English
Etymology
Pluralisation of Himalaya, learned borrowing from Sanskrit हिमालय (himālaya).
Pronunciation
- (Indic) IPA(key): /ɦɪˈmaː.lə.jəz/
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌhɪm.əˈleɪ.əz/, /hɪˈmɑl.ə.jəz/
- enPR: hǐmʹə-lāʹəz, hǐ-mälʹyəz[1]
- Hyphenation: Hi‧ma‧la‧yas
Proper noun
Himalayas pl (plural only)
- The mountain range in south-central Asia which extends about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam; it contains nine of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest/Qomolongma.
Derived terms
Translations
a mountain range of south-central Asia
- Arabic: هِمَالِيَة f (himāliya), هِيمَالَايَا f (hīmālāyā)
- Armenian: Հիմալայներ (Himalayner), Հիմալայան լեռներ (Himalayan leṙner)
- Assamese: হিমালয় (himaloy)
- Bengali: হিমালয় (bn) (himaloẏ)
- Burmese: ဟိမဝန္တာ (my) (hi.ma.wanta), ဟိမာလယ (hi.mala.ya.)
- Catalan: Himàlaia
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 喜馬拉雅 / 喜马拉雅 (hei2 maa5 laai1 ngaa5)
- Mandarin: 喜馬拉雅 / 喜马拉雅 (zh) (Xǐmǎlāyǎ), 喜馬拉雅山脈 / 喜马拉雅山脉 (zh) (Xǐmǎlāyǎ shānmài)
- Czech: Himálaj (cs) f
- Danish: Himalaya
- Dutch: Himalaya (nl) m
- Esperanto: Himalajo
- Estonian: Himaalaja
- Finnish: Himalaja (fi)
- French: Himalaya (fr)
- Galician: Himalaia f
- Garhwali: हिंवाळ (himvāḷ)
- Georgian: ჰიმალაი (himalai), ჰიმალაის მთები (himalais mtebi)
- German: Himalaja (de) m, Himalaya (de) m
- Greek: Ιμαλάια (el) (Imaláia)
- Gujarati: હિમાલય (himālya)
- Hebrew: הימלאיה \ הִימָלָיָה (himaláya)
- Hindi: हिमालय (hi) (himālay)
- Hungarian: Himalája (hu)
- Italian: Himalaya m
- Japanese: ヒマラヤ (ja) (Himaraya)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: ហិម៉ាឡៃយ៉ា (hemaalayyaa), ហិមាល័យ (km) (hemiəlɨy)
- Korean: 히말라야 (Himallaya)
- Kumaoni: हिमाल
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: Himalaja
- Latvian: Himalaji
- Lithuanian: Himalajai
- Macedonian: Химала́и f pl (Himalái)
- Malayalam: ഹിമാലയം (ml) (himālayaṁ)
- Marathi: हिमालय (himālay)
- Navajo: Dziłgaiitsoh Honeezkʼazii
- Nepali: हिमालय (ne) (himālaya)
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: هماليا f (hemālyã)
- Polish: Himalaje (pl) pl
- Portuguese: Himalaias m pl
- Punjabi: ਹਿਮਾਲਿਆ (pa) (himāliā)
- Romanian: Himalaia
- Russian: Гимала́и (ru) m pl (Gimalái)
- Sanskrit: हिमालय (sa) (himālaya)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Хималаји m
- Roman: Himalaji m
- Silesian: Himalaje pl
- Sinhalese: හිමාලය (himālaya)
- Spanish: Himalaya (es) m
- Swedish: Himalaya (sv) n
- Tamil: இமாலயம் (ta) (imālayam), இமயம் (ta) (imayam), இமயமலை (imayamalai)
- Telugu: హిమాలయములు (te) (himālayamulu), హిమవత్పర్వతములు (himavatparvatamulu)
- Thai: หิมาลัย (hì-maa-lai)
- Tibetan: ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ (hi ma la ya)
- Ukrainian: Гімала́ї m pl (Himaláji)
- Urdu: ہِمالِیَہ m (himāliya)
- Uyghur: ھىمالايا (himalaya)
- Vietnamese: Himalaya, Hy Mã Lạp Sơn (Sino-Vietnamese)
- Welsh: Himalaya
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References
Swedish
Proper noun
Himalayas
- genitive of Himalaya