Alps

Alps

See also: alps

English

Relief map of the Alps

Aerial view of the Pennine Alps

Etymology

Late Middle English, via French and ultimately from Latin Alpes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælps/

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• Rhymes: -ælps
• Homophone: alps

Proper noun

Alps pl (plural only)

1. (usually with "the") A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

Derived terms

• Albanian Alps
• Allgäu Alps
• Australian Alps
• Berchtesgaden Alps
• Bergamo Alps
• Bernese Alps
• Carnic Alps
• Cottian Alps
• Dinaric Alps
• Fynske Alps
• Japanese Alps
• Jewish Alps
• Julian Alps
• Kamnik Alps
• Kitzbühel Alps
• Lechtal Alps
• Lyngen Alps
• Maritime Alps
• Norlund Alps
• Northern Limestone Alps
• Ortler Alps
• Ötztal Alps
• Pennine Alps
• Princess Caroline Mathilde Alps
• Princess Elizabeth Alps
• Rhaetian Alps
• Samnaun Alps
• Southern Alps
• Southern Limestone Alps
• Stauning Alps
• Stubai Alps
• Transylvanian Alps
• Trinity Alps
• Tux Alps
• Verwall Alps
• Victorian Alps
• Western Alps
• Zillertal Alps

 

Related terms

• Alpine

Descendants

• → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
• → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)

Translations

a mountain range in Western Europe

Afrikaans: Alpe Albanian: Alpe (sq) Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب‎ pl (jibāl al-ʾalb) Armenian: Ալպեր (hy) (Alper) Belarusian: А́льпы f pl (Álʹpy) Bulgarian: А́лпи f pl (Álpi) Catalan: Alps (ca) m pl Chinese: Mandarin: 阿爾卑斯山／阿尔卑斯山 (zh) (Ā'ěrbēisī shān) Cornish: Alpys pl Czech: Alpy (cs) Danish: Alperne, Alper Dutch: Alpen (nl) m pl Esperanto: Alpoj Estonian: Alpid (et) Faroese: Alpurnar f pl Finnish: Alpit (fi) French: Alpes (fr) f pl Galician: Alpes m pl German: Alpen (de) f pl Greek: Άλπεις (el) f pl (Álpeis) Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps) Hungarian: Alpok (hu) Icelandic: Alpafjöll n pl, Alparnir m pl Indonesian: Alpen Irish: na hAlpa Italian: Alpi (it) m pl Japanese: アルプス (ja) (Arupusu) Korean: 알프스 (Alpeuseu) Latin: Alpes (la) f pl Macedonian: Алпи f pl (Alpi) Malay: Alp Maltese: Alpi Manx: Ny Beinnyn Alpagh Navajo: Éébis Norwegian: Bokmål: Alpene Nynorsk: Alpane Occitan: Aups (oc) m pl, Alps (oc) m pl Persian: آلپ‎ (fa) (âlp) Polish: Alpy (pl) pl Portuguese: Alpes m pl Romanian: Alpi (ro) m Russian: А́льпы (ru) m pl (Álʹpy) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Алпи f pl (Bosnia, Serbia) Roman: Alpi f pl (Bosnia, Serbia), Alpe f (Croatia) Slovak: Alpy f pl Spanish: Alpes (es) m pl Swedish: Alperna (sv) c pl Turkish: Alpler (tr) pl, Alp Dağları (tr) Ukrainian: А́льпи f pl (Álʹpy) Walloon: Ales (wa) Welsh: yr Alpau pl

Anagrams

• APLS, APLs, ASPL, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, laps, pals, salp, slap

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Catalan

Proper noun

Alps m pl

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Related terms

• alpí

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German

Noun

Alps m

1. genitive singular of Alp

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalps/

Proper noun

Alps m pl

1. Alternative form of Aups