جَزِيرَةٌ

(tropical:) An island; land in the sea [or in a river], from which the water has flowed away, so that it appears; (Az, Mgh;) and in like manner, land which a torrent does not overflow, but which it surrounds; (Az, TA;) land from which the tide retires; as also ↓ جَزَرٌ: (K:) so called because cut off from the main land: (S:) or because of the retiring of the water from it: (Msb:) plural جَزَايءِرُ: (S, Mgh:) [also, a peninsula:] and a piece of ground or land. (Kr, TA.)