Morava

See also: morava

English

Etymology

Related to German March and Latin Marus, both deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea, standing water”). The river was first documented as Maraha in an 892 deed.

River Morava

Proper noun

Morava

1. A river in Central Europe, through Moravia, a tributary of the Danube.
2. A river in Southeastern Europe, through Serbia, a tributary of the Danube.

Translations

river in Central Europe

• Belarusian: Мо́рава f (Mórava)
• Bulgarian: Мора́ва f (Moráva)
• Czech: Morava (cs) f
• Danish: Morava c
• German: March (de) f
• Hungarian: Morva (hu)
• Italian: Morava f
• Latin: Margus m
• Marathi: मोरावा f (morāvā)
• Polish: Morawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Morava m
• Russian: Мора́ва f (Moráva)
• Slovak: Morava f
• Turkish: Morava

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmorava]

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Proper noun

Morava f (related adjective moravský, demonym Moravan or (informal) Moravák)

1. Moravia (a historical region in the eastern Czech Republic)
2. A major river in Moravia
3. A major river in Serbia

Declension

Declension of Morava (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Morava
genitive	Moravy
dative	Moravě
accusative	Moravu
vocative	Moravo
locative	Moravě
instrumental	Moravou

Further reading

• Morava in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Morava in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Morava in Internetová jazyková příručka

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech Morava, from Latin Marus.

Proper noun

Morava ?

1. Morava

Anagrams

• armavo, ormava, ramavo

Portuguese

Proper noun

Morava m

1. Morava (a river in central Europe)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrava/

Proper noun

Morava f (genitive singular Moravy, declension pattern of žena)

1. Moravia, one of the historical regions of the Czech republic
2. name of the major river in Moravia

Declension

Declension of Morava

	singulare tantum
nominative	Morava
genitive	Moravy
dative	Morave
accusative	Moravu
locative	Morave
instrumental	Moravou

Derived terms

• Moravan, Moravanka
• moravský
• Veľká Morava

Further reading

• “Morava”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024