English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle French islette ; synchronically analyzable as isle + -let .
Pronunciation
Noun
islet (plural islets )
A small island
( biology ) An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function
Synonyms
( small island ) :
Translations
small island
Burmese: ကျွန်းကလေး (my) ( kywan:ka.le: )
Catalan: illot (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 小島 / 小岛 ( siu2 dou2 ) , 小岛 ( siu2 dou2 )
Mandarin: 小島 / 小岛 (zh) ( xiǎo dǎo ) , 小岛 (zh) ( xiǎo dǎo )
Dutch: eilandje (nl)
Esperanto: insuleto
Finnish: luoto (fi) , pieni saari
French: îlot (fr) m , ilot (fr) m ( alternative spelling )
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 )
Gujarati: દ્વીપિકાr ( dvīpikār )
Hindi: द्वीपिका (hi) ( dvīpikā )
Hungarian: szigetecske (hu)
Ido: insuleto (io)
Interlingua: insuletta
Italian: isolotto (it) m , isoletta (it) f
Japanese: 小島 ( こじま, kojima )
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Kazakh: аралшық ( aralşyq )
Korean: 소도 (ko) ( sodo ) (小島 (ko) )
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Manx: insheen m , ellaneen m , innis f
Polish: wysepka (pl) f
Portuguese: ilhota (pt) f , ínsua f
Rapa Nui: motu
Russian: острово́к (ru) m ( ostrovók )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: оточић m , острвце n
Roman: otočić (sh) 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)
Vietnamese: cù lao (vi)
See also
Anagrams
IELTS , Leist , Steil , e-list , istle , liest , lites , slite , stile , teils , tiles