Indonesia

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English

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Etymology

(late nineteenth century) Attested circa 1850,[1] composed of Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, Indian) +‎ Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, island); initially, in competition with Insulinde, of the same meaning, lexically constructed on a Latin basis, or in reference to the East Indies archipelago.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. A country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of Indonesia (since 1950). Capital: Jakarta.

Meronyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ J. R. Logan (1850) “The Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago: embracing enquiries into the Continental relations of the Indo-Pacific Islanders”, in J. R. Logan, editor, The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, volume 4, Singapore, pages 254, 2nd footnote:
    For reasons which will be obvious on reading a subsequent note, I prefer the purely geographical term Indonesia, which is merely a shorter synonym for the Indian Islands or the Indian Archipelago. We thus get Indonesian for Indian Archipelagian or Archipelagic, and Indonesians for Indian Archipelagians or Indian Islanders. I have no affection for the multiplication of semi-grecian words, and would gladly see all the nesias wiped off the map if good Saxon equivalents could be substituted.

Anagrams

Asturian

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Proper noun

Indonesia f

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Cia-Cia

Etymology

From Indonesian Indonesia.

Proper noun

Indonesia (Hangul spelling 인도네시아)

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Finnish

Etymology

From English Indonesia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈindone(ː)s(ː)iɑ/,
  • Rhymes: -esiɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): In‧do‧ne‧sia

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Indonesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Indonesia Indonesiat
genitive Indonesian Indonesioiden
Indonesioitten
partitive Indonesiaa Indonesioita
illative Indonesiaan Indonesioihin
singular plural
nominative Indonesia Indonesiat
accusative nom. Indonesia Indonesiat
gen. Indonesian
genitive Indonesian Indonesioiden
Indonesioitten
Indonesiain rare
partitive Indonesiaa Indonesioita
inessive Indonesiassa Indonesioissa
elative Indonesiasta Indonesioista
illative Indonesiaan Indonesioihin
adessive Indonesialla Indonesioilla
ablative Indonesialta Indonesioilta
allative Indonesialle Indonesioille
essive Indonesiana Indonesioina
translative Indonesiaksi Indonesioiksi
abessive Indonesiatta Indonesioitta
instructive Indonesioin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Indonesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

Derived terms

compounds

Galician

Proper noun

Indonesia f

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Indonesian

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Etymology

From English Indonesia, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, Indus, India) + νησιά (nēsiá, islands).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.ˈdo.nɛ.sɪ.(j)a/, /-sja/, /-ne-/
  • IPA(key): (colloquial) /-ʃa/, /ɛn-/, /en-/
  • Hyphenation: In‧do‧ne‧sia

Unlike other words, the pronunciation of this proper noun are unusually highly variable, leaving a total of 30 pronunciations (2 medial lax–tense × 3 initial high–low × 5 final syllable variations). Forms with /-ʃa/ instead of /-sja/ or /-sɪja/ has expanded into the name of the neighbouring country Malaysia, however, this is sporadic.

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Adjective

Indonesia

  1. Indonesian

Meronyms

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.doˈnɛ.zja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛzja
  • Hyphenation: In‧do‧nè‧sia

Proper noun

Indonesia f

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Indus +‎ nēsus +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Indonēsia f sg (genitive Indonēsiae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Indonēsia
genitive Indonēsiae
dative Indonēsiae
accusative Indonēsiam
ablative Indonēsiā
vocative Indonēsia
locative Indonēsiae

Malay

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Etymology

From English Indonesia.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Indonesia (Jawi spelling ايندونيسيا)

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Adjective

Indonesia

  1. Indonesian

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia no

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Wikipedia nn

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Papiamentu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Indonesia

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Spanish

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Etymology

Composed of Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós) + νῆσος (nêsos, island)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Indonesia f

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Welsh

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Proper noun

Indonesia f

  1. Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)

Coordinate terms