Tennessee

Tennessee

English

Map of US highlighting Tennessee

Etymology

From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛn.əˈsiː/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Tennessee

1. A state of the United States.
2. A river in the United States, that flows from eastern Tennessee into the Ohio River.
3. A village in McDonough County, Illinois.
4. A male given name.
5. A female given name.

Derived terms

• Tennessean
• Tennesseean
• Tennessee windage
• Tennesseian
• tennessine
• TN

 

Translations

state

Amharic: ቴነሲ (tenäsi) Arabic: تِينِيسِي‎ m (tinisī) Armenian: Թենեսի (hy) (Tʿenesi) Azerbaijani: Tennessi (az) Bashkir: Теннесси (Tennessi) Belarusian: Тэнесі m (Tenjesi) Bengali: টেনেসী (ṭenesī) Bihari: टेनेसी (ṭenesī) Bishnupriya Manipuri: টেনেসি (ṭenesī) Bulgarian: Тенеси́ m (Tenesí) Burmese: တင်နက်ဆီပြည်နယ် (tangnakhci-pranynai) Buryat: Теннесси (Tjennjessi) Chechen: Теннесси́ (Tennessı̇́) Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi) Chinese: Cantonese: 田納西 (tin4 naap6 sai1) Mandarin: 田納西／田纳西 (zh) (Tiánnàxī) Chuvash: Теннесси (Tennessi) Cornish: Tennessi Czech: Tennessee (cs) Danish: Tennessee Esperanto: Tenesio Farefare: Tenesi Finnish: Tennessee (fi) French: Tennessee (fr) m Galician: Tennessee (gl) m Georgian: ტენესი (ṭenesi) German: Tennessee (de) Greek: Τεννεσσή n (Tennessí), Τενεσί (el) n (Tenesí) Guaraní: Tenesi Gujarati: ટેનેસી (ṭenesī) Haitian Creole: Tenèsi Hawaiian: Kenekī Hebrew: טנסי‎ (he) Hindi: टेनेसी (ṭenesī) Italian: Tennessee (it) m Japanese: テネシー (Teneshī) Kabiyé: Tenesii Kalmyk: Теннесси (Tennessi) Kazakh: Теннесси (Tennessi) Khmer: តេណេសស៊ី (teeneehsii) Korean: 테네시 (Tenesi) Latin: Tennessia f, Tennesia f Latvian: Tenesī m Lithuanian: Tenesis m Macedonian: Тенеси n (Tenesi) Maithili: टेनेसी (ṭenesī) Malayalam: ടെന്നസി (ṭennasi) Marathi: टेनसी (ṭensī) Mari: Eastern Mari: Теннесси (Tennessi) Western Mari: Теннесси (Tennessi) Mingrelian: ტენესი (ṭenesi) Mongolian: Теннесси (Tennessi) Navajo: Ténésii hahoodzo Nepali: टेनेसी (ṭenesī) Newar: टेनिसी (ṭenisī) Ossetian: Теннесси (Tennessi) Pali: ṭenisī Piedmontese: Tenessì m Polish: Tennessee (pl) n Portuguese: Tennessee (pt) m Punjabi: ਟੈਨੇਸੀ (ṭainesī) Romanian: Tennessee (ro) Russian: Теннесси́ (ru) m (Tennessí) Samoan: Tenesi Samogitian: Tenesis m Sanskrit: टेनेसी (ṭenesī) Spanish: Tennessee (es) m, Tenesí m Tamil: டென்னிசி (ṭeṉṉici), டென்னசி (ṭeṉṉaci) Tatar: Теннесси́ (Tennessí) Telugu: టేనస్సీ (ṭēnassī) Thai: เทนเนสซี (ten-nés-sîi) Tibetan: ཐེན་ནེ་སི (then ne si) Turkish: Tennessee Ukrainian: Теннессі́ m (Tennessí) Uzbek: Cyrillic: Теннесси (Tennessi) Roman: Tennessi Yakut: Теннесси (Tennessi) Yiddish: טענעסי‎ (tenesi)

Noun

Tennessee (plural Tennessees)

1. The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
   • 2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 303:

     The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.

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

Further reading

• Tennessee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tennessee.

Proper noun

Tennessee (genitive Tennessees)

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

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Finnish

Etymology

From English Tennessee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenes(ː)iː/, [ˈt̪e̞ne̞s̠(ː)iː]

Proper noun

Tennessee

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection of Tennessee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)
nominative		Tennessee	—
genitive		Tennesseen	—
partitive		Tennesseetä	—
illative		Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Tennessee	—
accusative	nom.	Tennessee	—
	gen.	Tennesseen
genitive		Tennesseen	—
partitive		Tennesseetä	—
inessive		Tennesseessä	—
elative		Tennesseestä	—
illative		Tennesseehen Tennesseeseen	—
adessive		Tennesseellä	—
ablative		Tennesseeltä	—
allative		Tennesseelle	—
essive		Tennesseenä	—
translative		Tennesseeksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Tennesseettä	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Tennessee (type filee)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Tennesseeni	Tennesseemme
2nd person	Tennesseesi	Tennesseenne
3rd person	Tennesseensä

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tennessee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ten.nesˈsi/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -i

Proper noun

Tennessee m

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

References

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

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tennessee, from Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈnɛ.si/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛsi
• Syllabification: Te‧nne‧ssee

Proper noun

Tennessee n (indeclinable)

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

Proper noun

Tennessee f (indeclinable)

1. Tennessee (a river in the United States)

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Tennessee m

1. Tennessee (a river in the eastern United States)
2. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Tenesí

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenesi/ [ˈt̪e.ne.si]
  • Rhymes: -enesi
• IPA^(key): /teneˈsi/ [t̪e.neˈsi]
  • Rhymes: -i

Proper noun

Tennessee m

1. Tennessee (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• tennesiano, tennesense, tenneseño

See also

• Tennessee on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es