colonialism

English

Etymology

colonial +‎ -ism

Noun

colonialism (countable and uncountable, plural colonialisms)

1. The colonial domination policy. A colonial system.
2. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
3. Colonial life.

Derived terms

• neocolonialism
• internal colonialism

Translations

colonial domination policy

• Arabic: اِسْتَعْمَارِيَّة f (istaʕmāriyya)
• Armenian: գաղութատիրություն (hy) (gaġutʻatirutʻyun)
• Catalan: colonialisme m
• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殖民主義／殖民主义 (zh) (zhímín zhǔyì), 殖民主义 (zh) (zhímínzhǔyì)

• Czech: kolonialismus
• Danish: kolonialisme
• Dutch: kolonialisme (nl)
• Esperanto: koloniismo
• Finnish: kolonialismi (fi)
• French: colonialisme (fr) m
• Georgian: კოლონიალიზმი (ḳolonializmi)
• German: Kolonialismus (de) m
• Greek: αποικιοκρατία (el) f (apoikiokratía), αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
• Hindi: उपनिवेशवाद m (upniveśvād)
• Indonesian: kolonialisme (id)
• Italian: colonialismo (it)
• Japanese: 植民地主義 (しょくみんちしゅぎ, shokuminchishugi)
• Khmer: អាណានិគមនិយម (km) (aa naa ni’kum ni’yum)
• Korean: 식민주의 (singminjuui) (植民主義)
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• Latvian: koloniālisms
• Lithuanian: kolonializmas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolonialisme m

  Nynorsk: kolonialisme m

• Persian: استعمارگری (este'mârgari)
• Polish: kolonializm (pl)
• Portuguese: colonialismo (pt) m
• Romanian: colonialism (ro) m
• Russian: колониали́зм (ru) m (kolonialízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: kolonijalizam (sh)
• Sicilian: culunialismu
• Slovak: kolonializmus
• Slovene: kolonializem (sl)
• Spanish: colonialismo (es) m
• Swahili: ukoloni, beberu (sw)
• Swedish: kolonialism (sv)
• Tagalog: koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo
• Turkish: sömürgecilik (tr)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa thực dân (主義殖民)

colonial linguistic expression

• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Swahili: beberu (sw)
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• Tagalog: koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo

colonial life

• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Swahili: beberu (sw)
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• Tagalog: koloniya, buhay-koloniya, koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} colonialismo (it)
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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} kolonijalizam (sh) m

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French colonialisme.

Noun

colonialism n (uncountable)

1. colonialism

Declension

declension of colonialism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) colonialism	colonialismul
genitive/dative	(unui) colonialism	colonialismului
vocative	colonialismule