Indonesia

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

National emblem of Indonesia

English

Map of Indonesia.

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-/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə, -iːziə

Proper noun

Indonesia

2. A country in maritime Southeast Asia, having Jakarta as its capital; modern Republic of Indonesia (since 1950).

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)
• Armenian: Ինդոնեզիա (hy) (Indonezia)
• Assamese: ইণ্ডোনেচিয়া (indünesia)
• Asturian: Indonesia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: İndoneziya (az)
• Bashkir: Индонезия (Indoneziya)
• Belarusian: Індане́зія f (Indanjézija)
• Bengali: ইন্দোনেশিয়া (indoneśiya)
• Breton: Indonezia
• Bulgarian: Индоне́зия (bg) f (Indonézija)
• Burmese: အင်ဒိုနီးရှား (angduini:hra:)
• Catalan: Indonèsia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 印尼 (jan³ nei⁴)

  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 (inḍonēšiyā)
• Dutch: Indonesië (nl) f
• Esperanto: Indonezio (eo)
• Estonian: Indoneesia (et)
• 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 (ʾənduuneisii)
• Kikuyu: Indonesia
• Korean: 인도네시아 (Indonesia)
• Kyrgyz: Индонезия (ky) (İndoneziya)
• Lao: ອິນໂດເນຊີ (’in dō nē sī), ອິນໂດນີເຊັຽ (’in dō nī sīa), ອິນໂດເນເຊຍ (lo) (’in 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)
• Scots: Indonesie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Индо̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Indònēzija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Indunesia f
• Sinhalese: ඉන්දුනීසියාව (indunīsiyāva)
• 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

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, Egypt, 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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Etymology

From Indonesian Indonesia.

Proper noun

Indonesia (Hangul spelling 인도네시아)

1. Indonesia

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindone(ː)siɑ/, [ˈindo̞ˌne̞(ː)s̠iɑ]
• 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.do.nɛ.sia/
• Hyphenation: in‧do‧nè‧sia

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

Adjective

Indonesia

1. Indonesian

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): /indoˈnɛzja/

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, with locative, singular only.

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

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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

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

Proper noun

Indonesia

1. Indonesia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indoˈnesja/, [ĩn̪d̪oˈnesja]

Proper noun

Indonesia f

1. Indonesia

Related terms

• indonesio