English
Etymology
First attested to in German in 1586, itself apparently derived from Slovak Slováky,[1] equivalent to English Slovak + -ia.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sləʊˈvæ.ki.ə/, /sləʊˈvɑː.ki.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /sloʊˈvɑ.ki.ə/, /sloʊˈvæ.ki.ə/
- (Philippines) IPA(key): /sloˈvɐk.jɐ/
- Rhymes: -ækiə, -ɑːkiə
Proper noun
Slovakia
- A country in Central Europe. Official name: Slovak Republic. Capital and largest city: Bratislava.
2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN[1]:Hungary, Austria and Poland are still refusing to participate in the resettlement plan, due to end in September. Other Eastern European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia, are only doing so on a limited basis, the commission said.
Descendants
- → Japanese: スロバキア (Surobakia)
Translations
Slovakia
- Abkhaz: Словактәыла (Slovakʼtʷʼəla), Словакиа (Slovakʼja)
- Afrikaans: Slowakye
- Akan: Slowakia
- Albanian: Sllovaki f (indefinite), Sllovakia (sq) f (definite)
- Amharic: ስሎቫኪያ (səlovakiya)
- Arabic: سْلُوفَاكِيَا f (slovākiyā)
- Hijazi Arabic: سلوفاكيا f (slōfākya, slōvākya)
- Armenian: Սլովակիա (hy) (Slovakia)
- Aromanian: Sluvakii f (indefinite), Sluvakia (definite)
- Assamese: শ্লোভাকিয়া (slübhakia)
- Asturian: Eslovaquia (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: Slovakiya (az)
- Bashkir: Словакия (Slovakiya)
- Basque: Eslovakia (eu)
- Bavarian: Slowàkai
- Belarusian: Слава́кія f (Slavákija), Слава́ччына f (Slaváččyna) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: স্লোভাকিয়া (bn) (slōbhakiẏa)
- Breton: Slovakia (br)
- Bulgarian: Слова́кия (bg) f (Slovákija)
- Burmese: ဆလိုဗားကီးယား (hca.luiba:ki:ya:)
- Buryat: Словаки (Slovaki)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Словеньско n (Slovenʹsko)
- Catalan: Eslovàquia (ca) f
- Chechen: Словаки (Slovaki)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 斯洛伐克 (si1 lok6 fat6 hak1)
- Mandarin: 斯洛伐克 (zh) (Sīluòfákè)
- Chuvash: Словаки (Slovak̬i)
- Crimean Tatar: Slovakiya
- Czech: Slovensko (cs) n
- Danish: Slovakiet (da) n
- Dhivehi: ސުލޮވާކިއާ (dv) (sulovākiā)
- Dutch: Slowakije (nl) n, Slovakije n
- Esperanto: Slovakio, Slovakujo
- Estonian: Slovakkia (et)
- Farefare: Solovakgo, Solvakgo
- Faroese: Slovakia f or n
- Finnish: Slovakia (fi)
- French: Slovaquie (fr) f
- Friulian: Slovachie f
- Gagauz: Slovakiya
- Galician: Eslovaquia (gl) f
- Georgian: სლოვაკეთი (ka) (slovaḳeti)
- German: Slowakei (de) f
- Greek: Σλοβακία (el) f (Slovakía)
- Gujarati: સ્લોવાકિયા (slovākiyā)
- Hausa: Sulobakiya
- Hawaiian: Solowakia
- Hebrew: סְלוֹבַקְיָה (he) f (slovákya)
- Hindi: स्लोवाकिया (hi) m (slovākiyā)
- Hungarian: Szlovákia (hu)
- Icelandic: Slóvakía (is) f
- Ido: Slovakia (io)
- Indonesian: Slowakia (id)
- Irish: an tSlóvaic f
- Italian: Slovacchia (it) f
- Japanese: スロヴァキア (ja) (Surovakia), スロバキア (ja) (Surobakia)
- Kannada: ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯ (kn) (slovākiya)
- Kashubian: Słowackô f
- Kazakh: Словакия (kk) (Slovakiä)
- Khmer: ស្លូវ៉ាគី (slouvaakii)
- Korean: 슬로바키아 (ko) (Seullobakia), 슬로벤스꼬 (ko) (Seullobenseukko) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Slovakya (ku) f
- Kven: Slovakia
- Kyrgyz: Словакия (Slovakiya)
- Lao: ສະໂລວາກີ (lo) (sa l kī)
- Latin: Slovacia f (New Latin)
- Latvian: Slovākija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: Slovakija (lt) f
- Macedonian: Словачка (mk) f (Slovačka), Словакија (mk) f (Slovakija)
- Malay: Slovakia (ms)
- Malayalam: സ്ലോവാക്യ (slōvākya)
- Maltese: is-Slovakja f
- Maori: Horowākia
- Marathi: स्लोव्हाकिया m (slovhākiyā)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Словак (Slovak)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠯᠤᠸᠠᠻ (sluwak)
- Navajo: Słóbaʼ bikéyah
- Nepali: स्लोभाकिया (slobhākiyā)
- Norman: Slovaquie f
- Northern Sami: Slovakia
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Slovakia (no) n
- Nynorsk: Slovakia (nn) n
- Occitan: Eslovaquia (oc) f
- Odia: ସ୍ଲୋଭାକିଆ (slobhākiā)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: Словѣньско n (Slověnĭsko) (modern)
- Pannonian Rusyn: Словацка f (Slovacka)
- Pashto: سلواکيا f (salwākyā)
- Persian:
- Dari: سِلُوَاکِیَا (silōwākiyā), سْلُوَاکِیَا (slōwākiyā)
- Iranian Persian: اِسْلُواکی
- Picard: Slovakie f
- Polish: Słowacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: Eslováquia (pt)
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਸਲੋਵਾਕੀਆ m (salovākīā)
- Quechua: Isluwakya
- Romanian: Slovacia (ro) f
- Russian: Слова́кия (ru) f (Slovákija)
- Scottish Gaelic: An t-Slòbhac
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Сло̀ва̄чка f
- Roman: Slòvāčkā (sh) f
- Shan: မိူင်းသလူဝ်ႇဝႃးၵီးယႃး (móeng sǎ lò wáa kíi yáa)
- Silesian: Słowacyjo f
- Sinhalese: ස්ලෝවැකියාව (slōwækiyāwa)
- Slovak: Slovensko (sk) n
- Slovene: Slováška (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Słowakska f
- Upper Sorbian: Słowakska (hsb) f
- Spanish: Eslovaquia (es) f
- Swahili: Slovakia (sw), Uslovaki
- Swedish: Slovakien (sv) n
- Tagalog: Eslobakya
- Tajik: Словакия (tg) (Slovakiya)
- Tamil: சிலோவாக்கியா (cilōvākkiyā)
- Tatar: Словакия (Slowaqiyä)
- Telugu: స్లొవేకియా (te) (slovēkiyā)
- Thai: สโลวาเกีย (th) (sà-loo-waa-giia)
- Tibetan: སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ (si lo pha khe)
- Tigrinya: ስሎቫኪያ (səlovakiya)
- Tongan: Silovakia
- Turkish: Slovakya (tr)
- Turkmen: Slowakiýa
- Ukrainian: Слова́ччина (uk) f (Slováččyna), Слове́ньско n (Slovénʹsko) (Ruthenian)
- Urdu: سْلوواکِیَہ m (slovākiya)
- Uyghur: سلوۋاكىيە (slowakiye)
- Uzbek: Slovakiya (uz)
- Veps: Slovakii
- Vietnamese: Xlô-va-ki-a
- Welsh: Slofacia (cy)
- Yakut: Словакия (Slovakiya)
- Yiddish: סלאָוואַקיע f (slovakye), סלאָװאַקײַ f (slovakay)
- Yoruba: Silofakia
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See also
References
- ^ Uličný, Ferdinand (2014) “Toponymum Slovensko – pôvod a obsah názvu [The name Slovakia (Slovensko) – its origin and content]”, in Historický časopis, number 3, Historický ústav SAV, →ISSN, page 548
Further reading
Faroese
Etymology
Ultimately from Slovak Slovák + -ia.
Proper noun
Slovakia n
- Slovakia (a country in Central Europe)
Declension
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singular
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Slovakia
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Slovakia
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Slovakia
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Slovakia
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Finnish
Etymology
From German Slowakei, from Slovak Slovák.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsloʋɑkiɑ/, [ˈs̠lo̞ʋɑ̝ˌk̟iɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): Slo‧va‧ki‧a
- Hyphenation(key): Slo‧va‧kia
Proper noun
Slovakia
- Slovakia (a country in Central Europe)
Declension
