Micronesia

See also: micronesia, micronésia, and Micronésia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μικρόνησος (mikrónēsos, “small island”, from μικρός (mikrós, “small, minimum”) +‎ νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪkroʊˈniːʒə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.zi.ə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.zi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Proper noun

Micronesia

2. A geographical region of Oceania.
4. A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia. Capital: Palikir.

Holonyms

• Austronesia
• Oceania

Coordinate terms

• Melanesia
• Polynesia

Descendants

• Japanese: ミクロネシア (Mikuroneshia)

Translations

geographical region

• Afrikaans: Mikronesië
• Amharic: ማይክሮኔዥያ (maykəronežya)
• Arabic: مِيكْرُونِزِيَا f (mīkrūniziyā)
• Armenian: Միկրոնեզիա (Mikronezia)
• Azerbaijani: Mikroneziya
• Belarusian: Мікране́зія f (Mikranjézija), Мікранэ́зія f (Mikranézija)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোনেশিয়া (bn) (maikrōneśiẏa)
• Breton: Mikronezia
• Bulgarian: Микроне́зия f (Mikronézija)
• Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုနီးရှား (muikhka.ruini:hra:)
• Catalan: Micronèsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密克羅尼西亞／密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 米克羅尼西亞／米克罗尼西亚 (Mìkèluóníxīyà)

• Corsican: Micrunesia f
• Czech: Mikronésie (cs) f
• Danish: Mikronesien (da) n
• Dutch: Micronesië n
• Estonian: Mikroneesia (et)
• Finnish: Mikronesia (fi)
• French: Micronésie (fr) f
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (ka) (miḳronezia)
• German: Mikronesien (de)
• Greek: Μικρονησία (el) f (Mikronisía)
• Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹנֶזְיָה f (mikronézya)
• Hindi: माइक्रोनीशिया m (māikronīśiyā)
• Hindi: माइक्रोनीशिया m (māikronīśiyā)
• Hungarian: Mikronézia (hu)
• Icelandic: Míkrónesía
• Indonesian: Mikronesia (id)
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Italian: Micronesia f
• Japanese: ミクロネシア (ja) (Mikuroneshia)
• Kazakh: Микронезия (kk) (Mikroneziä)
• Khmer: មីក្រូនេស៊ី (miikruuneisii)
• Korean: 미크로네시아 (Mikeuronesia)
• Kyrgyz: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Lao: ໄມໂຄຣນີເຊຍ (mai khō nī sīa), ມີໂຄລເນຊີ (mī khō nē sī)
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
• Lithuanian: Mikronezija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Микронезија f (Mikronezija)
• Malay: Mikronesia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Микронези (Mikronezi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mikronesia

  Nynorsk: Mikronesia (nn)

• Persian: میکرونزی (fa) (mikronezi)
• Polish: Mikronezja (pl) f
• Russian: Микроне́зия (ru) f (Mikronɛ́zija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Микро̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Mikrònēzija (sh) f

• Slovak: Mikronézia f
• Slovene: Mikronezija (sl) f
• Spanish: Micronesia (es) f
• Swedish: Mikronesien (sv) n
• Tajik: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Tatar: Микронезия (Mikroneziyä)
• Thai: ไมโครนีเซีย (th) (mai-kroo-nii-siia)
• Turkish: Mikronezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Mikroneziýa
• Ukrainian: Мікроне́зія f (Mikronézija)
• Urdu: مائیکرونیشیا m (mā'ikronīśiyā)
• Uzbek: Mikroneziya
• Vietnamese: Tiểu Đảo (小島), Mi-crô-nê-di, Mai-crô-nê-xi-a
• Yiddish: מיקראָנעזיע n (mikronezye)

country

• Afrikaans: Mikronesië
• Arabic: مِيكْرُونِزِيَا f (mīkrūniziyā)
• Armenian: Միկրոնեզիա (Mikronezia)
• Azerbaijani: Mikroneziya
• Belarusian: Мікране́зія f (Mikranjézija), Мікранэ́зія f (Mikranézija)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোনেশিয়া (bn) (maikrōneśiẏa)
• Breton: Mikronezia
• Bulgarian: Микроне́зия f (Mikronézija)
• Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုနီးရှား (muikhka.ruini:hra:)
• Catalan: Micronèsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密克羅尼西亞／密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 米克羅尼西亞／米克罗尼西亚 (Mìkèluóníxīyà)

