English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈmiːbə/
- Rhymes: -iːbə
Noun
amoeba (plural amoebae or amoebas)
- (biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
- (loosely) Any eukaryote that exhibits amoeboid movement, having the ability to change its shape.
- Synonym: amoeboid
- (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
- (slang) An asexual.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
- Albanian: amebë (sq) f
- Arabic: أَمِيبَا f (ʔamībā), مُتَحَوِّلَة f (mutaḥawwila)
- Armenian: ամեոբա (hy) (ameoba)
- Azerbaijani: amyöb, ameba
- Belarusian: амёба f (amjóba)
- Bengali: অ্যামিবা (bn) (êmiba)
- Bulgarian: аме́ба (bg) f (améba)
- Burmese: အမီးဗား (my) (a.mi:ba:)
- Catalan: ameba f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 變形蟲 / 变形虫 (zh) (biànxíngchóng), 阿米巴 (zh) (āmǐbā)
- Czech: améba (cs) f, měňavka (cs) f
- Danish: amøbe (da) c
- Dutch: amoebe (nl) f
- Esperanto: amebo (eo)
- Estonian: amööb
- Faroese: skaploysingur m, amøba f
- Finnish: ameba (fi)
- French: amibe (fr) f
- Galician: ameba (gl) f
- Georgian: ამება (ameba)
- German: Amöbe (de) f, Wechseltierchen (de) n
- Greek: αμοιβάδα (el) f (amoiváda)
- Hebrew: אָמֶבָּה f
- Hindi: अमीबा (hi) m (amībā)
- Hungarian: amőba (hu)
- Icelandic: amaba f, amba f, slímdýr n
- Ido: amebo (io)
- Indonesian: ameba (id), amuba (id)
- Irish: aiméibe f
- Italian: ameba (it) f
- Japanese: アメーバ (ja) (amēba)
- Kazakh: амёба (ameba)
- Khmer: អាមីប (ʼaamiip)
- Korean: 아메바 (ko) (ameba)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: amîba (ku)
- Kyrgyz: амёба (ky) (amyoba)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: amēba f
- Lithuanian: amebos
- Macedonian: аме́ба f (améba)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: amoeba m
- Maori: pūora
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: амёб (mn) (amjob), эстэй амьтан (estej amʹtan)
- Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠶᠣᠪᠠ (amyoba), ᠡᠰ ᠲᠡᠢ
ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (es-tei amitan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: amøbe (no) m
- Pashto: آمېب f (āméb), اميب f (amíb)
- Persian: امیب (amib)
- Polish: ameba (pl) f, pełzak m
- Portuguese: ameba (pt) f
- Romanian: amibă (ro) f
- Russian: амёба (ru) f (amjóba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: аме́ба f
- Roman: améba (sh) f
- Slovak: améba (sk) f
- Slovene: ameba f
- Spanish: ameba (es) f
- Swahili: amiba
- Swedish: amöba (sv) c
- Tagalog: ameba, ameba
- Tajik: амеба (ameba), амёба (amyoba)
- Thai: อะมีบา (à-mii-bâa)
- Turkish: amip (tr)
- Turkmen: amýoba (tk)
- Ukrainian: аме́ба (uk) f (améba)
- Urdu: امیبا m (amībā)
- Uyghur: ئامىبا (amiba)
- Uzbek: amyoba
- Vietnamese: amip, a míp, a-míp, trùng biến hình
- Welsh: ameba m
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Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension
- amoeba
Declension
First-declension noun.