English Explanatory Dictionary

Arkansas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
  2. A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.
  3. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈɑɹkənˌsɔ/ /-ɑ/ /ɑɹˈkænzəs/ en-us-Arkansas.ogg /ˈɑːkənˌsɔː/

Word forms

Arkansas Arkansa Arkansaw

Etymology

From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw. This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).

Derived words

AR Arkansan Arkansasan Arkansas City Arkansas County Arkansasian Arkansawyer Arkie

Translations

Afrikaans: Arkansas Amharic: አርካንሳው Arabic: أَرْكَنْسَاس Arabic: اركانسو Aragonese: Arkansas Armenian: Արկանզաս Asturian: Arkansas Aymara: Arkansas suyu Azerbaijani: Arkanzas Bashkir: Арканза́с Basque: Arkansas Belarusian: Арканзас Bengali: আর্কানসাস Bihari: आर्कन्सा Central Bikol: Arkansas Bislama: Arkansas Breton: Arkansas Bulgarian: Арка̀нзас Burmese: အာကင်ဆောပြည်နယ် Catalan: Arkansas Cebuano: Arkansas Chechen: Арканза́с Cherokee: ᏚᏯᏓᏛᎢ Gan Chinese: 阿肯色州 Chinese Mandarin: 阿肯色州 Wu Chinese: 阿肯色州 Chuvash: Арканзас Corsican: Arkansas Crimean Tatar: Arkanzas Czech: Arkansas Danish: Arkansas Dutch: Arkansas Esperanto: Arkansaso Estonian: Arkansas Faroese: Arkansas Finnish: Arkansas Franco-Provençal: Arkansas North Frisian: Arkansas West-Frisian: Arkansas Gagauz: Arkansas Galician: Arcansas
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