California

See also: california, californià, Califórnia, and Califòrnia

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. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name is a play with the word caliph.

Pronunciation

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

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

Proper noun

California

1. A western coastal state of the United States of America.

Derived terms

Terms derived from California

• CA
• California holly
• California Jack
• Californian

• Californianization
• Californianize
• California pizza
• California poppy

• California stop
• California-style pizza
• Norcal
• Socal

Translations

state of the United States of America

• Arabic: كَالِيفُورْنِيَا‏‎ f (kālīfūrniyā)
• Armenian: Կալիֆոռնիա (Kalifoṙnia)
• Basque: Kalifornia
• Belarusian: Каліфорнія (Kalifornija)
• Burmese: ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား (kalihpui:ni:ya:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 加利福尼亞州, 加利福尼亚州 (gaa¹ lei⁶ fuk¹ nei⁴ aa³), 加州 (gaa¹ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 加利福尼亞州 (zh), 加利福尼亚州 (zh) (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
• Galician: California (gl) f
• Georgian: კალიფორნია (ḳalipornia)
• German: Kalifornien (de) n
• Greek: Καλιφόρνια (el) (Kalifórnia)
• Hebrew: קליפורניה‏‎ f (qalifornia)
• Hungarian: Kalifornia (hu)
• Icelandic: Kalifornía f
• Ido: Kalifornia (io)
• 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)
• Korean: 캘리포니아 주 (kaelliponia ju)
• Lao: ກາລິຟໍເນັຍ (kā li fǭ nia)
• Latin: California f
• Latvian: Kalifornija f
• Limburgish: ^{(please verify)} Californije

• Lithuanian: Kalifornija f
• Luxembourgish: Kalifornien (lb)
• Macedonian: Калифо́рнија f (Kalifórnija)
• Maltese: Kalifornja
• Marathi: कॅलिफॉर्निया m (kǎlifǒrniyā)
• Navajo: Ahééháshį́į́h hahoodzo
• Norman: Califournie f
• Persian: کالیفرنیا‏‎ (fa) (kâliforniâ)
• Polish: Kalifornia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Califórnia (pt) f
• Romanian: California f
• Russian: Калифо́рния (ru) f (Kalifórnija)
• Samogitian: Kalėfuornėjė
• Scots: Californie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Калифо̀рнија f

  Roman: Kalifòrnija (sh) f

• Silesian: Kaliforńijo
• Slovak: Kalifornia f
• Slovene: Kalifórnija (sl) f
• Spanish: California (es) f
• Swedish: Kalifornien (sv)
• Tagalog: Kalipornya
• Telugu: కాలిఫోర్నియా (kāliphōrniyā)
• Thai: แคลิฟอร์เนีย (kɛɛ-lí-fɔɔ-niia)
• Tongan: Kalifonia
• Turkish: Kaliforniya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Каліфорнія f (Kalifornija)
• Vietnamese: Ca Li (vi), Ca-li, Ca-li-phoóc-ni-a, Caliphoócnia
• Welsh: Califfornia (cy)
• Yiddish: קאַליפֿאָרניע‏‎ (kalifornye)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in California

Further reading

• California on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fornicalia

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Danish

Proper noun

California (genitive Californias)

1. Alternative form of Californien

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Italian

Proper noun

California f

1. California

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Latin

Etymology

Neo-Latin. From Spanish California

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfor.ni.a/, [ka.lɪˈfɔr.ni.a]

Proper noun

California f sg (genitive Californiae, locative Californiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) California

   California statum magnum est. ― California is a big state.

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	California
genitive	Californiae
dative	Californiae
accusative	Californiam
ablative	Californiā
vocative	California
locative	Californiae

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Romanian

Proper noun

California f

1. California (U.S. State)

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Spanish

Proper noun

California f

1. California

Derived terms

• californio