Iceland

English

Etymology

From Middle English Iseland, Island, Islond, Yslond, a calque of Old Norse Ísland, equivalent to ice +‎ land.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪs.lənd/

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• Hyphenation: Ice‧land

Proper noun

Iceland

2. A country in the North Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes referred to as the Republic of Iceland.

Synonyms

• Republic of Iceland

Related terms

• Icelandic
• Icelandish
• Icelander

Translations

country in Europe

• Abkhaz: Исландиа (Islandia)
• Acehnese: Islandia
• Afrikaans: Ysland (af)
• Albanian: Islanda (sq) f
• Amharic: አይስላንድ (ʾäysəlandə)
• Arabic: آيْسْلَنْدَا‎ f (ʾāyslandā), إِيسْلَنْدَا‎ f (ʾīslandā)

  Egyptian Arabic: ايسلاندا‎

• Aragonese: Islandia
• Armenian: Իսլանդիա (hy) (Islandia)
• Aromanian: Islanda f
• Assamese: আইচলেণ্ড (aisolendo)
• Asturian: Islandia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: İslandiya (az)
• Bambara: Aisland
• Bashkir: Исландия (Islandiya)
• Basque: Islandia (eu)
• Bavarian: Island n
• Belarusian: Ісла́ндыя f (Islándyja)
• Bengali: আইসল্যান্ড (bn) (aiśôljanḍ)
• Bikol Central: Islanda
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: আইসল্যান্ড (āisalyānḍ)
• Bislama: Iceland
• Breton: Island (br)
• Bulgarian: Исла́ндия (bg) f (Islándija)
• Burmese: အိုက်စလန် (uikca.lan)
• Catalan: Islàndia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Iceland
• Central Kurdish: ئایسلەند‎ (ayislend)
• Chechen: Исланди (Islandi)
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 冰島, 冰岛 (Pên-tó)

  Mandarin: 冰島 (zh), 冰岛 (zh) (Bīngdǎo)

• Chuvash: Исланди (Islandi)
• Cornish: Island, Rewenys f
• Corsican: Islanda f
• Crimean Tatar: İslandiya
• Czech: Island (cs) m
• Danish: Island (da)
• Dhivehi: އައިސްލަންޑަން‎ (aislan̊ḍan̊)
• Dutch: IJsland (nl) n
• Dutch Low Saxon: Ieslaand n
• Dzongkha: ཨའིསི་ལེནཌ་ (a'isi lenḍ)
• Esperanto: Islando (eo)
• Estonian: Island (et)
• Ewe: Iceland
• Extremaduran: Islándia f
• Faroese: Ísland (fo) n
• Fiji Hindi: Iceland
• Finnish: Islanti (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Islande f
• French: Islande (fr) f
• Friulian: Islande f
• Gagauz: İslandiya
• Galician: Islandia (gl) f
• Georgian: ისლანდია (ka) (islandia)
• German: Island (de) n
• Greek: Ισλανδία (el) f (Islandía)
• Greenlandic: Islandi
• Guaraní: Iylanda
• Gujarati: આઇસલૅન્ડ (āisalɛnḍ)
• Haitian Creole: Islann
• Hausa: Iceland, Aisalan
• Hawaiian: ʻĀina Hau
• Hebrew: אִיסלַנד‎ (he) (aysland)
• Hindi: आइसलैंड (hi) (āislaiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: Izland (hu)
• Icelandic: Ísland (is) n, (poetic) Frón (is) n
• Icelandic Sign Language: OpenA@CenterChesthigh-PalmBackThumbUp Upanddown
• Ido: Islando (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano: Islandia
• Indonesian: Islandia (id)
• Interlingua: Islanda
• Irish: An Íoslainn, Poblacht na hÍoslainne f
• Italian: Islanda (it) f
• Japanese: アイスランド (ja) (Aisurando)
• Kabardian: Ислэнд (Islănd)
• Kalmyk: Ислгудин Орн (Islgudin Orn)
• Kannada: ಐಸ್‍ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ (kn) (ais‍lyāṇḍ)
• Kapampangan: Iceland
• Karachay-Balkar: Исландия (İslandiya)
• Karakalpak: İslandiya
• Kashubian: Islandëjô n
• Kazakh: Исландия (Ïslandïya)
• Khmer: អ៊ីស្លង់ (ʼiislɑng), អាយឡែន (ʼaaylaen)
• Komi-Permyak: Исланд (Island)
• Komi-Zyrian: Исландия (Islandija)
• Kongo: Islande
• Korean: 아이슬란드 (ko) (Aiseullandeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Îsland

