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Mauritian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Mauritius + -an.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
    • One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.

Deriveds

Mauritian Creole · Mauritianness

Translations (25)

el μαυρικιανός (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · ca mauricià (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · be маўрыцы́йскі (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · fr mauricien (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · es mauriciano (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · be маўрыкі́йскі (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · it mauriziano (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · fi mauritiuslainen (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · nb mauritisk (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · mfe morisienn (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · de mauritisch (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · ht morisyèn (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · bn মরিশাসীয় (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · ro mauritian (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · nn mauritisk (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · ht morisyen (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · sv mauritisk (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · sw Kimorisi (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · af Mauritiaans (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · gl mauriciano (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · uk маврикі́йський (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · ru маврики́йский (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · mfe morisien (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · pl maurytyjski (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture) · cs mauricijský (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture)

Mauritian en · NOUN

Etymology

From Mauritius + -an.

Meanings

  1. A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.
    • Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion. 1964, James Pope-Hennessy, Verandah: Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies: 1867-1889, G. Allen and Unwin, page 258:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Mauritians Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (41)

it mauriziano (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · mfe morisyenn (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ht morisyèn (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · cs Mauricijec (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ca mauriciana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · af Mauritiaan (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · co maurizianu (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · gl mauriciana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ru маврики́ец (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · pl Maurytyjczyk (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ru маврики́йка (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · sc maurìtziana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · oc maurician (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · pl Maurytyjka (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · fr Mauricienne (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ro mauritian (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · es mauriciano (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · de Mauritierin (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · nb mauritier (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ro mauritiană (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · mfe morisienn (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · eo maŭricino (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · sw Mmorisi (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · el Μαυρικιανός (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ca mauricià (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · sc maurìtzianu (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · mfe morisien (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · nn mauritiar (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · fr Mauricien (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · bn মরিশাসী (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · eo maŭrico (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · sv mauritier (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · ht morisyen (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · de Mauritier (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · mfe morisyen (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · fi mauritiuslainen (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · co mauriziana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · oc mauriciana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · it mauriziana (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · gl mauriciano (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent) · af Mauritiër (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent)

Mauritian en · PROPN

Etymology

From Mauritius + -an.

Meanings

  1. Mauritian Creole.
    • 2001, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sheri Pargman, Creolization of Language and Culture (English edition of Robert Chaudenson, Des îles, des hommes, des langues), Routledge, →ISBN, page 47, Much later, Richardson (1963) posits a theory very similar to Jespersen’s, claiming that the [grammatical] system of Mauritian has resulted from the contact of very different systems (French, Malagasy, and Bantu), which allegedly could not merge together because of excessive heterogeneity, but neutralized each other instead.
    • However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation. 1989, John A. Holm, Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 401:
    • The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […] 2000, John H. McWhorter, The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 187–188: