islet

English

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): (file)
Homophone: eyelet
Rhymes: -aɪlət

Noun

islet (plural islets)

A small island.
Synonyms: eyot, holm

There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.
(biology) An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.

Derived terms

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: 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:
Northern Kurdish: giravok (ku)
Malayalam: ചെറുദ്വീപ് (ceṟudvīpŭ), തുരുത്ത് (ml) (turuttŭ)
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:
Cyrillic: оточић m, острвце n

Roman: 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

Anagrams

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