colony

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• UK: /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈkɔlənɪj/
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• US: /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/
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• US: /ˈkɑ.lə.ni/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kwel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

165 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kolonie — region or governmental unit
• Albanian: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: kalni — region or governmental unit
• Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَرَة (mustaʕmara) — region or governmental unit
• Arabic: مُسْتَمْلَكَة (mustamlaka) — region or governmental unit
• Armenian: գաղութ (gaġutʻ) — region or governmental unit
• Azerbaijani: müstəmləkə — region or governmental unit
• Belarusian: кало́нія (kalónija) — region or governmental unit
• Belarusian: калёнія (kaljónija) — region or governmental unit
• Bengali: উপনিবেশ (uponibeś) — region or governmental unit
• Bulgarian: коло́ния (kolónija) — region or governmental unit
• Burmese: ကိုလိုနီ (kuiluini) — region or governmental unit
• Catalan: colònia — region or governmental unit
• Chinese Cantonese: 殖民地 (zik6 man4 dei6) — region or governmental unit
• Chinese Mandarin: 殖民地 (zhímíndì) — region or governmental unit
• Czech: kolonie — region or governmental unit
• Danish: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Dutch: kolonie — region or governmental unit
• Esperanto: kolonio — region or governmental unit
• Estonian: koloonia — region or governmental unit
• Finnish: siirtomaa — region or governmental unit
• French: colonie — region or governmental unit
• Galician: colonia — region or governmental unit
• Georgian: კოლონია (ḳolonia) — region or governmental unit
• German: Kolonie — region or governmental unit
• Greek: αποικία (apoikía) — region or governmental unit
• Ancient Greek: ἀποικία (apoikía) — region or governmental unit
• Hebrew: מוֹשָׁבָה (moshavá) — region or governmental unit
• Hebrew: קוֹלוֹנְיָה (kolóniya) — region or governmental unit
• Hindi: कॉलोनी (kŏlonī) — region or governmental unit
• Hindi: उपनिवेश (upniveś) — region or governmental unit
• Hungarian: gyarmat — region or governmental unit
• Icelandic: nýlenda — region or governmental unit
• Indonesian: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Irish: coilíneacht — region or governmental unit
• Italian: colonia — region or governmental unit
• Japanese: コロニー (koronī) — region or governmental unit
• Japanese: 植民地 (shokuminchi) — region or governmental unit
• Kazakh: отарлау саясаты (otarlau saäsaty) — region or governmental unit
• Kazakh: отар (otar) — region or governmental unit
• Kazakh: отаршы (otarşy) — region or governmental unit
• Kazakh: колония (koloniä) — region or governmental unit
• Khmer: អាណានិគម (ʼaanaanikum) — region or governmental unit
• Korean: 식민지 (singminji) — region or governmental unit
• Northern Kurdish: mêtingeh — region or governmental unit
• Northern Kurdish: kolonî — region or governmental unit
• Kyrgyz: колония (koloniya) — region or governmental unit
• Lao: ຫົວເມືອງຂຶ້ນ (hūa mư̄ang khưn) — region or governmental unit
• Latin: colōnia — region or governmental unit
• Latvian: kolonija — region or governmental unit
• Lithuanian: kolonija — region or governmental unit
• Macedonian: колонија (kolonija) — region or governmental unit
• Malay: jajahan — region or governmental unit
• Malay: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Māori: koroni — region or governmental unit
• Mongolian: колони (koloni) — region or governmental unit
• Moore: tẽn-yãmbga — region or governmental unit
• Norwegian Bokmål: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Pashto: مستعمره (mosta'mera) — region or governmental unit
• Iranian Persian: مُسْتَعْمَرِه (mosta'mare) — region or governmental unit
• Iranian Persian: مُسْتَمْلِکِه (mostamleke) — region or governmental unit
• Iranian Persian: مُهاجِرْنِشین (mohâjernešin) — region or governmental unit
• Polish: kolonia — region or governmental unit
• Brazilian Portuguese: colônia — region or governmental unit
• European Portuguese: colónia — region or governmental unit
• Quechua: mitma — region or governmental unit
• Romanian: colonie — region or governmental unit
• Russian: коло́ния (kolónija) — region or governmental unit
• Russian: поселе́ние (poselénije) — region or governmental unit
• Scottish Gaelic: tuineachas — region or governmental unit
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀ло̄нија — region or governmental unit