• Kyrgyz: Исландия (ky) (İslandiya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Islandia, איסלאנדיה‎
• Lao: ໄອສແລນ (ʼait lǣn)
• Latgalian: Īslandeja f
• Latin: Islandia (la), (archaic) Snelandia
• Latvian: Islande f, Īslande f
• Ligurian: Islanda f
• Limburgish: Iesland n
• Lingala: Islandi

• Lithuanian: Islandija (lt) f
• Livonian: Īsland
• Lombard: Islanda f
• Low German: Iesland (nds) n
• Luganda: Isilandi
• Luxembourgish: Island (lb) n
• Macedonian: Исланд (mk) m (Island)
• Malay: Iceland
• Malayalam: ഐസ്‌ലാന്റ് (ais‌lānṟŭ)
• Maltese: l-Iżlanda
• Manx: Yn Eeslyn f
• Maori: Tiorangi, Aihirana
• Marathi: आइसलँड (āislĕṇḍa)
• Mingrelian: ისლანდია (islandia)
• Mongolian: Исланд (mn) (Island)
• Nahuatl: Iztlālpan (nah)
• Nauruan: Aiterand
• Navajo: Tin Kéyah
• Nepali: आइसल्याण्ड (āisalyāṇḍa)
• Norman: Islande f
• North Frisian: Islönj
• Northern Sami: Islánda
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Island (no)

  Nynorsk: Island (nn)

• Occitan: Islàndia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Исландъ (Islandŭ)
• Old English: Īsland
• Ossetian: Исланди (Islandi)
• Pashto: آيسلېنډ‎ m (āyslánḍ)
• Pennsylvania German: Eisland n
• Persian: ایسلند‎ (fa) (island)
• Piedmontese: Islanda f
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Iseland
• Polish: Islandia (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Ισλανδία (Islandía)
• Portuguese: Islândia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਆਈਸਲੈਂਡ (āīsalaiṇḍ)
• Quechua: Islandya
• Romanian: Islanda (ro) f
• Romansch: Islanda f
• Russian: Исла́ндия (ru) f (Islándija)
• Rusyn: Ісланд f (Island)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Isilande
• Samogitian: Islandėjė f
• Sango: Ïsalândi
• Sanskrit: आइसलैंड (āisalaiṃḍa)
• Sardinian: Islanda f
• Saterland Frisian: Ieslound n
• Scots: Iceland
• Scottish Gaelic: Innis Tìle f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Исланд m

  Roman: Island (sh) m

• Sicilian: Islandia f
• Silesian: Islandyjo n
• Sinhalese: අයිස්ලන්තය (ayislantaya)
• Slovak: Island (sk) m
• Slovene: Islándija (sl) f
• Somali: Island
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Islandska f

  Upper Sorbian: Islandska f

• Spanish: Islandia (es) f
• Swahili: Aisilandi (sw)
• Swazi: Echweni
• Swedish: Island (sv)
• Tagalog: Lupangyelo, Islandya
• Tajik: Исландия (tg) (Islandiya)
• Tamil: ஐசுலாந்து (aiculāntu)
• Tatar: Исландия (İslandiya)
• Telugu: ఐస్‌లాండ్ (te) (ais‌lāṇḍ)
• Thai: ไอซ์แลนด์ (th) (áis-lɛɛn)
• Tibetan: ཨཡིསུ་ལེན་ཌ། (ayisu len ḍa)
• Tigrinya: አይስላንድ (ʾäysəlandə)
• Tok Pisin: Aislan
• Turkish: İzlanda (tr)
• Turkmen: Islandiýa
• Udmurt: Исландия (Islandija)
• Ukrainian: Ісла́ндія (uk) f (Islándija)
• Urdu: آئس لینڈ‎ (āis laiṇḍ)
• Uyghur: ئىسلاندىيە‎ (islandiye)
• Uzbek: Islandiya (uz)
• Venetian: Islanda f
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Iceland, Băng Đảo (冰島)
• Volapük: Lisladeän (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Island'
• Walloon: Izlande f
• Waray-Waray: Islandya
• Welsh: Gwlad yr Iâ (cy)
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Ysland n
• West Frisian: Yslân (fy)
• Western Panjabi: آئس لینڈ‎ (pnb)
• Wolof: Islaand
• Yakut: Исландия (İslandiya)
• Yiddish: איסלאַנד‎ (island)
• Yoruba: Íslándì
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) İslanda

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Iceland
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Reykjavík
• Iceland cyprine
• Icelander
• Iceland moss
• Iceland spar

Anagrams

• decalin, inlaced

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Scots

Proper noun

Iceland

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)