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A mountain (large mass of rock)
[edit] Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, from Vulgar Latin *montānea, feminine of *montāneus (“mountainous”), alteration of Latin montānus, from mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan (mati, “promontory”)), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project, stick out”). More at menace.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈmaʊn.tɪn/, SAMPA: /"maUn.tIn/
- (US) IPA: /ˈmaʊn.tən/, /ˈmaʊn.tn̩/
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mountain (plural mountains)
- A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
- Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
- We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
- A large amount.
- There's still a mountain of work to do.
- (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
- 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, BBC Sport:
- Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
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[edit] Translations
large mass of earth and rock
- Afrikaans: berg (af)
- Ainu: イワ (iwa)
- Albanian: mal (sq) m.
- Ama: yu
- Amharic: ተራራ (tärara)
- Anglo-Norman: muntaigne f.
- Arabic: جَبَلٌ (ar) (jábal) m.
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل (gabal) m.
- Aragonese: montaña (an) f.
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ (Ṭūrā’) m.
- Hebrew: טורא (Ṭūrā’) m.
- Armenian: լեռ (hy) (leṙ), սար (hy) (sar)
- Aromanian: munte
- Asturian: monte (ast) m.
- Atayal: rgyax
- Avestan: kaofa-
- Azeri: dağ
- Bashkir: тау (taw)
- Basque: mendi
- Belarusian: гара (be) (hará) f.
- Bosnian: planina (bs) f., gora (bs) f.
- Breton: menez m.
- Bulgarian: планина (bg) (planina) f.
- Burmese: တောင် (my) (taun)
- Catalan: muntanya f.
- Central Atlas Tamazight: adrar m.
- Chechen: лам (lam)
- Cherokee: ᎣᏓᎸᎢ (chr) (odalvi)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: сан (san)
- Mandarin: 山 (zh) (shān)
- Chuvash: ту (tu)
- Coptic: ⲧⲟⲟⲩ (toou)
- Corsican: muntagna (co)
- Croatian: planina (hr) f., gora (hr) f.
- Czech: hora (cs) f.
- Danish: bjerg (da) n.
- Dolgan: кайа (kaya)
- Dutch: berg (nl) m.
- Egyptian: ḏw
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- Esperanto: monto (eo)
- Estonian: mägi (et)
- Ewe: to n.
- Faroese: fjall (fo) n.
- Finnish: vuori (fi)
- French: montagne (fr) f.
- Old French: montaigne f.
- Middle French: montaigne f.
- Friulian: mont, montagne
- Gagauz: bayır
- Georgian: მთა (ka) (mt‘a), გორა (ka) (gora)
- German: Berg (de) m.
- Greek: όρος (el) (óros) n., βουνό (el) (vunó) n.
- Greenlandic: qaqqaq (kl)
- Hawaiian: mauna, kuahiwi
- Hebrew: הר (he) (har) m.
- Hindi: पहाड़ (hi) (pahāṛ) m., पर्वत (hi) (parvat) m., कोह (hi) (koh) m.
- Hungarian: hegy (hu), hegység (hu) pl.
- Icelandic: fjall (is) n.
- Ido: monto
- Indonesian: gunung (id)
- Interlingua: montania (ia)
- Irish: sliabh (ga) m.
- Italian: montagna (it) f., monte (it) m.
- Japanese: 山 (ja) (やま, yamá)
- Javanese: gunung (jv)
- Kalmyk: уул (uul)
- Kannada: ಗಿರಿ (kn) (giri), ಪರ್ವತ (kn) (parvata), ಬೆಟ್ಟ (kn) (beṭṭa), ಮಲೆ (kn) (male)
- Karachay-Balkar: тау (taw)
- Kashubian: góra (csb) f.
- Kazakh: тау (kk) (taw)
- Khakas: тағ (tağ)
- Khmer: ភ្នំ (km) (pnŭm)
- Korean: 산 (ko) (san) (山 (ko))
- Kumyk: тав (taw)
- Kurdish: شاخ, چیا, کێو
- Kyrgyz: тоо (ky) (too)
- Lao: ພູ (lo) (phou)
- Latgalian: kolns m.
- Latin: mōns (la) m.
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- Latvian: kalns (lv)
- Lithuanian: kalnas (lt) m.
- Lombard: muntagna f.
- Low Saxon: Barg (nds) m.
- Lower Sorbian: góra f.
- Luhya: esikulu
- Luxembourgish: Bierg (lb) m.
- Macedonian: планина (mk) (plánina) f., гора (mk) (góra) f.
- Malagasy: tendrombohitra (mg)
- Malay: gunung (ms)
- Malayalam: പര്വതം (parvatham), മല (mala)
- Maltese: muntanja (mt) f.
- Manchu: alin
- Manx: slieau (gv)
- Maori: maunga (mi)
- Marathi: पर्वत (parvat)
- Middle Persian: kōf
- Mongolian: уул (uul)
- Nahuatl: tepetl
- Navajo: dził
- Neapolitan: muntagna
- Nogai: тав (taw)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fjell (no) n.
- Nynorsk: fjell (nn) n.
- Occitan: montanha (oc) f.
- Okinawan: さん (san)
- Old Church Slavonic: гора (gora) f.
- Old English: beorg (ang) m., munt (ang)
- Old Irish: slíab m. and n.
- Old Persian: kaufa-
- Ossetic: хох (xox)
- Pashto: غر (ps) (ghar) m.
- Persian: کوه (fa) (kuh), کوهستان (fa) (kuhestān)
- Pitjantjatjara: apu, puḻi
- Polish: góra (pl) f.
- Portuguese: montanha (pt) f., monte (pt) m.
- Romanian: munte (ro) m.
- Romansch: muntogna (rm) f., muntgogna (rm) f., muntagna (rm) f.
- Russia Buryat: уула (uula)
- Russian: гора (ru) (gorá) f.
- Sanskrit: गिरी (girī) m.
- Scots: ben
- Scottish Gaelic: beinn (gd) f., sliabh (gd) m.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: планина f., гора f.
- Roman: planina f., gora f.
- Shor: тағ (tağ)
- Sichuan Yi: ꁧ
- Sicilian: muntagna (scn) f.
- Sinhalese: කන්ද (si) (kanda)
- Slovak: hora (sk) f., vrch (sk) m.
- Slovene: gora (sl) f.
- Sotho: thaba (st)
- Southern Altai: туу (tuu)
- Spanish: montaña (es) f.
- Sundanese: gunung (su)
- Swahili: mlima (sw)
- Swedish: berg (sv) n.
- Tagalog: bundok
- Tajik: кӯҳ (tg) (kūh)
- Taos: p’íanenemą
- Tatar: taw (tt)
- Telugu: పర్వతము (parvatamu)
- Thai: ภู (th) (poo), เขา (th) (kăo)
- Thao: hudun
- Tibetan: རི (bo) (ri)
- Turkish: dağ (tr)
- Turkmen: dag (tk)
- Tuvan: даг (dağ)
- Udmurt: выр (vyr)
- Ukrainian: гора (uk) (horá) f.
- Upper Sorbian: hora (hsb) f.
- Urdu: پہاڑ (ur) (pahāṛ) m., پروت (ur) (parvat) m., کوہ (ur) (koh) m., حبل (ur) (jabal)
- Uyghur: تاغ (ug)
- Uzbek: togʻ (uz)
- Vietnamese: núi (vi), sơn (vi) (山 (vi))
- Waray: bukid
- Welsh: mynydd (cy)
- West Frisian: berch
- Yakut: хайа (xaya)
- Yiddish: באַרג (yi) (barg) m.
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Mountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mountain in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
