"indigenous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/ [General-American], /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒɪnəs/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-indigenous.ogg [Australia]
enPR: ĭn-dĭj′ə-nəs Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪnəs, -ɪdʒənəs 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-}}, {{bor|en|LL.|indigenus||native, born in a country}} Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), {{m|la|indi-}} indi-, {{m|la|indu-}} indu-, {{m|la|in||in}} in (“in”), {{m|la||gen-}} gen-, {{m|la|gignō||give birth to}} gignō (“give birth to”), {{af|en|-ous}} -ous, {{m|en|indigene}} indigene, {{noncog|grc|ἐνδογενής|t=born in the house}} Ancient Greek ἐνδογενής (endogenḗs, “born in the house”), {{glossary|piecewise doublet}} piecewise doublet, {{piecewise doublet|en|endogenous|notext=1}} endogenous, {{m|en|Indian}} Indian Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} indigenous (not comparable)
  1. Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-indigenous-en-adj-d~SImruu
  2. Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
    In particular, of or relating to a people (or their language or culture) that inhabited a region prior to the arrival of people of other cultures which became dominant (e.g., through colonialism), and which maintains a distinct culture.
    Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-indigenous-en-adj-1TU1ILuw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 74 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ous: 21 68 12
  3. Innate, inborn. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (innate, inborn): connatural Translations (innate, inborn): вроден (vroden) (Bulgarian), aangeboren (Dutch), ingeboren (Dutch), overgeërfd (Dutch), synnynnäinen (Finnish), inné (French), congénital (French), angeboren (German), intuitiv (German), eingeboren (German), meðfæddur (Icelandic), innato (Italian), congenito (Italian), nato (Portuguese), врождённый (vroždjónnyj) (Russian), прирождённый (priroždjónnyj) (Russian), приро́дный (priródnyj) (Russian), innato (Spanish), congénito (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-indigenous-en-adj-1QWxpGaf Disambiguation of 'innate, inborn': 5 5 91 Disambiguation of 'innate, inborn': 5 5 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: autochthonous, local, natural Synonyms (native): aboriginal Derived forms: indigenity, indigenously, indigenous medicine, indigenousness, nonindigenous Related terms: indigena Translations (born or engendered in, native to a land or region): inheems (Afrikaans), αὐτόχθων (autókhthōn) (Ancient Greek), местен (mesten) (Bulgarian), туземен (tuzemen) (Bulgarian), indígena (Catalan), 在地的 (Chinese Mandarin), inheems (Dutch), autochtoon (Dutch), oorspronkelijk (Dutch), indiĝena (Esperanto), pärismaine (Estonian), alkuperäinen (Finnish), indigène (French), aborigène (French), autochtone (French), indíxena (Galician), აბორიგენული (aborigenuli) (Georgian), მკვიდრი (mḳvidri) (Georgian), ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi) (Georgian), indigen (German), einheimisch (German), eingeboren (German), inländisch (German), יְלִידִי (y'lidi) (Hebrew), frumbyggja- (Icelandic), infæddur (Icelandic), innlendur (Icelandic), inlander (Indonesian), pribumi (Indonesian), masyarakat adat (Indonesian), indigeno (Italian), indijena (Ladino), indigenus (Latin), taketake (Maori), stedegen (Norwegian Bokmål), innfødt (Norwegian Bokmål), indigèna (Occitan), inlendisc (Old English), inlende (Old English), بومی (bumi) (Persian), miejscowy (Polish), macierzysty (Polish), indígena (Portuguese), nativo (Portuguese), aborígene (Portuguese), aborígine (Portuguese), indigen (Romanian), autohton (Romanian), коренно́й (korennój) (Russian), абориге́нный (aborigénnyj) (Russian), ме́стный (méstnyj) (Russian), тузе́мный (tuzémnyj) (Russian), автохто́нный (avtoxtónnyj) [literary] (Russian), tùsanach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), urođen (Serbo-Croatian), nnìgginu (Sicilian), autòttunu (Sicilian), nativu (Sicilian), arigginaru (Sicilian), indígena (Spanish), autóctono (Spanish), nativo (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'native': 40 40 21 Disambiguation of 'born or engendered in, native to a land or region': 48 48 5

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          "ref": "1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 17",
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          "ref": "2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →OCLC, page 103, column 2",
          "text": "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.",
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      "word": "აბორიგენული"
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      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "word": "יְלִידִי"
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      "lang": "Icelandic",
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      "word": "frumbyggja-"
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      "lang": "Icelandic",
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      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "innlendur"
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      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlander"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "pribumi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "masyarakat adat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigeno"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indijena"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigenus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "taketake"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "stedegen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "innfødt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigèna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlendisc"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlende"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bumi",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "بومی"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "miejscowy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "macierzysty"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indígena"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "aborígene"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "aborígine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autohton"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korennój",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "коренно́й"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "aborigénnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "абориге́нный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "méstnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "ме́стный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tuzémnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "тузе́мный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtoxtónnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "автохто́нный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tùsanach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "urođen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nnìgginu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autòttunu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "arigginaru"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indígena"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autóctono"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 48 5",
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativo"
    }
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}
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    "English piecewise doublets",
    "English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
    "English terms derived from Late Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ous",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Requests for review of Dutch translations",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪdʒənəs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪdʒɪnəs"
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      "word": "indigenity"
    },
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      "word": "indigenously"
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      "word": "indigenous medicine"
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      "name": "root"
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      },
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        "3": "",
