Samoa

See also: samoa, Samóa, Sámoa, samoà, Samôa, Sāmoa, and șamoa

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. See there for more.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ.məʊ.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːˌmaʉ̯.ə/
• (Samoa) IPA^(key): /saː.mo.a/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈməʊ.ə/
• (US) enPR: sə-mō'ə, IPA^(key): /səˈmoʊ.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Samoa

2. A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.
3. A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.

Derived terms

• American Samoa
• German Samoa
• Samoan
• Samoa Standard Time
• Samoa time
• Western Samoa

Translations

Independent State of Samoa

Afrikaans: Samoa Arabic: سَامُوَّا f (samuwwā) Armenian: Սամոա (Samoa) Bengali: সামোয়া (bn) (śamōẇa) Bislama: Samoa Breton: Samoa Bulgarian: Самоа̀ f (Samoà) Burmese: ဆမိုးအား (hca.mui:a:) Catalan: Samoa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 薩摩亞 / 萨摩亚 (zh) (Sàmóyǎ) Czech: Samoa (cs) Danish: Samoa (da) Dutch: Samoa (nl) Esperanto: Okcidenta Samoo, Samoo (eo) Faroese: Sámoa n Fiji Hindi: Samoa Finnish: Samoa (fi) French: Samoa (fr) Georgian: სამოა (samoa) German: Samoa (de) Greek: Σαμόα (el) f (Samóa) Hawaiian: Kāmoa, Haʻamoa Hungarian: Szamoa (hu) Interlingua: Samoa Irish: Samó m, Stát Neamhspleách Shamó m Italian: Samoa Japanese: サモア (ja) (Samoa) Khmer: សាម័រ (km) (saamɔə) Korean: 사모아 (ko) (Samoa) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: Samoa f Macedonian: Само́а f (Samóa) Maori: Hāmoa Nahuatl: Samoa Navajo: Samóa Norman: Samoa Norwegian: Bokmål: Samoa Nynorsk: Samoa (nn) Persian: ساموآ (sâmo-â) Polish: Samoa (pl) n Portuguese: Samoa (pt) Rarotongan: ‘Āmoa Romanian: Samoa (ro) f Russian: Само́а (ru) f or n (Samóa) Samoan: Sāmoa Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Само̀а f Roman: Samòa (sh) f Spanish: Samoa (es) Swedish: Samoa (sv) Tahitian: Hāmoa Telugu: సమోవా (te) (samōvā) Thai: ซามัว (th) (saa-muua) Tongan: Haʻamoa Turkish: Samoa (tr) Turkmen: Samoa Vietnamese: Xa-moa Wallisian: Haʻamoa Yoruba: Samọ

Noun

Samoa (plural Samoas)

1. (US) A kind of cookie with coconut flavoring, often sold by Girl Scouts.

See also

countries in Oceania (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Masao, Osama, omasa

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia ^af

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania; capital and largest city: Apia)

Related terms

• Samoaan
• Samoaans

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈmo.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈmo.a]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Samoa m

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• illes Samoa (“Samoan Islands”)
• samoà (“Samoan”)
• Samoa Alemanya (“German Samoa”)
• Samoa Nord-americana (“American Samoa”)
• Samoa Occidental (“Western Samoa”)

Further reading

• “Samoa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsamoa]

Proper noun

Samoa f (relational adjective samojský, demonym Samojec, female demonym Samojka)

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Declension

Declension of Samoa (sg-only feminine in -oa/-ua)

	singular
nominative	Samoa
genitive	Samoy
dative	Samoi
accusative	Samou
vocative	Samoo
locative	Samoi
instrumental	Samoou

Related terms

• samojština

Further reading

• “Samoa”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Samoa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Samoa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Related terms

• samoaner
• samoansk

See also

• Amerikansk Samoa

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaːˈmoː.aː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧moa
• Rhymes: -oːaː

Proper noun

Samoa n

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• Amerikaans-Samoa
• Samoaan m / Samoaanse f
• Samoaans
• West-Samoa

Finnish

Etymology

From Samoan Sāmoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmoɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝mo̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmoɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sa‧mo‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Sa‧moa

Proper noun

Samoa

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Declension

Inflection of Samoa (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)
nominative		Samoa	—
genitive		Samoan	—
partitive		Samoaa Samoata	—
illative		Samoaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Samoa	—
accusative	nom.	Samoa	—
	gen.	Samoan
genitive		Samoan	—
partitive		Samoaa Samoata	—
inessive		Samoassa	—
elative		Samoasta	—
illative		Samoaan	—
adessive		Samoalla	—
ablative		Samoalta	—
allative		Samoalle	—
essive		Samoana	—
translative		Samoaksi	—
abessive		Samoatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Samoa (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Samoani — accusative nom. Samoani — gen. Samoani genitive Samoani — partitive Samoaani Samoatani — inessive Samoassani — elative Samoastani — illative Samoaani — adessive Samoallani — ablative Samoaltani — allative Samoalleni — essive Samoanani — translative Samoakseni — abessive Samoattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Samoasi — accusative nom. Samoasi — gen. Samoasi genitive Samoasi — partitive Samoaasi Samoatasi — inessive Samoassasi — elative Samoastasi — illative Samoaasi — adessive Samoallasi — ablative Samoaltasi — allative Samoallesi — essive Samoanasi — translative Samoaksesi — abessive Samoattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Samoamme — accusative nom. Samoamme — gen. Samoamme genitive Samoamme — partitive Samoaamme Samoatamme — inessive Samoassamme — elative Samoastamme — illative Samoaamme — adessive Samoallamme — ablative Samoaltamme — allative Samoallemme — essive Samoanamme — translative Samoaksemme — abessive Samoattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Samoanne — accusative nom. Samoanne — gen. Samoanne genitive Samoanne — partitive Samoaanne Samoatanne — inessive Samoassanne — elative Samoastanne — illative Samoaanne — adessive Samoallanne — ablative Samoaltanne — allative Samoallenne — essive Samoananne — translative Samoaksenne — abessive Samoattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Samoansa — accusative nom. Samoansa — gen. Samoansa genitive Samoansa — partitive Samoataan Samoaansa Samoatansa — inessive Samoassaan Samoassansa — elative Samoastaan Samoastansa — illative Samoaansa — adessive Samoallaan Samoallansa — ablative Samoaltaan Samoaltansa — allative Samoalleen Samoallensa — essive Samoanaan Samoanansa — translative Samoakseen Samoaksensa — abessive Samoattaan Samoattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• samoa
• samoalainen

compounds

• Länsi-Samoa
• samoanlentäväkoira

Anagrams

• Aamos

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.mɔ.a/

• Audio (France (Paris)):

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Proper noun

Samoa m

1. Samoa (a country in Polynesia)

Proper noun

Samoa f pl (plural only)

1. Samoa (an archipelago of Polynesia)

Derived terms

• Samoa américaines

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Samoa

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmoːa/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio (Germany):

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Proper noun

Samoa n (proper noun, genitive Samoas or (optionally with an article) Samoa)

1. Samoa (a country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)

Derived terms

• Amerikanisch-Samoa
• Ostsamoa
• Samoa-Insel
• Samoaner
• samoanisch
• Westsamoa