Tasmania
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English
Etymology
From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /tæzˈmeɪniə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Tasmania
- One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast, having its capital at Hobart.
- 2006 April 26, “'No hat, no play' rethink urged”, in ABC News:
- Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.
- (historical) The colony that became the state of Tasmania at federation in 1901.
- The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.
Synonyms
- the Apple Isle (colloquial)
- lutruwita (Indigenous name)
- Tassie (colloquial)
- Van Diemen's Land (historical)
Derived terms
Translations
Australian state
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island comprising majority of state
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Further reading
Category:Tasmania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
Tasmania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Tasmania on Wikiquote.Wikiquote 
Tasmania on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tasmania
Declension
| Inflection of Tasmania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Tasmania | — |
| gen. | Tasmanian | ||
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| inessive | Tasmaniassa | — | |
| elative | Tasmaniasta | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| adessive | Tasmanialla | — | |
| ablative | Tasmanialta | — | |
| allative | Tasmanialle | — | |
| essive | Tasmaniana | — | |
| translative | Tasmaniaksi | — | |
| abessive | Tasmaniatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tasmania[2]
- Tasmania (island)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Tasmania | — |
| accusative | Tasmaniát | — |
| dative | Tasmaniának | — |
| instrumental | Tasmaniával | — |
| causal-final | Tasmaniáért | — |
| translative | Tasmaniává | — |
| terminative | Tasmaniáig | — |
| essive-formal | Tasmaniaként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Tasmaniában | — |
| superessive | Tasmanián | — |
| adessive | Tasmaniánál | — |
| illative | Tasmaniába | — |
| sublative | Tasmaniára | — |
| allative | Tasmaniához | — |
| elative | Tasmaniából | — |
| delative | Tasmaniáról | — |
| ablative | Tasmaniától | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Tasmaniáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Tasmaniáéi | — |
| Possessive forms of Tasmania | ||
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| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Tasmaniám | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Tasmaniád | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Tasmaniája | — |
| 1st person plural | Tasmaniánk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Tasmaniátok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Tasmaniájuk | — |
References
- ^ Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN
- ^ Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version
Italian
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Declension
Declension of Tasmania
Further reading
- Tasmania in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /tasˈmanja/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /tazˈmanja/
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Derived terms
- blaidd Tasmania (“Tasmanian wolf”)
- cythraul Tasmania (“Tasmanian devil”)
- teigr Tasmania (“Tasmanian tiger”)