peninsula

See also: península, peninsulă, and Peninsula

English

Alternative forms

• pæninsula (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paenīnsula, from paene (“almost”), and īnsula (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɪˈnɪn.sjʊ.lə/, /ˈpɛn.ɪn.sjʊ.lə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɪˈnɪn.s(j)ʊ.lə/

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• (Australia, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə/
• Homophone: peninsular (non-rhotic, except South Asia)

Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulas or peninsulae)

1. (geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

   Synonyms: byland, cape, chersonese, half-island, headland, ness

   • 1994 November 13, Mike Scully, “Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 8, production code 6F18:

     Man cancelling Lisa's inauguration as president: I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island. Don't worry, it's just a name.
     [Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters]
     Lisa: He said it was just a name!
     Man being chased by monsters: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.

Derived terms

• Absheron Peninsula
• Alaska Peninsula
• Aleutian Peninsula
• Aleut Peninsula
• Antarctic Peninsula
• Apennine Peninsula
• Arabian Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula
• Banksia Peninsula
• Banks Peninsula
• Beecroft Peninsula
• Bicol Peninsula
• Bolivar Peninsula
• Bruce Peninsula
• Cape Peninsula
• Cape York Peninsula
• Carrs Peninsula
• Chukchi Peninsula
• Chukotka Peninsula
• Chukotski Peninsula
• Coromandel Peninsula
• Crimean Peninsula
• Crimean peninsula
• Door Peninsula
• Eye Peninsula
• Eyre Peninsula
• Florida Peninsula
• Iberian peninsula
• Iberian Peninsula
• Indian Peninsula
• Insular Peninsula
• Italian Peninsula
• Italian peninsula
• Kamchatka Peninsula
• Kathiawar peninsula
• Kenai Peninsula Borough
• Kola Peninsula
• Korean Peninsula
• Lake Almanor Peninsula
• Lake and Peninsula Borough
• Liaodong Peninsula
• Lleyn Peninsula
• Llŷn Peninsula
• Lower Eyre Peninsula
• Mahia Peninsula
• Malay Peninsula
• midpeninsula
• Mornington Peninsula
• Northern Bruce Peninsula
• Nova Scotia peninsula
• Olympic Peninsula
• Palmer Peninsula
• Peninsula Lake
• Peninsula State
• peninsulate
• Sakonnet Peninsula
• Scandinavian Peninsula
• Seward Peninsula
• Shandong Peninsula
• Shantung Peninsula
• Simpson Peninsula
• Sinai Peninsula
• Somali Peninsula
• Sorrento Peninsula
• subpeninsula
• Upper Peninsula
• Varanger Peninsula
• Yorke Peninsula
• Zamboanga Peninsula

in toponyms of Newfoundland

• Avalon Peninsula
• Baie Verte Peninsula
• Bay de Verde Peninsula
• Bonavista Peninsula
• Burin Peninsula
• Great Northern Peninsula
• Port au Port Peninsula

Related terms

• insular
• insulate
• insulation
• insulator
• island
• isolate
• isolation

Translations

piece of land projecting into water

• Abkhaz: а́дгьылбжьахабжа (ádgʲəlbžaxabẑa)
• Afrikaans: skiereiland (af)
• Albanian: gadishull (sq) m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: јарым ортолык (ǰarïm ortolïk), токой (tokoy)

• Amharic: ባሕረ ገብ መሬት (baḥrä gäb märet)
• Arabic: شِبْه جَزِيرَة f (šibh jazīra)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܡܘܼܬ ܓܵܙܲܪܬܵܐ f (dmūt gāzartā), ܓܵܙܲܪܬܵܐ ܝܲܒ݂ܫܵܢܵܝܬܵܐ f (gāzartā yaḇšānāytā)

• Armenian: թերակղզի (hy) (tʻerakġzi)
• Asturian: península (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: yarımada
• Bashkir: ярымутрау (yarïmutraw)
• Basque: penintsula (eu)
• Belarusian: паўво́страў m (pawvóstraw), паўвы́спа f (pawvýspa)
• Bengali: উপদ্বীপ (bn) (upoddip)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: rawis

• Breton: ledenez m
• Bulgarian: полуо́стров m (poluóstrov)
• Burmese: ကျွန်းဆွယ် (my) (kywan:hcwai)
• Catalan: península (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 半島 / 半岛 (bun³ dou²)

  Dungan: банҗядо (banjiado), банхэдо (banhedo)

  Hokkien: 半島 / 半岛 (poàn-tó)

  Mandarin: 半島 / 半岛 (zh) (bàndǎo)

• Chuvash: ҫурутрав (śurutrav)
• Circassian:

  West Circassian: please add this translation if you can

• Crimean Tatar: yarımada
• Czech: poloostrov (cs) m
• Danish: halvø (da) c
• Dutch: schiereiland (nl) n
• Erzya: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: duoninsulo
• Estonian: poolsaar (et)
• Faroese: hálvoyggj f, nes n
• Finnish: niemimaa (fi)
• French: péninsule (fr) f, presqu'île (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: skiereilân (fy) n

• Galician: península (gl) f
• Georgian: ნახევარკუნძული (naxevarḳunʒuli)
• German: Halbinsel (de) f
• Greek: χερσόνησος (el) f (chersónisos)

  Ancient Greek: χερσόνησος f (khersónēsos)

