Shetland Islands

English

Etymology

See Shetland.

Proper noun

Shetland Islands

1. A group of islands of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands.
2. The region of Scotland comprising these islands.
3. A council area of Scotland, one of the 32, the council was originally formed in 1975.

Derived terms

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

Translations

group of islands

• Armenian: Շետլանդական կղզիներ pl (Šetlandakan kġziner)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 設德蘭群島／设德兰群岛 (Shèdelán Qúndǎo), 設德蘭／设德兰 (Shèdelán)

• Czech: Shetlandy (cs)
• Danish: Shetlandsøerne c pl, Hjaltland (historiographic, very archaic)
• Dutch: Shetlandeilanden pl, Hitland n (obsolete)
• Estonian: Shetlandi saared pl
• Faroese: Hetland n, Hjaltland n
• Finnish: Shetlannin saaret, Shetlanti (fi)
• French: Shetland (fr) m or m pl
• German: Shetlandinseln (de) f pl, Shetland-Inseln (de)
• Greek: Σέτλαντ n pl (Sétlant)
• Icelandic: Hjaltland (is) n, Hjaltlandseyjar (is) f pl
• Irish: Sealtainn f, Inse Shealtainn f pl
• Italian: le Shetland f pl, le isole Shetland f pl
• Japanese: シェトランド諸島 (shetorandoshotō)
• Latin: Aemodae insulae f pl, Shetlandia f
• Manx: Sheltyn
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Shetlandsøyene

  Nynorsk: Hjaltland, Hjaltlandsøyane, Shetland, Shetlandsøyane,

• Old Norse: Hjaltland n
• Portuguese: Ilhas Shetland f pl
• Russian: Шетла́ндские острова́ m pl (Šetlándskije ostrová)
• Scots: Shetland Islands, Ȝetland (archaic)
• Scottish Gaelic: Sealtainn f, Eileanan Shealtainn m pl
• Slovak: Shetlandy m pl
• Spanish: islas Shetland f
• Swedish: Shetlandsöarna (sv) n, Shetland (sv) n
• Welsh: Ynysoedd Shetland m or f