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English
Etymology From French microbe Ancient Greek μικρός ( mikrós , “ small ” ) and βίος ( bíos , “ life ” ) . By surface analysis , micro- -obe
Pronunciation
Noun microbe (plural microbes
( microbiology ) microorganism ; ( loosely , nonscientifically) harmful bacterium .
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Translations microorganism
Afrikaans: mikrobe
Albanian: mikrob (sq) m
Arabic: مِيكْرُوب m ( mīkrūb ) , جُرْثُوم m ( jurṯūm )
Armenian: մանրէ (hy) ( manrē ) , միկրոբ (hy) ( mikrob )
Assamese: অণুজীৱ ( onuziw ) , জীৱাণু ( ziwanu )
Asturian: microbiu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: mikrob (az)
Belarusian: мікро́б m ( mikrób )
Bengali: জীবাণু (bn) ( jibanu )
Bulgarian: микро́б (bg) m ( mikrób )
Burmese: ပိုး (my) ( pui: )
Catalan: microbi m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 微生物 (zh) ( wēishēngwù )
Czech: mikrob (cs) m
Danish: mikrobe
Dutch: microbe (nl) m or f
Esperanto: mikrobo
Estonian: mikroob
Finnish: mikrobi (fi)
French: microbe (fr) m
Galician: microbio (gl) m
Georgian: მიკრობი (ka) ( miḳrobi )
German: Mikrobe (de) f
Greek: μικροοργανισμός (el) m ( mikroorganismós ) , μικρόβιο (el) n ( mikróvio )
Hebrew: חַידַק (he) m ( haydak )
Hindi: सूक्ष्मजीव ( sūkṣmajīv )
Hungarian: mikroba (hu)
Icelandic: örvera f
Ido: mikrobo (io)
Indonesian: mikrob (id)
Ingrian: mikroba
Interlingua: microbio
Irish: miocrób
Italian: microbo (it) m microbio (it) m
Japanese: 微生物 (ja) ( びせいぶつ, biseibutsu )
Kazakh: микроб ( mikrob )
Khmer: អតិសុខុមប្រាណ (km) ( ʼaʼtesokhomĕəʼpraan ) , មីក្រុប ( miikrop ) , មេរោគ ( mei rook ) , ក្រមី (km) ( krɑməy ) , ជីវាណូ ( ciivaanou ) , ពីជៈ ( piicĕəʼ )
Korean: 미생물(微生物) (ko) ( misaengmul )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میکرۆب ( mîkrob )
Northern Kurdish: mikrob mîkrob (ku) f
Kyrgyz: микроб ( mikrob )
Lao: ຈຸນລະຊີບ (lo) ( chun la sīp ) , ຈຸລິນສີ ( chu lin sī ) , ຈຸລິນທີ ( chu lin thī )
Latvian: mikrobs m
Lithuanian: mikrobas m
Macedonian: микроб m ( mikrob )
Maori: moroiti
Mongolian: нян (mn) ( njan )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mikrobe
Persian: میکروب (fa) ( mikrob )
Polish: drobnoustrój (pl) m mikrob (pl) m mikroorganizm (pl) m zarazek (pl) m
Portuguese: micróbio (pt) m
Romanian: microb (ro) m
Russian: микро́б (ru) m ( mikrób )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мѝкро̄б m
Roman: mìkrōb (sh) m
Slovak: mikrób m
Slovene: mikrob m
Spanish: microbio (es)
Swedish: mikrob (sv) c
Tagalog: mikrobyo
Tajik: микроб ( mikrob )
Thai: จุลชีพ (th) ( jun-lá-chîip ) , จุลินทรีย์ (th) ( jù-lin-sii )
Turkish: mikrop (tr)
Turkmen: mikrob
Ukrainian: мікро́б m ( mikrób )
Urdu: جَرْثُومَہ m ( jarsūmā )
Uyghur: مىكروپ ( mikrop )
Uzbek: mikrob (uz)
Vietnamese: vi trùng (vi) , vi khuẩn (vi) , vi sinh vật (vi) (微生物
Volapük: mikröb
Yiddish: מיקראָב ( mikrob )
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Dutch
Etymology Borrowed from French microbe Ancient Greek μικρός ( mikrós , “ small ” ) and βίος ( bíos , “ life ” ) .
Pronunciation IPA (key ) : /ˌmiˈkroː.bə/ Hyphenation: mi‧cro‧be
Noun microbe f plural microben or microbes diminutive microbetje n
( microbiology ) microbe
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French
Etymology From Ancient Greek μικρός ( mikrós , “ small ” ) and βίος ( bíos , “ life ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun microbe m plural microbes
( microbiology ) microbe
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