Texas

See also: texas and Texas'

English

Map of US highlighting Texas

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.səs/
• (locally also) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sɪs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophone: texas
• Hyphenation: Tex‧as
• Rhymes: -ɛksəs, -ɛksɪs

Proper noun

Texas

2. A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.
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3. Several places in the United States:
   1. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
   2. A hamlet in Oswego County, New York.
   3. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Alabama.
   4. An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
   6. An unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi.
   7. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
   8. An unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia.
4. A rural town in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
5. University of Texas at Austin.
6. (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
7. (historical) a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846

Synonyms

• Lone Star State (nickname)

Meronyms

(state)

• Anderson County
• Andrews County
• Angelina County
• Aransas County
• Archer County
• Armstrong County
• Atascosa County
• Austin County
• Bailey County
• Bandera County
• Bastrop County
• Baylor County
• Bee County
• Bell County
• Bexar County
• Blanco County
• Borden County
• Bosque County
• Bowie County
• Brazoria County
• Brazos County
• Brewster County
• Briscoe County
• Brooks County
• Brown County
• Burleson County
• Burnet County
• Caldwell County
• Calhoun County
• Callahan County
• Cameron County
• Camp County
• Carson County
• Cass County
• Castro County
• Chambers County
• Cherokee County
• Childress County
• Clay County
• Cochran County
• Coke County
• Coleman County
• Collin County
• Collingsworth County
• Colorado County
• Comal County
• Comanche County
• Concho County
• Cooke County
• Coryell County
• Cottle County
• Crane County
• Crockett County
• Crosby County
• Culberson County
• Dallam County
• Dallas County
• Dawson County
• Deaf Smith County
• Delta County
• Denton County
• DeWitt County
• Dickens County
• Dimmit County
• Donley County
• Duval County
• Eastland County
• Ector County
• Edwards County
• Ellis County
• El Paso County
• Erath County
• Falls County
• Fannin County
• Fayette County
• Fisher County
• Floyd County
• Foard County
• Fort Bend County
• Franklin County
• Freestone County
• Frio County
• Gaines County
• Galveston County
• Garza County
• Gillespie County
• Glasscock County
• Goliad County
• Gonzales County
• Gray County
• Grayson County
• Gregg County
• Grimes County
• Guadalupe County
• Hale County
• Hall County
• Hamilton County
• Hansford County
• Hardeman County
• Hardin County
• Harris County
• Harrison County
• Hartley County
• Haskell County
• Hays County
• Hemphill County
• Henderson County
• Hidalgo County
• Hill County
• Hockley County
• Hood County
• Hopkins County
• Houston County
• Howard County
• Hudspeth County
• Hunt County
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• Jim Hogg County
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• Johnson County
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• Kenedy County
• Kent County
• Kerr County
• Kimble County
• King County
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• Kleberg County
• Knox County
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• Lamb County
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• La Salle County
• Lavaca County
• Lee County
• Leon County
• Liberty County
• Limestone County
• Lipscomb County
• Live Oak County
• Llano County
• Loving County
• Lubbock County
• Lynn County
• Madison County
• Marion County
• Martin County
• Mason County
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• Maverick County
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• McMullen County
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• Montgomery County
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• Morris County
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• Nacogdoches County
• Navarro County
• Newton County
• Nolan County
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• Ochiltree County
• Oldham County
• Orange County
• Palo Pinto County
• Panola County
• Parker County
• Parmer County
• Pecos County
• Polk County
• Potter County
• Presidio County
• Rains County
• Randall County
• Reagan County
• Real County
• Red River County
• Reeves County
• Refugio County
• Roberts County
• Robertson County
• Rockwall County
• Runnels County
• Rusk County
• Sabine County
• San Augustine County
• San Jacinto County
• San Patricio County
• San Saba County
• Schleicher County
• Scurry County
• Shackelford County
• Shelby County
• Sherman County
• Smith County
• Somervell County
• Starr County
• Stephens County
• Sterling County
• Stonewall County
• Sutton County
• Swisher County
• Tarrant County
• Taylor County
• Terrell County
• Terry County
• Throckmorton County
• Titus County
• Tom Green County
• Travis County
• Trinity County
• Tyler County
• Upshur County
• Upton County
• Uvalde County
• Val Verde County
• Van Zandt County
• Victoria County
• Walker County
• Waller County
• Ward County
• Washington County
• Webb County
• Wharton County
• Wheeler County
• Wichita County
• Wilbarger County
• Willacy County
• Williamson County
• Wilson County
• Winkler County
• Wise County
• Wood County
• Yoakum County
• Young County
• Zapata County
• Zavala County

 

