Greek is the national language of Cyprus, but English is spoken almost everywhere.
AGIA - Saint (female)
AGIOS - Saint (male)
KATO - Lower
LEOFOROS - Avenue
PANAGIA - The Blessed Virgin Mary
PANO - Upper
PETRA - Stone
PLATEIA - Square
STAVROS - Cross
Pronunciation
ai - as in egg
oi, ei, y - as in India
ou - as in t our
ch - as in home
d - as in there
Names of places have been converted into Latin characters according to the official System of Transliteration of the Greek alphabet. i.e.
LEFKOSIA=NICOSIA, LEMESOS=LIMASSOL, AMMOCHOSTOS=FAMAGUSTA.
Have a Taste of our Language: Latin / Greek
a: alfa
b: vita
g: ghamma
d: dhelta
e: epsilon
z: zita
n: ita
0: thita
i: iota
k: kappa
l: lamdha
m: mi
v: ni
3: xi
o: omikron
p: pi
r: ro
s: sighma
t: taf
u: ipsilon
f: fi
x: khi
ps: psi
w: omegha
': emphasize (over the preceded letter)
agsona: axle
ahreddi: spinner; tool for spinning wool into thread
alina: turkey
alizavra: a kind of small lizard
andrez: tic-tac-toc, a game played with stones
angoni: grandchild
anihdar: key
argaci: small irrigation canal
ariya: auger, gimlet
asvalya: fuse
ayrelli: asparagus
babavura: ladybird (insect)
babutsa: a kind of large cactus and its thorny-skinned yellow fruit
balligarya (balligari): tough guy
banayiamu: a "help" exclamation
bandabuliya: market-place (fruits, vegetables)
bandofla: slippers
bango: workbench
bano: onto, over, above. (mostly used by hunters as "banossu" (over you) to warn another hunter that a bird is flying towards him or over his had)
banya: a pre-determined route of a group of hunters (mostly all on a line with some distance apart)
barabono: complaint
barabonti: cheater, swindler, to falsify, to forge
barbadusa: a small vehicle with wheels for 1 year old babies to help them walk
barra: 1. wooden post. 2. a remark to repel, to drive away somebody
basadembo: salted pumpkin seed
basdiS: cookie
batsali: a kind of poisonous snake
bavuri: tin water bottle, flask
belo: stupid, mad
betsi: flat sponge, serviette, table napkin
bidda: pastry
biddaga: flat and wide
bigatsa: woodcock
bigla: a type of sweet mixed pickles in a yellowish fluid
bodiri: 1. small and thin glass for drinks. 2. short (person)
bondoboksi: short (person) 2. small village bread with olives in it
bulli: young chicken
bullodo: non-spherical
bumburiya: a ladybird-like insect
cigla: thrush (bird)
cilindiro: roller
cira: Greek lady
CakIsdez: Cyprus originated cracked and salted green olives
della: cello-tape (mostly thick and coloured)
dibedizo: 1. watering tank. 2. deposit
diCCi: a pulya-like (see "pulya") small, orange-grey coloured bird
drabez: table.
dirifil: trefoil (probably took its name because of its three-leaf shape: "three-foliage"
ditsi: very thin
ditsiro: 1. naked. 2. very poor
etsi: pretty well, correct
egonomiya: economy, saving
fago: 1. car headlight. 2. lens
fanella: pullover, jersey
farsetta: a special knife for cutting leather
fasariya: 1. empty work or talk. 2. confusion
fassa: a pigeon-like game-bird
fortigo: large lorry
furahdi: a field near the owners house, surrounded by a fence.
