Montana

See also: montana and montaña

English

Map of US highlighting Montana

Etymology

From Latin montāna; the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɒnˈtænə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Proper noun

Montana

1. A state in the Mountain West region of the United States. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings.
2. A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.
3. A former municipality of Valais canton, Switzerland.
4. A locality in northern Tasmania, Australia.
5. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
   1. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   2. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
   3. An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
   4. An unincorporated community in Warren County, New Jersey.
   5. An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
6. A unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
   • 2002 Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin (2002), →ISBN, page 12:

     'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. […]

Derived terms

• Montanan
• Montanian
• MT

Translations

US state

• Arabic: مُونْتَانَا‎ f (muntānā)
• Armenian: Մոնտանա (Montana)
• Bulgarian: Монтана f (Montana)
• Catalan: Montana f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒙大拿州 (zh) (Méngdàná-zhōu)

• Czech: Montana (cs) f
• Danish: Montana
• Dutch: Montana (nl) n
• Esperanto: Montano
• Finnish: Montana (fi)
• French: Montana (fr) m
• Galician: Montana (gl) f
• Georgian: მონტანა (monṭana)
• German: Montana (de)
• Greek: Μοντάνα (el) (Montána)
• Hindi: मोन्टाना m (monṭānā), मोंटाना (moṇṭānā)
• Italian: Montana (it) m
• Japanese: モンタナ州 (Montána-shū)

• Korean: 몬태나 (Montaena)
• Latin: Montana f
• Latvian: Montāna
• Lithuanian: Montana
• Macedonian: Монта́на f (Montána)
• Navajo: Máánteenah hahoodzo
• Occitan: Montana (oc) f
• Polish: Montana (pl) f
• Portuguese: Montana (pt) f
• Russian: Монта́на (ru) f (Montána)
• Silesian: Můntana
• Spanish: Montana (es) f
• Thai: มอนแทนา (mɔn-tɛɛ-nâa)
• Turkish: Montana
• Uyghur: مونتانا‎ (montana)
• West Frisian: Montana n
• Yiddish: מאָנטאַנאַ‎ (montana)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Montana

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Montana.

Proper noun

Montana (genitive Montanas)

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

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Finnish

Etymology

From English Montana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmontɑnɑ/, [ˈmo̞n̪t̪ɑnɑ]
• Rhymes: -ontɑnɑ
• Syllabification: Mon‧ta‧na

Proper noun

Montana

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection of Montana (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Montana	—
genitive		Montanan	—
partitive		Montanaa	—
illative		Montanaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Montana	—
accusative	nom.	Montana	—
	gen.	Montanan
genitive		Montanan	—
partitive		Montanaa	—
inessive		Montanassa	—
elative		Montanasta	—
illative		Montanaan	—
adessive		Montanalla	—
ablative		Montanalta	—
allative		Montanalle	—
essive		Montanana	—
translative		Montanaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Montanatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Montana (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Montanani	Montanamme
2nd person	Montanasi	Montananne
3rd person	Montanansa

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Italian

Etymology

From English Montana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /monˈta.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Mon‧tà‧na

Proper noun

Montana m

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /monˈtaː.na/, [mɔn̪ˈt̪äːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /monˈta.na/, [mon̪ˈt̪äːnä]

Proper noun

Montāna f sg (genitive Montānae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Montana

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Montāna
Genitive	Montānae
Dative	Montānae
Accusative	Montānam
Ablative	Montānā
Vocative	Montāna
Locative	Montānae

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Montana, from Spanish montaña (“mountain”), from Old Spanish montanna, from Medieval Latin montāna, from the feminine of Latin montānus, from mōns (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔnˈta.na/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Mon‧ta‧na

Proper noun

Montana f

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

Declension

Declension of Montana

	singular
nominative	Montana
genitive	Montany
dative	Montanie
accusative	Montanę
instrumental	Montaną
locative	Montanie
vocative	Montano

Derived terms

adjective

• montański

 

nouns

• Montańczyk
• Montanka

 

Further reading

• Montana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Montana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /mõˈtɐ̃.nɐ/, [mõˈtɐ̃.nɐ]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /mõˈtɐ.nɐ/, [mõˈtɐ.nɐ]

• Hyphenation: Mon‧ta‧na

Proper noun

Montana m

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmontana]

Proper noun

Montana f (genitive singular Montany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

References

• Montana in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /monˈtana/, [mõn̪ˈt̪a.na]

Proper noun

Montana f

1. Montana (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• montanés

See also

• Montana on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Montana.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Mon‧ta‧na
• IPA^(key): /monˈtana/, [monˈtanɐ]

Proper noun

Montana

1. Montana (a state of the United States)