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• Alabammer (pronunciation spelling)

語源

Probably from French Alibamou or Alibamon, from Spanish Alibamo, from Alabama albaamo, the name for a member of a people native to the area.

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: ă-lə-bă'-mə IPA: /ˌæ.ləˈbæmə/
• (Indic) IPA: /ələˈbɑmɑ/, /ˈaləbɑmɑ/, /-bamɑ/
• 韻: -æmə

名詞

Alabama (countable and uncountable, plural Alabamas)

1. An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama. [from 1708]

   Synonym: Alibamu

2. A member of these people.

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, John Oliver (actor), via 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.”

   • 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN‎:

     So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

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. Ellipsis of University of Alabama.

   Synonyms: Bama (informal), Tuscaloser (derogatory)

   Coordinate terms: Alabama State, Bama State, ASU (not to be confused)

派生語

参考

参照

Further reading

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

固有名詞

Alabāma f sg (genitive Alabāmae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Alabama (a state of the United States)

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.