invasion

See also: Invasion and invasión

English

Etymology

From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin invāsiōnem, accusative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪʒən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)

1. A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
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2. The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.

   an invasion of mobile phones

   an invasion of bees

   an invasion of foreign tourists

3. (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
4. (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.

Derived terms

• angioinvasion
• bioinvasion
• British Invasion
• chemoinvasion
• coinvasion
• counterinvasion
• cyberinvasion
• cytoinvasion
• home invasion
• invasin
• invasional
• invasionary
• invasionist
• invasion money
• invasion of privacy
• invasion stripes
• lymphoinvasion
• microinvasion
• neuroinvasion
• pitch invasion
• postinvasion
• preinvasion
• pseudoinvasion
• reinvasion
• vasoinvasion

 

Related terms

• intervasion
• invade
• invader

 

Translations

military action

• Albanian: pushtim (sq) m
• Arabic: غَزْو m (ḡazw), إِغَارَة f (ʔiḡāra), اِنْتِهَاك m (intihāk), تَجَاوُز m (tajāwuz), تَهَاجُم m (tahājum)
• Armenian: ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʻ)
• Asturian: invasión f
• Azerbaijani: işğal (az), təcavüz (az), müdaxilə (az)
• Basque: inbasio
• Belarusian: уварва́нне n (uvarvánnje), інва́зія f (invázija)
• Bulgarian: инва́зия f (invázija), наше́ствие (bg) n (našéstvie), агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija)
• Burmese: ဝင်ရောက်စွက်ဖက်မှု (wang-raukcwakhpakhmu.), ကျူးကျော် (my) (kyu:kyau)
• Catalan: invasió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 侵占 (cam¹ zim³), 佔領／占领 (zim³ ling⁵), 侵略 (cam¹ loek⁶), 入侵 (jap⁶ cam¹), 侵入 (cam¹ jap⁶)

  Mandarin: 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn), 佔領／占领 (zh) (zhànlǐng), 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè), 入侵 (zh) (rùqīn), 侵入 (zh) (qīnrù)

• Czech: invaze (cs) f, vpád m
• Danish: invasion c
• Dutch: invasie (nl) f, inval (nl) m
• Esperanto: invado
• Estonian: sissetungi, invasioon
• Faroese: hertøka f
• Finnish: invaasio (fi), maahantunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: invasion (fr)
• Galician: invasión f
• Georgian: შემოსევა (šemoseva), შემოჭრა (šemoč̣ra)
• German: Invasion (de) f, Überfall (de) m, Einfall (de) m, Einmarsch (de) m
• Greek: εισβολή (el) (eisvolí)

  Ancient: εἰσβολή f (eisbolḗ)

• Hebrew: פְּלִישָׁה (plishá)
• Hindi: आक्रमण (hi) m (ākramaṇ), हमला (hi) m (hamlā), मुदाख़लत f (mudāxalat)
• Hungarian: invázió (hu)
• Icelandic: innrás
• Indonesian: invasi (id), serbuan (id), serangan (id)
• Italian: invasione (it), calata (it) f
• Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku), 侵攻 (ja) (しんこう, shinkō), 侵入 (ja) (しんにゅう, shinnyū)
• Kazakh: басып кіру (basyp kıru)
• Khmer: ការលុកលុយ (kaa luk luy), អធិក្រម (km) (ʼaʼthikrɑm)
• Korean: 침입(侵入) (ko) (chimip), 침공(侵攻) (chimgong), 침략(侵略) (ko) (chimnyak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: داگیرکردن (dagîrkirdin)

  Northern Kurdish: tecawiz (ku), destdirêjî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: басып кирүү (basıp kirüü)
• Lao: ການບຸກລຸກ (kān buk luk), ການຮົກຮານ (kān hok hān), ການຮຸກຮານ (kān huk hān)
• Latin: incursiō f, (Late) invasiō f
• Latvian: invāzija f
• Lithuanian: invazija f, įsiveržimas m
• Luxembourgish: Amarsch (lb) m
• Macedonian: инвазија f (invazija)
• Malay: invasi
• Malayalam: അധിനിവേശം (ml) (adhinivēśaṁ)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakaekenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халдлага (mn) (xaldlaga), довтолгоон (dovtolgoon), түрэмгийлэл (mn) (türemgiilel)

• Nepali: आक्रमण (ne) (ākramaṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invasjon m

  Nynorsk: invasjon m

• Occitan: invasion (oc) f
• Old English: infaru f
• Oromo: weerara
• Pashto: تجاوز (ps) m (tajāwoz), تهاجم (ps) m (tahājom)
• Persian: تَهاجُم (fa) (tahâjom), تَجاوُز (fa) (tajâvoz), مُداخِلِه (fa) (modâxele)
• Polish: inwazja (pl) f
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਮਲਾ (hamlā)
• Romanian: invazie (ro) f
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije),
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝнва̄зија f

  Roman: ìnvāzija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ආක්රමණය කිරීමයි (ākramaṇaya kirīmayi), ආක්රමණය (ākramaṇaya)
• Slovak: invázia f, vpád m
• Slovene: invazija (sl) f
• Spanish: invasión (es) f
• Swedish: invasion (sv) c
• Tajik: таҳоҷум (tahojum), таҷовуз (tajovuz), мудохила (tg) (mudoxila)
• Tamil: படையெடுப்பு (paṭaiyeṭuppu)
• Telugu: ఆక్రమణ (te) (ākramaṇa)
• Thai: การบุกรุก (gaan-bùk-rúk), การรุกราน (th) (gaan-rúk-raan)
• Tibetan: བཙན་འཛུལ (btsan 'dzul)
• Turkish: saldırı (tr), işgal (tr), tecâvüz (tr), müdahale (tr)
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja), інва́зія (uk) f (invázija)
• Urdu: حَمْلَہ m (hamla), مُداخَلَت f (mudāxalat)
• Uyghur: تاجاۋۇز (tajawuz)
• Uzbek: tajovuz (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự xâm lược (vi), sự xâm chiếm (vi)
• Welsh: goresgyniad m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem, nominative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.zjɔ̃/

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

   armée d’invasion ― invasion army

   troupes d’invasion ― invasion troops

Related terms

• envahir
• invasif

Further reading

• “invasion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin invāsiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiō.

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion

Declension

Declension of invasion
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	invasion	invasionen	invasioner	invasionerna
Genitive	invasions	invasionens	invasioners	invasionernas

Related terms

• invadera

References

• invasion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• invasion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• invasion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)