furami: the fence surrounding a furahdi (see "furahdi)
gabbar: caper; a dark green coloured plant which is used to prepare pickles
gabbella: hat
gabira: toasted bread (mostly margarine or butter melted on it)
gaCCeSiro: hedgehog
gafgalla: stony, hard soil
gafgalya: dry bread
gafgarId: wild artichoke
galliga: blacksmith
gambana: gong, bell
gamaSa: stupid
gamilo: camel
gamini: 1. kiln (oven for bricks), furnace. 2. chimney
ganara: rough, bold fellow
gannav: hemp
garacoCCo: black cumin (used on breads, etc. to make it aromatic)
garagatsa: magpie (bird)
garavolli: snail
garnabba: fat, obese
garudsa: phaeton, horse-drawn carrier
gatsavida (gaCCavida): screw-driver
gavro: 1. crab. 2. wrench
giksi: falcon, hawk
goCCino(goCCini): red (usually used for a red-haired person)
gologas: a plant which has large leaves and an eatable (after cooking) root
golimba: pond, puddle
golla: glue
gollifa: boiled wheat mixed with sesame, almond, dried grapes and pomegranate seeds
golyandro: coriander
gonga: a game played with playing cards
gonnara: eatable fruit of a thorny-branched plant (see "pallura")
gonno: clayey soil
gossifo: blackbird (called black-cigla (see "cigla")
guduru: 1. at a venture, random, by chance. 2. hazardous act
guello: stupid, idiot
guli: puppy
gulluri: roll, French roll
gulumbra: a kind of knob-headed cabbage
gulurutkya: a sweet food made with paste (flour) and grape molasses
gumandarya: kind of old (sweet) wine of Cyprus
gumbaro: good friend (male)
gunna: roasted peanuts
gunni: short (in length) or small
guno: stupid
gurkuda (garkuda: large wall lizard
gurrada: 1. old, weak. 2. old-fashioned
gusbo: pick axe
guvari: ball of thread
hamadalla: stupid
hamaylo: chameleon
hanay: upper story of a 2-storied house
haranga: large (area)
hasgonda: a rude remark meaning "shut up!"
havara: limestone
hollo: 1. ghost. 2. idiot
IsladIr: pachsaddle
Isbasdra: 1. playing cards. 2. a game played with playing cards
isbaho: thin rope
isbirto: 1. matches. 2. alcohol
isdavroz: cross
kerata: shoehorn
lamarina: sheet metal. metal sac
lapsana: a wild, yellow-flowered, eatable plant
lasan: seedling
lera: dirt, filth
letsa: fat, grease
libazma: fertilizer (artificial)
liggo: hollow, pit
lingiri: tipcat (a game played by children)
liveri: a tool used by builders for digging and leverage.
loddo: big, fat(person)
lollo: stupid, fool
luvana: a type of pea with eatable leaves (French bean)
manamu: poor, miserable!.. (pity word)
mandIra: enclosed sheepfold
mangos: furious, raging
manullamu: exclamation used by an astonished person
marCuana: a kind of yellow-coloured bee
marmaragi: marble
mavrobullo: starling; a white-dotted black bird
melada: lightly boiled (egg)
mezdeki: gum mastic
mikSa: a tree whose fruits are used to make birdlime
misdri: trowel
miSaro: small wall lizard (usually indoor)
monobadi: footpath
mucendra: pilaff made with rice and green lentils
murro: idiot, moron
na: here is, there is!
ohdo: 1. field barrier. 2. protuberance. 3. thicket
pallura: a wild, short, thorny, bush-like plant with eatable fruits
pasdelli: pie (dry) made of honey and sesame
patariya: 1. battery. 2. car's accumulator
penna: pen
perisgan: 1. jar. 2. a kind of soda in the form of powder (mixed with water before drinking)
pilavuna: a kind of pastry containing cheese and dry sultana grapes
pirilli: marbles
pirohu: a dish made with patties
piron: fork
pisgot: biscuits
pulya: a small, fatty, migratory bird (eaten by some Cypriots)
re: hallo!.. you there!
ruso: blond
saggo: jacket, overcoat
saggulla (sakulli): pouch, bag
saramallagi: scrap, junk, out of use
sarga: besom (a broom made with dry bushes)
sbano: beardless
sekko: dead-fallen (hunted bird or hare)
sella: saddle (bicycle)
siga: wasp
siga siga: slowly, quietly, calmly
siribilla: chicken excrement
sketto: simple, mere (for coffee, food, etc.)
solina: water pipe
stekka: billiard stick
stokko: paste for fixing glass on a window frame
Siro: a bulldozer-like vehicle with mechanical ladles
Sillo: dog
tumba: 1. to be overturned. 2. to collide
valvid: valve (car or bicycle tyre)
verigo: a kind of grape with aromatic, round-shaped, large grains
virra: an exclamation against excess waste of something (money,water, etc.)
vitsa: little and thin stick, twig
yero: old (man)
yiro: tour, to turn round
ziligurti: a remark meaning "shut up!"
zivania: a Cyprus originated spirit drink (made with grapes)
zuk: a zivania-like (see "zivaniya") spirit drink of Cyprus. |
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