Polynesia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”); according to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, "the term Polynesia was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756 and applied to all the Pacific islands. The present restricted use was proposed by Dumont d'Urville during a famous lecture at the Geographical Society in Paris in 1831."

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒləˈniːzi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːləˈniːʒə/
• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Proper noun

Polynesia

1. Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.

Related terms

• Polynesian

Translations

part of Oceania

• Arabic: بولينزيا‎‎ f (bulinīzyā)
• Armenian: Պոլինեզիա (Polinezia)
• Belarusian: Паліне́зія f (Palinjézija)
• Catalan: Polinèsia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波利尼西亞 (zh), 波利尼西亚 (zh) (Bōlìníxīyà)

• Czech: Polynésie (cs) f
• Danish: Polynesien pl
• Dutch: Polynesië (nl)
• Esperanto: Polinezio
• Estonian: Polüneesia
• Finnish: Polynesia (fi)
• French: Polynésie (fr) f
• Georgian: პოლინეზია (ṗolinezia)
• German: Polynesien n
• Greek: Πολυνησία (el) f (Polynisía)
• Hawaiian: Polenekia
• Hebrew: פולינזיה‎‎ f (polinezia)
• Hungarian: Polinézia (hu)

• Irish: An Pholainéis f
• Italian: Polinesia f
• Japanese: ポリネシア (ja) (Porineshia)
• Korean: 폴리네시아 (Pollinesia)
• Macedonian: Полине́зија f (Polinézija)
• Malay: Polinesia
• Polish: Polinezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Polinésia (pt)
• Russian: Полине́зия (ru) f (Polinɛ́zija)
• Samoan: Polenisia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Полѝне̄зија f

  Roman: Polìnēzija (sh) f

• Swedish: Polynesien (sv)
• Tagalog: Dampuluan
• Thai: พอลินีเชีย (pɔɔ-lí-nii-chiia)
• Turkish: Polinezya (tr)
• Volapük: Möda-Seanuäns (vo)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Polynesia

1. Polynesia

Declension

Inflection of Polynesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Polynesia	—
genitive		Polynesian	—
partitive		Polynesiaa	—
illative		Polynesiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Polynesia	—
accusative	nom.	Polynesia	—
	gen.	Polynesian
genitive		Polynesian	—
partitive		Polynesiaa	—
inessive		Polynesiassa	—
elative		Polynesiasta	—
illative		Polynesiaan	—
adessive		Polynesialla	—
ablative		Polynesialta	—
allative		Polynesialle	—
essive		Polynesiana	—
translative		Polynesiaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Polynesiatta	—
comitative		—	—

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Latin

Proper noun

Polynēsia f (genitive Polynēsiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Polynesia

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Polynēsia
Genitive	Polynēsiae
Dative	Polynēsiae
Accusative	Polynēsiam
Ablative	Polynēsiā
Vocative	Polynēsia
Locative	Polynēsiae