Mauritius

English

Etymology 1

Mauritius on a globe.

Flag of Mauritius

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

Pronunciation

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

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Proper noun

Mauritius

2. A country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar. Official name: Republic of Mauritius.
4. The main island of the country of Mauritius.

Coordinate terms

• Countries of the world

countries in Africa (appendix)edit

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
• 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

Derived terms

• Mauritian
• Mauritius Time
• Mauritius weed

Descendants

• → Japanese: モーリシャス (Mōrishasu)

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Mauritius n
• Amharic: ሞሪሸስ (morišäs)
• Arabic: مُورِيشْيُوس m (murišyūs), موريتيوس m (mūrītyūs)
• Armenian: Մավրիկիոս (Mavrikios)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܵܘܪܝܼܣ f (māwrīs)
• Azerbaijani: Mavriki (az)
• Belarusian: Маўры́кій m (Maŭrýkij), Маўры́цы m (Maŭrýcy) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: মরিশাস (bn) (moriśaś)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: মরিশাস
• Breton: Moris
• Bulgarian: Маври́ций m (Mavrícij)
• Burmese: မောရစ်ရှ (mau:rachra.)
• Catalan: Maurici (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎼᎵᏏᎥᏍ (molisivs)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛里求斯 (zh) (Máolǐqiúsī), (Taiwan) 模里西斯 (zh) (Mólǐxīsī)

• Cornish: Enys Morris f
• Corsican: Mauriziu m, Mauritius 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, Mauritius (it) m
• Japanese: モーリシャス (ja) (mōrishasu)
• Kalenjin: Morisi
• Kazakh: Маврикий (kk) (Mavrikii)
• Khmer: ម៉ូរីស (km) (mouriih)
• Kikuyu: Morisi
• Korean: 모리셔스 (ko) (Morisyeoseu)
• Kyrgyz: Маврикий (Mavrikiy)
• Lao: ໂມຣິດ (mō rit)
• Latin: Maurītia f, Maurītius m
• Latvian: Maurīcija f
• Lithuanian: Mauricijus (lt) m
• Luhya: Moriisi
• Luo: Morisi
• Macedonian: Маврициус m (Mavricius)
• Malay: Mauritius (ms)
• 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)

• Occitan: Maurici m
• 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
• Lithuanian: Mauricijus (lt) m
• Mauritian Creole: isle Moris f, Moris m
• Portuguese: Maurícia (pt) f, Do-Cerne f (archaic)
• Russian: Маври́кий (ru) m (Mavríkij)

Etymology 2

From Latin Mauricius.

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. A male given name of historical usage, found e.g. in St. Mauritius.

Translations

given name

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar; capital: Port Louis)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Derived terms

• Mauritiaan
• Mauritiër

Related terms

• Mauritiaans

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑuˈritsijʏs/, /mɑuˈrisijʏs/

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Proper noun

Mauritius n

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Finnish

Etymology

From Dutch Mauritius.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of 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	—
abessive		Mauritiuksetta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Mauritius (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Mauritiukseni — accusative nom. Mauritiukseni — gen. Mauritiukseni genitive Mauritiukseni — partitive Mauritiustani — inessive Mauritiuksessani — elative Mauritiuksestani — illative Mauritiukseeni — adessive Mauritiuksellani — ablative Mauritiukseltani — allative Mauritiukselleni — essive Mauritiuksenani — translative Mauritiuksekseni — abessive Mauritiuksettani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Mauritiuksesi — accusative nom. Mauritiuksesi — gen. Mauritiuksesi genitive Mauritiuksesi — partitive Mauritiustasi — inessive Mauritiuksessasi — elative Mauritiuksestasi — illative Mauritiukseesi — adessive Mauritiuksellasi — ablative Mauritiukseltasi — allative Mauritiuksellesi — essive Mauritiuksenasi — translative Mauritiukseksesi — abessive Mauritiuksettasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Mauritiuksemme — accusative nom. Mauritiuksemme — gen. Mauritiuksemme genitive Mauritiuksemme — partitive Mauritiustamme — inessive Mauritiuksessamme — elative Mauritiuksestamme — illative Mauritiukseemme — adessive Mauritiuksellamme — ablative Mauritiukseltamme — allative Mauritiuksellemme — essive Mauritiuksenamme — translative Mauritiukseksemme — abessive Mauritiuksettamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Mauritiuksenne — accusative nom. Mauritiuksenne — gen. Mauritiuksenne genitive Mauritiuksenne — partitive Mauritiustanne — inessive Mauritiuksessanne — elative Mauritiuksestanne — illative Mauritiukseenne — adessive Mauritiuksellanne — ablative Mauritiukseltanne — allative Mauritiuksellenne — essive Mauritiuksenanne — translative Mauritiukseksenne — abessive Mauritiuksettanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Mauritiuksensa — accusative nom. Mauritiuksensa — gen. Mauritiuksensa genitive Mauritiuksensa — partitive Mauritiustaan Mauritiustansa — inessive Mauritiuksessaan Mauritiuksessansa — elative Mauritiuksestaan Mauritiuksestansa — illative Mauritiukseensa — adessive Mauritiuksellaan Mauritiuksellansa — ablative Mauritiukseltaan Mauritiukseltansa — allative Mauritiukselleen Mauritiuksellensa — essive Mauritiuksenaan Mauritiuksenansa — translative Mauritiuksekseen Mauritiukseksensa — abessive Mauritiuksettaan Mauritiuksettansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• mauritiuslainen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯ˈriːtsi̯ʊs/, [maʊ̯ˈʁiː.t͡si̯.ʊs], [maʊ̯ˈʁiː.t͡sjʊs]

