atoll

See also: Atoll

English

Satellite picture of the Atafu atoll in Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), possibly from Prakrit *𑀲𑀁𑀢𑀻𑀞 (*saṃtīṭha), from Sanskrit *संतीर्थ (saṃtīrtha, “level ford”). The traditional etymology from Persian آب‌تل (âb-tal, “water-hillock”) is unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈætɒl/, /əˈtɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈætɔl/, /ˈætɑl/, /ˈætoʊl/, /ˈeɪtɑl/, /ˈeɪtɔl/, /əˈtɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

atoll (plural atolls)

1. a type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls.

Derived terms

• atoll fruit dove

Descendants

• → Catalan: atol
• → Dutch: atol
  • → Indonesian: atol
• → French: atoll
  • → Romanian: atol
• → Irish: atall
• → Italian: atollo
• → Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: atoll

  Norwegian Nynorsk: atoll

• → Polish: atol

Translations

island

• Armenian: ատոլ (hy) (atol)
• Basque: atoloi
• Bengali: আবতল (abotol)
• Bulgarian: атол (bg) (atol)
• Catalan: atol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環礁／环礁 (zh) (huánjiāo)

• Czech: atol (cs) m
• Danish: atol (da) c
• Dhivehi: އަތޮޅު (atoḷu)
• Dutch: atol (nl) m or n, koraaleiland (nl) n
• Esperanto: atolo
• Estonian: atoll (et)
• Finnish: atolli (fi)
• French: atoll (fr) m
• German: Atoll (de) n
• Greek: ατόλλη (atólli)
• Ido: atolo (io)
• Indonesian: atol (id)
• Irish: atall m
• Italian: atollo (it) m
• Japanese: 環礁 (ja) (かんしょう, kanshō)
• Latvian: atols m
• Lithuanian: atolas m
• Macedonian: атол m (atol)
• Malay: atol
• Manx: ellan chorralagh f
• Marshallese: aelōn̄
• Norwegian: atoll (no) m
• Persian: آب‌سنگ (fa) (âb-sang)
• Polish: atol (pl) m
• Portuguese: atol (pt) m
• Romanian: atol (ro)
• Russian: ато́лл (ru) m (atóll)
• Slovak: atol
• Slovene: atol (sl) m
• Spanish: atolón m
• Swedish: atoll (sv) c
• Tagalog: karang
• Turkish: atol (tr), mercan adası (tr)
• Ukrainian: атол (uk) m (atol)
• Volapük: korialanisul klöpik (vo)

Further reading

• atoll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• all to, allot

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian атолл (atoll).

Noun

atoll

1. atoll

Declension

Declension of atoll

	singular	plural
nominative	atoll	atolllar
genitive	atollnıñ	atolllarnıñ
dative	atollğa	atolllarğa
accusative	atollnı	atolllarnı
locative	atollda	atolllarda
ablative	atolldan	atolllardan

References

• “atoll”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɔl/

• Audio

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Noun

atoll m (plural atolls)

1. atoll

Further reading

• “atoll”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Malé in the Maldives, built on an atoll

Etymology

From Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), via English atoll.

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atoller, definite plural atollene)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu) and Maldivian atolu, via English atoll.

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atollar, definite plural atollane)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

atoll c

1. atoll

Declension

Declension of atoll
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	atoll	atollen	atoller	atollerna
Genitive	atolls	atollens	atollers	atollernas

Anagrams

• ollat