Alps

See also: alps

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Alpes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælps/

Proper noun

Alps

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

Derived terms

• Bernese Alps
• Southern Alps

Related terms

• Alpine

Translations

a mountain range in Western Europe

• Afrikaans: Alpe
• Albanian: Alpe (sq)
• Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب‏‎ pl (jibāl al-ʾalb)
• Armenian: Ալպեր (Alper)
• Belarusian: А́льпы f pl (Álʹpy)
• Bulgarian: А́лпи f pl (Álpi)
• Catalan: Alps m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿爾卑斯山 (zh), 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
• Faroese: Alpurnar f pl
• Finnish: Alpit (fi)
• French: Alpes (fr) f pl
• German: Alpen (de) f pl
• Greek: Άλπεις (el) f pl (Álpeis)
• Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
• Hungarian: Alpok (hu)
• Icelandic: Alpafjöll n pl, Alparnir m pl
• Indonesian: Alpen
• Irish: na hAlpa
• Italian: Alpi (it) m pl

• Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
• Korean: 알프스 (Alpeuseu)
• Latin: Alpes (la) f
• Macedonian: Алпи f pl (Alpi)
• Malay: Alp
• Maltese: Alpi
• Manx: Ny Beinnyn Alpagh
• Navajo: Éébis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Alpene

  Nynorsk: Alpane

• Persian: آلپ‏‎ (fa) (Âlp)
• Polish: Alpy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Alpes m pl
• Romanian: Alpi (ro) m
• 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)
• Turkish: Alpler (tr) pl, Alp Dağları (tr)
• Ukrainian: А́льпи f pl (Álʹpy)
• Welsh: yr Alpau pl

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Proper noun

Alps m pl

1. Alps

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German

Noun

Alps m

1. genitive singular of Alp