• Serbo-Croatian: kòlōnija — region or governmental unit
• Slovak: kolónia — region or governmental unit
• Slovene: kolonija — region or governmental unit
• Spanish: colonia — region or governmental unit
• Swedish: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Tagalog: sakupbayan — region or governmental unit
• Tagalog: kolonya — region or governmental unit
• Tajik: мустамлика (mustamlika) — region or governmental unit
• Tajik: мустамлака (mustamlaka) — region or governmental unit
• Tajik: мустаъмара (musta'mara) — region or governmental unit
• Tatar: колония (qoloniyä) — region or governmental unit
• Telugu: వలసదేశము (valasadēśamu) — region or governmental unit
• Thai: อาณานิคม (aa-naa-ní-kom) — region or governmental unit
• Thai: ประเทศราช (bprà-têet-sà-râat) — region or governmental unit
• Thai: เมืองขึ้น (mʉʉang-kʉ̂n) — region or governmental unit
• Turkish: koloni — region or governmental unit
• Turkish: sömürge — region or governmental unit
• Turkish: müstemleke — region or governmental unit
• Turkmen: koloniýa — region or governmental unit
• Ukrainian: коло́нія (kolónija) — region or governmental unit
• Urdu: نَوآبادی (nau'ābādī) — region or governmental unit
• Urdu: کالونی (kālonī) — region or governmental unit
• Urdu: مُسْتَعْمَرَہ (musta'mara) — region or governmental unit
• Uyghur: مۇستەملىكە (mustemlike) — region or governmental unit
• Uyghur: كولونىيە (koloniye) — region or governmental unit
• Uzbek: mustamlaka — region or governmental unit
• Uzbek: koloniya — region or governmental unit
• Vietnamese: thuộc địa — region or governmental unit
• Welsh: trefedigaeth — region or governmental unit
• Welsh: gwladfa — region or governmental unit
• Yiddish: קאָלאָניע (kolonye) — region or governmental unit
• Afrikaans: kolonie — group of organisms
• Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَرَة (mustaʕmara) — group of organisms
• Armenian: գաղութ (gaġutʻ) — group of organisms
• Azerbaijani: koloniya — group of organisms
• Belarusian: кало́нія (kalónija) — group of organisms
• Belarusian: калёнія (kaljónija) — group of organisms
• Bulgarian: коло́ния (kolónija) — group of organisms
• Catalan: colònia — group of organisms
• Chinese Mandarin: 集群 (jíqún) — group of organisms
• Chinese Mandarin: 菌落 (jūnluò, jùnluò) — group of organisms
• Czech: kolonie — group of organisms
• Danish: koloni — group of organisms
• Dutch: kolonie — group of organisms
• Esperanto: kolonio — group of organisms
• Estonian: koloonia — group of organisms
• Finnish: yhdyskunta — group of organisms
• Finnish: yhteiskunta — group of organisms
• French: colonie — group of organisms
• Galician: colonia — group of organisms
• Georgian: კოლონია (ḳolonia) — group of organisms
• German: Kolonie — group of organisms
• Greek: αποικία (apoikía) — group of organisms
• Hebrew: מוֹשָׁבָה (moshavá) — group of organisms
• Hindi: कोलोनी (kolonī) — group of organisms
• Hungarian: kolónia — group of organisms
• Icelandic: nýlenda — group of organisms
• Indonesian: koloni — group of organisms
• Italian: colonia — group of organisms
• Japanese: 群体 (guntai) — group of organisms
• Japanese: コロニー (koronī) — group of organisms
• Kazakh: отар (otar) — group of organisms
• Kazakh: колония (koloniä) — group of organisms
• Korean: 군체 (gunche) — group of organisms
• Korean: 콜로니 (kolloni) — group of organisms
• Kyrgyz: колония (koloniya) — group of organisms
• Latvian: kolonija — group of organisms
• Lithuanian: kolonija — group of organisms
• Macedonian: колонија (kolonija) — group of organisms
• Norwegian Bokmål: koloni — group of organisms
• Norwegian Nynorsk: koloni — group of organisms
• Iranian Persian: کُلُنی (koloni) — group of organisms
• Iranian Persian: پِرْگَنِه (pergane) — group of organisms
• Polish: kolonia — group of organisms
• Brazilian Portuguese: colônia — group of organisms
• European Portuguese: colónia — group of organisms
• Russian: коло́ния (kolónija) — group of organisms
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀ло̄нија — group of organisms
• Serbo-Croatian: kòlōnija — group of organisms
• Slovak: kolónia — group of organisms
• Slovene: kolonija — group of organisms
• Spanish: colonia — group of organisms
• Swedish: koloni — group of organisms
• Tajik: макон (makon) — group of organisms
• Tajik: колония (koloniya) — group of organisms
• Turkish: koloni — group of organisms
• Ukrainian: коло́нія (kolónija) — group of organisms
• Urdu: کالونی (kālonī) — group of organisms
• Uzbek: koloniya — group of organisms
• Vietnamese: tập đoàn — group of organisms
• Welsh: nythfa — group of organisms
• Welsh: cytref — group of organisms
• Yiddish: קאָלאָניע (kolonye) — group of organisms