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Senegal is a country in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast. Its capital is , a busy port city. In 2014 the population was given as about 13.3 million; the number is higher now, as numbers of people always move. French is widely used in government and school because of the colonial past, but many languages are spoken, including Wolof. On a map it wraps around The , a thin country along a river. People say Senegal for the place; they say for the people and for things from there. It is a proper name, so it takes a capital letter.
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組成The name probably comes from a Portuguese spelling of Zenaga, a people of that coast — and that name may go back to Arabic and Persian words for ‘the land of Black people’. Another idea mixes the Serer high god Rog Sene with o gal, ‘a body of water’, in the Serer language. Scholars do not all agree, so treat this as a probable story, not a settled one.
同家族的字
- Senegalesethe adjective, and the word for a person from Senegal
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Senegalname/ˌsɛn.ɪˈɡɔːl/
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A river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa.
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A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Senegal.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。