islet

English

Islets in the Azores.

Etymology

From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, is(le) +‎ -let. Mostly displaced native Middle English eyt, eit and Middle English holm, holme (See eyot and holm for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.lət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: eyelet
• Rhymes: -aɪlət

Noun

islet (plural islets)

1. A small island.

   Synonyms: eyot, holm

   There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.

2. (biology) An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.

Derived terms

• interislet
• intraislet
• isleted
• islet of Langerhans
• neoislet
• pseudoislet

Translations

small island

• Arabic: جُزَيِّرَة (juzayyira)
• Breton: enezig (br) f
• Burmese: ကျွန်းကလေး (my) (kywan:ka.le:)
• Catalan: illot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 小島 / 小岛 (siu² dou²)

  Mandarin: 小島 / 小岛 (zh) (xiǎo dǎo)

• Czech: ostrůvek (cs) m
• Danish: holm (da) c, skær n
• Dhivehi: ފުށި (fuṣi)
• Dutch: eilandje (nl)
• Esperanto: insuleto
• Finnish: luoto (fi), pieni saari
• French: îlot (fr) m, ilot (fr) m (alternative spelling)
• Galician: illeu m, illote (gl) m, insua (gl) f
• German: Werder (de) m or n (neuter is rarer), Flussinsel f, Holm (de) m (Northern German), Eiland (de), Inselchen (de) n, kleine Insel f
• Greek: νησίδα (el) f (nisída), νησάκι (el) n (nisáki)

  Ancient Greek: νησύδριον n (nēsúdrion), νησίδιον n (nēsídion), νησίον n (nēsíon), νησίς f (nēsís)

• Gujarati: દ્વીપિકાr (dvīpikār)
• Hindi: द्वीपिका (hi) (dvīpikā)
• Hungarian: szigetecske (hu)
• Ido: insuleto (io)
• Interlingua: insuletta
• Irish: oileáinín m
• Italian: isolotto (it) m, isoletta (it) f
• Japanese: 小島 (ja) (こじま, kojima)
• Javanese:

  Old Javanese: gili

• Kazakh: аралшық (aralşyq)
• Korean: 소도(小島) (ko) (sodo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: giravok (ku)

• Malayalam: ചെറുദ്വീപ് (ceṟudvīpŭ), തുരുത്ത് (ml) (turuttŭ)
• Manx: insheen m, ellaneen m, innis f
• Marshallese: āne
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: holme

• Polish: wysepka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ilhota (pt) f, ínsua f, ilhéu (pt) m
• Rapa Nui: motu
• Russian: острово́к (ru) m (ostrovók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оточић m, острвце n

  Latin: otočić m, ostrvce n

• Slovene: otoček m
• Spanish: islote (es) m, isleta f, mejana f
• Swedish: holme (sv) c, skär (sv) n, kobbe (sv) c
• Tongan: motu
• Turkish: adacık (tr)
• Ukrainian: остріве́ць (ostrivécʹ)
• Vietnamese: cù lao (vi)
• Welsh: ynysig f

See also

• islets of Langerhans

Anagrams

• IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, istle, liest, lites, slite, stile, teils, tiles