"Biafra" meaning in All languages combined

See Biafra on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /biˈɑfɹə/ [US]
Etymology: After the Bight of Biafra. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Biafra
  1. (historical) A short-lived secessionist state that declared independence from Nigeria in the late 1960s. Tags: historical Categories (place): Historical polities Translations (a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s): Biafra (Danish), Biafra (Finnish), Biafra [masculine] (French), Μπιάφρα (Biáfra) [feminine] (Greek), Biafra [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-Biafra-en-name-X~TBmDiP Disambiguation of Historical polities: 45 6 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 7 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 1 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 44 9 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 7 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 52 7 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 50 2 48 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 49 0 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 47 7 45 Disambiguation of 'a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s': 86 0 14
  2. (historical) A region of West Africa. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-Biafra-en-name-4qsG0CvK
  3. The region of Nigeria that includes the territory of the former Republic of Biafra. Categories (place): Historical polities Derived forms: Biafran, Bight of Biafra
    Sense id: en-Biafra-en-name-1VQqaD7g Disambiguation of Historical polities: 45 6 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 7 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 44 9 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 7 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 50 2 48 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 49 0 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 47 7 45

Proper name [French]

IPA: /bja.fʁa/
Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Biafra m
  1. Biafra (a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s) Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in Nigeria
    Sense id: en-Biafra-fr-name-YXqfEo1J Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Proper name [Portuguese]

IPA: /biˈa.fɾɐ/ [Brazil], [bɪˈa.fɾɐ] [Brazil], /ˈbja.fɾɐ/ [Brazil], /biˈa.fɾɐ/ [Brazil], [bɪˈa.fɾɐ] [Brazil], /ˈbja.fɾɐ/ [Brazil], /biˈa.fɾa/ [Southern-Brazil], [bɪˈa.fɾa] [Southern-Brazil], /ˈbja.fɾa/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˈbja.fɾɐ/ [Portugal]
Rhymes: -afɾɐ Head templates: {{head|pt|proper noun|||g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} Biafra f, {{pt-proper noun|f}} Biafra f
  1. Biafra (a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Places in Nigeria Derived forms: biafrense
    Sense id: en-Biafra-pt-name-YXqfEo1J Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.