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Dallas
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dallas dállas
English
<dab!>
thumb|Dallas, the village in Scotland.
thumb|Dallas, the city in Texas, USA.
Etymology
The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from en dale + en house.
The Scottish place-name is from en xpi -, equivalent to cy dôl meadow, haugh + cy gwas abode.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdæləs/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Dallas.wav US
en æləs 2
en Dal las
Proper noun
A placename:
en number of places c/USA:
en large city/county seat co/Dallas County in northeastern s/Texas. TopoZone: Dallas, Texas
en Jordan Valinsky KFC is leaving Kentucky w:CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/food/kfc-kentucky-headquarters-texas/index.html 2025-02-19 The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano. https://web.archive.org/web/20250306010343/https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/food/kfc-kentucky-headquarters-texas/index.html
en ucomm co/Polk County s/Arkansas.
en ghost town co/Ouray County s/Colorado.
en city/county seat co/Paulding County s/Georgia.
en former city , now part of city/Melcher-Dallas co/Marion County s/Iowa.
en town co/Gaston County s/North Carolina.
en city/county seat co/Polk County s/Oregon.
en bor/and/twp co/Luzerne County s/Pennsylvania.
en small town co/Gregory County s/South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
en ucomm co/Marshall County s/West Virginia.
en town/and/village therein, in co/Barron County s/Wisconsin.
en A number of <<townships>> in the <<c/USA>>, listed under Dallas Township.
en neighbourhood city:pref/Kamloops p/British Columbia c/Canada.
en small village in northwestern carea/Moray cc/Scotland OS grid ref NJ1252.
en suburb city/Melbourne in the city:Pref/Hume s/Victoria c/Australia.
en.
en male place names.
en Hannah Rabinowitz Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/white-supremacist-terrorgram-indictment/index.html 2024-09-09 The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say. https://web.archive.org/web/20260102084301/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/white-supremacist-terrorgram-indictment/index.html 2 January 2026
Derived terms
en Dallas City Dallas County Dallasite<t:native from Dallas><ll:colloquial> East Dallas Melcher-Dallas
Translations
city in Texas
Arabic: ar دَالَاس m dalās
Bulgarian: bg Да́лас m
Burmese: my ဒါးလတ်စ်
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 達拉斯 Dálāsī
Esperanto: eo Dallas
Finnish: fi Dallas
Galician: gl Dallas
Georgian: ka დალასი
German: de Dallas
Greek: el Ντάλλας
Hebrew: he דאלאס dalas
Japanese: ja ダラス Darasu
Korean: ko ^달라스
Latin: la Dallāsium
Lithuanian: lt Dalasas m
Marathi: mr डॅलस
Polish: pl Dallas n
Portuguese: pt Dallas f
Russian: ru Да́ллас m
Serbo-Croatian: sh Dalas
Telugu: te డల్లాసు, te డల్లాసుపురం
Turkish: tr Dallas
male given name
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 达拉斯
Marathi: mr डॅलस m
Russian: ru Да́ллас m
References
A Dictionary of English Surnames (1991)
Anagrams
en aadlls Dalals dalals sallad
Esperanto
eo:+ (Teksaso)
Proper noun
eo proper nouns
eo city s/Texas Dallas
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Dalas
Proper noun
f
pt city s/Texas c/USA Dallas