Polynesia

Etymology
Borrowed from, coined by in 1756, from  +. According to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, de Brosses first used the term to refer to all Pacific islands. The present restricted use was established by in 1832.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Polinesië
 * Albanian: Polinezi, Polinezia
 * Amharic: ፖሊኔዥያ
 * Arabic: بُولِينِزِيَا
 * Armenian: Պոլինեզիա
 * Azerbaijani: Polineziya
 * Belarusian: Паліне́зія, Палінэ́зія
 * Bengali: পলিনেশিয়া
 * Bulgarian: Полине́зия
 * Burmese: ပိုလီနီးရှား
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏆᎵᏂᏏᎠ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 波利尼西亞
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Polynesien
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Polinezio
 * Estonian: Polüneesia
 * Farefare: Polinesia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პოლინეზია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: Polenekia
 * Hebrew: פּוֹלִינֶזְיָה
 * Hindi: पोलीनेशिया
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Pólýnesía
 * Indonesian: Polinesia
 * Irish: Polainéis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ប៉ូលីណេស៊ី
 * Korean: ^폴리네시아
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Polînezya
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໂປລີເນຊີ
 * Latvian: Polinēzija
 * Lithuanian: Polinezija
 * Macedonian: Полинезија
 * Malay: Polinesia
 * Maori: Poronihia
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Полинези
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Polynesia
 * Nynorsk: Polynesia
 * Persian: پلی‌نزی,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Polinezia
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: Polenisia
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Полѝне̄зија
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: පොලිනීසියාව
 * Slovak: Polynézia
 * Slovene: Polinezija
 * Spanish: Polinesia
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Dampuluan, Polynesia
 * Tajik: Полинезия
 * Tamil: பொலினீசியா
 * Tatar: Полинезия
 * Thai: พอลินีเชีย
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Polineziýa
 * Ukrainian: Поліне́зія
 * Urdu: پولینیشیا
 * Uyghur: پولىنېزىيە
 * Uzbek: Polineziya
 * Vietnamese: Pô-li-nê-di, Đa Đảo (多島)
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: פּאָלינעזיע

Etymology
From.