Melanesian

Synonyms for "melanesian" (1 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Translations

31 translations across 16 languages.

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Catalan

3 entries
  • melanesi adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • melanesi noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • melanèsia noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • melanezianino noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • melaneziano noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Finnish

2 entries
  • melanesialainen adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • melanesialainen noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

French

3 entries
  • mélanésien adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • Mélanésien noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • Mélanésienne noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

German

2 entries
  • Melanesier noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • Melanesierin noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Irish

2 entries
  • Meilinéiseach adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • Meilinéiseach noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Italian

3 entries
  • melanesiano adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • melanesiana noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • melanesiano noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • меланезиялық noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • melanesisk adj (referring to Melanesia)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • melanesisk adj (referring to Melanesia)

Polish

3 entries
  • melanezyjski adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • Melanezyjczyk noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • Melanezyjka noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • melanésio adj (referring to Melanesia)

Russian

3 entries
  • меланези́йский adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • меланези́ец noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
  • меланези́йка noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Spanish

1 entries
  • melanesio adj (referring to Melanesia)

Swedish

1 entries
  • melanesisk adj (referring to Melanesia)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • Timpuluanin adj (referring to Melanesia)
  • Timpuluanin noun (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

People have variety. My preferred model of anthropology has four subspecies of the human species: Mongoloid (variants Sundadont, Sinodont, and Super-Sinodont), Caucasoid (variants Nordic and Mediterranean), Negroid (variants Congoid and Capoid), and Australoid (variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, Aborigine).

Source: tatoeba (8802683)

As a society, there are really three blending elements in the Philippines: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Caucasoids. My family is such a blend. Mongoloids really comprise three variants: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Super-Sinodonts, these respectively being the Pacific Islanders, the East Asians, and the Amerindians of the Americas. The Filipino Caucasoid element is commonly Mediterranean. There are four human subspecies in my preferred model of anthropology: the Mongoloids, the Caucasoids, the Negroids, and the Australoids. Caucasoid has variants Nordic and Mediterranean; Negroid has variants Congoid and Capoid; and Australoid has variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, and Aborigine. Migrants into the Philippines might have carried various bits of other strains. For example, Super-Sinodonts, Amerindians, might have reached the Philippines with the Manila-Acapulco Galleons during the Spanish Empire.

Source: tatoeba (10729738)

The Austronesians include today's Polynesian, Micronesian, Melanesian, and the indigenous people in Philippines, in the Southeast Asia archipelago, and in Taiwan.

Source: tatoeba (12213909)

While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder […]

Source: wiktionary

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