(Etuworop-sir, “island with many capes”). (Tokyo) えとろふ [<span class="searchmatch">ètórófú</span>] (Heiban – [0]) IPA(key): [e̞to̞ɾo̞ɸɯ̟] 択(え)捉(とろふ) • (<span class="searchmatch">Etorofu</span>) Iturup (an island of Russia)...
Etrof, from the Japanese rendition of the same Ainu toponym, Japanese 択捉 (<span class="searchmatch">Etorofu</span>). Iturup The largest and northernmost island in the southern Kuril Islands...
クリル列島 (Kuriru rettō), 千島列島 (Chishima rettō) disputed islands include: 択捉島 (<span class="searchmatch">Etorofu</span>-tō, “Iturup”) 国後島 (Kunashiri-tō, “Kunashir”) 色丹島 (Shikotan-tō, “Shikotan”)...
Wikipedia has an article on: 擇捉島 Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 択捉島 (<span class="searchmatch">Etorofu</span>-tō). Mandarin (Pinyin): Zézhuōdǎo (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˊ ㄓㄨㄛ ㄉㄠˇ Cantonese (Jyutping):...
signing of the San Francisco treaty, i.e., recognition of Kunashiri and <span class="searchmatch">Etorofu</span> as a part of the Kuriles renounced by Japan, but strong insistence on Habomai...
For pronunciation and definitions of えとろふ – see the following entry. (This term, えとろふ (<span class="searchmatch">etorofu</span>), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)...