Alabama

Meanings

Noun

• An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.

Proper Noun

• state US (country) .
• river Alabama (state) ; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
• A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
• town New York (state) ; named for the state.
• The University of Alabama.

Origin

• From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people native to the area.
• Or from Choctaw albah amo, from albah + amo