Alien

See also: alien and alíen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².

Proper noun

Alien

1. Alternative form of Alian
   • 1977, 光華畫報‎^[3], volume 2, numbers 2-12, →OCLC, page 25:

     Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.

   • 2012 July 5, I-chia Lee, “COA fights for hens’ rights”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 July 2012, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[5]:

     A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised egg-laying hens from Europe, the Shih An Farm in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alien District.

   • 2019 October 22, Liang Wen-Ching, “Take Pre-wedding Photo Shoot Back Home”, in Phoebe Szu-Yu Huang [黃思瑜], transl., Indigenous Sight [原視]‎^[6], archived from the original on 26 November 2023‎^[7]:

     Res Matilin comes from Sandi Village, a Paiwan community in Pingtung County. Jimmy comes from Alien Township, Kaohsiung City and has Minnan ethnicity. “I decided to come back because I really missed home. I had been away from home for too long.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Alien.

Finnish

Proper noun

Alien

1. genitive plural of Ali

Anagrams

• Elina, Laine, alein, aleni, aneli, laein, laine, liean

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English alien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɪ̯.liː.(ə)n/

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Noun

Alien n or m (strong, genitive Aliens, plural Aliens)

1. alien

   Synonym: Außerirdischer

Declension

Declension of Alien [neuter // masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	Alien	die	Aliens
genitive	eines	des	Aliens	der	Aliens
dative	einem	dem	Alien	den	Aliens
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	Alien	die	Aliens

Further reading

• “Alien” in Duden online