English Explanatory Dictionary

Iwo Jima

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A volcanic island in the Volcano Islands in the North Pacific, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.
  2. A volcanic island in the Satsunan Islands in the Philippine Sea, administered as part of Kagoshima.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Iwo Jima.wav

Word forms

Iwo Jima Iwojima Iwo-Jima Io Jima Iō Jima Io-jima Iō-jima Iojima Iōjima

Etymology

From the early modern Japanese misreading Iwōjima for 硫黄島 (Iwōtō, “Sulfur Island”), a calque of English Sulphur Island in accounts of James Cook's voyages, possibly originally from Early Modern Spanish Isla Sufre although the island was left unnamed by its first known discoverer Bernardo de la Torre.

Synonyms

Ioto Ioshima Sulfur Island Sulphur Island Satsuma Iwo Jima Satsuma Iojima Satsuma Iōjima Tokara Iwo Jima Tokara Iojima Tokara Iōjima

Translations

Chinese Cantonese: 硫黃島 /硫黄岛 Chinese Mandarin: 硫黃島 /硫黄岛 Czech: Iwodžima French: Iwo Jima German: Iwojima Hebrew: איוו ג׳ימה Japanese: 硫黄島 Korean: 이오섬 Polish: Iwo Jima Portuguese: Iwo Jima Russian: Ио Serbo-Croatian: Ivodžima Spanish: Iōtō Swedish: Ioto Ukrainian: Іото
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