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English
Pronunciation
Noun
continental shelf (plural continental shelves)
- (oceanography) The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean.
Translations
the area of sea around a land mass
- Breton: plateiz kevandirel m
- Bulgarian: континентален шелф m (kontinentalen šelf)
- Catalan: plataforma continental (ca) f, marge continental m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大陸棚 / 大陆棚 (zh) (dàlùpéng), 大陸架 / 大陆架 (zh) (dàlùjià)
- Czech: kontinentální šelf m
- Danish: kontinentalsokkel (da) c
- Dutch: continentaal plat n
- Estonian: mandrilava, šelf
- Faroese: landgrunnur m
- Finnish: mannerjalusta (fi)
- French: plateau continental (fr) m
- Galician: plataforma continental (gl) f
- Georgian: კონტინენტური შელფი (ḳonṭinenṭuri šelpi), კონტინენტური მეჩეჩი (ḳonṭinenṭuri mečeči), შელფი (šelpi)
- German: Schelf m, Kontinentalschelf m, Kontinentalsockel (de) m, Festlandssockel
- Greek: υφαλοκρηπίδα (el) f (yfalokripída)
- Hebrew: מדף יבשתי m
- Hindi: (please verify) कॉण्टीनेण्टल शैल्फ ? (kŏṇṭīneṇṭal śailph)
- Hungarian: kontinentális talapzat, kontinentális self
- Icelandic: landgrunn (is) n
- Indonesian: paparan benua (id)
- Irish: scairbh ilchríochach (ga) f
- Italian: piattaforma continentale f
- Japanese: 大陸棚 (ja) (たいりくだな, tairikudana)
- Korean: (please verify) 대륙붕 (daeryukbung)
- Lithuanian: šelfas, kontinentinis atabradas ?
- Malay: pentas benua
- Manx: ymmyr vooarheeragh f
- Norwegian: kontinentalsokkel m
- Polish: szelf kontynentalny m, półka kontynentalna f
- Portuguese: plataforma continental f
- Romanian: platformă continentală f
- Russian: континента́льный шельф (ru) m (kontinentálʹnyj šelʹf)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ше̏лф m, (please verify) континентална по̏ја̄с m
- Roman: šȅlf (sh) m, (please verify) epikontinentalni pȍjās m
- Slovak: šelf m, kontinentálny šelf m, (please verify) pevninský šelf m
- Slovene: (please verify) šelf m, (please verify) kontinentalna polica f, (please verify) kontinentalni šelf m
- Spanish: plataforma continental f
- Swedish: kontinentalsockel (sv) c
- Tamil: (please verify) கண்டத் திட்டு (kaṇṭat tiṭṭu)
- Thai: ไหล่ทวีป (th) (lài-tá-wîip)
- Turkish: kıta sahanlığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: континентальний шельф m (kontynentalʹnyj šelʹf)
- Vietnamese: thềm lục địa (vi)
- Welsh: sgafell gyfandirol (cy) f
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