microbe

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikros, “small”) and βίος (bios, “life”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

microbe (plural microbes)

1. (microbiology) Any microorganism, but specially said of those microorganisms which are harmful types of bacteria.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:microorganism

Translations

microorganism

• Arabic: ميكروب (ar) (mikrūb) m
• Armenian: մանրէ (hy) (manrē), միկրոբ (hy) (mikrob)
• Catalan: microbi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微生物 (cmn) (wéishēngwù)

• Czech: mikrob (cs) m
• Dutch: microbe (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: mikrobo (eo)
• Finnish: mikrobi (fi)
• French: microbe (fr) m
• German: Mikrobe (de) f
• Greek: μικρoοργανισμός (el) (mikroorganismós) m, μικρόβιο (el) (mikróvio) n
• Hindi: सूक्ष्मजीव (hi) (sūkṣmajīv)
• Icelandic: örvera (is) f
• Indonesian: mikroba (id)
• Interlingua: microbio (ia)

• Japanese: 微生物 (ja) (びせいぶつ, biseibutsu)
• Khmer: អតិសុខុមប្រាណ (km) (a’te’ so’kʰom praan)
• Korean: 미생물 (ko) (misaengmul) (微生物 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: میکرۆب (ku)

• Lao: ຈຸນລະຊີບ (lo) (chun la sīp)
• Persian: میکرب (fa) (mikrob)
• Romanian: microb (ro) m
• Russian: микроб (ru) (mikrób) m
• Serbo-Croatian: mìkrōb (sh) m
• Spanish: microbio (es)
• Thai: จุลชีพ (th) (jun lá chêep)
• Turkish: mikrop (tr)
• Vietnamese: vi trùng (vi), vi khuẩn (vi), vi sinh vật (vi) (微生物 (vi))
• Volapük: mikröb (vo)

Related terms

• microorganism

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mi‧cro‧be

Noun

microbe f (plural microben or microbes, diminutive microbetje)

1. (microbiology) microbe

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /mi.kʁɔb/, X-SAMPA: /mi.kROb/

Noun

microbe m (plural microbes)

1. (microbiology) microbe