Indonesia

See also: indonesia, indonésia, indonèsia, Indónesía, Indonésia, Indonèsia, and Indônèsia

National emblem of Indonesia

Map of Indonesia.

English

Etymology

(late nineteenth century) Attested circa 1850, composed of Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós) + 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪndə(ʊ)ˈniːʒə/, /-zi.ə/
• (General American) enPR: ĭn'də-nēʹzhə, -dō-, IPA^(key): /ˌɪndəˈniʒə/, /-doʊ-/

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə, -iːziə

Proper noun

Indonesia

2. A country in maritime Southeast Asia; modern Republic of Indonesia (since 1950). Capital: Jakarta.

Meronyms

• (provinces) Aceh, Bali, Bangka-Belitung, Banten, Bengkulu, Gorontalo, Jakarta, Jambi, Central Java, East Java, West Java, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Lampung, Maluku, North Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, Papua, West Papua, Riau, Central Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, West Sumatra, Yogyakarta

Derived terms

• Bahasa Indonesia
• Indonesian

Translations

country

• Albanian: Indonezia (sq), Indonezi f
• Amharic: ኢንዶኔዥያ (ʾindonežya)
• Arabic: إِنْدُونِيسِيَا‎ f (ʾindūnīsiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: إندونيسيا‎ f (ʾindōnīsya, ʾindunīsya)

• Armenian: Ինդոնեզիա (hy) (Indonezia)
• Assamese: ইণ্ডোনেচিয়া (indünesia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܢܕܘܿܢܹܣܝܼܵܐ‎‎ f (indonesiya)
• Asturian: Indonesia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: İndoneziya (az)
• Bashkir: Индонезия (Indoneziya)
• Belarusian: Індане́зія f (Indanjézija), Інданэ́зія f (Indanézija) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ইন্দোনেশিয়া (bn) (indoneśiẏa)
• Breton: Indonezia
• Bulgarian: Индоне́зия (bg) f (Indonézija)
• Burmese: အင်ဒိုနီးရှား (angduini:hra:)
• Catalan: Indonèsia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 印尼 (yue) (jan³ nei⁴), 印度尼西亞 (yue), 印度尼西亚 (jan³ dou⁶ nei⁴ sai¹ aa³)

  Mandarin: 印度尼西亞 (zh), 印度尼西亚 (zh) (Yìndùníxīyà), 印尼 (zh) (Yìnní)

  Min Nan: 印尼 (Ìn-nî)

• Czech: Indonésie (cs) f
• Danish: Indonesien (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންޑޮނޭޝިޔާ‎ (in̊ḍonēšiyā)
• Dutch: Indonesië (nl) f
• Esperanto: Indonezio (eo)
• Estonian: Indoneesia (et)
• Farefare: Indonesia, Indo-kʋlaɩtɩnrɔ
• Finnish: Indonesia (fi)
• French: Indonésie (fr) f
• Galician: Indonesia (gl) f
• Georgian: ინდონეზია (indonezia)
• German: Indonesien (de) n
• Greek: Ινδονησία (el) f (Indonisía)
• Haitian Creole: Endonezi
• Hausa: Indonesiya
• Hawaiian: ʻInidonesia
• Hebrew: אִינְדּוֹנֶזְיָה‎ f (indonézya)
• Hindi: इंडोनेशिया (hi) (iṇḍoneśiyā)
• Hungarian: Indonézia (hu)
• Icelandic: Indónesía (is) f
• Ido: Indonezia (io)
• Indonesian: Indonesia (id)
• Interlingua: Indonesia
• Irish: An Indinéis f, Poblacht na hIndinéise f
• Italian: Indonesia (it) f
• Japanese: インドネシア (ja) (Indoneshia)
• Javanese: Indonesia
• Kalenjin: Indonesia
• Kamba: Indonesia
• Kannada: ಇಂಡೋನೇಷ್ಯಾ (iṇḍōnēṣyā)
• Kazakh: Үндінезия (Ündinezïya)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី (ʼənduuneisii)
• Kikuyu: Indonesia
• Korean: 인도네시아 (ko) (Indonesia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Indonezya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Индонезия (ky) (İndoneziya)
• Lao: ອິນໂດເນຊີ (ʼin dō nē sī), ອິນໂດນີເຊັຽ (ʼin dō nī sīa), ອິນໂດເນເຊຍ (lo) (ʼin dō nē sīa)
• Latin: Indonesia f
• Latvian: Indonēzija f
• Limburgish: Indonesië (li)
• Lithuanian: Indonezija (lt) f

• Low German:

  German Low German: Indonesien

• Luhya: Indonesia
• Luo: Indonesia
• Macedonian: Индонезија (mk) f (Indonezija)
• Malay: Indonesia (ms)
• Malayalam: ഇന്തോനേഷ്യ (intōnēṣya)
• Maltese: l-Indonesja
• Maori: Initonīhia
• Meru: Indonesia
• Mongolian: Индонез (mn) (Indonez)
• Nauruan: Indonesia
• Navajo: Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí Łání
• Nepali: इण्डोनेशिया (iṇḍoneśiyā)
• Norman: Îndonésie f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: Indonesia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Indonesia (no)

