Carpathians
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Latin Carpates ; compare the Germanic form attested in Old Norse Harvaðafjǫll , of which no past or present English counterpart is known (but which may have existed at some stage).
Possibly from the name of the Carpi , an ancient, probably Dacian, tribe living in the eastern Carpathian region of what is now Romania and the Moldova region. The name Carpates may ultimately be from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (compare Albanian karpë ("rock"), Aromanian shcarpã, also Proto-Slavic *skala ("rock, cliff")), perhaps via a Dacian cognate which meant "mountain", "rock", or "rugged" (compare Proto-Germanic *skarpaz (whence sharp ), Lithuanian kar̃pas ("cut, hack, notch"), Latvian cìrpt ("to shear, clip")). Compare also archaic Polish karpa ("rugged irregularities, underwater obstacles/rocks, rugged roots or trunks"), Romansh crap ("stone"). Alternatively, the name may come from Proto-Indo-European *kwerp- ("to turn") (whence wharf and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, "wrist")), perhaps referring to the way the mountain range bends or veers in an L-shape.
According to Eichner and Çabej, it derives from Proto-Albanian *karpātai ("mountanous place")[1] [2]
Pronunciation
[edit ]Proper noun
[edit ]Carpathians pl (plural only)
- A large mountainous system in Central Europe, mainly in Transylvania (Romania) and the Polish (Subcarpathian)-Slovak border region.
Synonyms
[edit ]Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]- Albanian: Karpatet
- Arabic: كَارْبَات (karbāt)
- Armenian: Կարպատներ (hy) pl (Karpatner)
- Azerbaijani: Karpat (az)
- Basque: Karpatoak
- Belarusian: Карпа́ты f pl (Karpáty)
- Bulgarian: Карпа̀ти f pl (Karpàti)
- Catalan: Carpats m pl
- Chinese:
- Czech: Karpaty (cs) pl
- Danish: Karpaterne pl
- Dutch: Karpaten (nl) pl
- Estonian: Karpaadid pl
- Finnish: Karpaatit pl
- French: Karpatique m, Carpates (fr) m pl
- Galician: Cárpatos m pl
- Georgian: კარპატები (ḳarṗaṭebi)
- German: Karpaten (de) f pl
- Greek: Καρπάθια (el) n pl (Karpáthia)
- Hungarian: Kárpátok (hu)
- Irish: Sléibhte Cairp m pl
- Italian: Carpazi (it) m pl
- Japanese: カルパティア山脈 (Karupatia sanmyaku)
- Korean: 카르파티아산맥 (kareupatiasanmaek)
- Latin: Alpes Bastarnicae pl
- Latvian: Karpati m pl
- Lithuanian: Karpatai m pl
- Macedonian: Карпа́ти f pl (Karpáti)
- Norwegian:
- Old Norse: Harvaðafjǫll n pl
- Pannonian Rusyn: Карпати m pl (Karpati)
- Polish: Karpaty (pl) nvir pl
- Portuguese: Cárpatos (pt) m pl
- Romanian: Carpați (ro) pl, Munții Carpați m pl
- Russian: Карпа́ты (ru) f pl (Karpáty)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: Karpaty (sk) m pl
- Slovene: Karpaty m pl
- Spanish: Cárpatos m pl
- Swedish: Karpaterna (sv) pl
- Turkish: Karpatlar pl
- Ottoman Turkish: قارپاتلر pl (Karpatlar)
- Ukrainian: Карпа́ти (uk) f pl (Karpáty)
- Welsh: Carpatiau
References
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- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Dacian
- English terms derived from Proto-Albanian
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English pluralia tantum
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