islet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, isle + -let.
islet (plural islets)
- A small island.
- Synonym: eyot
There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.
- (biology) An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.
small island
- Arabic: جُزَيِّرَة (juzayyira)
- Burmese: ကျွန်းကလေး (my) (kywan:ka.le:)
- Catalan: illot (ca) m
- Chinese:
- 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: νησύδριον n (nēsúdrion)
- 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)
- Kazakh: аралшық (aralşyq)
- Korean: 소도(小島) (ko) (sodo)
- Kurdish:
- Manx: insheen m, ellaneen m, innis f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: holme
- Old Javanese: gili
- Polish: wysepka (pl) f
- Portuguese: ilhota (pt) f, ínsua f, ilhéu (pt) m
- Rapa Nui: motu
- Russian: острово́к (ru) m (ostrovók)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- 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