Seychelles

English

Etymology

After French official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /seɪˈʃɛlz/, /seɪˈʃɛl/, /ˈseɪʃɛlz/, /ˈseɪʃɛl/
Audio (UK): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛlz, -ɛl

Proper noun

the Seychelles

An archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Seychelles.

Usage notes

Treated as singular or plural. The presence of the definite article also varies, though "the Seychelles" is more common.^[1]

Hypernyms

Subsahara

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Japanese: セイシェル (Seisheru)

Translations

country in East Africa

Afrikaans: Seychelle
Amharic: ሲሸልስ (sišäls)
Arabic: سِيشِيل m (sišīl), سيشل f (sēšil)
Hijazi Arabic: سِيشِل f (sēšil)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: Сейшэ́лы f pl (Sjejšély), Сейшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sjejšélʹskija astravý), Сэйшэ́лы f pl (Sejšély), Сэйшэ́льскія астравы́ m pl (Sejšélʹskija astravý)
Bengali: সেশেল (bn) (śeśel)
Breton: Sechelez
Bulgarian: Сейше́ли (bg) m pl (Sejšéli)
Burmese: ဆေးရှဲ (hce:hrai:)
Catalan: Seychelles (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 塞舌爾 / 塞舌尔 (zh) (Sàishé'ěr)
Czech: Seychely (cs) pl
Danish: Seychellerne pl
Dutch: Seychellen (nl) pl
Esperanto: Sejŝeloj (eo) pl
Farefare: Seesello pl
Finnish: Seychellit (fi)
French: Seychelles (fr) f pl
Galician: Seixeles (gl) f pl
Georgian: სეიშელის კუნძულები (ka) (seišelis ḳunʒulebi)
German: Seychellen (de) pl
Greek: Σεϋχέλλες (el) f pl (Seÿchélles)
Hebrew: סֵיְשֶׁל / סיישל (seyshel)
Hindi: सेशेल्स (hi) (seśels)
Hungarian: Seychelle-szigetek (hu)
Interlingua: Seychelles
Irish: Na Séiséil m or pl, Poblacht na Séiséal f
Italian: Seychelles (it) f pl, Seicelle (it) f pl
Japanese: セイシェル (ja) (Seisheru), セーシェル (ja) (Sēsheru)
Kalenjin: Shelisheli
Kamba: Shelisheli
Kazakh: Сейшель аралдары (kk) (Seişel araldary)
Khmer: សេសែល (seesael)
Kikuyu: Shelisheli
Korean: 세이셸 (ko) (Seisyel), 세이쉘 (ko) (Seiswel) (North Korea)
Kyrgyz: Сейшел аралдары (Seyşel araldarı)
Latvian: Seišelas f pl
Lithuanian: Seišeliai (lt) m pl
Luhya: Bushelisheli
Luo: sishel
Macedonian: Сејшели m pl (Sejšeli)
Malay: Seychelles (ms)
Maltese: is-Sejxell
Maori: Heikere
Meru: ushelisheli
Navajo: Seishel
Norman: Seychelles f pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Seychellene (no)

Nynorsk: Seychellane (nn)
Persian: سیشل (seyšel)
Polish: Seszele (pl)
Portuguese: Seicheles (pt) f pl
Romanian: Seychelles (ro), Seișele
Russian: Сейше́лы (ru) f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льские острова́ m pl (Sejšélʹskije ostrová)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сејшели m pl

Roman: Sejšeli (sh) m pl
Seychellois Creole: Sesel
Sinhalese: සීෂෙල්ස් (sīṣels)
Slovak: Seychely pl
Slovene: Sejšéli (sl) m pl
Spanish: Seychelles (es) f pl
Swahili: Shelisheli (sw)
Swedish: Seychellerna (sv) pl
Tagalog: Seysyels
Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Сейшел (Jaziraho-yi Seyšel), Сейшел (Seyšel)
Thai: เซเชลส์ (th) (see-cheel)
Turkish: Seyşeller (tr) pl
Ukrainian: Сейше́ли f pl (Sejšély), Сейше́льські Острови́ m pl (Sejšélʹsʹki Ostrový)
Vietnamese: Xây-sen
West Frisian: Seysjellen pl
Yoruba: Seṣẹlẹsi

See also

Countries of the world

References

^ Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020) “Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, number 1, →DOI, pages 1–16

Further reading

Seychelles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Seychelles on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
Seychelles on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Category:Seychelles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Seychelles

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /se.ʃɛl/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

Italian

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.lis/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.lis]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.liʃ/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.liʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /se(j)ˈʃɛ.les/ [se(ɪ̯)ˈʃɛ.les]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈt͡ʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sejˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /seˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

Proper noun

Seychelles f pl (plural only)

alternative spelling of Seicheles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /seiˈt͡ʃeles/ [sei̯ˈt͡ʃe.les]
Rhymes: -eles
Syllabification: Sey‧che‧lles

Proper noun

Seychelles f

Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

seychellense

Welsh

Proper noun

y Seychelles pl

the Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Coordinate terms