Arizona

Arizona

English

Map of the US with Arizona in red

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from O'odham alĭ ṣonak (literally “small spring”) (traditionally through the Spanish intermediary form Arizonac; compare modern Arizona), a name initially applied to an area around a silver-mining camp in Sonora.[1][2]

Alternatively, perhaps from Basque haritz ona (literally “good oak”), as the area many Basque herders, and a descendant of them established the ranchería of Arizona (circa 1735) in Sonora.[3][4][5]

Suggestions of derivation from arizuma, supposedly a Nahuatl word meaning "silver-bearing", are considered implausible,[4] and derivation from Spanish árida zona (literally “dry zone”) is considered a folk etymology.[6]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæɹɪˈzoʊnə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈzoʊnə/
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction)

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæɹɪˈzəʊnə/
• Rhymes: -əʊnə

Proper noun

Arizona

1. A state in the southwestern United States, established 1912. Capital: Phoenix.
2. (historical) A territory of the southwest Confederate (1862–1865) and United States of America (1863–1912), with its capitals at Tucson, Prescott, and Phoenix.
3. (historical) A department of the northwest Second Mexican Empire (1863–1865), with its capital at Altar.
4. (rare) A unisex given name
5. Several places named for the state or territory.
   1. An unincorporatedcommunity in Louisiana, United States.
   2. An unincorporatedcommunity in Nebraska, United States.
   3. A locality in Manitoba, Canada.
   4. A municipality of Atlántida, Honduras.

Synonyms

• (state): Ariz., AZ

Derived terms

• Aridzona
• Arizonan
• Arizona room
• Arizonian
• arizonite

 

Descendants

• Chinese: 亞利桑那／亚利桑那 (Yàlìsāngnà), 亞里桑那／亚里桑那 (Yàlǐsāngnà)

Translations

a state of the United States of America

Arabic: أَرِيزُونَا‎ f (ʾarizūnā) Armenian: Արիզոնա (hy) (Arizona) Burmese: အရီဇိုးနားပြည်နယ် (a.rijui:na:pranynai) Chinese: Mandarin: 亞利桑那州／亚利桑那州 (Yàlìsāngnà zhōu) (official); 亞里桑那州／亚里桑那州 (Yàlǐsāngnà zhōu) Corsican: Arizona f Czech: Arizona (cs) f Danish: Arizona Esperanto: Arizono Finnish: Arizona (fi) French: Arizona (fr) f Galician: Arizona (gl) Georgian: არიზონა (arizona) German: Arizona (de) Greek: Αριζόνα (el) f (Arizóna) Hindi: एरिज़ोना m (erizonā), एरीजोना m (erījonā) Hungarian: Arizona (hu) Icelandic: Arisóna Inuktitut: ᐋᕇᓲᓈ (aariisoonaa) Italian: Arizona (it) f Japanese: アリゾナ州 (Arizona-shū) Khmer: អារីហ្សូណា (ʼaariizounaa) Korean: 애리조나 (Aerijona) Limburgish: Arizona Macedonian: Аризо́на f (Arizóna) Maltese: Ariżona f Navajo: Hoozdo hahoodzo O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak Occitan: Arizòna (oc) m Polish: Arizona (pl) f Portuguese: Arizona (pt) m Russian: Аризо́на (ru) f (Arizóna) Spanish: Arizona (es) f Thai: แอริโซนา (ɛɛ-rí-soo-nâa) Turkish: Arizona Ukrainian: Аризо́на f (Aryzóna) Uyghur: ئارىزونا‎ (arizona) Vietnamese: Arizona Yiddish: אַריזאָנאַ‎ (arizona)

See also

Divisions of the United States of America in English (layout · text)

States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Federal District: Washington, D.C.

Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands

References

1. Bright, William (2004) Native American Place Names of the United States, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 47
2. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Arizona”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
3. “The Meaning of Arizona”, in Arizona Almanac‎, Arizona State Library Archives & Public Records, accessed March 20, 2019
4. Turner, Jim (accessed March 3, 2007), “How Arizona did NOT Get its Name”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, Arizona Historical Society
5. Garate, Donald (2005), “Arizonac, a twentieth-century myth”, in Journal of Arizona History‎, volume 46, issue 2, pages 161–184
6. Thompson, Clay (February 11, 2007), “No, 'arid zone' not the basis of state's name”, in The Arizona Republic‎, retrieved December 29, 2014

Anagrams

• Azorian, Nazario

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Arizona

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Proper noun

Arizona (genitive Arizonas)

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑritso(ː)nɑ/, [ˈɑrit̪ˌs̠o̞(ː)nɑ]
• Rhymes: -onɑ, -oːnɑ
• Syllabification^(key): A‧ri‧zo‧na

Proper noun

Arizona

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection of Arizona (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		Arizona	—
genitive		Arizonan	—
partitive		Arizonaa	—
illative		Arizonaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Arizona	—
accusative	nom.	Arizona	—
	gen.	Arizonan
genitive		Arizonan	—
partitive		Arizonaa	—
inessive		Arizonassa	—
elative		Arizonasta	—
illative		Arizonaan	—
adessive		Arizonalla	—
ablative		Arizonalta	—
allative		Arizonalle	—
essive		Arizonana	—
translative		Arizonaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Arizonatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Arizona (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Arizonani	Arizonamme
2nd person	Arizonasi	Arizonanne
3rd person	Arizonansa

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German

Etymology

From English Arizona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaʁiˈzoːna/, /ˌɛʁiˈzoːna/, /ˌɛɹiˈzɔʊ̯nɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˌaʁiˈtsoːna/ (fully Germanised; now archaic)

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Proper noun

Arizona n (proper noun, genitive Arizonas or (optionally with an article) Arizona)

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrizonɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ari‧zo‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

Proper noun

Arizona

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Arizona	Arizonák
accusative	Arizonát	Arizonákat
dative	Arizonának	Arizonáknak
instrumental	Arizonával	Arizonákkal
causal-final	Arizonáért	Arizonákért
translative	Arizonává	Arizonákká
terminative	Arizonáig	Arizonákig
essive-formal	Arizonaként	Arizonákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Arizonában	Arizonákban
superessive	Arizonán	Arizonákon
adessive	Arizonánál	Arizonáknál
illative	Arizonába	Arizonákba
sublative	Arizonára	Arizonákra
allative	Arizonához	Arizonákhoz
elative	Arizonából	Arizonákból
delative	Arizonáról	Arizonákról
ablative	Arizonától	Arizonáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Arizonáé	Arizonáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Arizonáéi	Arizonákéi

Possessive forms of Arizona
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Arizonám	Arizonáim
2nd person sing.	Arizonád	Arizonáid
3rd person sing.	Arizonája	Arizonái
1st person plural	Arizonánk	Arizonáink
2nd person plural	Arizonátok	Arizonáitok
3rd person plural	Arizonájuk	Arizonáik

Derived terms

• arizonai

 

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ridˈd͡zɔ.na/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Hyphenation: A‧ri‧zò‧na

Proper noun

Arizona f

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

References

1. Arizona in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

• raziona

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.rizˈzoː.na/, [ärɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪oːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ridˈd͡zo.na/, [ärid̪ˈd̪͡z̪ɔːnä]

Proper noun

Arizōna f sg (genitive Arizōnae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Arizona

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arizōna
Genitive	Arizōnae
Dative	Arizōnae
Accusative	Arizōnam
Ablative	Arizōnā
Vocative	Arizōna

References

• Henry Beard, Latin for All Occasions, 1990, →ISBN, title page in Latin and English.)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.riˈzɔ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Syllabification: A‧ri‧zo‧na

Proper noun

Arizona f

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

Declension

Declension of Arizona

	singular
nominative	Arizona
genitive	Arizony
dative	Arizonie
accusative	Arizonę
instrumental	Arizoną
locative	Arizonie
vocative	Arizono

Derived terms

adjective

• arizoński

 

nouns

• arizona
• Arizonka
• Arizończyk

 

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾiˈzõ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾiˈzõ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾiˈzo.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɾiˈzo.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: A‧ri‧zo‧na

Proper noun

Arizona m

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• arizonense

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Romanian

Proper noun

Arizona f

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarizona]

Proper noun

Arizona m (genitive singular Arizony, declension pattern of žena)

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

References

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɾiˈθona/ [a.ɾiˈθo.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aɾiˈsona/ [a.ɾiˈso.na]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: A‧ri‧zo‧na

Proper noun

Arizona f

1. Arizona (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• arizono

See also

• Arizona on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es