amoeba

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From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: amebë — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Arabic: أَمِيبَا (ʔamībā) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Arabic: مُتَحَوِّلَة (mutaḥawwila) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Armenian: ամեոբա (ameoba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Azerbaijani: amyöb — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Azerbaijani: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Belarusian: амёба (amjóba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Bengali: অ্যামিবা (êmiba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Bulgarian: аме́ба (améba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Burmese: အမီးဗား (a.mi:ba:) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Catalan: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Chinese Mandarin: 變形蟲 /变形虫 (biànxíngchóng) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿米巴 (āmǐbā) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Czech: améba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Czech: měňavka — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Danish: amøbe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Dutch: amoebe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Esperanto: amebo — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Estonian: amööb — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Faroese: skaploysingur — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Faroese: amøba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Finnish: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• French: amibe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Galician: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Georgian: ამება (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• German: Amöbe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• German: Wechseltierchen — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Greek: αμοιβάδα (amoiváda) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Hebrew: אָמֶבָּה (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Hindi: अमीबा (amībā) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Hungarian: amőba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Icelandic: amaba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Icelandic: amba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Icelandic: slímdýr — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Ido: amebo — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Indonesian: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Indonesian: amuba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Irish: aiméibe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Italian: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Japanese: アメーバ (amēba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Kazakh: амёба (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Kazakh: амеба (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Khmer: អាមីប (ʼaamiip) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Korean: 아메바 (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Korean: 육질충류 (yukjilchungnyu) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Northern Kurdish: amîba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Kyrgyz: амёба (amyoba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Lao: ອາມີບາ (ʼā mī bā) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Latvian: amēba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Lithuanian: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Macedonian: аме́ба (améba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Manx: amoeba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Māori: pūora — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Mongolian: амёб (amjob) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Mongolian: эстэй амьтан (estej amʹtan) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠶᠣᠪᠠ (amyoba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Mongolian: ᠡᠰ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (es-tei amitan) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Norwegian Bokmål: amøbe — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Pashto: آمېب (āméb) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Pashto: اميب (amíb) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Iranian Persian: آمیب (âmib) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Polish: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Polish: pełzak — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Portuguese: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Romanian: amibă — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Russian: амёба (amjóba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Serbo-Croatian: аме́ба — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Serbo-Croatian: améba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Slovak: améba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Slovene: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Spanish: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Spanish: amiba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Spanish: amibo — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Swahili: amiba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Swedish: amöba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Tagalog: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Tajik: амеба (ameba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Tajik: амёба (amyoba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Thai: อะมีบา (à-mii-bâa) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Turkish: amip — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Turkmen: amýoba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Ukrainian: аме́ба (améba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Urdu: اَمِیبا (amībā) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Uyghur: ئامىبا (amiba) — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Uzbek: amyoba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Vietnamese: amip — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Vietnamese: a míp — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Vietnamese: a-míp — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Vietnamese: trùng biến hình — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa
• Welsh: ameba — member of a genus of unicellular protozoa