English
Etymology
From Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dodekánisa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdəʊdɛkəˈniːz/
- Hyphenation: Do‧de‧ca‧nese
Proper noun
Dodecanese
- An island chain consisting of twelve main Greek islands; including Rhodes, its capital.
Usage notes
Despite being part of Greece, the Dodecanese islands are geographically very close to Turkey, with many located just a few miles off the Anatolian coast in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Translations
an island chain consisting of twelve main islands
- Albanian: Dodekanes m
- Armenian: Դոդեկանես (hy) (Dodekanes)
- Asturian: Dodecanesu m
- Basque: Dodekaneso
- Belarusian: Дадэканес m (Dadekanjes)
- Breton: Dodekanesa m
- Bulgarian: Додеканези (Dodekanezi)
- Catalan: Dodecanès m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 十二群島 / 十二群岛 (Shí'èrqúndǎo)
- Corsican: Dudicanesu m
- Czech: Dodekany, Dodekanés
- Danish: Dodekaneserne c pl
- Esperanto: Dodekanesoj pl
- Faroese: Dodekanes, Dodekanesos
- Finnish: Dodekanesia (fi)
- French: Dodécanèse (fr) m
- Galician: Dodecaneso m
- Georgian: დოდეკანესი (dodeḳanesi)
- German: Dodekanes m
- Greek: Δωδεκάνησα (el) n pl (Dodekánisa)
- Hungarian: Dodekanészosz
- Icelandic: Tylftareyjar
- Irish: na hOileáin Dhóideacanacha m pl
- Italian: Dodecaneso m
- Japanese: (please verify) ドデカーニソ (Dodeká-niso), ドデカネス
- Korean: 도데카니사 (dodekanisa)
- Latin: Dodecanesus
- Latvian: Dodekanesa f
- Lithuanian: Dodekanesas m
- Macedonian: Додеканези (Dodekanezi), Додекани (Dodekani)
- Norman: Îles Dodécanèses f pl
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Dodekanesene
- Nynorsk: Dodekanesane
- Polish: Dodekanez (pl) m
- Portuguese: Dodecaneso m
- Romanian: Dodecanez
- Russian: Додекане́с m (Dodekanés)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Додека̀не̄з m
- Latin: Dodekànēz (sh) m
- Sicilian: Dodecannesu m
- Slovak: Dodekanisa
- Slovene: Dodekanez
- Spanish: Dodecaneso m
- Swedish: Dodekanisos
- Thai: โดเดคะนีส (th) (doo-dee-ká-níis)
- Turkish: Onikiada
- Ukrainian: Додекане́с m (Dodekanés)
- Waray-Waray: Dodekanesa
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Noun
Dodecanese pl (plural only)
- The people of this island chain.
See also