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      },
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    },
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      },
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      "name": "af"
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
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      "name": "noncog"
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      "args": {
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "indigena"
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        {
          "ref": "1862, Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree",
          "text": "Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 17",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "native"
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          "intrusion",
          "intrusion"
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      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The Ainu are the indigenous ethnic group of Japan's Hokkaido Island.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →OCLC, page 103, column 2",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.",
        "In particular, of or relating to a people (or their language or culture) that inhabited a region prior to the arrival of people of other cultures which became dominant (e.g., through colonialism), and which maintains a distinct culture."
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          "native",
          "native"
        ],
        [
          "intrusion",
          "intrusion"
        ],
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          "colonialism",
          "colonialism"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "ref": "1883, George MacDonald, “Stephen Archer”, in Stephen Archer and Other Tales",
          "text": "He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Innate, inborn."
      ],
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        [
          "Innate",
          "innate"
        ],
        [
          "inborn",
          "inborn"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒɪnəs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdʒɪnəs"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪdʒənəs"
    },
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      ],
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      "enpr": "ĭn-dĭj′ə-nəs"
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      "sense": "native",
      "word": "aboriginal"
    },
    {
      "word": "autochthonous"
    },
    {
      "word": "local"
    },
    {
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "connatural"
    },
    {
      "word": "natural"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inheems"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mesten",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "местен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tuzemen",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "туземен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indígena"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "在地的"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inheems"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autochtoon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "oorspronkelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indiĝena"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "pärismaine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "alkuperäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigène"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "aborigène"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autochtone"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indíxena"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aborigenuli",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "აბორიგენული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mḳvidri",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "მკვიდრი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "adgilobrivi",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "ადგილობრივი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "einheimisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "eingeboren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inländisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "autókhthōn",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "αὐτόχθων"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "y'lidi",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "יְלִידִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "frumbyggja-"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "infæddur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "innlendur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlander"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "pribumi"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "masyarakat adat"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indijena"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigenus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "taketake"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "stedegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "innfødt"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigèna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlendisc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "inlende"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bumi",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "بومی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "miejscowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "macierzysty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indígena"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "aborígene"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "aborígine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autohton"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korennój",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "коренно́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "aborigénnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "абориге́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "méstnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "ме́стный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tuzémnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "тузе́мный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtoxtónnyj",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "автохто́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tùsanach"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "urođen"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nnìgginu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autòttunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "arigginaru"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "indígena"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "autóctono"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "born or engendered in, native to a land or region",
      "word": "nativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vroden",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "вроден"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "aangeboren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "ingeboren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "overgeërfd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "synnynnäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "inné"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "congénital"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "angeboren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "intuitiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "eingeboren"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "meðfæddur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "innato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "congenito"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "nato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vroždjónnyj",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "врождённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "priroždjónnyj",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "прирождённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "priródnyj",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "приро́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "innato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "innate, inborn",
      "word": "congénito"
    }
  ],
  "word": "indigenous"
}

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