Idaho

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈaɪdəhəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈaɪdəˌhoʊ/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• CMU ARPABET: AY1 D AH0 HH OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Uncertain; possibly from Plains Apache ídaahȩ́ (“Comanche”), though the Oxford English Dictionary states that the development of the state’s name from that word remains undocumented. The name Idaho was said to have been considered around 1860 for what was eventually called the Colorado Territory (now the state of Colorado) in 1861, and in 1863 was given to Idaho County (now part of Idaho); the county was named after a steamship launched on the Columbia River in 1860. The eccentric political lobbyist George Maurice Willing, Jr. (c. 1829 – 1874) claimed to have coined the name after a girl named Ida, though saying it was a Shoshoni term meaning “gem of the mountains” (no such term exists), but evidence suggests that there was use of the name in Colorado pre-dating Willing’s arrival in the West in 1859. The common noun (“type of potato”) is derived from the name of the state.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: Այդահո (Aydaho) — state of the United States
• Burmese: အိုင်ဒါဟို (uingdahui) — state of the United States
• Catalan: Idaho — state of the United States
• Chinese Mandarin: 愛達荷 /爱达荷 (Àidáhé) — state of the United States
• Czech: Idaho — state of the United States
• Danish: Idaho — state of the United States
• Esperanto: Idaho — state of the United States
• Finnish: Idaho — state of the United States
• French: Idaho — state of the United States
• Galician: Idaho — state of the United States
• Georgian: აიდაჰო (aidaho) — state of the United States
• German: Idaho — state of the United States
• Greek: Αϊντάχο (Aïntácho) — state of the United States
• Hebrew: אידהו — state of the United States
• Hindi: इडाहो (iḍāho) — state of the United States
• Hungarian: Idaho — state of the United States
• Italian: Idaho — state of the United States
• Japanese: アイダホ州 (Aidaho shū) — state of the United States
• Khmer: អៃដាហូ (ʼaydaahou) — state of the United States
• Korean: 아이다호 (Aidaho) — state of the United States
• Lao: ໄອດາໂຮ (ʼai dā hō) — state of the United States
• Latvian: Aidaho — state of the United States
• Limburgish: Idaho — state of the United States
• Lithuanian: Aidahas — state of the United States
• Macedonian: А́јдахо (Ájdaho) — state of the United States
• Maltese: Idaħo — state of the United States
• Navajo: Nímasii Kʼidadilyéhé Hahoodzo — state of the United States
• Occitan: Idaho — state of the United States
• Persian: آیداهو (âydâho) — state of the United States
• Pohnpeian: Aidao — state of the United States
• Polish: Idaho — state of the United States
• Portuguese: Idaho — state of the United States
• Russian: Айда́хо (Ajdáxo) — state of the United States
• Slovak: Idaho — state of the United States
• Spanish: Idaho — state of the United States
• Thai: ไอดาโฮ (ai-daa-hoo) — state of the United States
• Turkish: Idaho — state of the United States
• Ukrainian: А́йдаго (Ájdaho) — state of the United States
• Uyghur: ئايداخو (aydaxo) — state of the United States
• Yiddish: אײַדאַהאָ (aydaho) — state of the United States