El Paso

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish el paso (“the pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛlˈpæsoʊ/
• (non-US, partly hispanicised) IPA^(key): /ɛlˈpɑːsoʊ/, /ɛlˈpɑːsəʊ/

Proper noun

El Paso

1. A city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
   • 2022 May 16, Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, “A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 August 2022:

     The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to kill Mexicans.

   • 2023 March 12, Rosa Flores, Joe Sutton, “Large group in Mexico attempted mass entry into US at El Paso, Texas, border crossing, officials say”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 March 2023:

     Crowds at the bridge were subsiding Sunday evening, El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told CNN.

Derived terms

• El Pasoan
• El Paso County

Translations

a city in USA

• Apache:

  Chiricahua: Tsé táhúú'á-yá

• Arabic: إِلْ بَاسُو f (ʔil bāsū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾爾帕索 / 艾尔帕索 (Ài'ěrpàsuǒ)

• Hindi: एल पासो (el pāso)
• Japanese: エルパソ (Erupaso)
• Korean: 엘패소 (Elpaeso), 엘파소 (Elpaso)
• Persian: ال پاسو (el pâso)
• Russian: Эль-Па́со (ru) m (Elʹ-Páso)
• Spanish: El Paso (es) m

Anagrams

• aslope, paleos

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /el ˈpaso/ [el ˈpa.so]
• Syllabification: El Pa‧so

Proper noun

El Paso m

1. El Paso (a city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States)