La Pérouse Strait

English

Etymology

After Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, its discoverer.

Proper noun

La Pérouse Strait

A strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin in the north from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.

Translations

strait

Afrikaans: La Perouse-straat
Arabic: مَضِيق لَا بِيرُوْز‎ m (maḍīq lā bīruwz)
Armenian: Լապերուզի նեղուց (hy) (Laperuzi nełucʿ)
Azerbaijani: Laperuz boğazı
Basque: La Pérouseko itsasartea
Belarusian: Праліў Лаперуза m (Praliŭ Lapjeruza)
Bulgarian: Лаперузов проток m (Laperuzov protok)
Catalan: estret de La Pérouse m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拉彼魯茲海峽, 拉彼鲁兹海峡 (Lābǐlǔzī hǎixiá), (from Japanese) 宗谷海峽, 宗谷海峡 (Zōnggǔ hǎixiá)
Czech: La Pérousův průliv m
Danish: La Pérouse-strædet n
Dutch: Straat La Pérouse f
Estonian: La Pérouse'i väin
Finnish: La Pérousen salmi
French: détroit de La Pérouse m
Galician: Estreito de La Pérouse m
Georgian: ლაპერუზის სრუტე (laṗeruzis sruṭe)
German: La-Pérouse-Straße f
Greek: Πορθμός Λα Περούζ m (Porthmós La Peroúz)
Hebrew: מצר לה פרוז‎ m (metsár lah perúz)
Hungarian: La Pérouse-szoros
Indonesian: Selat La Pérouse
Italian: stretto di La Pérouse m
Japanese: 宗谷海峡 (そうやかいきょう, Sōya kaikyō), ラ・ペルーズ海峡 (Ra-Perūzu kaikyō)
Kazakh: Лаперуз бұғазы (Laperuz būğazy)
Korean: 라페루즈 해협 (Raperujeu haehyeop)
Kyrgyz: Лаперeз кысыгы (Laperez kısıgı)
Latvian: Laperūza šaurums m
Lithuanian: Laperūzo sąsiauris m
Macedonian: Мореуз Лаперуз m (Moreuz Laperuz)
Malay: Selat La Pérouse
Norwegian:
Bokmål: La Pérouse-stredet n
Nynorsk: La Pérouse-sundet n
Persian: تنگه لاپروس‎ (tange-ye lâperûz), تنگه سویا‎ (tange-ye sôyâ)
Polish: Cieśnina La Pérouse'a f
Portuguese: Estreito de La Pérouse m
Romanian: Strâmtoarea La Pérouse f
Russian: проли́в Лаперу́за m (prolív Laperúza)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Мореуз Ла Перуз m, Пролаз Ла Перуз m
Roman: Moreuz Laperuz m, Prolaz Laperuz m
Slovak: La Pérousov prieliv m
Slovene: preliv La Pérouse m
Spanish: estrecho de La Pérouse m
Swedish: La Pérousesundet n
Thai: ช่องแคบลาเปรูส (chɔ̂ng-kɛ̂ɛp laa-bpe-rûus)
Turkish: La Pérouse Boğazı
Ukrainian: Протока Лаперуза f (Protoka Laperuza)
Uzbek: Laperuz boʻgʻozi
Vietnamese: eo biển Sōya, eo biển La Pérouse
Welsh: Culfor La Pérouse m