Alaska

English

Map of US highlighting Alaska in red

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Aleut alaxsxaq (“that toward which the action of the sea is directed”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ə-lă'-skə IPA: /ə.ˈlæ.skə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Alaska

1. The 49th state of the United States of America. Postal code: AK, capital: Juneau, largest city: Anchorage.

Derived terms

• Alaskan
• baked Alaska

Translations

US state

• Arabic: ألاسكا (ar) (’Aláska)
• Bulgarian: Аляска (bg) (Aljáska) f
• Catalan: Alaska (ca) f
• Chinese: 阿拉斯加州 (cmn) (Ālāsījiā zhōu)
• Czech: Aljaška (cs) f
• Danish: Alaska (da)
• Dutch: Alaska (nl)
• Esperanto: Alasko (eo)
• Estonian: Alaska (et)
• Faroese: Alaska (fo) n
• Finnish: Alaska (fi)
• French: Alaska (fr) m
• Galician: Alasca (gl)
• Georgian: ალასკა (ka) (Alaska)
• German: Alaska (de)
• Hebrew: אלסקה (he) (Alaskah)
• Hungarian: Alaszka (hu)
• Icelandic: Alaska (is) n
• Indonesian: Alaska (id)
• Inuktitut: ᐊᓛᓯᑲ (iu) (Alaasika)
• Irish: Alasca (ga)
• Italian: Alaska (it) f
• Japanese: アラスカ州 (ja) (Arasuka shū)
• Kannada: ಅಲಾಸ್ಕ (kn) (alāska)
• Kashmiri: अलास्‍का (Alāskā)
• Korean: 알래스카 주 (ko) (Allaeseuka chu)
• Latin: Alasca (la) f
• Latvian: Aļaska (lv)

• Lithuanian: Aliaska (lt)
• Macedonian: Алјаска (mk) (Aljáska) f
• Malay: Alaska (ms)
• Maltese: l-Alaska (mt)
• Marathi: अलास्‍का (mr) (alāskā) m
• Navajo: Hakʼaz dineʼé bikéyah hahoodzo
• Norwegian: Alaska (no)
• Occitan: Alaska (oc) f
• Ossetian: Аляскæ (Aljaskæ)
• Persian: آلاسکا (fa) (Alaska)
• Polish: Alaska (pl) f
• Portuguese: Alasca (pt) f
• Romanian: Alaska (ro) f
• Russian: Аляска (ru) (Aljáska) f
• Sanskrit: अलास्‍का (sa) (Alāskā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀љаска (sh) f

  Roman: Àljaska (sh) f

• Slovak: Aljaška (sk) f
• Slovene: Aljáska (sl) f
• Spanish: Alaska (es) f
• Swedish: Alaska (sv)
• Thai: มลรัฐอะแลสกา (th) (mon rát àlâetgaa)
• Turkish: Alaska (tr)
• Ukrainian: Аляска (uk) (Aljáska) f
• Vietnamese: Alaska (vi)
• Volapük: Lalaskän (vo)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Alaska

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Alaska f

1. Alaska (state and peninsula)

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Faroese

Etymology

From English Alaska, from Aleut alaxsxaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aˈlaska/

Proper noun

Alaska n

1. Alaska

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Alaska
Accusative	Alaska
Dative	Alaska
Genitive	Alaska

Derived terms

• alaskalupin

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

From the same Aleut source as the English word Alaska.

Pronunciation

• IPA: aˈlaskaː

Proper noun

Alaska n

1. Alaska (49th state of the United States of America)
2. the Alaska peninsula
   

   

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Icelandic

Etymology

From English Alaska, from Aleut alaxsxaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈaːlaska/

Proper noun

Alaska n

1. Alaska

Declension

declension of Alaska

n-w	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Alaska
accusative	Alaska
dative	Alaska
genitive	Alaska

Derived terms

• alaskaepli
• alaskalúpína
• alaskasýprus
• alaskavíðir
• alaskayllir
• alaskaösp

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Alaska f

1. Alaska (one state of the USA)

   Mieszkam na Alasce. – I live in Alaska.

Declension

    declension of Alaska

	singular only
nominative	Alaska
genitive	Alaski
dative	Alasce
accusative	Alaskę
instrumental	Alaską
locative	Alasce
vocative	Alasko

Derived terms

• Alaskanin m, Alaskanka f
• (rare: Alaskijczyk, Alaskijka)
• adjective: alaski (rare: alaskijski)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Alaska f

1. Alaska

Related terms

• alasquense, alaskeño, alasqueño

See also

• Alaska on the Spanish Wikipedia.es.Wikipedia

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Proper noun

Alaska

1. Alaska

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Vietnamese

Proper noun

Alaska

1. Alaska