Mauritius

Mauritius

English

Etymology

From a Latinized form of the name of Maurits van Nassau.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɪʃəs/, /mɔːˈɹɪʃəs/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Mauritius

1. A country in the Indian Ocean. Official name: Republic of Mauritius
2. Main island of the nation of the Republic of Mauritius.
3. Given name; e.g., St. Mauritius

Coordinate terms

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Derived terms

• Mauritian

Translations

country

Afrikaans: Mauritius n Amharic: ሞሪሸስ (morišäs) Arabic: مُورِيشْيُوس‎ m (murišyūs) Hijazi Arabic: موريشس‎ f (mōrīšus), موريشيوس‎ f (mōrīšyūs) Armenian: Մավրիկիոս (Mavrikios) Azerbaijani: Mavriki (az) Belarusian: Маўры́кій m (Maŭrýkij), Маўры́цы m (Maŭrýcy) (Taraškievica) Bengali: মরিশাস (bn) (môriśas) Bishnupriya Manipuri: মরিশাস Breton: Moris Bulgarian: Маври́ций m (Mavrícij) Burmese: မောရစ်ရှ (mau:rachra.) Catalan: Maurici (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 毛里求斯 (zh) (Máolǐqiúsī), (Taiwan) 模里西斯 (zh) (Mólǐxīsī) Cornish: Enys Morris f Corsican: Mauriziu m Czech: Mauricius (cs) m Danish: Mauritius Dutch: Mauritius (nl) n Esperanto: Maŭricio (eo) Estonian: Mauritius (et) Finnish: Mauritius (fi) French: Maurice (fr) m Galician: Mauricio (gl) Georgian: მავრიკი (mavriḳi) German: Mauritius (de) n Greek: Μαυρίκιος (el) m (Mavríkios) Hausa: Mauritius, Moris Hebrew: מאוריציוס‎ m (ma'uritsius) Hindi: मॉरिशस (hi) (mŏriśas) Hungarian: Mauritius (hu) Interlingua: Mauritio Italian: Maurizio (it) m Japanese: モーリシャス (ja) (mōrishasu) Kalenjin: Morisi Kazakh: Маврикий (Mavrikii) Khmer: ម៉ូរីស (km) (mouriih) Kikuyu: Morisi Korean: 모리셔스 (ko) (Morisyeoseu) Kyrgyz: Маврикий (Mavrikiy) Lao: ໂມຣິດ (mō rit) Latin: Maurītia f Latvian: Maurīcija f Lithuanian: Mauricijus (lt) m Luhya: Moriisi Luo: Morisi Macedonian: Маврициус m (Mavricius) Malay: Mauritius Malayalam: മൗറീഷ്യസ് (mauṟīṣyasŭ) Marathi: मॉरिशस (mŏriśas) Mauritian Creole: Moris m Meru: Morisi Mongolian: Маврикий (Mavrikii) Norman: Île Maurice f Norwegian: Bokmål: Mauritius (no) Nynorsk: Mauritius (nn) Pashto: موريشس‎ (mōrīšəs) Persian: موریس‎ (moris) Polish: Mauritius (pl) Portuguese: Maurícia (pt) Romanian: Mauritius (ro) n Russian: Маври́кий (ru) m (Mavríkij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Маурицијус m Roman: Mauricijus (sh) m Shan: မိူင်းမေႃးရီႇသႃႇ (móeng máu rìi sàa) Sinhalese: මොරිෂස් (moriṣas) Slovak: Maurícius m Slovene: Mauritius m Spanish: Mauricio (es) Swahili: Morisi (sw) Swedish: Mauritius (sv) Tagalog: Mawrisyo Tajik: Маврикия (Mavrikiya) Thai: มอริเชียส (th) (mɔɔ-rí-chíias) Tibetan: མའུ་རི་ཊིའུ་སུ (ma'u ri ṭi'u su) Turkish: Mauritius (tr) Turkmen: Mawrikiý Ukrainian: Маври́кій (uk) m (Mavrýkij) Uyghur: ماۋرىتىئۇس‎ (mawriti'us) Uzbek: Mavrikiy Vietnamese: Mô-ri-xơ Volapük: Moriseän (vo) Welsh: Mauritius f, Mawrisiws f West Frisian: Mauritsius n Yoruba: Maritiusi

island

Corsican: isula di Mauriziu f Dutch: Mauritius Eiland n Finnish: Mauritius (fi) French: île Maurice (fr) f, Maurice (fr) f (less common) Italian: isola di Maurizio f, isola di Mauritius Mauritian Creole: isle Moris f, Moris m Portuguese: Maurícia (pt) f, Do-Cerne f (archaic) Russian: Маври́кий (ru) m (Mavríkij)

given name

French: Maurice (fr) m Occitan: Maurici m, Maurise m Russian: Маври́кий (ru) m (Mavríkij), Мори́с (ru) m (Morís), Мо́рис (ru) m (Móris)

