Alabamaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people native to the area. Or from Choctaw albah amo, from albah + amo

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: ă-lə-bă'-mə IPA^(key): /ˌæ.lə.ˈbæ.mə/
• 韻: -æmə

名詞

Alabama pl (複数形 only)

1. An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.

   Synonym: Alibamu

固有名詞

Alabama

1. 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, 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. 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.
3. A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.

   Synonym: Alibamu

4. A town in New York; named for the state.
5. The University of Alabama.

   Synonym: Bama

派生語

参考

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Alabama terms
• Alabama people on Wikipedia.
• Alabama language on Wikipedia.
• Ethnologue entry for Alabama, akz

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbaː.ma/, [äɫ̪äˈbäːmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.laˈba.ma/, [äläˈbäːmä]

固有名詞

Alabāma f sg (genitive Alabāmae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Alabama

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.