mountain range

English

Etymology

From mountain +‎ range.

Noun

mountain range (plural mountain ranges)

1. (geography) A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
   • 1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:

     For the first 60 miles from Padang Besar, the railway passes through a succession of rice fields, with villages at regular intervals, but then crosses a jungle-clad mountain range to reach the west coast.

Translations

line of mountains

• Afrikaans: gebergte (af)
• Armenian: լեռնաշղթա (hy) (leṙnašġtʻa)
• Bengali: পর্বতমালা (bn) (porbotmala)
• Catalan: serra (ca) f, serralada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山脈 / 山脉 (zh) (shānmài)

• Czech: pohoří (cs) n, horské pásmo n
• Danish: bjergkæde (da) c
• Dutch: gebergte (nl) n
• Esperanto: montaro
• Finnish: vuorijono (fi)
• French: chaine de montagnes (fr), cordillère (fr) f
• Galician: corda (gl) f, serra (gl) f, cordal (gl) m, fial m
• Georgian: მთაგრეხილი (mtagrexili)
• German: Gebirgskette (de) f
• Greek: οροσειρά (el) f (oroseirá)
• Hindi: पर्वतमाला (hi) f (parvatmālā), पर्वत शृंखला f (parvat śŕṅkhlā), पर्वतश्रेणी (hi) f (parvataśreṇī)
• Hungarian: hegylánc (hu), hegyvonulat (hu), hegység (hu)
• Icelandic: fjallgarður (is) m
• Indonesian: barisan (id)
• Japanese: 山脈 (ja) (さんみゃく, sanmyaku)
• Kazakh: таулы үстірт (tauly üstırt)
• Korean: 산맥(山脈) (ko) (sanmaek)
• Lithuanian: kalnãgūbris (lt) m
• Macedonian: планински венец m (planinski venec), планинска верига f (planinska veriga)
• Malay: banjaran gunung
• Manchu: ᠠᠯᡳᡵᡝᠨ (aliren)
• Maori: paemaunga
• Marathi: पर्वतरांग f (parvatrāṅga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjellkjede (no) m

  Nynorsk: fjellkjede f

• Old Irish: slíab m or n
• Ottoman Turkish: سلسلهٔ جبال (silsile-i cibal)
• Polish: pasmo górskie n
• Portuguese: cordilheira (pt) f
• Romanian: catenă (ro), lanț montan, lanț muntos n
• Russian: го́рный хребе́т (ru) m (górnyj xrebét), го́рная цепь (ru) f (górnaja cepʹ)
• Sicilian: serra (scn) f
• Spanish: cordillera (es) f, sierra (es) f
• Swahili: safu ya milima
• Swedish: bergskedja (sv) c
• Tagalog: bulubundukin, tagaytay
• Thai: เทือกเขา (th) (tʉ̂ʉak-kǎo)
• Ukrainian: гірськи́й хребе́т m (hirsʹkýj xrebét)
• Vietnamese: dãy núi

See also

• mountain chain

Further reading

• mountain range on Wikipedia.Wikipedia