Alaska

Meaning

Name

1. A state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Juneau. Postal code: AK, largest city: Anchorage.
2. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
3. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
4. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
5. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
6. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
7. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.
8. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory.

Noun

Ellipsis of baked Alaska.

Synonyms

AK

Last Frontier

Inuit

Fairbanks

Eskimo-Aleut

Alas.

Hyphenated as

A‧las‧ka

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈlæs.kə/

Etymology

From Russian Аля́ска (Aljáska, “Alaska”), in turn from Aleut alaxsxaq (“mainland”, literally “that toward which the action of the sea is directed”), composed of alag (“pertaining to the sea”) + -sxa (nominalizing suffix, yields 'the objective of action expressed by the root') + -q (nominalizing suffix).
Commonly misattributed to Russian ала (ala) + -ский (-skij, adjectival suffix).