koloni

From Latin colonia.

koloni c (singular definite kolonien, plural indefinite kolonier)

1. colony

• “koloni” in Den Danske Ordbog

koloni

1. first-person singular possessive of kolo

• klooni, likoon, olinko

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch kolonie, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

• IPA^(key): [koˈloni]
• Rhymes: -ni, -i
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧ni

koloni (plural koloni-koloni, first-person possessive koloniku, second-person possessive kolonimu, third-person possessive koloninya)

1. colony,
   1. (government, politics) a governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.
   2. (government, politics) region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
   3. (government, politics) a group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area.
   4. (zoology) a group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

• “koloni” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin colonia.

koloni m (definite singular kolonien, indefinite plural kolonier, definite plural koloniene)

1. a colony

• kolonisere

• “koloni” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin colonia.

koloni m (definite singular kolonien, indefinite plural koloniar, definite plural koloniane)

1. a colony

• “koloni” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English colon.

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koloni (n class, plural koloni)

1. colon (punctuation mark)

• nukta mbili

From Latin colonia.

koloni c

1. a colony

• kolonial
• kolonisation
• kolonisera
• kolonist

From English colony.

koloni

1. colony

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قولونی‎ (koloni, “colony”), from French colonie, from Latin colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from Latin colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from Proto-Italic *kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move, to turn (around), to revolve around, and therefore to sojourn, to dwell”).

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ko.loˈni/, (some speakers) /koˈlo.ni/
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧ni

koloni (definite accusative koloniyi, plural koloniler)

1. colony (region or governmental unit)

   Synonyms: sömürge, (archaic) müstemleke

2. colony (group of people who settle such an area)
3. colony (group of people residing in a different country, city, or area)
4. (biology) colony (group of organisms)

• kolonileşmek

• koloni in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koloni”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “koloni”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koloni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2659