Alabama

See also: alabama

English

Map of US highlighting Alabama

Etymology

From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people formerly native to the area.

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ă-lə-bă'-mə IPA(key): /ˌæ.lə.ˈbæ.mə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æmə

Proper noun

Alabama

  1. A state of the United States of America (postal abbreviation AL) in the southeastern United States with its capital at Montgomery, and Birmingham as its largest city.
    • 2014 November 2, John Oliver, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, 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.”
  2. The peninsula which makes up most of the state.
  3. The Alabama River, which runs through the state of Alabama.
  4. A Native American tribe originally from central Alabama.
  5. The language of the Alabama Nation.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Place names in Alabama
  • Alabam

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alabama.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Alabama f

  1. Alabama (a state of the United States of America)

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alabama.

Proper noun

Alabama (genitive Alabamas)

  1. Alabama

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alabama.

Proper noun

Alabama m

  1. Alabama (a state of the United States)
  2. Alabama (a river in the southeastern region of the United States)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alabama.

Proper noun

Alabama

  1. Alabama (U.S. State)
  2. Alabama (river)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Alabama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alabǎma/
  • Hyphenation: A‧la‧ba‧ma

Proper noun

Alabàma f (Cyrillic spelling Алаба̀ма)

  1. Alabama (river)
  2. Alabama (U.S. state)

Declension

Spanish

Proper noun

Alabama ?

  1. Alabama

See also

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