Alsace

See also: alsace

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Alsace

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“to inhabit”, literally “to sit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælˈseɪs/, /ælˈsæs/, /ˈæl.seɪs/, /ˈæl.sæs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪs, -æs

Proper noun

Alsace

2. A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.

Derived terms

• Alsace-Lorraine

Translations

region on the west bank of the upper Rhine

Abkhaz: ალზასი (alzasi) Afrikaans: Elsas Albanian: Alsasa Antillean Creole: Alzas Arabic: أَلْزْاَس m (ʔalzas) Armenian: Էլզաս (hy) (Ēlzas) Azerbaijani: Elsas Basque: Alsazia Bavarian: Öisass n, Elsass n, Ejsass n Belarusian: Эльзас m (Elʹzas) Bulgarian: Eлза́с m (Elzás) Catalan: Alsàcia f Chinese: Mandarin: 阿爾薩斯 / 阿尔萨斯 (zh) (Ā'ěrsàsī) Corsican: Alsazia f Czech: Alsasko (cs) n Danish: Alsace (da) (French region), Elsass (German region) Dutch: Elzas (nl) Esperanto: Alzaco Estonian: Alsace (et) Finnish: Elsass (fi) French: Alsace (fr) f Friulian: Alsazie f Galician: Alsacia (gl) f Georgian: ელზასი (elzasi) German: Elsass (de) n, Elsaß (de) n Alemannic German: Elsàss n Greek: Αλσατία (el) f (Alsatía) Hebrew: אלזס m (alzas) Hindi: अल्ज़ास (alzās) Hungarian: Elzász (hu) Icelandic: Elsass n Ido: Alzacia (io) Indonesian: Alsace Irish: An Alsáis f Italian: Alsazia (it) f Japanese: アルザス (Aruzasu) Kashubian: Elzas Korean: 알자스 (Aljaseu) Latin: Alsatia f, Elisatia f Latvian: Elzasa f Lithuanian: Elzasas m Macedonian: Алзас m (Alzas), Елзас m (Elzas) Malay: Alsace Marathi: अ‍ॅल्सेस (a‍ĕlses), आल्झास (āljhās) Norwegian: Bokmål: Alsace n Nynorsk: Alsace n Occitan: Alsàcia f Persian: آلزاس (elzas) Polish: Alzacja (pl) f Portuguese: Alsácia f Romanian: Alsacia f Russian: Эльза́с (ru) m (Elʹzás) Sardinian: Alsàtzia f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ѐлзас m, Алсаце m Roman: Èlzas (sh) m, Alsace (sh) m Sicilian: Alsazzia f Silesian: Alzacyjo Slovak: Alsasko (sk) n Slovene: Alzacija (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Elsaska Upper Sorbian: Elsaska Spanish: Alsacia f Swedish: Elsass (sv) n, Alsace (sv) n Thai: อาลซัส (aal-sás) Turkish: Alsas Ukrainian: Ельза́с m (Elʹzás) Urdu: الزاس Vietnamese: Alsace Welsh: Alsás f West Frisian: Elzas n Yiddish: עלזאַס n (elzas)

Anagrams

• calesa, scalae

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Alsace

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“inhabitant”, literally “sitter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.zas/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Rhymes: -as

Proper noun

Alsace f

1. Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)

Derived terms

• Alsace-Lorraine
• alsacien, Alsacien

Anagrams

• écalas

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Alsace m inan (Cyrillic spelling Алсаце)

1. Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)

   Synonym: Elzas