• Gujarati: દ્વીપકલ્પ (dvīpkalp)
• Hebrew: חֲצִי אִי (he) m (khatsí-í)
• Hindi: प्रायद्वीप (hi) m (prāyadvīp)
• Hungarian: félsziget (hu)
• Icelandic: skagi m, nes (is) n
• Ido: peninsulo (io)
• Indonesian: semenanjung (id)
• Ingrian: poolisaari
• Interlingua: peninsula
• Irish: leithinis f, glasoileán m
• Italian: penisola (it) f
• Japanese: 半島 (ja) (はんとう, hantō)
• Kalmyk: тоха арл (toxa arl)
• Kannada: ಅರೆತೆವರು (kn) (aretevaru)
• Karachay-Balkar: джарымайрымкан (carımayrımkan)
• Kazakh: түбек (tübek), жарты арал (jartı aral)
• Khmer: ទៀបកោះ (tiəp kɑh), ស្ទើរកោះ (stəə kɑh), ឧបទ្វីប (km) (ʼupattviip)
• Korean: 반도(半島) (ko) (bando)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nîvgirav (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жарым арал (jarım aral), түбөк (tübök)
• Lao: ຄາບສມຸດ (khāp sa mut)
• Latin: paenīnsula (la) f
• Latvian: pussala (lv) f
• Ligurian: penisoa f
• Lithuanian: pusiasalis (lt) m
• Low German: Halfinsel
• Macedonian: полуо́стров m (poluóstrov)
• Malay: semenanjung, tanah menanjung, penanjung, jazirah
• Malayalam: ഉപദ്വീപ് (ml) (upadvīpŭ)
• Maltese: peniżola f
• Māori: raenga kūiti
• Marathi: द्वीपकल्प (dvīpkalpa)
• Miwok:

  Lake Miwok: hojʔónne, jóʔkaṭi

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хойг (mn) (xoig)

  Mongolian script: ᠬᠣᠶᠢᠭ (qoyiɣ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halvøy (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: halvøy f

• Ossetian: ӕрдӕгсакъадах (ærdægsak’adax)
• Pashto: جزيره نما (ps) f (ǰaziránamā), شبه جزيره f (šebeǰazira), ټاپو وزمه f (ṭāpúwázma)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شِبْهِ‌جَزیرِه (šebh-e-jazire), شِبْهِ جَزیرِه (fa) (šebh-e jazire)

• Plautdietsch: Launtenj n
• Polish: półwysep (pl) m
• Portuguese: península (pt) f
• Romanian: peninsulă (ro) f
• Russian: полуо́стров (ru) m (poluóstrov)
• Scots: peninsula
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-eilean m, ceann-tìre m, ros m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏луоток m, полуострво n

  Latin: pȍluotok (sh) m, poluostrvo (sh) n

• Slovak: polostrov m
• Slovene: polotok (sl) m
• Spanish: península (es) f, procurrente m
• Swahili: peninsula, rasi (sw)
• Swedish: halvö (sv) c
• Tagalog: tangway
• Tajik: нимҷазира (nimjazira), шибҳиҷазира (šibhijazira) (rare)
• Tamil: மூவலந்தீவு (ta) (mūvalantīvu)
• Tatar: ярымутрау (tt) (yarımutraw)
• Telugu: ద్వీపకల్పము (te) (dvīpakalpamu)
• Thai: คาบสมุทร (th) (kâap-sà-mùt)
• Tibetan: གྲིང་ཟུར (gring zur)
• Turkish: yarımada (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آطه (ada)

• Turkmen: ýarymada (tk)
• Ukrainian: піво́стрів (uk) m (pivóstriv)
• Urdu: جَزِیرَہ نُما (jazīra numā)
• Uyghur: يېرىم ئارال (yërim aral)
• Uzbek: yarim orol
• Vietnamese: bán đảo (vi) (半島 (vi))
• Volapük: tinisul (vo), (older term) lafanisul
• Walloon: cåziyon (wa) m, cåziyea (wa) m (smaller; neologisms)
• Welsh: gorynys f or m, penrhyn (cy) m
• Yakut: тумул арыы (tumul arïï)
• Yiddish: האַלבאינדזל m (halbindzl)
• Yoruba: larubawa
• Zazaki: nimaleng
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• isthmus

Further reading

• “peninsula”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Peninsula in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish península.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pe‧nin‧su‧la
• IPA^(key): /peˈninsula/ [peˈn̪in̪.su.l̪a]

Noun

península

1. peninsula

   Synonym: rawis

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [peːˈnĩː.sʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈnin.su.la]

Noun

pēnīnsula f (genitive pēnīnsulae); first declension

1. alternative form of paenīnsula (“peninsula”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pēnīnsula	pēnīnsulae
genitive	pēnīnsulae	pēnīnsulārum
dative	pēnīnsulae	pēnīnsulīs
accusative	pēnīnsulam	pēnīnsulās
ablative	pēnīnsulā	pēnīnsulīs
vocative	pēnīnsula	pēnīnsulae

References

• “peninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peninsula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “peninsula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulae)

1. A peninsula.

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English peninsula.

Noun

peninsula class IX (plural peninsula class X)

1. peninsula

   Synonym: rasi

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin paenīnsula

Spanish penínsulabor.

Tagalog peninsula

Borrowed from Spanish península, from Latin paenīnsula.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /peˈninsula/ [pɛˌn̪in̪.sʊˈla]
• Rhymes: -insula
• Syllabification: pe‧nin‧su‧la

Noun

penínsulá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈᜒᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

1. peninsula

   Synonym: tangway

Derived terms

• Peninsulang Malayo

Related terms

• insular
• insulares
• isla
• peninsulares

Further reading

• “peninsula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018