isthmus

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪsθ.məs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪs.məs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪz.məs/
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• General-American: /ˈɪs.məs/
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• obsolete: /ˈɪst.məs/
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• rhymes with -ɪsməs
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Borrowing from Latin isthmus (“a strip of land between two seas”), from Ancient Greek ῐ̓σθμός (ĭsthmós, “neck, narrow passage”), possibly from εἶμῐ (eîmĭ, “to go”). Cognate to Old Norse eið (“isthmus”).

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rrypinë — strip of land
• Arabic: بَرْزَخ (barzaḵ) — strip of land
• Armenian: պարանոց (paranocʻ) — strip of land
• Asturian: ismu — strip of land
• Azerbaijani: bərzəx — strip of land
• Azerbaijani: boyun — strip of land
• Basque: istmo — strip of land
• Belarusian: перашы́ек (pjerašýjek) — strip of land
• Belarusian: пярэ́смык (pjarésmyk) — strip of land
• Bulgarian: про́влак (próvlak) — strip of land
• Catalan: istme — strip of land
• Chinese Mandarin: 地峽 /地峡 (dìxiá) — strip of land
• Crimean Tatar: boyun — strip of land
• Czech: převlaka — strip of land
• Czech: šíje — strip of land
• Danish: landtange — strip of land
• Dutch: landengte — strip of land
• Dutch: istmus — strip of land
• Esperanto: terkolo — strip of land
• Estonian: maakitsus — strip of land
• Faroese: eiði — strip of land
• Faroese: eið — strip of land
• Finnish: kannas — strip of land
• French: isthme — strip of land
• West-Frisian: lâningte — strip of land
• Galician: istmo — strip of land
• Georgian: ყელი (q̇eli) — strip of land
• German: Isthmus — strip of land
• German: Landenge — strip of land
• German: Landbrücke — strip of land
• Greek: ισθμός (isthmós) — strip of land
• Ancient Greek: ἰσθμός (isthmós) — strip of land
• Hawaiian: pūʻali — strip of land
• Hebrew: מיצר \ מֵצַר (meitsár) — strip of land
• Hindi: स्थलडमरूमध्य (sthalḍamrūmadhya) — strip of land
• Hindi: भूडमरुमध्य (bhūḍamrumadhya) — strip of land
• Hindi: योजक (yojak) — strip of land
• Hindi: भू-संधि (bhū-sandhi) — strip of land
• Hindi: संयोग भूमि (sãyog bhūmi) — strip of land
• Hungarian: földszoros — strip of land
• Hungarian: földhíd — strip of land
• Icelandic: eiði — strip of land
• Icelandic: grandi — strip of land
• Ido: istmo — strip of land
• Indonesian: daratan sempit — strip of land
• Indonesian: tanah genting — strip of land
• Irish: cuing — strip of land
• Italian: istmo — strip of land
• Italian: braccio di terra — strip of land
• Japanese: 地峡 (chikyō) — strip of land
• Japanese: 峡部 (kyōbu) — strip of land
• Kazakh: мойнақ (moinaq) — strip of land
• Khmer: បួរដី (buə dəy) — strip of land
• Korean: 지협 (jihyeop) — strip of land
• Korean: 협부 (hyeopbu) — strip of land
• Northern Kurdish: berzax — strip of land
• Kyrgyz: моюн (moyun) — strip of land
• Lao: ຄໍ (khǭ) — strip of land
• Lao: ກີ່ວ (kīu) — strip of land
• Latin: isthmus — strip of land
• Latvian: zemesšaurums — strip of land
• Latvian: šaurums — strip of land
• Lithuanian: sąsmauka — strip of land
• Macedonian: провлак (provlak) — strip of land
• Malay: segenting — strip of land
• Manx: quing hallooin — strip of land
• Māori: kūititanga — strip of land
• Mongolian: хүзүүвч (xüzüüvč) — strip of land
• Northern Sotho: molalanaga — strip of land
• Norwegian Bokmål: eid — strip of land
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eid — strip of land
• Old Norse: eið — strip of land
• Ossetian: къубалӕг (k’ubalæg) — strip of land
• Persian: برزخ (barzax) — strip of land
• Polish: przesmyk — strip of land
• Polish: istm — strip of land
• Polish: istmus — strip of land
• Polish: międzymorze — strip of land
• Portuguese: istmo — strip of land
• Romanian: istm — strip of land
• Russian: переше́ек (perešéjek) — strip of land
• Northern Sami: muotki — strip of land
• Scottish Gaelic: tairbeart — strip of land
• Scottish Gaelic: aoidh — strip of land
• Serbo-Croatian: земљоуз — strip of land
• Serbo-Croatian: zemljouz — strip of land
• Slovak: úžina — strip of land
• Slovak: šija — strip of land
• Slovene: ožina — strip of land
• Slovene: zemeljska ožina — strip of land
• Spanish: istmo — strip of land
• Swedish: näs — strip of land
• Swedish: ed — strip of land
• Old Swedish: ēþ — strip of land
• Tagalog: tangkay — strip of land
• Tagalog: dalahikan — strip of land
• Tajik: барзах (barzax) — strip of land
• Tajik: гардана (gardana) — strip of land
• Tatar: муентык (muyıntıq) — strip of land
• Thai: คอคอด (kɔɔ-kɔ̂ɔt) — strip of land
• Turkish: berzah — strip of land
• Turkish: kıstak — strip of land
• Ukrainian: переши́йок (perešýjok) — strip of land
• Urdu: خاکنائے (xāknāē) — strip of land
• Uyghur: بويۇن (boyun) — strip of land
• Uzbek: boʻyin — strip of land
• Vietnamese: eo đất — strip of land
• Welsh: culdir — strip of land
• Chinese Mandarin: 峽 /峡 (xiá) — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Czech: isthmus — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Czech: úžina — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Finnish: kannas — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Italian: istmo — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Kazakh: қылта (qylta) — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Russian: перемы́чка (peremýčka) — part connecting two anatomical structures
• Chinese Mandarin: 橋邊 /桥边 (qiáobiān) — edge in a graph
• Finnish: kannas — edge in a graph
• Russian: ребро́ (rebró) — edge in a graph