noun

Alabama

a-luh-BA-muh

noun

A Muscogee-speaking Indigenous people originally from central Alabama, or a member of that people.

"The Alabama people gave their name to the river and, eventually, the U.S. state."

How to Use Alabama

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishRefers to the Native American nation the state of Alabama was named after, not the state itself.

Alabamas plural

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The _____ people gave their name to the river and, eventually, the U.S. state.

Likely from Spanish Alibamo, from the Alabama people's own name Albaamo for themselves — the same word later became the name of the U.S. state.

ama lama mama kama tama gama Yama Bama Hama Sama llama drama