atoll

See also: Atoll

English

Satellite picture of the Atafu atoll in Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު‎ (atoḷu), possibly from Prakrit *𑀲𑀁𑀢𑀻𑀞 (*saṃtīṭha), from Sanskrit *संतीर्थ (saṃtīrtha, “level ford”). The traditional etymology from Persian آب‌تل‎ (âb-tal, “water-hillock”) is unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈætɒl/, /əˈtɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈætɔl/, /ˈætɑl/, /ˈætoʊl/, /ˈeɪtɑl/, /ˈeɪtɔl/, /əˈtɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

atoll (plural atolls)

1. a type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls.

Derived terms

• atoll fruit dove

Descendants

• → Catalan: atol
• → Dutch: atol
  • → Indonesian: atol
• → French: atol
  • → Romanian: atol
• → Irish: atall
• → Italian: atollo
• → Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: atoll

  Norwegian Nynorsk: atoll

• → Polish: atol

Translations

island

• Armenian: ատոլ (hy) (atol)
• Basque: atoloi
• Bengali: আবতল (abotol)
• Bulgarian: атол (bg) (atol)
• Catalan: atol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環礁／环礁 (zh) (huánjiāo)

• Czech: atol (cs) m
• Danish: atol (da) c
• Dhivehi: އަތޮޅު‎ (atoḷu)
• Dutch: atol (nl) m or n, koraaleiland (nl) n
• Estonian: atoll (et)
• Finnish: atolli (fi)
• French: atoll (fr) m
• German: Atoll (de) n
• Greek: ατόλλη (atólli)
• Ido: atolo (io)
• Indonesian: atol (id)
• Irish: atall m
• Italian: atollo (it) m
• Japanese: 環礁 (ja) (かんしょう, kanshō)
• Latvian: atols m
• Lithuanian: atolas m
• Macedonian: атол m (atol)
• Malay: atol
• Manx: ellan chorralagh f
• Marshallese: aelōn̄
• Norwegian: atoll (no) m
• Persian: آب‌سنگ‎ (âb-sang)
• Polish: atol (pl) m
• Portuguese: atol (pt) m
• Romanian: atol (ro)
• Russian: ато́лл (ru) m (atóll)
• Slovak: atol
• Slovene: atol (sl) m
• Spanish: atolón m
• Swedish: atoll (sv) c
• Tagalog: karang
• Turkish: atol (tr), mercan adası (tr)
• Ukrainian: атол (uk) m (atol)
• Volapük: korialanisul klöpik (vo)

Further reading

• atoll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• all to, allot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɔl/

• Audio

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Noun

atoll m (plural atolls)

1. atoll

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Malé in the Maldives, built on an atoll

Etymology

From Dhivehi އަތޮޅު‎ (atoḷu), via English atoll.

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atoller, definite plural atollene)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dhivehi އަތޮޅު‎ (atoḷu) and Maldivian atolu, via English atoll.

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atollar, definite plural atollane)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

atoll c

1. atoll

Declension

Declension of atoll
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	atoll	atollen	atoller	atollerna
Genitive	atolls	atollens	atollers	atollernas

Anagrams

• ollat