different between island vs jura

English

Alternative forms

• iland (archaic)
• ylond, ylelond, yland (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English ??land, ?e?land, ?aland (“island”), from Proto-Germanic *awj?land? (from Proto-Germanic *awj? (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?) + *land? (“land”), equivalent to ey +? land.

Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).

The insertion of ?s?—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakingly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?a??l?nd/

Noun

island (plural islands)

1. A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
2. An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.

   (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)

   • 1939, Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality

     King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"

3. A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
4. A traffic island.

5. (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
6. (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.

Synonyms

• (land surrounded by water): ait, holm
• (an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis

Derived terms

Related terms

• insular
• isle
• islet
• archipelago

Translations

Verb

island (third-person singular simple present islands, present participle islanding, simple past and past participle islanded)

1. (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
   • 1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42

     We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
2. (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
3. (transitive) To isolate.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXVII, lines 1-2

     High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam

     Islanded in Severn stream.

Synonyms

• isle

Translations

See also

• archipelago
• atoll
• cay, key
• continent
• peninsula

Anagrams

• Ladins, Landis, ilands

Scots

Alternative forms

• iland
• yland

Etymology

From Old English ??land.

Pronunciation

Noun

island (plural islands)

1. An island.

Catalan

Verb

jura

1. third-person singular present indicative form of jurar
2. second-person singular imperative form of jurar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jura]

Noun

jura f

1. (geology) Jurassic

Further reading

• jura in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• jura in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?ra, nominative plural of i?s (“law, right”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?ra/, [?ju??]

Noun

jura c (singular definite juraen, not used in plural form)

1. law (the practice and profession of law)

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.?a/

Verb

jura

1. third-person singular past historic of jurer

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese jurar.

Verb

jura

1. swear, promise

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Latin

Noun

j?ra

1. nominative plural of j?s
2. accusative plural of j?s
3. vocative plural of j?s

References

• jura in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• jura in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

jura f (4th declension)

1. Jurassic

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

jura n

1. definite plural of jur

Polish

Noun

jura f

1. Jurassic

Declension

Derived terms

• jurajski

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.?a/
• Hyphenation: ju?ra
• Rhymes: -u?a

Noun

jura f (plural juras)

1. an oath

   Synonym: juramento

Verb

jura

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of jurar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of jurar

Interjection

jura?

1. really? (sarcastically indicating that something was obvious)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin j?r?re, i?r?re, present active infinitive of i?r? (“swear or take an oath”), from Proto-Italic *jowez??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?ra/

Verb

a jura (third-person singular present jur?, past participle jurat) 1st conj.

1. (transitive, reflexive) to swear; to vow

Conjugation

Synonyms

• a se f?g?dui
• a se jurui
• a sufle?i

Derived terms

• jurare

Related terms

• înjura
• jur?mânt
• jur?tor

Spanish

Etymology

From jurar (“to swear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xu?a/, [?xu.?a]

Noun

jura f (uncountable)

1. oath, swearing
2. (dated, slang, El Salvador) the police institution, especially the military police before the 1992 Peace Accords

   Synonym: (El Salvador, Northern Mexico) chota

Verb

jura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of jurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of jurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of jurar.

Further reading

• “jura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.