Easter Island

English

Etymology

Calque of Dutch Paaseiland. Named by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (an 18th century Dutch spelling). The island's official Spanish name, isla de Pascua, also means “Easter Island”.

Proper noun

Easter Island

1. An island in the South Pacific, belonging to Chile and famous for its moai monuments.

   Synonym: Rapa Nui

   Hyponym: Polynesia

   • 1755, A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 320:

     The commodore, after he had quitted this iſland, ſailed 12 degrees to the weſtward, having ſight of a number of birds, which attended them till they arrived at a ſmall iſland about 16 leagues in extent, which they called Paſch, or Eaſter Iſland, from the day on which it was diſcovered.

Translations

Island in the Pacific

• Acehnese: Pulo Easter
• Afrikaans: Paaseiland
• Amharic: ፋሲካ ደሴት (fasīka desēti)
• Arabic: جَزِيرَة عِيد اَلْفِصْح f (jazīra(t) ʕīd al-fiṣḥ), جَزِيرَة الْفِصْح (jazīra(t) al-fiṣḥ)
• Aragonese: Isla de Pascua
• Armenian: Զատկի կղզի (hy) (Zatki kġzi)
• Asturian: Islla de Pascua
• Azerbaijani: Pasxa adası
• Basque: Pazko uhartea
• Bavarian: Ostainsl
• Belarusian: во́страў Па́схі m (vóstraŭ Pásxi)
• Breton: Enez Pask
• Bulgarian: Великде́нски о́стров m (Velikdénski óstrov)
• Catalan: illa de Pasqua f
• Cebuano: pulo sa Tśile
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 復活節島／复活节岛 (fuk⁶ wut⁶ zit³ dou²)

  Hokkien: 閣活節島／阁活节岛 (Koh-oa̍h-choeh-tó, Koh-oa̍h-cheh-tó)

  Mandarin: 復活節島／复活节岛 (zh) (Fùhuójiédǎo)

• Cornish: Ynys Pask
• Czech: Velikonoční ostrov m
• Danish: Påskeøen
• Dutch: Paaseiland (nl) n
• Esperanto: Paskinsulo (eo)
• Estonian: Lihavõttesaar (et)
• Faroese: Páskaoy
• Finnish: Pääsiäissaari (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Ila de Pâques f
• French: île de Pâques (fr) f
• Gagauz: Paskellä Adası
• Galician: Illa de Pascua (gl) f
• Georgian: აღდგომის კუნძული (aɣdgomis ḳunʒuli)
• German: Osterinsel (de) f

  Alemannic German: Osterinsel

• Greek: Νησί του Πάσχα n (Nisí tou Páscha)
• Hebrew: אי הפסחא m (i ha-pasħa)
• Hungarian: Húsvét-sziget (hu)
• Icelandic: Páskaeyja
• Ido: Pasko-Insulo
• Indonesian: Pulau Paskah
• Irish: Oileán na Cásca
• Italian: Isola di Pasqua f
• Japanese: イースター島 (Īsutā-tō)
• Kazakh: Пасха аралы (Pasxa araly)
• Korean: 이스터 섬 (Iseuteo seom)
• Lao: ເກາະອີສເຕີ (kǫ ʼīt tœ̄)
• Latin: insula Paschae f
• Latvian: Lieldienu sala
• Limburgish: Paoseiland
• Lithuanian: Velykų sala f
• Macedonian: Велигденски Остров m (Veligdenski Ostrov)
• Malagasy: Nosin'i Paska
• Malay: Pulau Easter
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} il-Gżira ta’ l-Għid , ^{(please verify)} il-Gżira Easter
• Manx: Ellan y Chaisht, Ellan ny Caisht
• Maori: Moutere Aranga
• North Frisian: Poosche-ailönj
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Påskeøya

  Nynorsk: Påskeøya

• Occitan: Illa de Pascas, Illa de Paschas
• Persian: جزیره ایستر (jazire ister)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Iista Ailen
• Polish: Wyspa Wielkanocna (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ilha da Páscoa f, Ilha de Páscoa (pt) f
• Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui
• Romanian: Insula Paștelui
• Russian: о́стров Па́схи m (óstrov Pásxi)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Rapanuyi
• Sardinian: ìsula de Pasca
• Scots: Easter Island
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ускршње острво n, Ускршњи оток m

  Roman: Uskršnje ostrvo n, Uskršnji otok m, Uskršnji otoci

• Sicilian: ìsula di Pasqua f
• Silesian: Wjelganocno Wyspa
• Slovak: Veľkonočný ostrov m
• Slovene: Velikonočni otok (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Jatšowna kupa

  Upper Sorbian: Jutrowna kupa

• Spanish: Isla de Pascua (es) f
• Sundanese: Pulo Paskah
• Swahili: Kisiwa cha Pasaka
• Swedish: Påskön (sv)
• Tahitian: Rapa Nui
• Thai: เกาะอีสเตอร์ (gɔ̀-íis-dtə̂ə)
• Tok Pisin: Ista Ailan
• Turkish: Paskalya Adası (tr)
• Ukrainian: о́стрів Па́схи m (óstriv Pásxy)
• Uzbek: Pasxa oroli
• Venetian: Ìxoła de Pàscua
• Vietnamese: đảo Phục Sinh
• Walloon: Iye di Påke
• Waray-Waray: Lalawigan
• Welsh: Ynys y Pasg
• West Frisian: Peaske-eilân
• Yoruba: Erékùṣù Àjínde

Further reading

• Easter Island on Wikipedia.Wikipedia