| Inflection of Slovakia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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Slovakia
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Slovakian
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Slovakiaa
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Slovakiaan
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singular
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plural
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Slovakia
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nom.
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Slovakia
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Slovakian
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Slovakian
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Slovakiaa
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Slovakiassa
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Slovakiasta
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Slovakiaan
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Slovakialla
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Slovakialta
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Slovakialle
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Slovakiana
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Slovakiaksi
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Slovakiatta
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See the possessive forms below.
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Slovakiani
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Slovakiani
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Slovakiani
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Slovakiani
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Slovakiaani
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Slovakiassani
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Slovakiastani
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Slovakiaani
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Slovakiallani
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Slovakialtani
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Slovakialleni
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Slovakianani
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Slovakiakseni
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Slovakiattani
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| second-person singular possessor
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Slovakiasi
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Slovakiasi
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Slovakiasi
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Slovakiasi
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Slovakiaasi
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Slovakiassasi
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Slovakiastasi
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Slovakiaasi
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Slovakiallasi
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Slovakialtasi
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Slovakiallesi
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Slovakianasi
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Slovakiaksesi
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Slovakiattasi
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| first-person plural possessor
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Slovakiamme
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Slovakiamme
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Slovakiamme
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Slovakiamme
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Slovakiaamme
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Slovakiassamme
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Slovakiastamme
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Slovakiaamme
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Slovakiallamme
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Slovakialtamme
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Slovakiallemme
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Slovakianamme
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Slovakiaksemme
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Slovakiattamme
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Slovakianne
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Slovakianne
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Slovakianne
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Slovakianne
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Slovakiaanne
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Slovakiassanne
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Slovakiastanne
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Slovakiaanne
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Slovakiallanne
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Slovakialtanne
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Slovakiallenne
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Slovakiananne
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Slovakiaksenne
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Slovakiattanne
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Slovakiansa
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Slovakiansa
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Slovakiansa
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Slovakiansa
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Slovakiaansa
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Slovakiassaan
Slovakiassansa
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Slovakiastaan
Slovakiastansa
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Slovakiaansa
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Slovakiallaan
Slovakiallansa
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Slovakialtaan
Slovakialtansa
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Slovakialleen
Slovakiallensa
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Slovakianaan
Slovakianansa
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Slovakiakseen
Slovakiaksensa
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Slovakiattaan
Slovakiattansa
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Derived terms
See also
Ido
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Slovakia
- Slovakia (a country in Central Europe)
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Slovakia
- Slovakia (a country in Central Europe)
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Slovakia
- Slovakia (a country in Central Europe)
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