Bohemia

See also: bohemia, Bohémia, bohèmia, Bohèmia, bohemià, and Bohemią

English

Etymology

Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)).

Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter.^[1] Related to Bavaria.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /boʊˈhimiə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -iːmiə
Hyphenation: Bo‧he‧mia

Proper noun

Bohemia

A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
A place name elsewhere:
1. A place in England:
  1. An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
  2. A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
2. A place in the United States:
  1. An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
  2. A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
  3. A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
  4. A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
  5. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Derived terms

Translations

The region of the Czech Republic

Afrikaans: Boheme
Albanian: Bohemi f (indefinite), Bohemia f (definite)
Arabic: بُوهِيمِيَا f (būhīmiyā)
Armenian: Բոհեմիա (Bohemia)
Asturian: Bohemia (ast)
Belarusian: Баге́мія f (Bahjémija)
Bengali: বোহেমিয়া (bōhemiẏa)
Bulgarian: Бохе́мия f (Bohémija)
Burmese: ဘိုဟီးမီးယား (bhuihi:mi:ya:)
Catalan: Bohèmia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 波希米亞 / 波希米亚 (zh) (Bōxīmǐyà)
Czech: Čechy (cs) f pl, Čechie (cs) f, Bohemie f
Danish: Bøhmen
Dutch: Bohemen (nl) n
Esperanto: Bohemio
Estonian: Böömimaa
Faroese: Bøhmen n
Finnish: Böömi (fi)
French: Bohême (fr) f
Friulian: Boemie f
Georgian: ბოჰემია (bohemia)
German: Böhmen (de) n, Böhmerland n
Rhine Franconian: Behme (Hessian)
Greek: Βοημία (el) f (Voïmía)
Hebrew: בוהמיה m (bohémya)
Hindi: बोहेमिया (bohemiyā)
Hungarian: Bohémia (hu), Csehország (hu)
Icelandic: Bæheimur m, Bóhemía f
Italian: Boemia f
Japanese: ボヘミア (Bohemia)
Korean: 보헤미아 (Bohemia)
Latin: Bohemia f, Boiohaemum
Macedonian: Бохемија f (Bohemija)
Marathi: बोहेमिया m (bohemiyā)
Mongolian: Бохеми (Boxemi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Bøhmen, Böhmen
Persian: بوهم (bohem)
Polish: Czechy (pl) nvir pl, Bohemia (pl) f
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: Boêmia f

European Portuguese: Boémia f
Romanian: Boemia f
Russian: Боге́мия (ru) f (Bogémija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бохемија f

Latin: Bohemija f
Sicilian: Buemia f
Silesian: Czechy pl
Slovak: Čechy (sk) f pl, Čechia f, Bohemia (sk) f
Slovene: Češka (sl) f
Spanish: Bohemia (es) f
Swedish: Böhmen (sv)
Tagalog: Bohemya
Thai: โบฮีเมีย (boo-hii-miia)
Turkish: Bohemya
Ukrainian: Боге́мія (uk) f (Bohémija)
Uzbek: Bogemiya
Vietnamese: Bohemia
Volapük: Bömän (vo)
Yiddish: פּיהם n (pihm), בעהמען n (behmen), ביימען n (beymen)

Noun

Bohemia (plural Bohemias)

A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
The world or social milieu of such bohemians.
- 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96:
  There was about him a certain bar-room grandiloquence that fitted easily with the shabby Bohemia of Cripps's studio, but which the curate, unused to the literary vocabulary, found exceedingly impressive.