subcontinent

See also: Subcontinent

English

Etymology 1

sub- +‎ continent

Noun

subcontinent (plural subcontinents)

1. A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).

Coordinate terms

• microcontinent

Translations

large landmass

• Albanian: nënkontinent m
• Arabic: شِبْه قارَة f (šibh qāra)
• Armenian: ենթացամաք (entʻacʻamakʻ)
• Azerbaijani: yarımqitə
• Belarusian: субкантыне́нт m (subkantynjént), субкантынэ́нт m (subkantynént)
• Bengali: উপমহাদেশ (upomhadeś)
• Bulgarian: субконтине́нт m (subkontinént)
• Catalan: subcontinent m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 次大陸／次大陆 (zh) (cìdàlù)

• Czech: subkontinent m
• Danish: subkontinent n
• Dutch: subcontinent (nl) n
• Estonian: subkontinent, alakontinent
• Finnish: osamanner
• French: sous-continent (fr) m
• Georgian: სუბკონტინენტი (subḳonṭinenṭi)
• German: Subkontinent (de) m
• Greek: υποήπειρος f (ypoḯpeiros)
• Hindi: उपमहाद्वीप m (upmahādvīp)
• Hungarian: szubkontinens (hu)
• Icelandic: álfuhluti m
• Indonesian: anak benua (id)
• Irish: fo-ilchríoch f
• Italian: subcontinente (it) m
• Japanese: 亜大陸 (ja) (あたいりく, atairiku)
• Kazakh: субконтинент (subkontinent)
• Khmer: ឧបទ្វីប (km) (ʼupattviip)
• Korean: 아대륙(亞大陸) (adaeryuk)
• Kyrgyz: субконтинент (subkontinent)
• Lao: ອະນຸທະວີບ (ʼa nu tha wīp)
• Latvian: subkontinents m
• Lithuanian: subkontinentas m
• Macedonian: потконтине́нт m (potkontinént)
• Malay: subbenua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: subkontinent n

  Nynorsk: subkontinent n

• Persian: شبه‌قاره (šebh-e-qârre)
• Polish: subkontynent (pl) m
• Portuguese: subcontinente (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਉਪਮਹਾਂਦੀਪ m (upamhāndīp)
• Romanian: subcontinent n
• Russian: субконтине́нт (ru) m (subkontinént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потконтѝнент m

  Roman: potkontìnent (sh) m

• Slovak: subkontinent m
• Slovene: podcelina (sl) f
• Spanish: subcontinente (es) m
• Swedish: subkontinent c
• Tamil: துணைக்கண்டம் (ta) (tuṇaikkaṇṭam)
• Telugu: ఉపఖండం (upakhaṇḍaṁ)
• Thai: อนุทวีป (à-nú-tá-wîip)
• Turkish: altkıta (tr)
• Ukrainian: субконтине́нт m (subkontynént)
• Urdu: بَرِّصَغِیر (ur) m (barr-e-saġīr)
• Vietnamese: tiểu lục địa

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Indian subcontinent..

Alternative forms

• Subcontinent

Proper noun

the subcontinent

1. The Indian subcontinent, South Asia.
   • 2006, Ilhan Niaz, An Inquiry into the Culture of Power of the Subcontinent, page 290:

     The Turks had acquired the culture of power of Persia and implemented its political and administrative traditions in the subcontinent.

   • 2009 March 8, Jamie Jackson, “Dubai stands by to host Test cricket”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore could lead to Dubai and Abu Dhabi becoming the "home" venues for the subcontinent’s cricket-playing countries for the forseeable future, according to leading officials in England and worldwide.

   • 2010 February 26, Jolyon Attwooll, “Coming up: What's on the world of travel”, in Daily Telegraph‎^[2]:

     Highlights include a debate on east London architecture, quirky performances staged at the Barbican, music and dance from the subcontinent, and the East Commonwealth Games in Spitalfields Market, with events ranging from bicycle polo to kabaddi (a cross between tag and wrestling).

Derived terms

• subcontinental

Further reading

• subcontinent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed. Equivalent to sub- +‎ continent. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏp.kɔn.tiˌnɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: sub‧con‧ti‧nent

Noun

subcontinent n (plural subcontinenten)

1. subcontinent (large landmass smaller than a continent)