indigenous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Native to a land, especially before colonization.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.
Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
Horses, like camels, had once been indigenous to Latin America but had become extinct.
Berlin is unique in being home to numerous East German converts to Islam who belong to the same German-speaking Muslim communities as West German converts. […] I attempt in this book to give a good sense of the diversity of contemporary indigenous Sunni Muslims in Germany, while pointing to commonalities and differences.
gloss: Native to a land, especially before colonization.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Ainu are the indigenous ethnic group of Japan's Hokkaido Island.
About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.
The team auctioned off the right to name the new species to publicize the find and raise awareness and funds for the indigenous Lahu people of northern Thailand, a group that Sippawat is part of.
Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
gloss: Innate, inborn.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
gloss: Original to a geographical area.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.
Synonyms: aboriginal
autochthonous
local
natural
Related words: endogenous
indigena
indigent
Derived words: indigenist
indigenity
indigenization
indigenocide
indigenously
indigenous medicine
indigenousness
Indigenous Peoples' Day
nonindigenous
transindigenous
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: inheems
lang: Armenian
word: բնիկ
roman: bnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: местен
roman: mesten
lang: Bulgarian
word: туземен
roman: tuzemen
lang: Catalan
word: indígena
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 在地的
lang: Dutch
word: inheems
lang: Dutch
word: autochtoon
lang: Dutch
word: oorspronkelijk
lang: Esperanto
word: indiĝena
lang: Estonian
word: pärismaine
lang: Finnish
word: alkuperäinen
lang: French
word: indigène
lang: French
word: aborigène
lang: French
word: autochtone
lang: Galician
word: indíxena
lang: Galician
word: aborixe
lang: Georgian
word: აბორიგენული
roman: aborigenuli
lang: Georgian
word: მკვიდრი
roman: mḳvidri
lang: Georgian
word: ადგილობრივი
roman: adgilobrivi
lang: German
word: indigen
lang: German
word: einheimisch
lang: German
word: eingeboren
lang: German
word: inländisch
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αὐτόχθων
roman: autókhthōn
lang: Hebrew
word: יְלִידִי
roman: y'lidi
lang: Icelandic
word: frumbyggja-
lang: Icelandic
word: infæddur
lang: Icelandic
word: innlendur
lang: Indonesian
word: inlander
lang: Indonesian
word: pribumi
lang: Indonesian
word: masyarakat adat
lang: Italian
word: indigeno
lang: Ladino
word: indijena
lang: Latin
word: indigenus
lang: Māori
word: taketake
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stedegen
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: innfødt
lang: Occitan
word: indigèna
lang: Old English
word: inlendisc
lang: Old English
word: inlende
lang: Persian
word: بومی
roman: bumi
lang: Polish
word: miejscowy
lang: Polish
word: macierzysty
lang: Portuguese
word: indígena
lang: Portuguese
word: nativo
lang: Portuguese
word: aborígene
lang: Portuguese
word: aborígine
lang: Romanian
word: indigen
lang: Romanian
word: autohton
lang: Russian
word: коренно́й
roman: korennój
lang: Russian
word: абориге́нный
roman: aborigénnyj
lang: Russian
word: ме́стный
roman: méstnyj
lang: Russian
word: тузе́мный
roman: tuzémnyj
lang: Russian
word: автохто́нный
roman: avtoxtónnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tùsanach
lang: Sicilian
word: nnìgginu
lang: Sicilian
word: autòttunu
lang: Sicilian
word: nativu
lang: Sicilian
word: arigginaru
lang: Spanish
word: indígena
lang: Tagalog
word: katutubo
lang: Tokelauan
word: tagatāfenua
lang: Tokelauan
word: tagatānuku
lang: Turkish
word: yerli