Sierra Leone

Spanish sierra (“mountain”) + leona (“lioness”), from Portuguese Serra Leoa, in the reference to the Lion Mountains (named by Pedro de Sintra in 1462).

Republic of Sierra Leone
Republic of Sierra Leone#English

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Sierra Leone.

Lion Mountains
Pedro de Sintra
Sierra Leone

Náshdóítsoh Bitsiijįʼ Daditłʼooʼígíí Dziil


leone

A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.


Aberdeen

Aberdeen
Aberdeen (disambiguation)
Old Aberdeen

The first element is either Scottish Gaelic aber (“river mouth”) or Pictish aber (“confluence”), both from Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”). The second element is Don (“river in Scotland”) (the site of Old Aberdeen). Written Aberdon circa 1187 and Aberden circa 1214.
The area and town in Hong Kong is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

named-after

A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.


Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!

2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2

When you call 999 in the UK, the operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Which service?"

The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.

三条九 (saam¹ tiu⁴ gau², literally “triple nine”)


Wilberforce

From Old English Wilburg + foss (“ditch”); Wilburg was a female given name from wil (“will”) + burg (“fortress”).


Sierra Leonean

en-adj

Sierra Leonean (comparative more Sierra Leonean, superlative most Sierra Leonean)

more Sierra Leonean (comparative)
most Sierra Leonean (superlative)


Porroh

"[…] You don't seem to understand that this Porroh hokey-pokey rules this country, is its law, religion, constitution, medicine, magic. […]"

1895, H. G. Wells, Pollock and the Porroh Man:

Each Porroh man is entitled to have their services free, on giving the head of tobacco. For instance, if this Porroh was in session at Freetown, and I was living twenty miles off, I could send to the head of the Porroh and ask to be helped in this way.

1899, Report by Her Majesty's Commissioner and correspondence on the Subject of the Insurrection in the Sierra Leone Protectorate:

The men of Ribbee and Bompeh, as well as the Caulkers of Bompeh were Porroh men, and Porroh is considered a society of peace.

2010, Imodale Caulker-Burnett, The Caulkers of Sierra Leone, page 174:

A tribal system of religion and taboos in Sierra Leone.


Milliongate

A scandal in Sierra Leone in the 1980s, involving the appropriation of millions of leones of government money for private use.


Tower Hill

A neighbourhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone.