English[edit]
A map, with the Indian Ocean in dark blue
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Oceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity).
Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”).
Pronunciation[edit]
ocean (countable and uncountable, plural oceans)
- (countable) One of the 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)
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one of the large bodies of water
- Afrikaans: oseaan (af)
- Albanian: oqean (sq) m, ujanë f, kërnalle (sq) f
- Amharic: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳyanos)
- Antillean Creole: granlanmè
- Arabic: مُحِيط (ar) m (muḥīṭ), قَامُوس (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 (mohaxagor)
- Asturian: océanu m
- Azerbaijani: okean (az)
- Bashkir: океан (okean)
- Basque: ozeano
- Belarusian: акія́н m (akiján)
- Bengali: সমুদ্র (bn) (śômudrô), মহাসমুদ্র (bn) (môhaśmudrô)
- Bislama: dipsi
- Bulgarian: океа́н m (okeán)
- Burmese: အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa), သမုဒ္ဒရာ (my) (sa.mudda.ra)
- Buryat: далай (dalaj)
- Catalan: oceà (ca) m
- Chechen: океан (okean)
- Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: ён (ion)
- Mandarin: 大洋 (zh) (dàyáng), 海洋 (zh) (hǎiyáng), 洋 (zh) (yáng)
- Chukchi: майӈыаӈӄы (majṇyaṇqy)
- Crimean Tatar: okean
- Czech: oceán (cs) m
- Danish: ocean (da) n
- Dhivehi: ކަނޑު (kanḍu)
- Dutch: oceaan (nl) m, wereldzee (nl) f
- Eastern Bontoc: fiayfiay
- 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 (gl) m
- Georgian: ოკეანე (oḳeane)
- German: Weltmeer (de) n, Ozean (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὠκεανός m (ōkeanós)
- Modern Greek: ωκεανός (el) m (okeanós)
- Greenlandic: imaq
- Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) (samudra)
- Haitian Creole: oseyan
- Hausa: tḕku f
- Hawaiian: moana
- Hebrew: אוקיינוס \ אוֹקְיָנוֹס (he) m (oqyanós), יָם (he) m (yam)
- Hindi: महासागर (hi) m (mahāsāgar), समन्दर (hi) m (samandar), समुन्दर (hi) m (samundar), अम्बुधि (hi) (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
- Ilocano: baybay
- Indonesian: samudra (id), lautan (id)
- Interlingua: oceano
- Interlingue: ocean (ie)
- 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)
- Kalmyk: дала (dala)
- Kannada: ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಮಹಾಸಾಗರ (mahāsāgara)
- Karakalpak: okean
- Kazakh: мұхит (kk) (muxït)
- Khmer: មហាសមុទ្រ (mĕəʾhaasaʾmot), សមុទ្រ (km) (saʾmot), សាគរ (km) (saakɔɔ)
- Korean: 대양 (ko) (daeyang) (大洋 (ko)), 바다 (ko) (bada)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: okyanûs (ku)
- Kyrgyz: океан (ky) (okean)
- Lao: ມະຫາສະໝຸດ (lo) (ma hā sa mut)
- Latin: oceanus m
- Latvian: okeāns (lv)
- Lithuanian: okeanas m, vandenynas (lt) m
- Luganda: enyanjja, enenne
- Luiseño: móomat
- Macedonian: океа́н m (okeán)
- Malagasy: oseana (mg)
- Malay: lautan, samudera, segara
- Malayalam: സമുദ്രം (ml) (samudraṃ), സാഗരം (ml) (sāgaraṃ)
- Maltese: oċean m
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- Manx: faarkey m
- Maori: moana (mi), moana pīpipi, moana waiwai, moana tuauriuri
- Maranao: kalodan, karodan
- Marathi: महासागर (mahāsāgar)
- Mirandese: ouceano m
- Mongolian: далай (mn) (dalaj)
- Navajo: tónteel
- Nepali: महासागर (ne) (mahāsāgara)
- Norman: ochéan m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verdenshav n
- Nynorsk: verdshav n
- Occitan: ocean (oc) m
- Old English: gārseċġ m
- Oriya: ମହାସାଗର (mahāsāgar)
- Pali: samudda m
- Pashto: سمندر (ps) (samandar)
- Persian: اقیانوس (fa) (oqyânus)
- Polish: ocean (pl) m
- Portuguese: oceano (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਮਹਾਂਸਾਗਰ (mahānsāgar)
- Quechua: mama qucha
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: cáigor
- Romanian: ocean (ro) n
- Russian: океа́н (ru) m (okeán)
- Rusyn: океа́н m (okeán)
- Rwanda-Rundi: inyanja class 9/10 (Rwanda), iki-yaga (Rundi)
- Samoan: vasa
- Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa) 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
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: ocean m
- Southern Kalinga: fayfay
- Spanish: océano (es) m
- Sundanese: jaladri (su)
- 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-hǎa-sà-mùt)
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)
- Tigrinya: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳyanos)
- Tlingit: éil'
- Tok Pisin: solwara
- Tongan: 'oseni
- Tupinambá: paranã
- Turkish: okyanus (tr)
- Turkmen: okean, de–iz
- Tuwali Ifugao: baybay
- Udmurt: океан (okean)
- Ukrainian: океа́н (uk) m (okeán)
- Urdu: بحر (ur) (bahr), محیط (muhiyet), سمندر (samandar), ساگر m (sāgar)
- Uyghur: ئوكيان (okyan)
- Uzbek: okean (uz), 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
- Yakut: океан (okean)
- Yiddish: ים m (yam), אָקעאַן m (okean)
- Yoruba: òkun
- Yup'ik: imarpik
- Zhuang: haijyangz
- Zulu: ulwandle class 11/10
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
ocean m inan
- 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
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