Appalachia

English

Appalachia

Etymology

Back-formation from Appalachian.

Pronunciation

• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/

  Rhymes: -ætʃə

• (Northern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/

  Rhymes: -eɪʃə

Proper noun

Appalachia

1. A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama, usually excluding New York State and New England.
   • 2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 130:

     A thick forest of pine trees encircles their subdivision, and beyond that, in the distance, is the shadow of the mountain, one of those low hills at the cusp of Appalachia in northern Alabama.

2. A town in Wise County, Virginia.
3. (geology) An island landmass occurring during most of the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago) that now makes up the eastern half of North America.

Translations

a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains

• Afrikaans: Appalachia
• Arabic: أَبَالَاش (ʔabālāš)
• Bengali: অ্যাপালেশিয়া (êpaleśiẏa), অ্যাপালেচিয়া (êpaleciẏa), অ্যাপাল্যাচা (êpallaca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿巴拉契亞／阿巴拉契亚 (aa³ baa¹ laai¹ kai³ aa³)

  Hakka: 阿巴拉契亞／阿巴拉契亚 (â pâ lâ khie á)

  Hokkien: 阿巴拉契亞／阿巴拉契亚 (a-pa-la-khòe-a)

  Mandarin: 阿巴拉契亞／阿巴拉契亚 (zh) (ābālāqìyà)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Appalachia
• Finnish: Appalachia (fi)
• French: Appalaches (fr)
• Indonesian: Appalachia
• Japanese: アパラチア (aparachia)
• Latin: Appalachia
• Ottoman Turkish: آپالاش (Apalaş)
• Persian: آپالاش (âpâlâš), آپالاشیا (âpâlâšyâ), آپالاچیا (âpâlâčyâ)
• Portuguese: Appalachia f
• Scots: Appalachia
• Spanish: Appalachia
• Thai: แอปพาเลเชีย (aepphalechia)
• Turkish: Apalaş
• Urdu: ایپلاچا (āypalācā)
• Vietnamese: Appalachia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Appalachia.

Proper noun

Appalachia f

1. Appalachia (a region in the eastern United States)