アフリカ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
阿弗利加 (obsolete)
亜弗利加 (obsolete)
阿非利加 (obsolete)
亜非利加 (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) アフリカ [àfúríká] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠ɸɯ̟ɾʲika̠]

Proper noun

アフリカ • (Afurika) 

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Coordinate terms

Landmasses: 六(ろく)大(たい)陸(りく) (rokutairiku)[c 1]edit
  1. ^ Traditionally, Japanese distinguishes six "continents" (Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania) from six "landmasses" (Africa, North America, South America, Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica).
Continents (per se): 六(ろく)大(だい)州(しゅう) (rokudaishū)[c 1]edit
  1. ^ Traditionally, Japanese distinguishes six "continents" (Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania) from six "landmasses" (Africa, North America, South America, Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica).

References

  1. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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