Dodecanese

See also: Dodécanèse

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dōdekánēsa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νήσος (nḗsos, “island”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: Do‧de‧ca‧nese

Proper noun

Dodecanese

1. An island chain consisting of twelve main islands including Rhodes, its capital.

Translations

an island chain consisting of twelve main islands

• Albanian: Dodekanes m
• Armenian: Դոդեկանես (hy) (Dodekanes)
• Asturian: Dodecaneso 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)

• 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 or pl (Dodekánisa)
• Hungarian: Dodekanészosz
• Icelandic: Tylftareyjar
• Italian: Dodecaneso m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ドデカーニソ (Dodeká-niso)
• Korean: 도데카니사 (dodekanisa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

  Roman: 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

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Dodecanese