  Nynorsk: Indonesia (nn)

• Occitan: Indonesia f
• Pashto: اندونيزيا‎ (ps) f (endonezyá)
• Persian: اندونزی‎ (fa) (andonezi)
• Polish: Indonezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Indonésia (pt) f
• Quechua: Indunisya
• Romanian: Indonezia (ro) f
• Russian: Индоне́зия (ru) f (Indonɛ́zija)
• Sanskrit: इन्दोनेशिया (indoneśiyā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Индо̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Indònēzija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Indunesia f
• Sinhalese: ඉන්දුනීසියාව (indunīsiyāwa)
• Slovak: Indonézia f
• Slovene: Indonezija (sl) f
• Spanish: Indonesia (es) f
• Sundanese: Indonésia
• Swahili: Indonesia (sw)
• Swedish: Indonesien (sv)
• Tagalog: Indonesya
• Tajik: Индонезия (tg) (Indoneziya)
• Tamil: இந்தோனேசியா (ta) (intōṉēciyā)
• Tatar: Индонезия (İndoneziya)
• Telugu: ఇండోనేషియా (iṇḍōnēṣiyā)
• Tetum: indonézia
• Thai: อินโดนีเซีย (th) (in-doo-nii-siia), อิเหนา (ì-nǎo)
• Tibetan: ཨིན་རྡུ་ནི་ཤིས་ཡ (in rdu ni shis ya)
• Turkish: Endonezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Indoneziýa (tk)
• Ukrainian: Індоне́зія (uk) f (Indonézija)
• Urdu: انڈونیشیا‎ (inḍoneśiyā)
• Uyghur: ھىندونېزىيە‎ (hindonëziye)
• Uzbek: Indoneziya (uz)
• Vietnamese: In-đô-nê-xi-a, Nam Dương (vi) (dated)
• Võro: Indoneesiä
• Welsh: Indonesia (cy)
• Yiddish: אינדאָנעזיע‎ (indonezye)
• Yoruba: Indonesia
• Zhuang: Yindunizsihya, Yinniz

See also

• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• Edisonian

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Asturian

Proper noun

Indonesia f

1. Indonesia (country)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia (a country in Asia)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia (a country in Asia)

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Cia-Cia

Etymology

From Indonesian Indonesia.

Proper noun

Indonesia (Hangul spelling 인도네시아)

1. Indonesia

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindone(ː)s(ː)iɑ/, [ˈindo̞ˌne̞(ː)s̠(ː)iɑ]
• Rhymes: -esiɑ
• Syllabification: in‧do‧ne‧si‧a

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

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 Indonesiainrare
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
instructive		—	Indonesioin
abessive		Indonesiatta	Indonesioitta
comitative		—	Indonesioineen

Possessive forms of Indonesia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Indonesiani	Indonesiamme
2nd person	Indonesiasi	Indonesianne
3rd person	Indonesiansa

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Indonesian

Etymology

From English Indonesia, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus, India”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.ˈdo.nɛ.sja/
• IPA^(key): (colloquial) /in.ˈdo.nɛ.ʃa/, /ɛn.ˈdo.nɛ.sja/
• Hyphenation: in‧do‧nè‧sia

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

Adjective

Indonesia

1. Indonesian

Meronyms

• (provinces) Aceh, Bali, Bangka Belitung, Banten, Bengkulu, Gorontalo, Jakarta, Jambi, Jawa Tengah, Jawa Timur, Jawa Barat, Kalimantan Tengah, Kalimantan Timur, Kalimantan Utara, Kalimantan Selatan, Kalimantan Barat, Lampung, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Papua, Papua Barat, Riau, Sulawesi Tengah, Sulawesi Utara, Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Sulawesi Barat, Sumatra Utara, Sumatra Selatan, Sumatra Barat, Yogyakarta

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Further reading

• “Indonesia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Indonesia f

1. Indonesia

Derived terms

• indonesiano

Anagrams

• disneiano, insediano

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Latin

Proper noun

Indonēsia f sg (genitive Indonēsiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Indonesia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Indonēsia
Genitive	Indonēsiae
Dative	Indonēsiae
Accusative	Indonēsiam
Ablative	Indonēsiā
Vocative	Indonēsia

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Malay

Etymology

From English Indonesia.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /indonesiə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /indonesia/
• Rhymes: -iə, -jə, -ə

Proper noun

Indonesia (Jawi spelling ايندونيسيا‎)

1. Indonesia

Adjective

Indonesia

1. Indonesian

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

Related terms

• indonesier
• indonesisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

Related terms

• indonesiar
• indonesisk

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Papiamentu

Etymology

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Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indoˈnesja/, [ĩn̪.d̪oˈne.sja]

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• Hyphenation: In‧do‧ne‧sia

Proper noun

Indonesia f

1. Indonesia

Related terms

• indonesio