકા
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: ʻApelika
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, कालद्वीप
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: Eluàlà
 * Ingrian: Afrikka
 * Irish: an Afraic
 * Middle Irish: Afraicc
 * Old Irish: Afraicc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: Afrika
 * Kabyle: Tafrikt
 * Kalmyk: Априк
 * Kannada: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ
 * Karakalpak: Afrika
 * Kashmiri: اَفریٖقہ
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិក
 * Kongo: Afelika, Afrika, Katiopa
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Ladino: Afrika
 * Lao:, ອາຟຣິກາ, ອາຝະລິກາ, ອາຟຣິກ, ອາຟະລິກ
 * Latin:, Libya
 * Latvian:
 * Lingala: Afríka
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦵᦝᧀᧈᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ
 * Macedonian: Африка
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: Afrika
 * Manx: Affrick
 * Maori: Āwherika
 * Marathi: आफ्रिका
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠹᠷᠢᠺᠠ
 * Moore: Afriki
 * Navajo: Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
 * Nepali:
 * Northern Sami: Afrihkká
 * Northern Sotho: Afrika
 * Northwestern Ojibwa: Makadewiiyaas-gichi-aki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଆଫ୍ରିକା
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: Афрїка
 * Glagolitic: Ⰰⱇⱃⰻⰽⰰ
 * Old English:
 * Old French: Affrique, Affrike
 * Ossetian: Африкӕ
 * Pangasinan: Afrika
 * Papiamentu: Afrika
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Piedmontese:
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afreka
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: Afurika
 * Sanskrit: अफ्रीका
 * Sardinian: Afrika
 * Scottish Gaelic: Afraga
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: А̀фрика
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: Afrika
 * Sindhi: آفريڪا
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Afrika
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Afrika
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Sotho:
 * Southern Ndebele: Afrika
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: Afrika
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: Afrika
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: Африка
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཨ་ཧྥེ་རི་ཁ
 * Tigrinya: ኣፍሪቃ
 * Tsonga: Afrika
 * Tswana: Aforika
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Afrika
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اَفْرِیقَہ, اَفْرِیقا
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vai: ꕉꔱꔸꕪ
 * Venda: Afurika
 * Venetian:
 * Veps: Afrik
 * Vietnamese: (洲非), Phi Châu (非洲),
 * Volapük:, Fikop
 * Võro: Afriga
 * Votic:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: Aprika
 * Welsh:, Yr Affrig
 * West Flemish:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa: i-Afrika
 * Yiddish: אַפֿריקע
 * Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Adúláwọ̀, Áfíríkà
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: Feihcouh
 * Zulu: i-Afrika


 * Finnish:
 * Marathi: आफ्रिका

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Etymology
Feminine of /, as a noun elliptic of. The adjective Āfricus comes from the name of the Āfrī (singular ), a tribal people of the area near Carthage, by addition of the suffix. The Latin term formed alongside Greek, both terms being attested since the first century.

Proper noun

 * 1) Northwestern Africa, the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of the Nile
 * Nilus Africam ab Aethiopiā dispescens (Pliny 5, 9, 10, § 53)
 * 1)  (later split into Africa Zeugitana and Africa Byzacena under Diocletian)
 * 2) Africa as a continent, understood as the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean

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