invasion

See also: Invasion and invasión

English

Etymology

From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin invāsiōnem, accusative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)

1. A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
   • 2003, Lawrence Murray, The Kassandra Complex:

     Since Michel's days, however, many barbarian invasions had subdivided the Three Gauls into a melange of warsome states and tribes, all, nevertheless, acquiring a vaguely similar grace, if not a petite grandeur.

   • 2022 July 7, “Inspired by Ukraine, civilians study urban warfare in Taiwan”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 07 July 2022‎^[2]:

     Yeh actually works in marketing, and his weapon is a replica -- but he is spending the weekend attending an urban warfare workshop to prepare for what he sees as the very real threat of a Chinese invasion.

2. The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.

   an invasion of mobile phones

   an invasion of bees

   an invasion of foreign tourists

3. (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteria and such to the organism.
   • 2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology‎^[3], volume 13, →DOI:

     The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.

4. (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.

Derived terms

• angioinvasion
• bioinvasion
• British Invasion
• chemoinvasion
• coinvasion
• counterinvasion
• cyberinvasion
• cytoinvasion
• home invasion
• invasin
• invasional
• invasionary
• invasionist
• invasion money
• invasion of privacy
• invasion stripes
• lymphoinvasion
• microinvasion
• neuroinvasion
• pitch invasion
• postinvasion
• preinvasion
• pseudoinvasion
• reinvasion
• vasoinvasion

 

Related terms

• intervasion
• invade
• invader

 

Translations

military action

• Afrikaans: invasie
• Albanian: pushtim (sq) m
• Arabic: غَزْو m (ḡazw), إِغَارَة f (ʔiḡāra), اِنْتِهَاك m (intihāk), تَجَاوُز m (tajāwuz), تَهَاجُم m (tahājum)
• Armenian: ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʻ)
• Asturian: invasión f
• Azerbaijani: işğal (az), təcavüz (az), müdaxilə (az)
• Basque: inbasio inan
• Belarusian: уварва́нне n (uvarvánnje), інва́зія f (invázija)
• Bulgarian: инва́зия f (invázija), наше́ствие (bg) n (našéstvie), агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija)
• Burmese: ဝင်ရောက်စွက်ဖက်မှု (wang-raukcwakhpakhmu.), ကျူးကျော် (my) (kyu:kyau)
• Catalan: invasió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 侵占 (cam¹ zim³), 佔領 / 占领 (zim³ ling⁵), 侵略 (cam¹ loek⁶), 入侵 (jap⁶ cam¹), 侵入 (cam¹ jap⁶)

  Mandarin: 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn), 佔領 / 占领 (zh) (zhànlǐng), 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè), 入侵 (zh) (rùqīn), 侵入 (zh) (qīnrù)

• Czech: invaze (cs) f, vpád m
• Danish: invasion c
• Dutch: invasie (nl) f, inval (nl) m
• Esperanto: invado
• Estonian: sissetungi, invasioon
• Faroese: hertøka f
• Finnish: invaasio (fi), maahantunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: invasion (fr)
• Galician: invasión f
• Georgian: შემოსევა (šemoseva), შემოჭრა (šemoč̣ra)
• German: Invasion (de) f, Überfall (de) m, Einfall (de) m, Einmarsch (de) m
• Greek: εισβολή (el) (eisvolí)

  Ancient: εἰσβολή f (eisbolḗ)

• Hebrew: פְּלִישָׁה (plishá)
• Hindi: आक्रमण (hi) m (ākramaṇ), हमला (hi) m (hamlā), मुदाख़लत f (mudāxalat)
• Hungarian: invázió (hu)
• Icelandic: innrás
• Indonesian: invasi (id), serbuan (id), serangan (id)
• Italian: invasione (it), calata (it) f
• Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku), 侵攻 (ja) (しんこう, shinkō), 侵入 (ja) (しんにゅう, shinnyū)
• Kazakh: басып кіру (basyp kıru)
• Khmer: ការលុកលុយ (kaa luk luy), អធិក្រម (km) (ʼaʼthikrɑm)
• Korean: 침입(侵入) (ko) (chimip), 침공(侵攻) (chimgong), 침략(侵略) (ko) (chimnyak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: داگیرکردن (dagîrkirdin)

  Northern Kurdish: tecawiz (ku), destdirêjî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: басып кирүү (basıp kirüü)
• Lao: ການບຸກລຸກ (kān buk luk), ການຮົກຮານ (kān hok hān), ການຮຸກຮານ (kān huk hān)
• Latin: incursiō f, (Late) invasiō f
• Latvian: invāzija f
• Lithuanian: invazija f, įsiveržimas m
• Luxembourgish: Amarsch (lb) m, Invasioun f
• Macedonian: инвазија f (invazija)
• Malay: invasi
• Malayalam: അധിനിവേശം (ml) (adhinivēśaṁ)
• Maltese: invażjoni f
• Maori: whakaekenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халдлага (mn) (xaldlaga), довтолгоон (dovtolgoon), түрэмгийлэл (mn) (türemgiilel)

• Nepali: आक्रमण (ne) (ākramaṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invasjon m

  Nynorsk: invasjon m

• Occitan: invasion (oc) f
• Old English: infaru f
• Oromo: weerara
• Pashto: تجاوز (ps) m (tajāwoz), تهاجم (ps) m (tahājom)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَهاجُم (tahâjom), تَجاوُز (tajâvoz), مُداخِلِه (modâxele)

• Polish: inwazja (pl) f
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਮਲਾ (hamlā)
• Romanian: invazie (ro) f
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije),
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝнва̄зија f

  Roman: ìnvāzija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ආක්රමණය කිරීමයි (ākramaṇaya kirīmayi), ආක්රමණය (ākramaṇaya)
• Slovak: invázia f, vpád m
• Slovene: invazija (sl) f
• Spanish: invasión (es) f
• Swedish: invasion (sv) c
• Tajik: таҳоҷум (tahojum), таҷовуз (tajovuz), мудохила (tg) (mudoxila)
• Tamil: படையெடுப்பு (paṭaiyeṭuppu)
• Telugu: ఆక్రమణ (te) (ākramaṇa)
• Thai: การบุกรุก (gaan-bùk-rúk), การรุกราน (th) (gaan-rúk-raan)
• Tibetan: བཙན་འཛུལ (btsan 'dzul)
• Turkish: saldırı (tr), işgal (tr), tecâvüz (tr), müdahale (tr)
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja), інва́зія (uk) f (invázija)
• Urdu: حَمْلَہ m (hamla), مُداخَلَت f (mudāxalat)
• Uyghur: تاجاۋۇز (tajawuz)
• Uzbek: tajovuz (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự xâm lược (vi), sự xâm chiếm (vi)
• Welsh: goresgyniad m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} imbasyon
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} invasyon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem, nominative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.zjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

   armée d’invasion ― invasion army

   troupes d’invasion ― invasion troops

Related terms

• envahir
• invasif

Further reading

• “invasion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiō.

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion

Declension

Declension of invasion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	invasion	invasions
	definite	invasionen	invasionens
plural	indefinite	invasioner	invasioners
	definite	invasionerna	invasionernas

Related terms

• invadera

References

• invasion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• invasion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• invasion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)