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Shetland_Islands

Shetland Islands

English

Proper noun

Shetland Islands

A group of islands of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands.
The region of Scotland comprising these islands.

Derived terms

(resident): Shetlander
(adj.; language): Shetlandic; (uncommon) Shetlandish

Translations

group of islands

Armenian: Շետլանդական կղզիներ pl ‎(Šetlandakan kłziner)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 設德蘭群島, 设德兰群岛 ‎(Shèdelán Qúndǎo), 設德蘭, 设德兰 ‎(Shèdelán)
Danish: Shetlandsøerne c pl, Hjaltland (historiographic, very archaic)
Dutch: Shetlandeilanden pl
Faroese: Hetland n, Hjaltland n
Finnish: Shetlannin saaret, Shetlanti
French: Shetland; Zetland
German: Shetlandinseln (de), Shetland-Inseln (de)
Greek: Νήσοι Σέτλαντ ‎(Nísoi Sétlant), Νησιά Σέτλαντ ‎(Nisiá Sétlant)
Icelandic: Hjaltland (is) n, Hjaltlandseyjar (is) f pl
Italian: le Shetland f pl, le isole Shetland f pl
Japanese: シェトランド諸島 ‎(shetorandoshotō)

Manx: Sheltyn
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Shetlandsøyene

Nynorsk: Shetlandsøyane, Shetlandsøyene
Old Norse: Hjaltland n
Portuguese: Ilhas Shetland f pl
Russian: Шетла́ндские острова́ m pl ‎(Šetlándskije ostrová)
Scots: Shetland Islands, Ȝetland (archaic)
Slovak: Shetlandy m pl
Spanish: islas Shetland f
Swedish: Shetlandsöarna (sv) n, Shetland (sv) n
Welsh: Ynysoedd Shetland m, f