California

See also: Califórnia

English

Map of US highlighting California

Etymology

Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las Sergas de Esplandián, a 16th century Spanish novel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.ɪ.ˈfɔɹ.njə/, /ˌkæl.ɪ.ˈfɔɹ.ni.ə/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)niə
• Hyphenation: Cal‧i‧for‧nia

Proper noun

California

1. A western coastal state of the United States of America. Capital: Sacramento.

Derived terms

• CA
• California holly
• California poppy

• California stop
• Californian
• Norcal
• Socal

Translations

state of the United States of America

• Arabic: كاليفورنيا f (kalifúrniya)
• Armenian: Կալիֆոռնիա (Kalifoṙnia)
• Basque: Kalifornia
• Belarusian: Каліфорнія (Kalifornija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加利福尼亞州 (zh), 加利福尼亚州 (Jiālìfúníyǎ-zhōu), 加州 (zh) (Jiā-zhōu)

• Czech: Kalifornie (cs) f
• Danish: Californien
• Dutch: Californië (nl)
• Esperanto: Kalifornio
• Estonian: California (et)
• Faroese: Kalifornia n
• Finnish: Kalifornia (fi)
• French: Californie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kalifornien (de) n
• Greek: Καλιφόρνια (el) (Kalifórnia)
• Hebrew: קליפורניה f (qalifornia)
• Hungarian: Kalifornia (hu)
• Icelandic: Kalifornía f
• Irish: an Chalafóirn f
• Italian: California (it) f
• Japanese: カリフォルニア州 (ja) (Kariforunia-shū), 加州 (ja) (Ka-shū)
• Jèrriais: Califournie f
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: California f
• Limburgish: Californije
• Luxembourgish: Kalifornien (lb)
• Macedonian: Калифорнија f (Kalifórnija)
• Maltese: Kalifornja
• Marathi: कॅलिफॉर्निया m (kǎlifǒrniyā)
• Navajo: Akééháshį́į́h hahoodzo
• Persian: کالیفرنیا (fa) (kâliforniâ)
• Polish: Kalifornia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Califórnia (pt) f
• Romanian: California f
• Russian: Калифорния f (Kalifórnija)
• Scots: Californie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Калифо̀рнија f

  Roman: Kalifòrnija f

• Slovak: Kalifornia f
• Slovene: Kalifórnija f
• Spanish: California (es) f
• Swedish: Kalifornien (sv)
• Telugu: కాలిఫోర్నియా (kāliphōrniyā)
• Turkish: Kaliforniya
• Ukrainian: Каліфорнія f (Kalifornija)
• Vietnamese: Ca Li (vi), Ca-li, Ca-li-phoóc-ni-a, Caliphoócnia
• Welsh: Califfornia
• Yiddish: קאַליפֿאָרניע (kalifornie)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in California

External links

• California on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

---

Italian

Proper noun

California f

1. California

---

Spanish

Proper noun

California f

1. California

Derived terms

• californio