Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
alma-ata is a noun meaning "the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998". It carries one recorded sense.
the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alma-ata come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.