Arkansas
A state in the South Central region of the United StatesA state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
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Meaning
3 sensesA state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
Arkansas
Арканза́сArkanzás, Арка́нзасArkánzas
Арканза́сArkanzás
A river in the United States, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and flowing generally southeast over 1,400 miles through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where it joins the Mississippi in Desha County.
A surname.
Examples
7 sentencesWhy doesn't Arkansas rhyme with Kansas?
Mr. Clinton was governor of Arkansas at the time.
deClinton war damals Gouverneur von Arkansas.
Tobias was in the military in the time, stationed in Arkansas.
"So, how's America doing?" "Arkansas just brought back child labor." "Holy shit!"
Name the rivers in Arkansas.
ruНазови реки в Арканзасе.
deNenne die Flüsse in Arkansas.
Translations
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Origin
From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of eitheFrom the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw. This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word *akakaze (“land of downriver people”) or a Lakota/Dakota word *akakaze (“people of the south wind”); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).
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