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The standard, official two letter state abbreviation for Arkansas is AR.
DrMaeve. Arkansas is not a French variant of the Siouxian word Quapaw.. Quapaw derives from Siouxian U-gakh-pa, The downstream people.. Arkansas is from an Algonquin word Akansa.. It's the name that the Illinois tribes called the Quapaw.One early spelling was Arkansea.. The spelling with the final s IS French.rkansas was once spelled Arkansaw, as was the Arkansaw River. Interestingly enough, the correct term for one who hails from that state is not Arkansan, but Arkansawyer, an official designation that predates the newer Arkansas.