English
Etymology
From Czech + -ia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛk.i.ə/, /ˈt͡ʃɛk.jə/
- Rhymes: -ɛkiə
Proper noun
Czechia
- A country in Central Europe. Official name: Czech Republic. Capital and largest city: Prague.
2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians:“Kłodzko Land,” as the basin is also called, forms a rectangular jut into Czechia that is sealed at its southwestern back by a fifty-kilometer-long ridge known as the Orlické (Eagle) Mountains […]
Usage notes
The Czech government approved Czechia as the official short name in 2016.[1]
Synonyms
Meronyms
Translations
country in Europe
- Abkhaz: Чехиа (Čexja)
- Afrikaans: Tsjeggië
- Albanian: Çekia (sq) f
- Amharic: ቼክ (ček)
- Antillean Creole: Tchéki f
- Arabic: تْشِيكِيَّا f (tšīkiyyā)
- Hijazi Arabic: تشيكيا f (tšīkya)
- Armenian: Չեխիա (Čʻexia)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܫܹܟ݂ܝܵܐ f (tšeḳya)
- Asturian: Chequia (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: Çexiya (az)
- Bashkir: Чехия (Çexiya)
- Bavarian: Tschechei f
- Belarusian: Чэ́хія f (Čéxija)
- Bengali: চেকিয়া (cekiẏa)
- Breton: Tchekia (br)
- Bulgarian: Че́хия (bg) f (Čéhija)
- Burmese: ချက် (my) (hkyak), ချက်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (hkyaksamma.ta.nuingngam) (Czech Republic)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Че́сько n (Čésʹko), Че́хія f (Čéxija)
- Catalan: Txèquia (ca) f
- Chechen: Чехи (Čexi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 捷克 (zit6 hak1)
- Mandarin: 捷克 (zh) (Jiékè)
- Chuvash: Чехи (Čeh̬i)
- Corsican: Cecchìa f
- Crimean Tatar: Çehiya
- Czech: Česko (cs) n
- Danish: Tjekkiet (da) n
- Dhivehi: ޗެކް (cek̊)
- Dutch: Tsjechië (nl) n
- Esperanto: Ĉeĥio, Ĉeĥujo (eo)
- Estonian: Tšehhi (et), rarely Tšehhimaa
- Farefare: Sɛkgɔ, Tcɛkgɔ, Sɛktɩŋa, Sɛkɔ
- Faroese: Kekkia (fo) n
- Finnish: Tšekki (fi); Tšekinmaa (fi) (rare)
- French: Tchéquie (fr) f
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: Tsjechje
- Galician: Chequia (gl) f
- Georgian: ჩეხეთი (ka) (čexeti)
- German: Tschechien (de) n, rarely Tschechei (de) f
- Greek: Τσεχία (el) f (Tsechía)
- Pontic Greek: Τσεχία (Tsechía)
- Greenlandic: Tjekkia
- Gujarati: ચેકિયા (cekiyā)
- Haitian Creole: Tchèki f
- Hausa: Kazech
- Hawaiian: Tiekia
- Hebrew: צֶ׳כְיָה f (chekhia)
- Hindi: चेकिया m (cekiyā)
- Hungarian: Csehország (hu)
- Icelandic: Tékkland (is) n, rarely Tékkía f
- Ido: Chekia (io)
- Indonesian: Ceko
- Interlingua: Chechia
- Irish: an tSeicia f
- Italian: Cechia (it) f
- Japanese: チェコ (ja) (Cheko)
- Kabardian: Чехиэ (Čexiɛ)
- Kannada: ಜೆಕ್ (kn) (jek)
- Karakalpak: Shexiya
- Kashubian: Czeskô n
- Kazakh: Чехия (kk) (Çexiä)
- Khmer: ឆែក (km) (chaek)
- Komi-Permyak: Ческо (Ćesko)
- Korean: 체코 (ko) (Cheko) (South Korea), 체스꼬 (ko) (Cheseukko) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Çekya (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Чехия (ky) (Cehiya)
- Ladino:
- Hebrew script: צ׳אקא f
- Roman: Chekia f
- Lao: ເຊັກກີ (sek kī)
- Latin: Cechia f, Czechia f, Tzechia f
- Latvian: Čehija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: Čekija (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: d'Tschechei (lb)
- Macedonian: Чешка (mk) f (Češka), Чехија f (Čehija) (rare)
- Malay: Czech
- Malayalam: ചെക്ക് (cekk)
- Maltese: Ċekja f
- Maori: Tīekia
- Marathi: चेक (cek)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Чех (mn) (Čex)
- Mongolian: ᠴᠧᠬᠣ᠋ (čēqo)
- Navajo: Dziłtsʼóózí Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Northern Sami: Čeahkka
- Norwegian: Tsjekkia (no)
- Bokmål: Tsjekkia (no) n
- Nynorsk: Tsjekkia (nn) n
- Occitan: Chequia (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: (please verify) Чешьско n (Češĭsko) (modern)
- Oromo: Cheekiyaa
- Ossetian: Чехи (Ḱexi)
- Pashto: چک (ps) m (ček)
- Persian: چک (fa) (ček)
- Polish: Czechy (pl) pl
- Portuguese: Chéquia (pt) f, Tchéquia (pt) f
- Romanian: Cehia (ro) f
- Romansch: Tschechia f
- Russian: Че́хия (ru) f (Čéxija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Че̏шка̄ f
- Roman: Čȅškā (sh) f
- Sicilian: Cechia f, Cèchia f
- Silesian: Czesko n
- Sinhalese: චෙක් (cek)
- Slovak: Česko (sk) n
- Slovene: Čẹ̑ška (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Česka f
- Upper Sorbian: Čěska f
- Spanish: Chequia (es) f
- Swahili: Ucheki
- Swedish: Tjeckien (sv) n
- Tagalog: Tseko (tl)
- Tajik: Чехия (Čexiya)
- Tamil: செக் (cek)
- Tatar: Чехия (Çexiyä)
- Telugu: చెక్ (cek)
- Thai: เช็กเกีย (chék-giia)
- Tibetan: ཅེ་ཁེ། (ce khe)
- Turkish: Çekya (tr)
- Turkmen: Çehiýa
- Udmurt: Чехия (Ćexija)
- Ukrainian: Че́хія (uk) f (Čéxija)
- Urdu: چیکیہ (cek)
- Uyghur: چېخ (chëx)
- Uzbek: Chexiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: Séc, Tiệp
- Võro: Tsehhi
- Yakut: Чехия (Ceqiya)
- Yiddish: טשעכײַ f (tshekhay), טשעכיע f (tshekhye)
- Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Çekıstan
- Zulu: ITsheki
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See also
References
- ^ “Czech Republic to be known as 'Czechia'”, in BBC News[1], 16 April 2016
Further reading
Latin
Proper noun
Czechia f sg (genitive Czechiae); first declension
- (New Latin) Czech Republic, Czechia (a country in Central Europe)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Synonyms