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Montana
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montana montaña Montaña Montaną
English
<dab>
region Q1212 en Location of the state of Montana in the United States
Etymology
en :bor es:montaña
From en la montāna
the US state via en es montaña mountain
the surname from en es Montaña topographic surname
Pronunciation
en /mɑnˈtænə/ US
mŏntă′nəMontana 1232 2 Montana (mŏntă′nu̇),
en en-us-Montana.ogg US
en ɑːnə 3
Proper noun
~
A placename.
en town/and/province in northwestern c/Bulgaria.
en former municipality canton/Valais c/Switzerland.
en locality in northern s/Tasmania c/Australia.
en place c/USA.
en Q1212en state in the Mountain West region of the c/USA Helena Billings formerly a territory.
en April 1, 1864 March 30, 1864 w:Benjamin Wade TERRITORY OF MONTANA. w:Congressional Globe 85 https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-congressional-globe_1864-04-01_85/ John C. Rives 1345 https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-congressional-globe_1864-04-01_85/ 3 Mr. WADE. I move to take up House bill No. 15 to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana.
en 2016 Claire Krulikowski Moonlight on the Ganga While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
en Daniel Dale Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/fact-check-trump-uncle-unabomber 2025-07-16 First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness. https://web.archive.org/web/20250718104248/https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/fact-check-trump-uncle-unabomber
en place c/US named after Montana Territory:
en town co/Buffalo County s/Wisconsin.
en ucomm co/Johnson County s/Arkansas.
en ucomm co/Labette County s/Kansas.
en ucomm co/Warren County s/New Jersey.
en ucomm co/Marion County s/West Virginia.
en barangay mun/Baclayon p/Bohol c/Philippines.
en unisex place names, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
en 2002 Danny Katz Dork Geek Jew 12 Allen & Unwin 2002 1865087912 'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases.
en Spanish Mountain,Mount,Hill.
en Stella Chan, Paul Vercammen, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera NFL legend Joe Montana tussles with woman who attempted to kidnap his grandchild, police say w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/us/joe-montana-kidnapper-confrontation-trnd 2020-09-27 Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. https://web.archive.org/web/20250919211339/https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/us/joe-montana-kidnapper-confrontation-trnd 19 September 2025
Derived terms
en Montanan Montanian MT,MT.,Mt,Mt.
Translations
US state
Arabic: ar مُونْتَانَا f muntānā
Armenian: hy Մոնտանա
Bulgarian: bg Монта́на f
Catalan: ca Montana f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 蒙大拿州 Méngdàná-zhōu
Czech: cs Montana f
Danish: da Montana
Dutch: nl Montana n
Esperanto: eo Montano
Finnish: fi Montana
French: fr Montana m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Montana n
Galician: gl Montana f
Georgian: ka მონტანა
German: de Montana
Greek: el Μοντάνα
Hindi: hi मोन्टाना m, hi मोंटाना
Italian: it Montana m
Japanese: ja モンタナ州 Montana-shū
Khmer: km ម៉ុនតាណា
Korean: ko ^몬태나
Lao: lo ມອນທານາ
Latin: la Montana f
Latvian: lv Montāna
Lithuanian: lt Montana
Macedonian: mk Монта́на f
Navajo: nv Máánteenah hahoodzo
Occitan: oc Montana f
Polish: pl Montana f
Portuguese: pt Montana f
Russian: ru Монта́на f
Silesian: szl Můntana
Spanish: es Montana f
Thai: th มอนแทนา
Turkish: tr Montana
Ukrainian: uk Монта́на f
Uyghur: ug مونتانا
Yiddish: yi מאָנטאַנאַ
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Montana is the 7054th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4744 individuals. Montana is most common among White (56.68%) and Hispanic (32.02%) individuals.
See also
en Montanha
References
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhn proper noun
nhn Montana Q1212
Danish
da:
Etymology
Borrowed from da en Montana.
Proper noun
da proper noun genitive Montanas
da Montana Q1212
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi en Montana.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Montana Q1212
Declension
sg Montan a
Italian
it:
thumb|right|Montana
Etymology
it :bor en:Montana
it en Montana.
Pronunciation
Montàna
Proper noun
m
it Montana Q1212
Latin
la:
Pronunciation
Montāna
Proper noun
Montāna<1.loc>
la New Latin la Montana Q1212
Declension
Montāna<1.loc>
Polish
pl:
region Q1212 Montana
Etymology
pl en Montana, from pl es montaña mountain, from pl osp montanna, from pl la-med montāna, from the feminine of pl la montānus, from la mōns mountain, from pl ine-pro *men-.
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Montana.wav
Proper noun
f
pl Montana Q1212
pl pieczęć Montany seal of Montana
pl Na północy Montana graniczy z Kanadą. To the north, Montana borders Canada.
Declension
s
Derived terms
pl adjective montański
pl nouns Montańczyk Montanka
Further reading
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :bor en:Montana + montanha
Pronunciation
pt ɐnɐ 3
pt Mon ta na
pt montana
Proper noun
m montanês
pt Montana Q1212
See also
Slovak
sk:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f Montany žena
sk Montana Q1212
References
Spanish
Etymology
es :bor en:Montana 2 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es Montana Q1212
Derived terms
es montanés
See also
es
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Montana + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl Montana Q1212