Alps

See also: alps

English

Relief map of the Alps

Aerial view of the Pennine Alps

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Alpēsder.

Middle French Alpesbor.

Middle English Alpes

English Alps

From Middle English Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Alp (“mountainous pasture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ælps
• Homophone: alps

Proper noun

the Alps pl (plural only)

2. 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
• Alpish
• Australian Alps
• Berchtesgaden Alps
• Bergamo Alps
• Bernese Alps
• Carnic Alps
• Cottian Alps
• Dinaric Alps
• French Alps
• Fynske Alps
• Graian 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
• Prealps
• Princess Caroline Mathilde Alps
• Princess Elizabeth Alps
• Rhaetian Alps
• Samnaun Alps
• Southern Alps
• Southern Limestone Alps
• Stauning Alps
• Stubai Alps
• Swiss Alps
• Transylvanian Alps
• Trinity Alps
• Tux Alps
• Verwall Alps
• Victorian Alps
• Western Alps
• Yiddish Alps
• Zillertal Alps

Related terms

• Alpine

Descendants

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

Translations

a mountain range in Western Europe

• Afrikaans: Alpe
• Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب pl (jibāl al-ʔalb)
• Armenian: Ալպեր (hy) (Alper)
• Asturian: Alpes (ast) m pl
• 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 (gl) m pl
• German: Alpen (de) f pl
• Greek: Άλπεις (el) f pl (Álpeis)
• Gujarati: આલ્પ્સ m (ālps)
• Hebrew: הָרֵי הָאַלְפִּים m (hare ha'alpim)
• Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
• Hungarian: Alpok (hu)
• Icelandic: Alpafjöll n pl, Alparnir m pl
• Indonesian: Alpen
• Irish: na hAlpa
• Italian: Alpi (it) f 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
• Pannonian Rusyn: Алпи pl (Alpi)
• Persian: آلپ (fa) (âlp)
• Polish: Alpy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Alpes m pl
• Romanian: Alpi (ro) m pl
• Russian: А́льпы (ru) m pl (Álʹpy)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Алпи f pl (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Latin: 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
• Yiddish: אַלפּן pl (alpn), אַלפּן־בערג pl (alpn-berg)

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

Proper noun

Alps m pl (plural only)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Derived terms

• Alps Marítims
• Alvèrnia-Roine-Alps
• cabra dels Alps
• Provença-Alps-Costa Blava

Related terms

• alpí

German

Noun

Alps m

1. genitive singular of Alp

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalps/

Proper noun

Alps m pl

1. alternative form of Aups