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Mauritian

Mauritian adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.

Adjective

Mauritian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
    • One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.

Noun

Mauritian (plural Mauritians)

  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

Proper noun

Mauritian

  1. Mauritian Creole.
    • 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

Mauritian meaning in Bengali

Mauritian in Bengali

of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture
মরিশাসীয় môriśasiẏô
person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent
মরিশাসী môriśasī

Forms of Mauritian

pluralMauritians

Origin of Mauritian

From Mauritius + -an.

Words formed from Mauritian

Questions about Mauritian

What does Mauritian mean?
Mauritian means of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
What is Mauritian in Bengali?
Mauritian in Bengali is মরিশাসীয় (môriśasiẏô), মরিশাসী (môriśasī). See Mauritian meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Mauritian?
Mauritian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Mauritian in the dictionary

  1. Mauritanian
  2. Mauritanian shortface eel
  3. Mauritanian shortface eels
  4. Mauritanians
  5. Mauritia
  6. Mauritian
  7. Mauritian Creole
  8. mauritianin
  9. Mauritianize
  10. Mauritianized
  11. Mauritianizes

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