desert island

Etymology
From the former sense of to mean, particularly common on Spanish and Portuguese maps during the  as , , and. Now frequently misunderstood as simply and imagined as almost entirely sandy. As an indispensable thing, from the idea of loving something to the point one would want it on a deserted island where it would be used but never. Popularized by the radio show  (first broadcast 1942) which asked guests what they would take with them if marooned alone on an island.

Noun

 * 1) A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and  a small and almost entirely sandy desert.
 * 2) An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.
 * 1) An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.
 * 1) An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: onbewoond eiland
 * Finnish:
 * French: île inhabitée, île déserte
 * German: unbewohnte Insel
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אִי בּוֹדֵד
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: eyðiey, eyðieyja
 * Italian: isola deserta
 * Japanese:, むじんとう
 * Kalmyk: эҗго арл
 * Latin: isla deserta, insula deserta
 * Polish: bezludna wyspa
 * Portuguese: ilha deserta
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: isla desierta
 * Turkish: ıssız ada
 * Welsh: ynys anghyfannedd