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
- A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.
- 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.”
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- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) The peninsula which makes up most of the state.
- 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.
- An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.
- Synonym: Alibamu
- A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
- Synonym: Alibamu
- A town in New York; named for the state.
- The University of Alabama.
Derived terms
terms derived from Alabama
- AL
- Alabam'
- Alabama River
- Alabama rot
Translations
U.S. State
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river
tribe
See also
- Appendix:Place names in Alabama
Further reading
- Wiktionary's coverage of Alabama terms
- Ethnologue entry for Alabama, akz
Czech
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Declension
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Alabama | Alabamy |
| genitive | Alabamy | Alabam |
| dative | Alabamě | Alabamám |
| accusative | Alabamu | Alabamy |
| vocative | Alabamo | Alabamy |
| locative | Alabamě | Alabamách |
| instrumental | Alabamou | Alabamami |
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlɑbɑmɑ/, [ˈɑlɑbɑmɑ]
- Hyphenation: A‧la‧ba‧ma
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 | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Alabamatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.laˈba.ma/
Portuguese
Proper noun
Alabama m
- Alabama (a state of the United States)
- Alabama (a river in the southeastern region of the United States)
Romanian
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alabǎma/
- Hyphenation: A‧la‧ba‧ma
Declension
Declension of Alabama
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Alabama |
| genitive | Alabame |
| dative | Alabami |
| accusative | Alabamu |
| vocative | Alabamo |
| locative | Alabami |
| instrumental | Alabamom |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alaˈbama/, [alaˈβama]
Related terms
See also
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