Alps

See also: alps

English

Relief map of the Alps

Aerial view of the Pennine Alps

Etymology

Late Middle English, from earlier Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Alp (“mountainous pasture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ælps
• Homophone: alps

Proper noun

Alps pl (plural only)

1. (usually with "the") A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

Derived terms

• Albanian Alps
• Allgäu Alps
• Australian Alps
• Berchtesgaden Alps
• Bergamo Alps
• Bernese Alps
• Carnic Alps
• Cottian Alps
• Dinaric Alps
• French Alps
• Fynske Alps
• Japanese Alps
• Jewish Alps
• Julian Alps
• Kamnik Alps
• Kitzbühel Alps
• Lechtal Alps
• Lyngen Alps
• Maritime Alps
• Norlund Alps
• Northern Limestone Alps
• Ortler Alps
• Ötztal Alps
• Pennine Alps
• Princess Caroline Mathilde Alps
• Princess Elizabeth Alps
• Rhaetian Alps
• Samnaun Alps
• Southern Alps
• Southern Limestone Alps
• Stauning Alps
• Stubai Alps
• Transylvanian Alps
• Trinity Alps
• Tux Alps
• Verwall Alps
• Victorian Alps
• Western Alps
• Zillertal Alps

 

Related terms

• Alpine

Descendants

• → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
• → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
• → Urdu: الپس (alps)

Translations

a mountain range in Western Europe

• Afrikaans: Alpe
• Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب pl (jibāl al-ʔalb)
• Armenian: Ալպեր (hy) (Alper)
• Asturian: Alpes (ast) m pl
• Belarusian: А́льпы f pl (Álʹpy)
• Bulgarian: А́лпи f pl (Álpi)
• Catalan: Alps (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿爾卑斯山／阿尔卑斯山 (zh) (Ā'ěrbēisī shān)

• Cornish: Alpys pl
• Czech: Alpy (cs)
• Danish: Alperne, Alper
• Dutch: Alpen (nl) m pl
• Esperanto: Alpoj
• Estonian: Alpid (et)
• Faroese: Alpurnar f pl
• Finnish: Alpit (fi)
• French: Alpes (fr) f pl
• Galician: Alpes m pl
• German: Alpen (de) f pl
• Greek: Άλπεις (el) f pl (Álpeis)
• Gujarati: આલ્પ્સ m (ālps)
• Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
• Hungarian: Alpok (hu)
• Icelandic: Alpafjöll n pl, Alparnir m pl
• Indonesian: Alpen
• Irish: na hAlpa
• Italian: Alpi (it) f pl
• Japanese: アルプス (ja) (Arupusu)
• Korean: 알프스 (Alpeuseu)
• Latin: Alpes (la) f pl
• Macedonian: Алпи f pl (Alpi)
• Malay: Alp
• Maltese: Alpi
• Manx: Ny Beinnyn Alpagh
• Navajo: Éébis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Alpene

  Nynorsk: Alpane

• Occitan: Aups (oc) m pl, Alps (oc) m pl
• Persian: آلپ (fa) (âlp)
• Polish: Alpy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Alpes m pl
• Romanian: Alpi (ro) m pl
• Russian: А́льпы (ru) m pl (Álʹpy)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Алпи f pl (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Roman: Alpi f pl (Bosnia, Serbia), Alpe f (Croatia)

• Slovak: Alpy f pl
• Spanish: Alpes (es) m pl
• Swedish: Alperna (sv) c pl
• Turkish: Alpler (tr) pl, Alp Dağları (tr)
• Ukrainian: А́льпи f pl (Álʹpy)
• Walloon: Ales (wa)
• Welsh: yr Alpau pl
• Yiddish: אַלפּן pl (alpn), אַלפּן־בערג pl (alpn-berg)

Anagrams

• APLS, APLs, ASPL, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, laps, pals, salp, slap

Catalan

Proper noun

Alps m pl (plural only)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Related terms

• alpí

German

Noun

Alps m

1. genitive singular of Alp

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalps/

Proper noun

Alps m pl

1. Alternative form of Aups