indigenous

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/
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• General-American: ĭn-dĭj′ə-nəs
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• General-American: ĭn-dĭj′ĭ-nəs
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• General-American: /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
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• General-American: /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
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• rhymes with -ɪdʒɪnəs
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• rhymes with -ɪdʒənəs
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• Philippines: /ɪnˈdaɪ.d͡ʒɛ.nʊs/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N D IH1 JH AH0 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in (“in”), gen- the root of gignō (“give birth to”), and English -ous. Compare indigene, Ancient Greek ἐνδογενής (endogenḗs, “born in the house”), and the separately formed piecewise doublet endogenous. Unrelated to Indian.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: inheems — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Armenian: բնիկ (bnik) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Bulgarian: местен (mesten) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Bulgarian: туземен (tuzemen) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Catalan: indígena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Chinese Mandarin: 在地的 — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Dutch: inheems — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Dutch: autochtoon — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Dutch: oorspronkelijk — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Esperanto: indiĝena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Estonian: pärismaine — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Finnish: alkuperäinen — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• French: indigène — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• French: aborigène — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• French: autochtone — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Galician: indíxena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Galician: aborixe — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Georgian: აბორიგენული (aborigenuli) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Georgian: მკვიდრი (mḳvidri) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Georgian: ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• German: indigen — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• German: einheimisch — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• German: eingeboren — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• German: inländisch — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Ancient Greek: αὐτόχθων (autókhthōn) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Hebrew: יְלִידִי (y'lidi) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Icelandic: frumbyggja- — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Icelandic: infæddur — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Icelandic: innlendur — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Indonesian: inlander — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Indonesian: pribumi — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Indonesian: masyarakat adat — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Italian: indigeno — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Ladino: indijena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Latin: indigenus — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Māori: taketake — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Norwegian Bokmål: stedegen — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Norwegian Bokmål: innfødt — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Occitan: indigèna — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Old English: inlendisc — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Old English: inlende — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Persian: بومی (bumi) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Polish: miejscowy — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Polish: macierzysty — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Portuguese: indígena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Portuguese: nativo — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Portuguese: aborígene — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Portuguese: aborígine — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Romanian: indigen — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Romanian: autohton — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Russian: коренно́й (korennój) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Russian: абориге́нный (aborigénnyj) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Russian: ме́стный (méstnyj) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Russian: тузе́мный (tuzémnyj) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Russian: автохто́нный (avtoxtónnyj) — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Scottish Gaelic: tùsanach — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Sicilian: nnìgginu — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Sicilian: autòttunu — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Sicilian: nativu — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Sicilian: arigginaru — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Spanish: indígena — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Tagalog: katutubo — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Tokelauan: tagatāfenua — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Tokelauan: tagatānuku — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Turkish: yerli — born or engendered in, native to a land or region
• Bulgarian: вроден (vroden) — innate, inborn
• Dutch: aangeboren — innate, inborn
• Dutch: ingeboren — innate, inborn
• Dutch: overgeërfd — innate, inborn
• Finnish: synnynnäinen — innate, inborn
• French: inné — innate, inborn
• French: congénital — innate, inborn
• German: angeboren — innate, inborn
• German: intuitiv — innate, inborn
• German: eingeboren — innate, inborn
• Icelandic: meðfæddur — innate, inborn
• Italian: innato — innate, inborn
• Italian: congenito — innate, inborn
• Portuguese: nato — innate, inborn
• Russian: врождённый (vroždjónnyj) — innate, inborn
• Russian: прирождённый (priroždjónnyj) — innate, inborn
• Russian: приро́дный (priródnyj) — innate, inborn
• Serbo-Croatian: urođen — innate, inborn