Iowa
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See also: ʻIowa
English
Etymology
From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).
Pronunciation
- (state, river):
- (town in Louisiana):
Proper noun
Iowa
- A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.
- 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874–1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:
- I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw it through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops.
- A tributary of the Mississippi River which flows through Iowa in a southeast direction.
- A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
- University of Iowa.
Derived terms
Translations
A state in Midwestern US
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Noun
Iowa (plural Iowas)
- One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.
See also
| 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
- ^ Harold B. Allen (1956 June) “Distribution Patterns of Place-Name Pronunciations”, in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, volume 6, number 2, , pages 74-77: “Since no members of the younger generation are reported as using this form [/ˈaɪəweɪ/], it would seem safe to predict its disappearance within the next two generations.”
Further reading
Category:Iowa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
Iowa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Iowa on Wikiquote.Wikiquote 
Iowa on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Proper noun
Iowa (genitive Iowas)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Iowa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Iowa | — | ||
| genitive | Iowan | — | ||
| partitive | Iowaa | — | ||
| illative | Iowaan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Iowa | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Iowa | — | |
| gen. | Iowan | |||
| genitive | Iowan | — | ||
| partitive | Iowaa | — | ||
| inessive | Iowassa | — | ||
| elative | Iowasta | — | ||
| illative | Iowaan | — | ||
| adessive | Iowalla | — | ||
| ablative | Iowalta | — | ||
| allative | Iowalle | — | ||
| essive | Iowana | — | ||
| translative | Iowaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Iowatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa m
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa n (proper noun, genitive Iowas or (optionally with an article) Iowa)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Further reading
- Iowa on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa m
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Iowa, from French Aiouez, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa f (indeclinable)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Further reading
- Iowa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Iowa, from French Aiouez, after the Iowa tribe.
Proper noun
Iowa m
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iowa f (genitive singular Iowy, declension pattern of žena)
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
References
- “Iowa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Proper noun
Iowa f
- Iowa (a state of the United States)
See also
- Iowa on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es