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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.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kos/

Noun

kos m 

1. limp, lameness

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kost, from Middle Dutch cost, from Old French cost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s/

Noun

kos (plural kosse, diminutive kossie)

1. food

Usage notes

The diminutive singular is rarely used, while the diminutive plural, kossies, is more commonly found in language used for infants and small children.

Derived terms

• kitskos
• kosmenger

Related terms

• koste

Albanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic language, compare Old Church Slavonic ????? (kvas?, “sour dough, sour drink”), archaic Serbo-Croatian ???? (“yeast”), Slovene kvas (“yeast”). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kvas? (“leaven, fermented drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s/

Noun

kos m (indefinite plural kosë, definite singular kosi, definite plural kosët)

1. yogurt

Derived terms

• kosaxhi

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Homophone: koz

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Noun

kos m anim

1. blackbird

Declension

Derived terms

• kosátko
• kose
• kosí
• kos?v

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kos f

1. genitive plural of kosa

Verb

kos

1. second-person singular imperative of kosit

Anagrams

• sok

Further reading

• kos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

kos c

1. indefinite genitive singular of ko

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?s/

Verb

kos

1. second-person singular imperative of kosen

Hausa

Noun

kôs m

1. trump card

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Turkish koç.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko?]
• Hyphenation: kos
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

kos (plural kosok)

1. ram, tup (a male sheep)
2. tup (the head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer)

Declension

See also

• juh
• ürü

References

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• kost

Etymology

From Dutch kost, from Middle Dutch cost, from Old French cost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?s]
• Hyphenation: kos

Noun

kos

1. (colloquial) lodging.

Synonyms

• (lodging): indekosan, kosan, kos-kosan

Derived terms

Verb

kos

1. (colloquial) to rent a place to live or lodge

Synonyms

• (to lodge): berindekos, berkos, indekos, mengekos

Derived terms

Further reading

• “kos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Noun

kos m

1. Superseded spelling of kós.

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb kose

Noun

kos m (definite singular kosen) (uncountable)

1. cosiness (UK) or coziness (US)

Etymology 2

Noun

kos m

1. hug, cuddle

Etymology 3

Verb

kos

1. imperative of kose

References

• “kos” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the verb kose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?s/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

kos m (definite singular kosen, uncountable)

1. cosiness (UK) or coziness (US)

Adjective

kos

1. cozy

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?s/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

kos f (definite singular kosa, indefinite plural kaser, definite plural kasene)

1. alternative typography of kòs

References

• “kos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish cosa and Portuguese coisa.

Noun

kos

1. thing

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Noun

kos m anim

1. common blackbird (Turdus merula)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kos f

1. genitive plural of kosa

Further reading

• kos in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kô?s/

Adjective

k?s (definite k?s?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. slant, inclined, skew

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kô?s/

Noun

k?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. blackbird

Declension

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kó?s/

Adjective

k??s (comparative [please provide], superlative)

1. (archaic) slanted, inclined, skewed

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *k?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kó?s/

Noun

k??s m inan

1. piece

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *kos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kó?s/

Noun

k??s m anim

1. blackbird

Inflection

Further reading

• “kos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

kos

1. indefinite genitive singular of ko

Anagrams

• oks, sko

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English cost.

Noun

kos

1. cost

Etymology 2

From English cause.

Noun

kos

1. cause