Micronesia

See also: micronesia, micronésia, and Micronésia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μικρόνησος (mikrónēsos, “small island”, from μικρός (mikrós, “small, minimum”) +‎ νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪkroʊˈniːʒə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.zi.ə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.zi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Proper noun

Micronesia

2. A continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
4. A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia. Capital: Palikir.

Holonyms

• Austronesia
• Oceania

Coordinate terms

• Melanesia
• Polynesia

Descendants

• Japanese: ミクロネシア (Mikuroneshia)

Translations

geographical region

• Afrikaans: Mikronesië
• Amharic: ማይክሮኔዥያ (maykəronežya)
• Arabic: مِيكْرُونِزِيَا f (mīkrūniziyā)
• Armenian: Միկրոնեզիա (Mikronezia)
• Azerbaijani: Mikroneziya
• Belarusian: Мікране́зія f (Mikranjézija), Мікранэ́зія f (Mikranézija)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোনেশিয়া (bn) (maikrōneśiẏa)
• Breton: Mikronezia
• Bulgarian: Микроне́зия f (Mikronézija)
• Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုနီးရှား (muikhka.ruini:hra:)
• Catalan: Micronèsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密克羅尼西亞 / 密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 米克羅尼西亞 / 米克罗尼西亚 (Mìkèluóníxīyà)

• Corsican: Micrunesia f
• Czech: Mikronésie (cs) f
• Danish: Mikronesien (da) n
• Dutch: Micronesië n
• Estonian: Mikroneesia (et)
• Finnish: Mikronesia (fi)
• French: Micronésie (fr) f
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (ka) (miḳronezia)
• German: Mikronesien (de)
• Greek: Μικρονησία (el) f (Mikronisía)
• Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹנֶזְיָה f (mikronézya)
• Hindi: माइक्रोनीशिया m (māikronīśiyā)
• Hungarian: Mikronézia (hu)
• Icelandic: Míkrónesía
• Indonesian: Mikronesia (id)
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Italian: Micronesia f
• Japanese: ミクロネシア (ja) (Mikuroneshia)
• Kazakh: Микронезия (kk) (Mikroneziä)
• Khmer: មីក្រូនេស៊ី (miikruuneisii)
• Korean: 미크로네시아 (Mikeuronesia)
• Kyrgyz: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Lao: ໄມໂຄຣນີເຊຍ (mai khō nī sīa), ມີໂຄລເນຊີ (mī khō nē sī)
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
• Lithuanian: Mikronezija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Микронезија f (Mikronezija)
• Malay: Mikronesia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Микронези (Mikronezi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mikronesia

  Nynorsk: Mikronesia (nn)

• Persian: میکرونزی (fa) (mikronezi)
• Polish: Mikronezja (pl) f
• Russian: Микроне́зия (ru) f (Mikronɛ́zija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Микро̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Mikrònēzija (sh) f

• Slovak: Mikronézia f
• Slovene: Mikronezija (sl) f
• Spanish: Micronesia (es) f
• Swedish: Mikronesien (sv) n
• Tajik: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Tatar: Микронезия (Mikroneziyä)
• Thai: ไมโครนีเซีย (th) (mai-kroo-nii-siia)
• Turkish: Mikronezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Mikroneziýa
• Ukrainian: Мікроне́зія f (Mikronézija)
• Urdu: مائیکرونیشیا m (mā'ikronīśiyā)
• Uzbek: Mikroneziya
• Vietnamese: Tiểu Đảo (小島), Mi-crô-nê-di, Mai-crô-nê-xi-a
• Yiddish: מיקראָנעזיע n (mikronezye)

country

• Afrikaans: Mikronesië
• Arabic: مِيكْرُونِزِيَا f (mīkrūniziyā)
• Armenian: Միկրոնեզիա (Mikronezia)
• Azerbaijani: Mikroneziya
• Belarusian: Мікране́зія f (Mikranjézija), Мікранэ́зія f (Mikranézija)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোনেশিয়া (bn) (maikrōneśiẏa)
• Breton: Mikronezia
• Bulgarian: Микроне́зия f (Mikronézija)
• Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုနီးရှား (muikhka.ruini:hra:)
• Catalan: Micronèsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密克羅尼西亞 / 密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 米克羅尼西亞 / 米克罗尼西亚 (Mìkèluóníxīyà)