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Proper noun

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

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Derived terms

• Mauritier
• mauritisch
• maurizisch

See also

countries in Africa: Staaten Afrikas (appendix)edit

• Ägypten
• Algerien
• Angola
• Äquatorialguinea
• Äthiopien
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Demokratische Republik Kongo
• Dschibuti
• Elfenbeinküste
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Gabun
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenia
• Komoren
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Mosambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republik Kongo
• Ruanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Seychellen
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Südafrika
• Sudan
• Südsudan
• São Tomé und Príncipe
• Tansania
• Togo
• Tschad
• Tunesien
• Uganda
• Zentralafrikanische Republik

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar; official name: Mauritiusi Köztársaság)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

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

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika országai (appendix)edit

• Algéria
• Angola
• Benin
• Bissau-Guinea
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Comore-szigetek
• Csád
• Dél-afrikai Köztársaság
• Dél-Szudán
• Dzsibuti
• Egyenlítői-Guinea
• Egyiptom
• Elefántcsontpart
• Eritrea
• Etiópia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghána
• Guinea
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaság
• Kongói Köztársaság
• Közép-afrikai Köztársaság
• Lesotho
• Libéria
• Líbia
• Madagaszkár
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokkó
• Mauritánia
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namíbia
• Niger
• Nigéria
• Ruanda
• Seychelle-szigetek
• Sierra Leone
• São Tomé és Príncipe
• Szenegál
• Szomália
• Szudán
• Szváziföld
• Tanzánia
• Togo
• Tunézia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Zöld-foki Köztársaság

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.uˈrit.t͡sjus/
• Rhymes: -ittsjus
• Hyphenation: Ma‧u‧rì‧tius

Proper noun

Mauritius m

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Derived terms

• mauriziano

Latin

Etymology

From Mauricius

Proper noun

Mauritius m

1. a male given name of historical usage, found e.g. in St. Mauritius.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Related terms

• mauritier
• mauritisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Related terms

• mauritiar
• mauritisk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mawˈri.tjus/

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• Rhymes: -itjus
• Syllabification: Mau‧ri‧tius

Proper noun

Mauritius m inan (related adjective maurytyjski)

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Declension

Declension of Mauritius

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

Derived terms

nouns

• Maurytyjczyk
• Maurytyjka

See also

countries in Africa: państwa Afryki (appendix)edit

• Algieria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Czad
• Demokratyczna Republika Konga
• Dżibuti
• Egipt
• Erytrea
• Eswatini
• Etiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gwinea
• Gwinea Bissau
• Gwinea Równikowa
• Kamerun
• Kenia
• Komory
• Kongo
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libia
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Maroko
• Mauretania
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Południowa Afryka
• Republika Środkowoafrykańska
• Republika Zielonego Przylądka
• Rwanda
• Sahara Zachodnia
• Senegal
• Seszele
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Południowy
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunezja
• Uganda
• Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej
• Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Further reading

• Mauritius in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Mauritius n (genitive Mauritius)

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Related terms

• mauritier
• mauritisk
• mauritiska

References

• Mauritius in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Turkish

Proper noun

Mauritius

1. Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
2. Mauritius (the main island of the country of Mauritius)

Declension

Declension of Mauritius

	singular
nominative	Mauritius
accusative	Mauritius'u
dative	Mauritius'a
locative	Mauritius'ta
ablative	Mauritius'tan
genitive	Mauritius'nın

Possessive forms 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 in Africa: Afrika ülkesi (appendix)edit

• 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
• Senegal
• Seyşeller
• Sierra Leone
• Somali
• Sudan
• São Tomé ve Príncipe
• Tanzanya
• Togo
• Tunus
• Uganda
• Yeşil Burun
• Zambiya
• Zimbabve