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English
Etymology
See Shetland.
Proper noun
Shetland Islands
- A group of islands of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands.
- The region of Scotland comprising these islands.
- A council area of Scotland, one of the 32, the council was originally formed in 1975.
Derived terms
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
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