Dallas

See also: dallas and dállas

English

Dallas, the village in Scotland.

Dallas, the city in Texas, USA.

Etymology

1. The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house.
2. The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæləs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æləs
• Hyphenation: Dal‧las

Proper noun

Dallas

1. A placename:
   1. A number of places in the United States:
      1. A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.
         • 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

           The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

      2. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
      3. A ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado.
      4. A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia.
      5. A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa.
      6. A town in Gaston County, North Carolina.
      7. A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon.
      8. A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
      9. A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
      10. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
      11. A town and village therein, in Barron County, Wisconsin.
      12. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Dallas Township.
   2. A neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
   3. A small village in northwestern Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1252).
   4. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
2. A surname.
3. A male given name transferred from the place name.
   • 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say.

Derived terms

• Dallas City
• Dallas County
• Dallasite (“native from Dallas”) (colloquial)
• East Dallas
• Melcher-Dallas

Translations

city in Texas

• Arabic: دَالَاس m (dalās)
• Bulgarian: Да́лас m (Dálas)
• Burmese: ဒါးလတ်စ် (da:latc)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達拉斯 / 达拉斯 (zh) (Dálāsī)

• Esperanto: Dallas
• Finnish: Dallas (fi)
• Galician: Dallas (gl)
• Georgian: დალასი (dalasi)
• German: Dallas (de)
• Greek: Ντάλλας (el) (Ntállas)
• Hebrew: דאלאס (dalas)
• Japanese: ダラス (Darasu)
• Korean: 달라스 (Dallaseu)
• Latin: Dallāsium
• Lithuanian: Dalasas m
• Marathi: डॅलस (ḍĕlas)
• Portuguese: Dallas f
• Russian: Да́ллас (ru) m (Dállas)
• Turkish: Dallas

male given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 达拉斯 (zh) (Dálāsī)

• Marathi: डॅलस m (ḍĕlas)
• Russian: Да́ллас (ru) m (Dállas)

References

• A Dictionary of English Surnames (1991)

Anagrams

• Dalals, dalals, sallad

Esperanto

Proper noun

Dallas

1. Dallas (a city in Texas)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.lɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.lɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈda.lɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.las/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.lɐʃ/

Proper noun

Dallas f

1. Dallas (a city in Texas, United States)