Indigenous

//ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs//

Synonyms for "indigenous" (55 found)

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Translations

85 translations across 35 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • inheems adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • αὐτόχθων adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Armenian

1 entries
  • բնիկ adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • вроден adj (innate, inborn)
  • местен adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • туземен adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Catalan

1 entries
  • indígena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 在地的 adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Dutch

4 entries
  • aangeboren adj (innate, inborn)
  • autochtoon adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • ingeboren adj (innate, inborn)
  • inheems adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • indiĝena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Estonian

1 entries
  • pärismaine adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Finnish

2 entries
  • alkuperäinen adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • synnynnäinen adj (innate, inborn)

French

4 entries
  • aborigène adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • autochtone adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • congénital adj (innate, inborn)
  • indigène adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Galician

2 entries
  • aborixe adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • indíxena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Georgian

3 entries
  • აბორიგენული adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • ადგილობრივი adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • მკვიდრი adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

German

4 entries
  • angeboren adj (innate, inborn)
  • eingeboren adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • eingeboren adj (innate, inborn)
  • einheimisch adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • יְלִידִי adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Icelandic

4 entries
  • frumbyggja adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • infæddur adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • innlendur adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • meðfæddur adj (innate, inborn)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • inlander adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • masyarakat adat adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • pribumi adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Italian

3 entries
  • congenito adj (innate, inborn)
  • indigeno adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • innato adj (innate, inborn)

Ladino

1 entries
  • indijena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Latin

1 entries
  • indigenus adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Māori

1 entries
  • taketake adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • innfødt adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • stedegen adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Occitan

1 entries
  • indigèna adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Old English

2 entries
  • inlende adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • inlendisc adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Persian

1 entries
  • بومی adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Polish

2 entries
  • macierzysty adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • miejscowy adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • aborígene adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • aborígine adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • indígena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • nativo adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Romanian

2 entries
  • autohton adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • indigen adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Russian

4 entries
  • абориге́нный adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • автохто́нный adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • врождённый adj (innate, inborn)
  • коренно́й adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • tùsanach adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • urođen adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Sicilian

4 entries
  • arigginaru adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • autòttunu adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • nativu adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • nnìgginu adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Spanish

4 entries
  • autóctono adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • congénito adj (innate, inborn)
  • indígena adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)
  • innato adj (innate, inborn)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • katutubo adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Turkish

1 entries
  • yerli adj (born or engendered in, native to a land or region)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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The panda is indigenous to Sichuan Province and does not live in the wild in any other places.

Source: tatoeba (765399)

Colonists often take a shine to indigenous women.

Source: tatoeba (796815)

This indigenous god needs water to have a normal life, move and talk, or its body will turn back into immovable stone.

Source: tatoeba (876005)

Because of his passion for indigenous Mexican art, he spends his weekends in Tlaxcala or Teotihuacan looking for good specimens of small statues.

Source: tatoeba (876007)

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