Arkansas

See also: Arkansas'

English[edit]

Map of US highlighting Arkansas

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Arkansas

Wikipedia

Alternative forms[edit]

(river): Arkansa (archaic)
Arkansaw (obsolete, the spelling used when the territory was organized in 1819)

Etymology[edit]

From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw.^[1] This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.kən.sɔ/
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(US, now nonstandard in reference to the state) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkæn.zəs/ (see usage notes)

Proper noun[edit]

Arkansas

A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.

Usage notes[edit]

The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored /ˈɑɹkənsɔː/ and the other of whom favored /ɑɹˈkænzəs/.^[2] /ɑɹˈkænzəs/ is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

US state

Arabic: أَرْكَنْسَاس‎ m (ʾarkansās)
Cherokee: ᏚᏯᏓᏛᎢ (duyadadvi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿肯色州 (zh) (Ākěnsè-zhōu)
Czech: Arkansas (cs) m
Danish: Arkansas
Esperanto: Arkansaso
Finnish: Arkansas (fi)
Galician: Arcansas (gl)
Georgian: არკანზასი (arḳanzasi)
German: Arkansas (de)
Hindi: अरकांसस m (arkānsas), आर्कन्सा m (ārkansā)
Italian: Arkansas (it) m
Japanese: アーカンソー州 (Ākansō-shū)
Limburgish: Arkansas

Macedonian: Арка́нзас m (Arkánzas)
Maltese: Arkansas
Marshallese: O̧kōnjo̧
Navajo: Áákinsoo hahoodzo
Polish: Arkansas (pl) m
Portuguese: Arkansas (pt) m
Russian: Арканза́с (ru) m (Arkanzás), Арка́нзас (ru) m (Arkánzas)
Spanish: Arkansas (es) m
Thai: อาร์คันซอ (aa-kan-sɔɔ)
Turkish: Arkansas
Uyghur: ئاركانزاس‎ (arkanzas)
Vietnamese: Arkansas
Yiddish: אַרקענסאָ‎ (arkenso), אַרקאַנסאָ‎ (arkanso)

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States →ISBN, page 47 (citing personal communication with Robert Rankin)
^ In 1881, the Arkansas General Assembly passed the following concurrent resolution, now Arkansas Code 1 April 105: "Whereas, confusion of practice has arisen in the pronunciation of the name of our state and it is deemed important that the true pronunciation should be determined for use in oral official proceedings.
And, whereas, the matter has been thoroughly investigated by the State Historical Society and the Eclectic Society of Little Rock, which have agreed upon the correct pronunciation as derived from history, and the early usage of the American immigrants.
Be it therefore resolved by both houses of the General Assembly, that the only true pronunciation of the name of the state, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the French word representing the sound. It should be pronounced in three (3) syllables, with the final "s" silent, the "a" in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of "a" in "man" and the sounding of the terminal "s" is discouraged by Arkansans."

Anagrams[edit]

sanskara

Danish[edit]

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Arkansas

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English Arkansas.

Proper noun[edit]

Arkansas (genitive Arkansas')

Arkansas (a state of the United States)

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English Arkansas.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsɑs/, [ˈɑrkɑns̠ɑs̠] (declension: risti)
IPA^(key): /ˈɑrkɑnsoː/, [ˈɑrkɑns̠o̞ː] (declension: maa)
Syllabification: Ar‧kan‧sas

Proper noun[edit]

Arkansas

Arkansas (a state of the United States)

Declension[edit]

Depends on the pronunciation, see above.

Inflection of Arkansas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Arkansas	—
genitive		Arkansasin	—
partitive		Arkansasia	—
illative		Arkansasiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Arkansas	—
accusative	nom.	Arkansas	—
accusative	gen.	Arkansasin	—
genitive		Arkansasin	—
partitive		Arkansasia	—
inessive		Arkansasissa	—
elative		Arkansasista	—
illative		Arkansasiin	—
adessive		Arkansasilla	—
ablative		Arkansasilta	—
allative		Arkansasille	—
essive		Arkansasina	—
translative		Arkansasiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Arkansasitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Arkansas (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Arkansasini	Arkansasimme
2nd person	Arkansasisi	Arkansasinne
3rd person	Arkansasinsa

Declension of Arkansas (type maa)

	singular	plural
nominative	Arkansas	–
genitive	Arkansas’n	–
partitive	Arkansas’ta	–
accusative	Arkansas Arkansas’n	–
inessive	Arkansas’ssa	–
elative	Arkansas’sta	–
illative	Arkansas’hon	–
adessive	Arkansas’lla	–
ablative	Arkansas’lta	–
allative	Arkansas’lle	–
essive	Arkansas’na	–
translative	Arkansas’ksi	–
instructive	–	–
abessive	Arkansas’tta	–
comitative	–	–

Anagrams[edit]

kassaran

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /aʁˈkanzas/ (Germanicised; slightly dated in educated speech)
IPA^(key): /ˈaʁkənˌsɔː/ (approaching English; educated)
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IPA^(key): /aʁˈkɛnzəs/, /əˈkɛnzəs/ (approaching the dated or merely a supposed English pronunciation; proscribed)