Caucasus

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• IPA: /ˈkɔːkəsəs/

Etymology

Via Latin Caucasus, from Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaukasos).

Proper noun

Caucasus

1. A mountain range in Eastern Europe and West Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on the territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
   • 1851, Lieutenant Maturin Murray, The Circassian Slave, or The Sultan's Favorite:

     […] from the long and rugged ravines of the Caucasus, […]

   • 1887, Walter Savage Landor, Gebir:

     Driven with that weak blast which Winter leaves, / Closing his palace gates on Caucasus, / […]

   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King In Yellow:

     Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one.

2. (geopolitical) The Eurasian region home of the aforementioned mountain range.

Usage notes

Usually as the Caucasus, but not always (see quot. 1887)

Translations

geographic region

• Abkhaz: Кавказ (ab) (Kavkáz)
• Adyghe: Къэфкъас (Qefqas)
• Albanian: Kaukazi (sq)
• Arabic: القوقاز (ar) (al-qawqāz) m
• Armenian: Կովկաս (hy) (Kovkas)

  Old Armenian: Կովկաս (Kovkas)

• Azeri: Qafqaz (az)
• Basque: Kaukaso (eu)
• Belarusian: Каўказ (be) (Kaŭkáz) m
• Bulgarian: Кавказ (bg) (Kavkáz) m
• Catalan: Caucas m
• Chechen: Кавказ (Kavkáz), Ковказ (Kovkaz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高加索 (cmn) (Gāojiāsuǒ)

• Czech: Kavkaz (cs) m
• Danish: Kaukasus (da)
• Dutch: Kaukasus (nl)
• Esperanto: Kaŭkazio (eo)
• Estonian: Kaukaasia (et)
• Finnish: Kaukasus (fi)
• French: Caucase (fr) m
• Galician: Cáucaso m
• Georgian: კავკასიონი (ka) (kavkasioni)
• German: Kaukasus (de) m
• Greek: Καύκασος (el) (Káfkasos) m
• Hebrew: קווקז (he) (kaukaz) m
• Hindi: कॉकस (hi) (kokas), कौकसस (hi) (kaukasas)
• Hungarian: Kaukázus (hu)
• Ido: Kaukazia
• Indonesian: Kaukasus (id)
• Ingush: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• Italian: Caucaso (it) m
• Japanese: カフカース (ja) (Kafukāsu)
• Kabardian: Къаукъаз (Qauqaz)

• Karachay-Balkar: Кавказ (Kavkaz)
• Kazakh: Кавказ (kk) (Kavkaz)
• Korean: 카프카스 (ko) (Kapeukaseu)
• Kyrgyz: Кавказ (ky) (Kavkaz)
• Latin: Caucasus (la) m
• Latvian: Kaukāzs (lv) m
• Lezgi: Къавкьаз (Qavqaz)
• Lithuanian: Kaukazas (lt)
• Macedonian: Кавказ (mk) (Kávkaz) m
• Marathi: कॉकसस (mr) (kǒkasasa)
• Mongolian: Кавказ (mn) (Kavkaz)
• Navajo: Kaakáísis
• Norwegian: Kaukasia (no)
• Occitan: Caucàs m
• Ossetian: Кавказ (Kavkáz)
• Persian: قفقاز (fa) (Qafqâz)
• Polish: Kaukaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cáucaso (pt) m
• Romanian: Caucaz (ro) m
• Russian: Кавказ (ru) (Kavkáz) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кавказ (sh) m

  Roman: Kavkaz (sh) m

• Slovene: Kavkáz (sl) m
• Spanish: Cáucaso (es) m
• Swedish: Kaukasien (sv) c
• Tajik: Кавказ (tg) (Kavkaz)
• Tatar: Кавказ (tt) (Qawqaz)
• Thai: คอเคซัส (th) (kor kay sát)
• Turkish: Kafkasya (tr)
• Turkmen: Kavkaz (tk)
• Ukrainian: Кавказ (uk) (Kavkáz) m
• Uzbek: Kavkaz (uz)
• Vietnamese: Kavkaz (vi)

Related terms

• Caucasian
• Caucasology
• Greater Caucasus
• Lesser Caucasus
• North Caucasus
• South Caucasus