Further reading

• Mauritius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Mauritius n

1. Mauritius (country)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Dutch Mauritius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑu̯ritius/, [ˈmɑu̯riˌt̪ius̠]
• Rhymes: -ius
• Syllabification^(key): Mau‧ri‧ti‧us

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius

Declension

Inflection of Mauritius (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		Mauritius	—
genitive		Mauritiuksen	—
partitive		Mauritiusta	—
illative		Mauritiukseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Mauritius	—
accusative	nom.	Mauritius	—
	gen.	Mauritiuksen
genitive		Mauritiuksen	—
partitive		Mauritiusta	—
inessive		Mauritiuksessa	—
elative		Mauritiuksesta	—
illative		Mauritiukseen	—
adessive		Mauritiuksella	—
ablative		Mauritiukselta	—
allative		Mauritiukselle	—
essive		Mauritiuksena	—
translative		Mauritiukseksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Mauritiuksetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Mauritius (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Mauritiukseni	Mauritiuksemme
2nd person	Mauritiuksesi	Mauritiuksenne
3rd person	Mauritiuksensa

Derived terms

• mauritiuslainen

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊˈʁiːt͡sjus/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Mauritius n (proper noun, genitive Mauritius' or (with an article) Mauritius)

1. Mauritius (an island and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)

Derived terms

• Mauritier
• mauritisch
• maurizisch

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒuriːt͡sijus]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧u‧ri‧ti‧us
• Rhymes: -us

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Mauritius	—
accusative	Mauritiust	—
dative	Mauritiusnak	—
instrumental	Mauritiusszal	—
causal-final	Mauritiusért	—
translative	Mauritiusszá	—
terminative	Mauritiusig	—
essive-formal	Mauritiusként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Mauritiusban	—
superessive	Mauritiuson	—
adessive	Mauritiusnál	—
illative	Mauritiusba	—
sublative	Mauritiusra	—
allative	Mauritiushoz	—
elative	Mauritiusból	—
delative	Mauritiusról	—
ablative	Mauritiustól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Mauritiusé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Mauritiuséi	—

Possessive forms of Mauritius
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Mauritiusom	—
2nd person sing.	Mauritiusod	—
3rd person sing.	Mauritiusa	—
1st person plural	Mauritiusunk	—
2nd person plural	Mauritiusotok	—
3rd person plural	Mauritiusuk	—

Derived terms

• mauritiusi

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Italian

Proper noun

Mauritius m

1. Mauritius

Derived terms

• mauriziano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius

Related terms

• mauritier
• mauritisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius

Related terms

• mauritiar
• mauritisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mawˈrit.jus/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -itjus
• Syllabification: Mau‧rit‧ius

Proper noun

Mauritius m

1. Mauritius (a country consisting of a main island and several smaller islands in the Indian Ocean, 2000 kilometers off the coast of Southern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Mauritius

	singular
nominative	Mauritius
genitive	Mauritiusa
dative	Mauritiusowi
accusative	Mauritius
instrumental	Mauritiusem
locative	Mauritiusie
vocative	Mauritiusie

Derived terms

adjective

• maurytyjski

 

nouns

• Maurytyjczyk
• Maurytyjka

 

Further reading

• Mauritius in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Mauritius in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Proper noun

Mauritius n (genitive Mauritius)

1. Mauritius

Related terms

• mauritier
• mauritisk
• mauritiska

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Turkish

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in Southeastern Africa)

Declension

declension of Mauritius

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Mauritius
accusative (belirtme)	Mauritius'u
dative (yönelme)	Mauritius'a
locative (bulunma)	Mauritius'ta
ablative (çıkma)	Mauritius'tan
genitive (tamlayan)	Mauritius'nın

    possessive of Mauritius

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Mauritius'ım	Mauritiuslarım / Mauritius'larım
senin (your)	Mauritius'ın	Mauritiusların / Mauritius'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Mauritius'ı	Mauritiusları / Mauritius'ları
bizim (our)	Mauritius'ımız	Mauritiuslarımız / Mauritius'larımız
sizin (your)	Mauritius'ınız	Mauritiuslarınız / Mauritius'larınız
onların (their)	Mauritius'ı / Mauritiusları / Mauritius'ları	Mauritiusları / Mauritius'ları

See also

• (countries of Africa) Afrika ülkesi; Angola, Batı Sahra, Benin, Botsvana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cezayir, Cibuti, Çad, Ekvator Ginesi, Eritre, Esvatini, Etiyopiya, Fas, Fildişi Sahili, Gabon, Gambiya, Gana, Gine, Gine-Bissau, Güney Afrika, Güney Sudan, Kamerun, Kenya, Komorlar, Kongo Cumhuriyeti, Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti, Lesotho, Liberya, Libya, Madagaskar, Malavi, Mali, Mauritius, Mısır, Moritanya, Mozambik, Namibya, Nijer, Nijeria, Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti, Ruanda, São Tomé ve Príncipe, Senegal, Seyşeller, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Tanzanya, Togo, Tunus, Uganda, Yeşil Burun, Zambiya, Zimbabve ^{(Category: tr:Countries in Africa) [edit]}