archipelago

Etymology
From, formed on the basis of + , a designation for the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the term Arcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a common noun for any sea with many islands, and then to the islands in such a sea.

Noun

 * 1)  A group of islands.
 * 2)  The Aegean Sea.
 * 3)  Something scattered around like an archipelago.
 * 1)  Something scattered around like an archipelago.
 * 1)  Something scattered around like an archipelago.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Antillean Creole: achipèl
 * Arabic: أَرْخَبِيل
 * Aragonese: archipielago
 * Armenian:, կղզիախումբ
 * Assamese: দ্বীপ-পুঞ্জ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: uhartedi
 * Bavarian: Archipel
 * Belarusian: архіпела́г, архiпэля́г
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: arkipelago
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: архипела́г
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chavacano: arquipelago
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 群島, 列島
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: arcipelagu, arcipelacu
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: øgruppe,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: arĥipelago,, insularo
 * Estonian: saarestik
 * Faroese:, oyggjahav
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: arcipelac
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: არქიპელაგი
 * German:, , Inselhaufen, Inselansammlung
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: achipèl
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: द्वीपसमूह, द्वीप-पुंज
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: eyjaklasi
 * Ido: ,
 * Igbo: ọ̀tú àgwà
 * Ilocano: arquipelago
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: oileánra
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kashubian: òstrowina
 * Kazakh: топарал, архипелаг
 * Khmer: កំរងកោះ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: arxîpel, ,
 * Kyrgyz: архипелаг
 * Lao: ຫມູ່ດອນ, ຫມູ່ເກາະ
 * Latin: archipelagus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: salynas, archipelagas
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Archipel
 * Luxembourgish: Archipel
 * Macedonian: архипела́г
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: arċipelagu
 * Manx: ellanragh, mooirinshyn
 * Maori: huinga motu
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Neapolitan: arcepelaco
 * Ngazidja Comorian: masiwa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arkipel, øygruppe, skjærgård
 * Nynorsk: arkipel, øygard, øygruppe
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: آرال
 * Papiamentu: archipelago
 * Pashto: مجمع الجزاير
 * Persian: مَجمَع‌ُالجَزایِر
 * Piedmontese: arsipélagh
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: artzipèlagu
 * Scots: airchipelago, archipelago
 * Scottish Gaelic: innis-mhuir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: архипѐла̄г, острвље, о̀то̄чје
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: súostrovie, archipel, archipelág
 * Slovene:, otočje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: funguvisiwa
 * Swedish:,  ,
 * Tagalog: kapuluan
 * Tajik: галаҷазира, архипелаг
 * Tatar: архипелаг
 * Thai: หมู่เกาะ
 * Tongan: ʻotu motu
 * Turkish:, , cezzar
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مَجْمَعُ الجَزَائِر
 * Uyghur: تاقىم ئارال
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: arcipełago
 * Vietnamese: (羣島)
 * Volapük:, nisulem, argipelag
 * Walloon:, årtchipel
 * Welsh: ynysfor
 * West Frisian: arsjipel
 * Yiddish: אַרכיפּעלאַג

Verb

 * 1)  To scatter or be scattered so as to resemble a group of islands.