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

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

Derived terms

• Mauritian

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Mauritius n
• Amharic: ሞሪሸስ (morišäs)
• Arabic: مُورِيشْيُوس‎ m (murišyūs)
• Armenian: Մավրիկիոս (Mavrikios)
• Azerbaijani: Mavriki (az)
• Belarusian: Маўры́кій m (Maŭrýkij), Маўры́цы m (Maŭrýcy) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: মরিশাস (bn) (môriśaś)
• 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 (Mavrïkïy)
• 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 móa 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
• 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)

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, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries) [edit]}

Further reading

• Mauritius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Afrikaans

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

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 (genitive 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): /mawˈrʲit.jus/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Mauritius m

1. Mauritius

Declension

declension of Mauritius

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

Derived terms

• Maurytyjczyk m, Maurytyjka f
• adjective: maurytyjski

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Swedish

Proper noun

Mauritius n (genitive Mauritius)

1. Mauritius