• Corsican: Micrunesia f
• Czech: Mikronésie (cs) f
• Danish: Mikronesien (da) n
• Dutch: Micronesië n
• Esperanto: Mikronezio
• Estonian: Mikroneesia (et)
• Finnish: Mikronesia (fi)
• French: Micronésie (fr) f
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (ka) (miḳronezia)
• German: Mikronesien (de)
• Greek: Μικρονησία (el) f (Mikronisía)
• Hindi: माइक्रोनीशिया m (māikronīśiyā)
• Hungarian: Mikronézia (hu)
• Icelandic: Míkrónesía
• Indonesian: Mikronesia (id)
• Interlingua: Micronesia
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Italian: Micronesia f
• Japanese: ミクロネシア (ja) (Mikuroneshia)
• Kazakh: Микронезия (kk) (Mikroneziä)
• Khmer: មីក្រូនេស៊ី (miikruuneisii)
• Korean: 미크로네시아 (Mikeuronesia)
• Kyrgyz: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Lao: ໄມໂຄຣນີເຊຍ (mai khō nī sīa), ມີໂຄຣເນເຊຍ (mī khō nē sīa)
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
• Lithuanian: Mikronezija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Микронезија f (Mikronezija)
• Malay: Mikronesia
• Maltese: il-Mikronesja f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Микронези (Mikronezi)

• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Tónteel bikáaʼgi Kéyah Yázhí dah Ndaaʼeełgo Ałhidadiidzooígíí
• Norman: Micronésie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Micronesia

• Occitan: Micronesia (oc) f
• Persian: میکرونزی (fa) (mikronezi)
• Polish: Mikronezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Micronésia (pt) f
• Romanian: Micronezia f
• Russian: Микроне́зия (ru) f (Mikronɛ́zija)
• Scots: Micronesie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Микро̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Mikrònēzija (sh) f

• Slovak: Mikronézia f
• Slovene: Mikronezija (sl) f
• Spanish: Micronesia (es) f
• Swedish: Mikronesien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Mikpuluan, Micronesia
• Tajik: Микронезия (Mikroneziya)
• Tatar: Микронезия (Mikroneziyä)
• Thai: ไมโครนีเซีย (th) (mai-kroo-nii-siia)
• Turkish: Mikronezya (tr)
• Turkmen: Mikroneziýa
• Ukrainian: Мікроне́зія f (Mikronézija)
• Urdu: مائیکرونیشیا m (mā'ikronīśiyā)
• Uzbek: Mikroneziya
• Vietnamese: Tiểu Đảo (小島), Mi-crô-nê-di, Mai-crô-nê-xi-a
• Volapük: Smala-Seanuäns (vo)
• West Frisian: Mikroneezje n
• Yiddish: מיקראָנעזיע n (mikronezye)
• Yoruba: Makoronesia

See also

• (countries of Oceania) country of Oceania; Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
• Palikir
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• acrimonies, anisomeric, carmoisine

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Micronesia

1. Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)

Italian

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)

Derived terms

• micronesiano

Anagrams

• sinceriamo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.kroˈneː.si.a/, [mɪkrɔˈneːs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.kroˈne.si.a/, [mikroˈnɛːs̬iä]

Proper noun

Micronēsia f sg (genitive Micronēsiae); first declension (New Latin)

1. Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Micronēsia
genitive	Micronēsiae
dative	Micronēsiae
accusative	Micronēsiam
ablative	Micronēsiā
vocative	Micronēsia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈnesja/ [mi.kɾoˈne.sja]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: Mi‧cro‧ne‧sia

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)

Derived terms

• micronesio

 

Welsh

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)
2. Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)

Coordinate terms

• (countries of Oceania) gwledydd Oceania (Ynysoedd y De); Awstralia, Ffiji, Ciribati, Fanwatw, Micronesia, Nawrw, Niue, Palaw, Papwa Gini Newydd, Samoa, Seland Newydd, Tonga, Twfalw, Ynysoedd Cook, Ynysoedd Marshall, Ynysoedd Solomon ^{(Category: cy:Countries in Oceania)}

Derived terms

• Micronesiad (“Micronesian person”)
• Micronesiaidd (“Micronesian”, adjective)