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Old English īġland. The S was added by confusion with Old French isle, which is not related but is instead from Latin insula. Cognate with German Aue (“water-meadow”) and Latin aqua. Compare Dutch eiland, German Eiland, Old Norse eyland and English ey as in Anglesey, Bardsey, Ely.
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island (plural islands)
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- 2002, Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide
- Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
- 1939, Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
- King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck
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- (an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from island (noun)
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[edit] Translations
area of land completely surrounded by water
- Afrikaans: eiland
- Ainu: モシㇼ (moshir)
- Albanian: ishull (sq) m., ujdhesë (sq) f.
- Amharic: ደሴት (am) (däset) f.
- Anglo-Norman: isle f.
- Arabic: جَزِيرَة (ar) (jaziira) f.
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة (gezira) f.
- Aragonese: isla f.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܓܙܪܬܐ (gāzartā’) f.
- Armenian: կղզի (hy) (kġzi)
- Assamese: দ্বীপ (as) (dwip)
- Asturian: islla (ast) f.
- Azeri: ada (az)
- Bashkir: утрау (utraw)
- Basque: irla (eu), uharte (eu)
- Belarusian: востраў (be) (vóstraŭ) m., выспа (be) (výspa) f.
- Bengali: দ্বীপ (bn) (dip)
- Bosnian: ostrvo (bs) n.
- Breton: enez
- Bulgarian: остров (bg) (óstrov) m.
- Burmese: ကျွန်း (my) (kyun:)
- Catalan: illa (ca) f.
- Chamicuro: yishla
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 島 (zh), 岛 (zh) (dǎo), 島嶼 (zh), 岛屿 (zh) (dǎoyǔ)
- Min Nan: 島嶼, 島 (tó, tóo)
- Chuvash: утрав (utrav)
- Coptic:
- Bohairic: ⲙⲟⲩⲓ (mwi) f., ⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ (nisos) f.
- Sahidic: ⲙⲟⲩⲉ (mwe) f., ⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ (nisos) f.
- Corsican: isula f.
- Cree: ᒥᓂᔥᑎᒄ
- Crimean Tatar: ada
- Croatian: otok (hr) m.
- Czech: ostrov (cs) m.
- Danish: ø (da) c., (of sand) holm (da) c., (of rock) skær (da) c.
- Dogrib: dı
- Dutch: eiland (nl) n.
- Egyptian: 𓈀𓈇𓏤 (iw) m., 𓅁𓇋𓇋𓈅𓏤 (mai) f.
- Esperanto: insulo (eo)
- Estonian: saar (et), ohutussaar (et)
- Faroese: oyggj (fo) f., (small island, or river-island) hólmur (fo) m.
- Fijian: yanuyanu (fj)
- Finnish: saari (fi)
- French: île (fr) f., îles (fr) f. pl.
- Old French: isle f.
- Galician: illa (gl) f.
- Georgian: კუნძული (ka) (kundzuli)
- German: Insel (de) f., (poetic) Eiland (de) n.
- Greek:
- Ancient: νῆσος (nē̂sos) f.
- Modern: (formal) νήσος (el) (nísos) f., νησί (el) (nisí) n.
- Gujarati: દ્વીપ
- Haitian Creole: zile, zil
- Hebrew: אִי (he) (i) m.
- Hindi: द्वीप (hi) (dvīp) m., टापू (hi) (ṭāpū) m.
- Hungarian: sziget (hu)
- Icelandic: ey (is) f., eyja (is)
- Ido: insulo (io)
- Ilocano: puro
- Indonesian: pulau (id), nusa (id)
- Irish: oileán (ga) m., inis (ga) f.
- Italian: isola (it) f.
- Japanese: 島 (ja) (しま, shimá)
- Kalmyk: арл (arl)
- Kannada: ದ್ವೀಪ (kn) (dvīpa)
- Karachay-Balkar: айрымкан (ayrımkan), (Balkar) айрыкам (ayrıkam)
- Kazakh: арал (kk) (aral), атау (kk) (ataw)
- Khakas: олтырых (oltırıx)
- Khmer: កោះ (km) (goh)
- Komi: ді (di)
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- Komi-Permyak: ди (di)
- Korean: 섬 (ko) (seom)
- Kumyk: атав (ataw)
- Kyrgyz: арал (ky) (aral)
- Lakota: wíta
- Lao: ດອນ (lo) (döön)
- Latgalian: (ocean, sea) jiursola, (lake) azarsola, (river) upsola
- Latin: insula (la) f.
- Latvian: sala (lv) f.
- Lithuanian: sala (lt) f.
- Low German: Insel (nds) f., Ailand (nds) n.
- Lower Sorbian: kupa f., kupka f.
- Luxembourgish: Insel (lb)
- Macedonian: остров (mk) (óstrov) m.
- Malagasy: nosy (mg)
- Malay: pulau (ms)
- Malayalam: ദ്വീപ്
- Maltese: gżira (mt) f.
- Maori: motu (mi)
- Marathi: बेट
- Mongolian: арал (mn) (aral)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norfuk: ailen
- Norman: île
- Norwegian: øy (no) m. and f.
- Nottoway-Meherrin: eohtessieh
- Occitan: illa (oc) f.
- Okinawan: しま (sima)
- Old English: īeġ (ang) f.
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: сакъадах (saqadax)
- Ottoman Turkish: جزیره (cezîre), آدا (ada), جزائر (cezâir) pl.
- Persian: جزیره (fa) (jazire)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤉 (ʔy)
- Polish: wyspa (pl) f.
- Portuguese: ilha (pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਟਾਪੂ
- Quechua: wat'a
- Romani: dvip
- Romanian: insulă (ro) f.
- Romansch: insla (rm) f.
- Russian: остров (ru) (óstrov) m.
- Sakha: арыы (arıı)
- Sanskrit: जलवेष्टितभूमिः
- Sardinian: isula f.
- Scottish Gaelic: eilean (gd) m., innis (gd) f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: острво (sh) n.
- Roman: ostrvo (sh) n.
- Sicilian: ìsula (scn) f.
- Sinhalese: දිවයින (si) (divayina)
- Slovak: ostrov (sk) m.
- Slovene: otok (sl) m.
- Sotho: sehlekehleke (st)
- Southern Altai: ортолык (ortolıq)
- Spanish: isla (es) f.
- Sundanese: pulo (su)
- Swahili: kisiwa (sw)
- Swedish: ö (sv) c., holme (sv) c., kobbe (sv) c., skär (sv) n.
- Tagalog: pulo (tl) archipelago- kapuluan
- Tajik: ҷазира (tg) (jazira)
- Tamil: தீவு (ta)
- Tatar: utraw (tt)
- Telugu: దీవి (dIvi), ద్వీపం (dveepaM)
- Thai: เกาะ (th) (gòr)
- Tigrinya: ደሴት (ti) (desie̯tɨ) f.
- Turkish: ada (tr), cezire (tr)
- Turkmen: ada (tk)
- Tuvan: ортулук (ortuluq)
- Ukrainian: острів (uk) (óstriv) m.
- Upper Sorbian: kupa f.
- Urdu: ٹاپو (ur) (ṭāpū) m.
- Vietnamese: đảo (vi) (島 (vi))
- Volapük: nisul (vo)
- Welsh: ynys (cy) f.
- West Frisian: eilân (fy) n.
- Yiddish: אינדזל (yi) (indzl) m.
- Yonaguni: ダマ (dama)
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entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself
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island (third-person singular simple present islands, present participle islanding, simple past and past participle islanded)
- (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island
- 1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
- We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
- (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands
- (transitive) To isolate
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set, dot (as if) with islands
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