Alabama
See also: alabama
English
Etymology
From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people native to the area.
Pronunciation
Noun
Alabama pl (plural only)
Translations
tribe
Proper noun
Alabama
- A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.
- 2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”
- 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN[2]:
- So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
- A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
- A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
- Synonym: Alibamu
- A town in New York; named for the state.
- Ellipsis of University of Alabama.
- Synonym: Bama
- Coordinate terms: Alabama State, Bama State, ASU (not to be confused)
Derived terms
Translations
U.S. State
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river
language
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See also
| States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
| Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Further reading
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Alabama terms
- Alabama people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Alabama language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ethnologue entry for Alabama, akz
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈalabaːma]
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Alabama f
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
Declension
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Proper noun
Alabama (genitive Alabamas)
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlɑˌbɑ(ː)mɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lɑ̝ˌbɑ̝(ː)mɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
- Syllabification(key): A‧la‧ba‧ma
- Hyphenation(key): A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Alabama (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Alabama | — | |
| genitive | Alabaman | — | |
| partitive | Alabamaa | — | |
| illative | Alabamaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Alabama | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Alabama | — |
| gen. | Alabaman | ||
| genitive | Alabaman | — | |
| partitive | Alabamaa | — | |
| inessive | Alabamassa | — | |
| elative | Alabamasta | — | |
| illative | Alabamaan | — | |
| adessive | Alabamalla | — | |
| ablative | Alabamalta | — | |
| allative | Alabamalle | — | |
| essive | Alabamana | — | |
| translative | Alabamaksi | — | |
| abessive | Alabamatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama, itself likely from Alabama Albaamaha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.la.ba.ma/
Audio: (file)
Noun
Alabama m pl (plural only)
- (people)
Proper noun
Alabama m
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
- Demain, je vais dans l'Alabama rendre visite à ma grand-mère.
- Tomorrow, I'm going to Alabama to visit my grandmother.
- Alabama (a river in Alabama)
Usage notes
Since l'Alabama is a masculine state that starts with a vowel, when describing location, either en or dans l' can be used.[1]
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
| États: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · Californie · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Floride · Géorgie · Hawaï · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiane · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Nouveau-Mexique · État de New York · Caroline du Nord · Dakota du Nord · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvanie · Rhode Island · Caroline du Sud · Dakota du Sud · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginie · Washington · Virginie-Occidentale · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
| District fédéral: Washington |
| Territoires: Samoa américaines · Guam · Îles Mariannes du Nord · Porto Rico · îles mineures éloignées des États-Unis · Îles Vierges des États-Unis |
References
- ^ Office québécois de la langue française (2016) “Les prépositions devant un nom d’État américain [Prepositions in front of a US state name.]”, in Banque de dépannage linguistique[1] (in French)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.laˈba.ma/
- Rhymes: -ama
- Hyphenation: A‧la‧bà‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama m
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.ɫaˈbaː.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.laˈbaː.ma]
Proper noun
Alabāma f sg (genitive Alabāmae); first declension
- (New Latin) Alabama (a state of the United States)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
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| nominative | Alabāma |
| genitive | Alabāmae |
| dative | Alabāmae |
| accusative | Alabāmam |
| ablative | Alabāmā |
| vocative | Alabāma |
| locative | Alabāmae |
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama, from Alabama Albaamaha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.laˈba.ma/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ama
- Syllabification: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama f
Declension
Declension of Alabama
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- Alabama in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.laˈbɐ̃.mɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.laˈbɐ.ma/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.lɐˈbɐ.mɐ/ [ɐ.lɐˈβɐ.mɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.lɐˈba.mɐ/ [ɐ.lɐˈβa.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃mɐ
- Hyphenation: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama m
See also
- Alabama
- Alasca
- Arizona
- Arkansas ~ Arcansas
- Califórnia
- Carolina do Norte
- Carolina do Sul
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Dacota do Norte
- Dacota do Sul
- Delaware
- Flórida
- Geórgia
- Havaí (Brazil) ~ Havai (Portugal)
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas ~ Cansas
- Kentucky
- Luisiana
- Maine
- Maryland ~ Marilândia
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi ~ Mississípi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebrasca
- Nevada
- Nova Hampshire
- Nova Iorque
- Nova Jérsei (Brazil) ~ Nova Jérsia (Portugal)
- Novo México
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pensilvânia
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virgínia
- Virgínia Ocidental
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Proper noun
Alabama
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alabǎma/
- Hyphenation: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabàma f (Cyrillic spelling Алаба̀ма)
Declension
Declension of Alabama
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Alabama |
| genitive | Alabame |
| dative | Alabami |
| accusative | Alabamu |
| vocative | Alabamo |
| locative | Alabami |
| instrumental | Alabamom |
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈalabama]
Proper noun
Alabama f (genitive singular Alabamy, declension pattern of žena)
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
References
- “Alabama”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alaˈbama/ [a.laˈβ̞a.ma]
Audio (Peru): (file) - Rhymes: -ama
- Syllabification: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama ?
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
Derived terms
See also
- Alabama on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
| Estados: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawái · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Luisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Míchigan · Minnesota · Misisipi · Misuri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · Nuevo Hampshire · Nueva Jersey · Nuevo México · Nueva York · Carolina del Norte · Dakota del Norte · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregón · Pensilvania · Rhode Island · Carolina del Sur · Dakota del Sur · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · Virginia Occidental · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
| Distrito federal: Washington D. C. |
| territorio: Samoa Americana · Guam · Islas Marianas del Norte · Puerto Rico · islas Ultramarinas Menores de los Estados Unidos · Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos |
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English Alabama.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalaˈbama/ [ʔɐ.lɐˈbaː.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -ama
- Syllabification: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Proper noun
Alabama (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜊᜋ)
- Alabama (a state of the United States)