Derived terms

• Teck's Ass
• Tex
• Texan
• Texarkana
• Texas 42
• Texas bankroll
• Texas blind snake
• Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis)
• Texas blues
• Texas cattle fever
• Texas chili
• Texas cichlid
• Texas City
• Texas County
• Texas crabapple
• Texas deathmatch
• Texas ebony
• Texas fever
• Texas garter snake
• Texas heart shot
• Texas hold 'em
• Texas Indian paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa)
• Texasization
• Texasize
• Texas justice
• Texas leaguer
• Texas League single
• Texas lined snake
• Texas mickey
• Texas mountain laurel (Dermatophyllum secundiflorum)
• Texas ratio
• Texas rig
• Texas roll
• Texas root rot
• Texass
• Texas sacahuiste
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy
• Texas-sized
• Texas spiny lizard
• Texas tea
• Texas toast
• Texas Tommy
• Texas toothpick
• Texas tower
• Texas Triangle
• Texas trinity
• Texas two-step
• Texas umbrella tree
• Texas vervain (Verbena halei)
• Texas wedge
• Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)
• Texhoma
• Texian
• Texican
• Tex-Mex
• Texoma
• Texpat
• Texpatriate
• TX
• West Texas Intermediate

 

Translations

a state of the United States of America

• Albanian: Teksas m, Teksasi m (definite)
• Antillean Creole: Teksas m
• Apache:

  Chiricahua: Ch'a nteeã-õde bikéé'yaa'

• Arabic: تَكْسَاس f (taksās), تِكْسَاس f (tiksās)
• Armenian: Տեխաս (Texas)
• Azerbaijani: Texas (az)
• Belarusian: Тэха́с m (Texás)
• Bulgarian: Те́ксас m (Téksas)
• Catalan: Texas (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏅᏓᎩ (chr) (nvdagi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德克薩斯／德克萨斯 (zh) (Dékèsàsī)

• Corsican: Texas m
• Czech: Texas (cs) m
• Danish: Texas n
• Dutch: Texas (nl) n
• Esperanto: Teksaso
• Estonian: Texas (et)
• Finnish: Texas (fi), Teksas (fi)
• French: Texas (fr) m
• Galician: Texas (gl) m
• Georgian: ტეხასი (ṭexasi)
• German: Texas (de) n
• Greek: Τέξας (el) n (Téxas)
• Hawaiian: Kekeka
• Hebrew: טֶקְסַס (he) f (téksas)
• Hindi: टेक्सास (ṭeksās), टेक्सस m (ṭeksas)
• Icelandic: Texas n
• Irish: Téacsas m
• Italian: Texas (it) m
• Japanese: テキサス (Tekisasu), テキサス州 (テキサスしゅう, Tekisasu shū)
• Kazakh: Техас (kk) (Texas)
• Khmer: តិចសាស (təcsaah), តិចសាស់ (təcsah)
• Korean: 텍사스 (Teksaseu)
• Kyrgyz: Техас (Tehas)
• Lao: ເທັກຊັດ (thek sat)
• Latvian: Teksasa f
• Lithuanian: Teksasas m
• Macedonian: Тексас m (Teksas)
• Navajo: Akałii bikéyah, Téʼsiz hahoodzo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Texas (no)

• Occitan: Tèxas (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: تكساس (Teksas)
• Persian: تگزاس (tegzâs), تکزاس (fa) (tekzâs)
• Polish: Teksas (pl) m
• Portuguese: Texas (pt) m
• Romanian: Texas (ro) n
• Russian: Теха́с (ru) m (Texás)
• Scots: Texas
• Scottish Gaelic: Teacsas
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Те̏ксас m

  Roman: Tȅksas (sh) m

• Sicilian: Texas m
• Slovak: Texas m
• Slovene: Téksas (sl) m
• Spanish: Texas (es) m (Teshas), Tejas (es) m
• Swedish: Texas (sv) n
• Tajik: Техас (Texas)
• Tamil: டெக்சஸ் (ṭekcas)
• Thai: เท็กซัส (ték-sát)
• Tibetan: ཋེག་ཟ་སི (ṭheg za si)
• Turkish: Teksas
• Turkmen: Tehas
• Ukrainian: Теха́с m (Texás)
• Urdu: ٹیکساس (ṭeksās)
• Uyghur: تېكساس (tëksas)
• Uzbek: Texas
• Volapük: Täxasän
• Welsh: Tecsas
• West Frisian: Teksas n
• Yiddish: טעקסאַס (teksas), טעקסעס (tekses)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Gujarati: ટેક્સસ (ṭeksas)

Further reading

• Texas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Texas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• taxes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛk.səs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) unknown

Proper noun

Texas ?

