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SOMALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Somalia"):
capital of Somalia; Mogadiscio; Mogadishu (the capital and largest city of Somalia; a port on the Indian Ocean)
Hargeisa (a city in northwestern Somalia)
Meronyms (members of "Somalia"):
Somali; Somalian (a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia)
Domain member region:
AIAI; al-Itihaad al-Islamiya; al Itihaad al Islamiya; Islamic Unity (a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries)
Holonyms ("Somalia" is a part of...):
Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Holonyms ("Somalia" is a member of...):
Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
Derivation:
Somalian (of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture)
