English
An isthmus (narrow strip of land).
Etymology
Via Latin isthmus Ancient Greek ἰσθμός ( isthmós , “ neck ” ) , possibly from εἶμι ( eîmi , “ to go ” ) . Cognate to Old Norse eið ( “ isthmus ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
isthmus (plural isthmuses or isthmi
A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water , and connecting two larger landmasses .
( anatomy ) such narrow part connecting two larger structures .( graph theory ) edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.
Derived terms
Translations
narrow strip of land
Arabic: بَرْزَخ (ar) ( barzaḵ )
Armenian: պարանոց (hy) ( paranocʻ )
Asturian: ismu m
Azerbaijani: berzah boyun (az)
Basque: istmo
Belarusian: перашы́ек m ( pjerašýjek ) , пярэ́смык m ( pjarésmyk )
Bulgarian: провлак m ( provlak )
Catalan: istme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地峽 ／ 地峡 (zh) ( dìxiá ) , 地峡 (zh) ( dìxiá )
Crimean Tatar: boyun
Czech: převlaka f šíje (cs)
Danish: landtange c
Dutch: landengte (nl) , istmus m
Esperanto: terkolo
Estonian: maakitsus
Faroese: eiði n eið n
Finnish: kannas (fi)
French: isthme (fr) m
Galician: istmo (gl) m
Georgian: ყელი (ka) ( q̇eli )
German: Isthmus (de) m Landenge f Landbrücke f
Greek: ισθμός (el) m ( isthmós )
Ancient: ἰσθμός m ( isthmós )
Guaraní: yvyjyva
Hawaiian: pūʻali
Hebrew: מיצר (he)
Hindi: स्थलडमरूमध्य ( sthalḍamrūmadhya )
Hungarian: földnyelv (hu) , földszoros (hu)
Icelandic: eiði grandi m
Ido: itmo
Indonesian: daratan sempit tanah genting (id)
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Italian: istmo (it) m braccio di terra m
Japanese: 地峡 ( ちきょう, chikyō ) , 峡部 ( きょうぶ, kyōbu )
Kazakh: қылта ( qylta ) , мойнақ (kk) ( moinaq )
Khmer: បួរដី ( buə dəy )
Korean: 지협 (ko) ( jihyeop ) , 협부 ( hyeopbu )
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Kyrgyz: моюн (ky) ( moyun )
Lao: ຄໍ (lo) ( khǭ ) , ກີ່ວ ( kīu )
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Latvian: zemesšaurums m šaurums m
Lithuanian: sąsmauka f
Macedonian: про́влак m ( próvlak )
Malay: segenting
Manx: quing hallooin
Maori: kūititanga
Mongolian: хүзүүвч (mn) ( xüzüüvč )
Northern Sami: muotki
Northern Sotho: molalanaga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eid (no) n
Nynorsk: eid n
Old Norse: eið
Ossetian: къубалӕг ( k’ubalæg )
Persian: برزخ (fa) ( barzax )
Polish: przesmyk (pl) m
Portuguese: istmo (pt) m
Romanian: istm (ro) n
Russian: переше́ек (ru) m ( perešéjek )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: земљоуз m
Roman: zemljouz m
Slovak: úžina f šija f
Slovene: ožina (sl) f zemeljska ožina (sl) f
Spanish: istmo (es) m
Swedish: näs (sv) n ed (sv)
Old Swedish: ēþ
Tagalog: tangkay (tl) , dalahikan
Tajik: барзах ( barzax ) , гардана ( gardana )
Tatar: муентык ( muyentıq )
Thai: คอคอด ( kor kôt )
Turkish: berzah (tr) , kıstak (tr)
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Ukrainian: переши́йок m ( perešýjok )
Urdu: خاکنائے
Uyghur: بويۇن ( boyun )
Uzbek: boʻyin (uz)
Vietnamese: eo đất (vi)
West Frisian: lâningte (fy)
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narrow part connecting two larger structures
Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
isthmus m genitive isthmī second declension
isthmus
Usage notes
Capitalised, it refers to the Isthmus of Corinth.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
