Himalayas

See also: himalayas

English

Alternative forms

• Himalaya (usually with definite article)
• Himmaleh (obsolete)

Etymology

Pluralisation of Himalaya, learned borrowing from Sanskrit हिमालय (himālaya).

Pronunciation

• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /hɪˈmɑ.lə.jɑs/
• (UK, US) enPR: hĭm′ə-lā′əz, hĭ-mäl′yəz
• enPR: hĭmä′ləyəz
• enPR: hwä′lēn′
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɪm.əˈleɪ.əz/, /hɪˈmɑl.ə.jəz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Hi‧ma‧la‧yas

Proper noun

the Himalayas pl (plural only)

2. The mountain range in south-central Asia, which extends about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam; it contains nine of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest/Qomolongma.

   Synonym: Himalayan Mountains

Derived terms

• Himalayan

Translations

a mountain range of south-central Asia

• Arabic: هِمَالِيَة f (himāliya), هِيمَالَايَا f (hīmālāyā)
• Armenian: Հիմալայներ (Himalayner), Հիմալայան լեռներ (Himalayan leṙner)
• Assamese: হিমালয় (himaloy)
• Bengali: হিমালয় (bn) (himaloẏ)
• Burmese: ဟိမဝန္တာ (my) (hi.ma.wanta), ဟိမာလယ (hi.mala.ya.)
• Catalan: Himàlaia
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 喜馬拉雅 / 喜马拉雅 (hei² maa⁵ laai¹ ngaa⁵)

  Mandarin: 喜馬拉雅 / 喜马拉雅 (zh) (Xǐmǎlāyǎ), 喜馬拉雅山脈 / 喜马拉雅山脉 (zh) (Xǐmǎlāyǎ shānmài)

• Czech: Himálaj (cs) f
• Danish: Himalaya
• Dutch: Himalaya (nl) m
• Esperanto: Himalajo
• Estonian: Himaalaja
• Finnish: Himalaja (fi)
• French: Himalaya (fr)
• Galician: Himalaia f
• Garhwali: हिंवाळ (himvāḷ)
• Georgian: ჰიმალაი (himalai), ჰიმალაის მთები (himalais mtebi)
• German: Himalaja (de) m, Himalaya (de) m
• Greek: Ιμαλάια (el) (Imaláia)
• Gujarati: હિમાલય (himālya)
• Hebrew: הימלאיה \ הִימָלָיָה (himaláya)
• Hindi: हिमालय (hi) m (himālay)
• Hungarian: Himalája (hu)
• Italian: Himalaya m
• Japanese: ヒマラヤ (ja) (Himaraya)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ហិម៉ាឡៃយ៉ា (hemaalayyaa), ហិមាល័យ (km) (hemiəlɨy)
• Korean: 히말라야 (Himallaya)
• Kumaoni: हिमाल
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: Himalaja
• Latvian: Himalaji
• Lithuanian: Himalajai
• Macedonian: Химала́и f pl (Himalái)
• Malayalam: ഹിമാലയം (ml) (himālayaṁ)
• Marathi: हिमालय (himālay)
• Navajo: Dziłgaiitsoh Honeezkʼazii
• Nepali: हिमालय (ne) (himālaya)
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: هماليا f (hemālyã)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: هِیمَالَایَا (hīmālāyā)

• Polish: Himalaje (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Himalaias m pl
• Punjabi: ਹਿਮਾਲਿਆ (pa) (himāliā)
• Romanian: Himalaia
• Russian: Гимала́и (ru) m pl (Gimalái)
• Sanskrit: हिमालय (sa) (himālaya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хималаји m

  Latin: Himalaji m

• Silesian: Himalaje pl
• Sinhalese: හිමාලය (himālaya)
• Spanish: Himalaya (es) m
• Swedish: Himalaya (sv) n
• Tamil: இமாலயம் (ta) (imālayam), இமயம் (ta) (imayam), இமயமலை (imayamalai)
• Telugu: హిమాలయములు (te) (himālayamulu), హిమవత్పర్వతములు (himavatparvatamulu)
• Thai: หิมาลัย (hì-maa-lai)
• Tibetan: ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ (hi ma la ya)
• Ukrainian: Гімала́ї m pl (Himaláji)
• Urdu: ہِمالِیَہ m (himāliya)
• Uyghur: ھىمالايا (himalaya)
• Vietnamese: Himalaya, Hy Mã Lạp Sơn (Sino-Vietnamese)
• Welsh: Himalaya

Swedish

Proper noun

Himalayas

1. genitive of Himalaya