Matterhorn

English

The Matterhorn

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Matte (“meadow”) + Horn (“peak”).

Proper noun

Matterhorn

1. An iconic pyramidal mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy.
2. (by extension) Something difficult to achieve or to surmount.
   • 1970, Where Do We Stand Now? by Henry J. Taylor, Prescott Evening Courier - Aug 14, 1970

     A second feature is the Matterhorn of inflation that dominates the scene. The average postwar recession showed a 1.4 per cent decline in industrial wholesale prices.

   • 2012, Hedge your Bets in the Peak Oil Debate, by Richard Heinberg:

     Meanwhile, soaring oil prices and plummeting real energy yields from liquid fuels have already left economic carnage in their wake, as a fragile global financial system perched on a Matterhorn of debt has been dealt blow after blow by the failure of the real economy to expand as expected.

Translations

mountain

• Albanian: Matehorn
• Arabic: مَاتَّرْهُورْن (mattarhorn)

  Egyptian Arabic: ماترهورن (materhorn)

• Armenian: Մաթերհորն (Matʻerhorn)
• Belarusian: Ма́тэргорн m (Máterhorn), Ма́тэрхорн m (Máterxorn)
• Bengali: ম্যাটারহর্ন (mêṭarhorno)
• Bulgarian: Ма́терхорн m (Máterhorn)
• Catalan: Cerví m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬特洪峰／马特洪峰 (maa⁵ dak⁶ hung⁴ fung¹)

  Mandarin: 馬特洪峰／马特洪峰 (Mǎtèhóng fēng)

• Esperanto: Materhorno
• Franco-Provençal: Grand'Bèca, Gran Becca (Valdôtain)
• French: Cervin (fr) m
• Georgian: მატერჰორნი (maṭerhorni)
• German: Matterhorn n

  Alemannic German: Horu (Walser), Hore (Walser)

• Greek: Μάττερχορν (Mátterchorn), Τσερβίνο (Tservíno)
• Hebrew: מטרהורן
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: an Mhatterhorn
• Italian: Cervino m
• Japanese: マッターホルン (Mattāhorun)
• Korean: 마터호른산 (Mateohoreunsan)
• Latvian: Materhorns
• Lithuanian: Materhornas m
• Macedonian: Матерхорн m (Materhorn)
• Neapolitan: Cervino
• Occitan: Cervin
• Persian: ماترهورن
• Piedmontese: Servin m
• Russian: Ма́ттерхорн (ru) m (Mátterxorn)
• Sicilian: Cirvinu
• Spanish: Cervino m
• Thai: มัทเทอร์ฮอร์น
• Ukrainian: Ма́тергорн (Máterhorn)
• Urdu: میٹرہارن
• Western Panjabi: میٹرہارن
• Yiddish: מאַטערהאָרן (materhorn)

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Proper noun

Matterhorn n

1. Matterhorn (mountain)