English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-nós English Samoan
From Samoa + -an.
Pronunciation
Noun
Samoan (countable and uncountable, plural Samoans)
- (countable) A person from Samoa or of Samoan descent.
- (uncountable) The Samoan language.
Translations
person
- Afrikaans: Samoaan
- Asturian: samoanu (ast) m, samoana (ast) f
- Catalan: samoà (ca) m, samoana (ca) f
- Czech: Samojec (cs) m, Samojka (cs) m
- Dutch: Samoaan (nl), Samoaanse (nl) f
- Esperanto: samoano, samoanino (woman)
- Finnish: samoalainen (fi)
- French: Samoan (fr), Samoen m (less frequent), Samoën m (rare), Samoïen m (rare, obsolete)
- Galician: samoano (gl) m
- German: Samoaner (de) m, Samoanerin (de) f
- Greek: Σαμοανός (el) m (Samoanós), Σαμοανή f (Samoaní)
- Hawaiian: Kāmoa
- Italian: samoano (it) m, samoana (it) f
- Japanese: サモア人 (ja) (samoa-jin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: samoaner m
- Nynorsk: samoanar m
- Polish: Samoańczyk (pl) m, Samoanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: samoano (pt)
- Romanian: samoan (ro) m, samoană (ro) f
- Russian: самоанец (ru) m (samoanec), самоанка (ru) f (samoanka)
- Spanish: samoano (es) m, samoana (es) f
- Swedish: samoan (sv) c
- Turkish: Samoalı (tr)
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Further reading
Adjective
Samoan (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to Samoa
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