Tasmania
English
Etymology
From Tasman + -ia, after the Dutch naval explorer Abel Tasman, who visited and documented the island and New Zealand in 1642.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /tæzˈmeɪniə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Tasmania
- One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast; a former British colony, from 1856 to 1901. Capital: Hobart.
- The large island of Australia comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.
Synonyms
- the Apple Isle (colloquial)
- lutruwita (Indigenous name)
- Tassie (colloquial)
- Van Diemen's Land (historical)
Derived terms
Translations
Australian state
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island comprising majority of state
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Further reading
- Category:Tasmania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Tasmania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tasmania on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Tasmania on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑsmɑniɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝s̠mɑ̝ˌniɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): Tas‧ma‧ni‧a
- Hyphenation(key): Tas‧ma‧nia
Proper noun
Tasmania
Declension
| Inflection of Tasmania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Tasmania | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Tasmania | — |
| gen. | Tasmanian | ||
| genitive | Tasmanian | — | |
| partitive | Tasmaniaa | — | |
| inessive | Tasmaniassa | — | |
| elative | Tasmaniasta | — | |
| illative | Tasmaniaan | — | |
| adessive | Tasmanialla | — | |
| ablative | Tasmanialta | — | |
| allative | Tasmanialle | — | |
| essive | Tasmaniana | — | |
| translative | Tasmaniaksi | — | |
| abessive | Tasmaniatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒzmaːnijɒ][1]
- Rhymes: -jɒ
- Hyphenation: Tas‧ma‧nia
Proper noun
Tasmania[2]
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Tasmania | — |
| accusative | Tasmaniát | — |
| dative | Tasmaniának | — |
| instrumental | Tasmaniával | — |
| causal-final | Tasmaniáért | — |
| translative | Tasmaniává | — |
| terminative | Tasmaniáig | — |
| essive-formal | Tasmaniaként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Tasmaniában | — |
| superessive | Tasmanián | — |
| adessive | Tasmaniánál | — |
| illative | Tasmaniába | — |
| sublative | Tasmaniára | — |
| allative | Tasmaniához | — |
| elative | Tasmaniából | — |
| delative | Tasmaniáról | — |
| ablative | Tasmaniától | — |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
Tasmaniáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
Tasmaniáéi | — |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
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| 1st person sing. | Tasmaniám | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Tasmaniád | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Tasmaniája | — |
| 1st person plural | Tasmaniánk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Tasmaniátok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Tasmaniájuk | — |
References
- ^ Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN
- ^ Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version
Italian
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasˈmaɲ.ja/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aɲja
- Syllabification: Tas‧man‧ia
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Declension
Declension of Tasmania
| singular | |
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| nominative | Tasmania |
| genitive | Tasmanii |
| dative | Tasmanii |
| accusative | Tasmanię |
| instrumental | Tasmanią |
| locative | Tasmanii |
| vocative | Tasmanio |
Further reading
- Tasmania in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasˈmanja/ [t̪azˈma.nja]
- Rhymes: -anja
- Syllabification: Tas‧ma‧nia
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /tasˈmanja/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /tazˈmanja/
Proper noun
Tasmania f
Derived terms
- blaidd Tasmania (“Tasmanian wolf”)
- cythraul Tasmania (“Tasmanian devil”)
- teigr Tasmania (“Tasmanian tiger”)