Arkansas

Etymology
From the name of the, from , a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw. This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a word  or a / word ; more likely, it derives from a  ethnonym cognate to  (whence also the name of the state of ).

Usage notes

 * The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored and the other of whom favored .  is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Arkansas
 * Amharic: አርካንሳው
 * Arabic: أَرْكَنْسَاس
 * Egyptian Arabic: اركانسو
 * Moroccan Arabic: أركانساس
 * Aragonese: Arkansas
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: Arkansas
 * Aymara: Arkansas suyu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: Арканза́с
 * Basque: Arkansas
 * Bavarian: Arkansas
 * Belarusian: Арканзас
 * Bengali: আর্কানসাস
 * Bihari: आर्कन्सा
 * Bikol Central: Arkansas
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri: আরকান্‌সাস
 * Bislama: Arkansas
 * Breton: Arkansas
 * Bulgarian: Арка̀нзас
 * Burmese: အာကင်ဆောပြည်နယ်
 * Catalan: Arkansas
 * Cebuano: Arkansas
 * Chechen: Арканза́с
 * Cherokee: ᏚᏯᏓᏛᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min:
 * Gan: 阿肯色州
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 阿肯色州
 * Chuvash: Арканзас
 * Corsican: Arkansas
 * Crimean Tatar: Arkanzas
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Arkansas
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Arkansaso
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Arkansas
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal: Arkansas
 * Gagauz: Arkansas
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: არკანზასი
 * German:
 * Gilaki: آرکانزاس
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: અરકાનસાસ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अरकांसस, आर्कन्सा
 * Hungarian:
 * Igbo: Arkinsọ
 * Indonesian: Arkansas
 * Irish: Arkansas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アーカンソー州
 * Kalmyk: Арканзас
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អាកានសាស
 * Korean: ^아칸소
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئارکنساس
 * Latin: Arcansia
 * Latvian: Ārkanzasa
 * Limburgish: Arkansas
 * Lithuanian: Arkanzasas
 * Luxembourgish: Arkansas
 * Macedonian: Арка́нзас
 * Malay: Arkansas
 * Malayalam: ആർക്കൻസാ
 * Maltese: Arkansas
 * Manipuri: ꯑꯥꯔꯀꯥꯟꯁꯥꯁ
 * Marathi: आर्कान्सा
 * Marshallese: O̧kōnjo̧
 * Mingrelian: არკანზასი
 * Navajo: Áákinsoo hahoodzo, Dził Biiʼ Dzígaii Hahoodzo
 * North Frisian: Arkansas
 * Ossetian: Арканзас
 * Pali: आर्कान्स:
 * Persian: آرکانزاس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਆਰਕੰਸਾ
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: Arkansas
 * Sindhi: ارڪنساس
 * Slovak: Arkansas
 * Slovene: Arkansas
 * Spanish:
 * Tajik: Арканзас
 * Tamil: ஆர்கன்சா
 * Tatar: Арканза́с
 * Telugu: ఆర్కాన్సా
 * Thai: อาร์คันซอ
 * Tibetan: ཨར་ཁན་སཱ་སི།
 * Turkish: Arkansas
 * Ukrainian: Арканза́с
 * Urdu: آرکنساس
 * Uyghur: ئاركانزاس
 * Vietnamese: Arkansas, A-can-xò
 * Volapük: Arkansas
 * Welsh: Arkansas
 * West Frisian: Arkansas
 * Yiddish: אַרקענסאָ, אַרקאַנסאָ

Etymology
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Declension

 * Depends on the pronunciation, see above.

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