English[edit]
Wikipedia
A map, with the Indian Ocean in dark blue
Etymology[edit]
From Old French occean (later reborrowed from Middle French ocean), from Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity).
Pronunciation[edit]
ocean (plural oceans)
- (countable) One of the five large bodies of water separating the continents.
- (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
- The island is surrounded by ocean
- (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
- the boundless ocean of eternity
- an ocean of affairs
Synonyms[edit]
- (large body of water): the ogin (UK, nautical and navy)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one of the five large bodies of water
- Afrikaans: oseaan
- Albanian: oqeani
- Amharic: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳəyanos)
- Antillean Creole: granlanmè
- Arabic: محيط (ar) m (muḥīṭ), قاموس (ar) m (qāmūs)
- Aragonese: ocián m
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣ m (’ōqeyanōs)
- Armenian: օվկիանոս (hy) (ōvkianos)
- Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
- Assamese: মহাসাগৰ (môhāȟāgôr)
- Asturian: océanu m
- Azeri: okean (az)
- Bashkir: океан (okean)
- Basque: ozeano
- Belarusian: акіян m (akiján)
- Bengali: সমুদ্র (bn) (sômudrô), মহাসমুদ্র (bn) (môhasômudrô)
- Bislama: dipsi
- Bulgarian: океан m (okeán)
- Burmese: အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa), သမုဒ္ဒရာ (my) (sa.mudda.ra)
- Catalan: oceà (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大洋 (zh) (dàyáng), 海洋 (zh) (hǎiyáng), 洋 (zh) (yáng)
- Czech: oceán (cs) m
- Danish: ocean (da) n
- Dhivehi: ކަނޑު (kanaḍu)
- Dutch: oceaan (nl) m, wereldzee f
- Esperanto: oceano (eo)
- Estonian: ookean (et)
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: océanu m
- Faroese: hav n
- Fijian: wasa (fj)
- Finnish: valtameri (fi)
- French: océan (fr) m
- Galician: océano m
- Georgian: ოკეანე (okeane)
- German: Ozean (de) m
- Greek: ωκεανός (el) m (okeanós)
- Greenlandic: imaq
- Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) (samudra)
- Haitian Creole: oseyan
- Hausa: tḕku f
- Hebrew: אוקינוס (he) m (’ōqeyanōs), יָם (he) m (yam)
- Hindi: महासागर (mahāsāgar), समन्दर (samandar), समुन्दर (samundar), अम्बुधि (ambudhi), सागर (hi) m (sāgar)
- Hungarian: óceán (hu)
- Icelandic: haf (is) n, sjór (is) m, ægir (is) m (poetic), úthaf (is) n
- Ido: oceano (io)
- Igbo: osimiri
- Indonesian: samudra (id), lautan (id)
- Interlingua: oceano
- Interlingue: ocean
- Iranun: kaludan
- Irish: aigéan m, oician m (early form), bóchna f, farraige (ga) f, an fharraige mhòr f, lear m, mórmhuir f
- Italian: oceano (it) m
- Japanese: 大洋 (たいよう, taiyō), 海洋 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō), 海 (ja) (うみ, umi)
- Jèrriais: ochéan m
- Kannada: ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಮಹಾಸಾಗರ (mahāsāgara)
- Karakalpak: okean
- Kazakh: мұхит (kk) (muxït)
- Khmer: មហាសមុទ្រ (mɔhaa sa’mot)
- Kinyarwanda: inyanja class 9/10
- Kirundi: iki-yaga
- Korean: 대양 (ko) (daeyang) (大洋 (ko)), 바다 (ko) (bada)
- Kyrgyz: океан (ky) (okean)
- Lao: ມະຫາສະໝຸດ (lo) (ma hā sa mut)
- Latin: oceanus m
- Latvian: okeāns
- Lithuanian: okeanas m, vandenynas (lt) m
- Lojban: braxamsi
- Luganda: enyanjja , enenne
- Luiseño: móomat
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- Macedonian: океан m (okeán)
- Malagasy: oseana (mg)
- Malay: lautan, samudera, segara
- Malayalam: സമുദ്രം (ml) (samudraṃ), സാഗരം (ml) (sāgaraṃ)
- Maltese: oċean m
- Manx: faarkey m
- Maori: moana (mi), moana pīpipi, moana waiwai, moana tuauriuri
- Marathi: महासागर (mahāsāgar)
- Mirandese: ouceano m
- Mongolian: далай (mn) (dalaj)
- Navajo: tónteel
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verdenshav n
- Nynorsk: verdshav n
- Occitan: ocean (oc) m
- Old English: holm, ġeofon n, gārsecg m
- Oriya: ମହାସାଗର (mahāsāgara)
- Pashto: سمندر (ps) (samandar)
- Persian: اقیانوس (fa) (oqyânus)
- Polish: ocean (pl) m
- Portuguese: oceano (pt) m
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: cáigor
- Romanian: ocean (ro) n
- Russian: океан (ru) m (okeán)
- Samoan: vasa
- Sanskrit: समुद्र m (samudra)
- Sardinian: mari
- Scottish Gaelic: aigeann m, cuan m, cuan mòr m, fairge f, an fhairge mhòr f, muir f, tàbh m
- Serbo-Croatian: ocean (sh) m
- Cyrillic: океан m
- Roman: okean (sh) m
- Shan: ပၢင်ႇလၢႆႇ (paang2 laaj2)
- Sicilian: ucèanu (scn) m
- Sindhi: ساگر (sd) m (sâgaru)
- Sinhalese: සාගරය (si) (sāgaraya)
- Slovak: oceán m
- Slovene: ocean (sl) m
- Somali: badweyn f
- Spanish: océano (es) m
- Sundanese: jaladri
- Swahili: bahari (sw)
- Swedish: ocean (sv)
- Tagalog: karagatan
- Tajik: уқёнус (tg) (uqyonus)
- Tamil: கடல் (ta) (kaṭal)
- Tatar: океан (oqean)
- Telugu: మహా సముద్రం (mahā samudraṃ)
- Tetum: tasi
- Thai: มหาสมุทร (th) (má-hăa sà-mùt)
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)
- Tigrinya: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳəyanos)
- Tok Pisin: solwara
- Tongan: 'oseni
- Tupinambá: paranã
- Turkish: okyanus (tr)
- Turkmen: okean, de–iz
- Ukrainian: океан (uk) m (okeán)
- Urdu: بحر (ur) (bahr), محیط (muhiyet), سمندر (samandar), ساگر m (sāgar)
- Uzbek: okean, muhit (uz)
- Venda: please add this translation if you can
- Venetian: oçeano m
- Vietnamese: đại dương (vi) (大洋)
- Volapük: sean (vo)
- Võro: suurmeri
- Walloon: oceyan (wa)
- Welsh: cefnfor (cy) m, eigion m
- West Coast Bajau: selang
- Wolof: mbàmbulaan (wo)
- Xhosa: ulwandlekazi
- Yiddish: ים m (yam)
- Yoruba: òkun
- Zulu: ulwandle class 11/10
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See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Wikipedia pl
Pronunciation[edit]
ocean m
- ocean
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /otsěaːn/
- Hyphenation: o‧ce‧an
ocèān m (Cyrillic spelling оцѐа̄н)
- (Croatia) ocean
Declension[edit]
declension of ocean
|
singular |
plural |
| nominative |
ocèān |
oceani |
| genitive |
oceána |
oceana |
| dative |
oceanu |
oceanima |
| accusative |
ocean |
oceane |
| vocative |
oceane |
oceani |
| locative |
oceanu |
oceanima |
| instrumental |
oceanom |
oceanima |
