Etymology
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From French microbe, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) and βίος (bíos, “life”).
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microbe (plural microbes)
- (microbiology) Any microorganism, but especially a harmful bacterium.
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microorganism
- Afrikaans: mikrobe
- Albanian: mikrob (sq) m
- Arabic: مِيكْرُوب m (mīkrūb), جُرْثُوم m (jurṯūm)
- Armenian: մանրէ (hy) (manrē), միկրոբ (hy) (mikrob)
- Assamese: অণুজীৱ (onuziw), জীৱাণু (ziwanu)
- Asturian: microbiu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: mikrob (az)
- Belarusian: мікро́б m (mikrób)
- Bengali: জীবাণু (jibanu)
- Bulgarian: микро́б (bg) m (mikrób)
- Burmese: ပိုး (my) (pui:)
- Catalan: microbi m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 微生物 (zh) (wēishēngwù)
- Czech: mikrob (cs) m
- Danish: mikrobe
- Dutch: microbe (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: mikrobo
- Estonian: mikroob
- Finnish: mikrobi (fi)
- French: microbe (fr) m
- Galician: microbio (gl) m
- Georgian: მიკრობი (ka) (miḳrobi)
- German: Mikrobe (de) f
- Greek: μικροοργανισμός (el) m (mikroorganismós), μικρόβιο (el) n (mikróvio)
- Hebrew: חַידַק (he) m (haydak)
- Hindi: सूक्ष्मजीव (sūkṣmajīv)
- Hungarian: mikroba (hu)
- Icelandic: örvera f
- Ido: mikrobo (io)
- Indonesian: mikrob (id)
- Interlingua: microbio
- Irish: miocrób
- Italian: microbo (it) m, microbio (it) m
- Japanese: 微生物 (ja) (びせいぶつ, biseibutsu)
- Kazakh: микроб (mikrob)
- Khmer: អតិសុខុមប្រាណ (km) (ʼaʼtesokhomĕəʼpraan), មីក្រុប (miikrop), មេរោគ (mei rook), ក្រមី (km) (krɑməy), ជីវាណូ (ciivaanou), ពីជៈ (piicĕəʼ)
- Korean: 미생물(微生物) (ko) (misaengmul)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: میکرۆب (mîkrob)
- Northern Kurdish: mikrob, mîkrob (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: микроб (mikrob)
- Lao: ຈຸນລະຊີບ (lo) (chun la sīp), ຈຸລິນສີ (chu lin sī), ຈຸລິນທີ (chu lin thī)
- Latvian: mikrobs m
- Lithuanian: mikrobas m
- Macedonian: микроб m (mikrob)
- Maori: moroiti
- Mongolian: нян (mn) (njan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mikrobe
- Persian: میکروب (fa) (mikrob)
- Polish: drobnoustrój (pl) m, mikrob (pl) m, mikroorganizm (pl) m, zarazek (pl) m
- Portuguese: micróbio (pt) m
- Romanian: microb (ro) m
- Russian: микро́б (ru) m (mikrób)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мѝкро̄б m
- Roman: mìkrōb (sh) m
- Slovak: mikrób m
- Slovene: mikrob m
- Spanish: microbio (es)
- Swedish: mikrob (sv) c
- Tagalog: mikrobyo
- Tajik: микроб (mikrob)
- Thai: จุลชีพ (th) (jun-lá-chîip), จุลินทรีย์ (th) (jù-lin-sii)
- Turkish: mikrop (tr)
- Turkmen: mikrob
- Ukrainian: мікро́б m (mikrób)
- Urdu: جَرْثُومَہ m (jarsūmā)
- Uyghur: مىكروپ (mikrop)
- Uzbek: mikrob (uz)
- Vietnamese: vi trùng (vi), vi khuẩn (vi), vi sinh vật (vi) (微生物)
- Volapük: mikröb
- Yiddish: מיקראָב (mikrob)
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