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• texà

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Texas

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Czech

Proper noun

Texas m inan (related adjective texaský, demonym Texasan, female demonym Texasanka)

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Declension

Declension of Texas (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Texas
genitive	Texasu
dative	Texasu
accusative	Texas
vocative	Texase
locative	Texase, Texasu
instrumental	Texasem

Further reading

• “Texas”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Texas”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas.

Proper noun

Texas (genitive Texas')

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas or Spanish Texas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sɑs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Te‧xas

Proper noun

Texas n

1. Texas (a state of the United States; former independent republic; former province of Mexico) [from early 19th c.]

Derived terms

• Texaan

Finnish

Alternative forms

• Teksas

Etymology

From English Texas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteksɑs/, [ˈt̪e̞ks̠ɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -eksɑs

Noun

Texas

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection of Texas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Texas	—
genitive		Texasin	—
partitive		Texasia	—
illative		Texasiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Texas	—
accusative	nom.	Texas	—
	gen.	Texasin
genitive		Texasin	—
partitive		Texasia	—
inessive		Texasissa	—
elative		Texasista	—
illative		Texasiin	—
adessive		Texasilla	—
ablative		Texasilta	—
allative		Texasille	—
essive		Texasina	—
translative		Texasiksi	—
abessive		Texasitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Texas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Texasini — accusative nom. Texasini — gen. Texasini genitive Texasini — partitive Texasiani — inessive Texasissani — elative Texasistani — illative Texasiini — adessive Texasillani — ablative Texasiltani — allative Texasilleni — essive Texasinani — translative Texasikseni — abessive Texasittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Texasisi — accusative nom. Texasisi — gen. Texasisi genitive Texasisi — partitive Texasiasi — inessive Texasissasi — elative Texasistasi — illative Texasiisi — adessive Texasillasi — ablative Texasiltasi — allative Texasillesi — essive Texasinasi — translative Texasiksesi — abessive Texasittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Texasimme — accusative nom. Texasimme — gen. Texasimme genitive Texasimme — partitive Texasiamme — inessive Texasissamme — elative Texasistamme — illative Texasiimme — adessive Texasillamme — ablative Texasiltamme — allative Texasillemme — essive Texasinamme — translative Texasiksemme — abessive Texasittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Texasinne — accusative nom. Texasinne — gen. Texasinne genitive Texasinne — partitive Texasianne — inessive Texasissanne — elative Texasistanne — illative Texasiinne — adessive Texasillanne — ablative Texasiltanne — allative Texasillenne — essive Texasinanne — translative Texasiksenne — abessive Texasittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Texasinsa — accusative nom. Texasinsa — gen. Texasinsa genitive Texasinsa — partitive Texasiaan Texasiansa — inessive Texasissaan Texasissansa — elative Texasistaan Texasistansa — illative Texasiinsa — adessive Texasillaan Texasillansa — ablative Texasiltaan Texasiltansa — allative Texasilleen Texasillensa — essive Texasinaan Texasinansa — translative Texasikseen Texasiksensa — abessive Texasittaan Texasittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• texasilainen

 

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /tɛk.sas/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tɛɡ.zɑs/, /tɛɡ.zɑ/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Proper noun

Texas m

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• sauge du Texas

 

Related terms

• Texan
• texan
• Texien
• texien

 

German

Etymology

From Spanish Texas, chiefly through English Texas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛksas/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛksəs/ (unusual)

  • Audio:

    (file)

Proper noun

Texas n (proper noun, genitive Texas' or (with an article) Texas)

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• Texaner
• texanisch

Related terms

• Texasdeutsch
• Texas-Klapperschlange

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sas/
• Rhymes: -ɛksas
• Hyphenation: Tè‧xas

Proper noun

Texas m

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• texano

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ki.sɐs/, /ˈtɛk.sɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ki.sɐs/, /ˈtɛk.sɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ki.sɐʃ/, /ˈtɛk.sɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sas/, /ˈtɛ.ki.sas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.sɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: Te‧xas

Proper noun

Texas m

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• texano

Sicilian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛk.kɪ.sas], /ˈtɛk.ki.sas/

Proper noun

Texas m

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Related terms

• tixanu

Slovak

Proper noun

Texas m inan (genitive singular Texasu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

References

• “Texas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Tejas

Etymology

From Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtexas/ [ˈt̪e.xas]
  • Rhymes: -exas
• IPA^(key): /ˈteɡsas/ [ˈt̪eɣ̞.sas] (proscribed but common in South America)
  • Rhymes: -eɡsas
  • Syllabification: Te‧xas

Proper noun

Texas f

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• tejano
• texano

 

Descendants

• → Russian: Техас (Texas)
  • → Armenian: Տեխաս (Texas)

See also

• Texas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Swedish

Proper noun

Texas n (genitive Texas)

1. Texas (a state of the United States)

Anagrams

• axets, sexat