• Corsican: Micrunesia f
• Czech: Mikronésie (cs) f
• Danish: Mikronesien (da) n
• Dutch: Micronesië n
• Esperanto: Mikronezio
• Estonian: Mikroneesia (et)
• Finnish: Mikronesia (fi)
• French: Micronésie (fr) f
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (ka) (miḳronezia)
• German: Mikronesien (de)
• Greek: Μικρονησία (el) f (Mikronisía)
• Hindi: माइक्रोनीशिया m (māikronīśiyā)
• Hungarian: Mikronézia (hu)
• Icelandic: Míkrónesía
• Indonesian: Mikronesia (id)
• Interlingua: Micronesia
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Italian: Micronesia f
• Japanese: ミクロネシア (ja) (Mikuroneshia)
• Kazakh: Микронезия (kk) (Mikroneziä)
• Khmer: មីក្រូនេស៊ី (miikruuneisii)
• Korean: 미크로네시아 (Mikeuronesia)
• Kyrgyz: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Lao: ໄມໂຄຣນີເຊຍ (mai khō nī sīa), ມີໂຄຣເນເຊຍ (mī khō nē sīa)
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
• Lithuanian: Mikronezija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Микронезија f (Mikronezija)
• Malay: Mikronesia
• Maltese: il-Mikronesja f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Микронези (Mikronezi)

• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Tónteel bikáaʼgi Kéyah Yázhí dah Ndaaʼeełgo Ałhidadiidzooígíí
• Norman: Micronésie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Micronesia

• Occitan: Micronesia (oc) f
• Persian: میکرونزی (fa) (mikronezi)
• Polish: Mikronezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Micronésia (pt) f
• Romanian: Micronezia f
• Russian: Микроне́зия (ru) f (Mikronɛ́zija)
• Scots: Micronesie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Микро̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Mikrònēzija (sh) f

• Slovak: Mikronézia f
• Slovene: Mikronezija (sl) f
• Spanish: Micronesia (es) f
• Swedish: Mikronesien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Mikpuluan, Micronesia
• Tajik: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Tatar: Микронезия (Mikroneziyä)
• Thai: ไมโครนีเซีย (th) (mai-kroo-nii-siia)
• Turkish: Mikronezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Mikroneziýa
• Ukrainian: Мікроне́зія f (Mikronézija)
• Urdu: مائیکرونیشیا m (mā'ikronīśiyā)
• Uzbek: Mikroneziya
• Vietnamese: Tiểu Đảo (小島), Mi-crô-nê-di, Mai-crô-nê-xi-a
• Volapük: Smala-Seanuäns (vo)
• West Frisian: Mikroneezje n
• Yiddish: מיקראָנעזיע n (mikronezye)
• Yoruba: Makoronesia

See also

countries in Oceania (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Palikir
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• acrimonies, anisomeric, carmoisine

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Micronesia

1. Micronesia (a continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region)

Italian

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region)

Derived terms

• micronesiano

Anagrams

• sinceriamo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.kroˈneː.si.a/, [mɪkrɔˈneːs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.kroˈne.si.a/, [mikroˈnɛːs̬iä]

Proper noun

Micronēsia f sg (genitive Micronēsiae); first declension (New Latin)

1. Micronesia (a continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Micronēsia
genitive	Micronēsiae
dative	Micronēsiae
accusative	Micronēsiam
ablative	Micronēsiā
vocative	Micronēsia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈnesja/ [mi.kɾoˈne.sja]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: Mi‧cro‧ne‧sia

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region)

Derived terms

• micronesio

Welsh

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in the Micronesia region)

Coordinate terms

countries in Oceania: gwledydd Oceania (Ynysoedd y De) (appendix)edit

• Awstralia
• Ciribati
• Fanwatw
• Ffiji
• Micronesia
• Nawrw
• Niue
• Palaw
• Papwa Gini Newydd
• Samoa
• Seland Newydd
• Tonga
• Twfalw
• Ynysoedd Cook
• Ynysoedd Marshall
• Ynysoedd Solomon

Derived terms

• Micronesiad (“Micronesian person”)
• Micronesiaidd (“Micronesian”, adjective)