Bohemia

See also: bohemia, Bohémia, and Bohèmia

English

Etymology

Latinized translation of French Bohème, 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. Related to Bavaria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊˈhimiə/
• Rhymes: -iːmiə
• Hyphenation: Bo‧he‧mia

Proper noun

Bohemia

Bohemia (westernmost area) within Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938

1. A region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.

Derived terms

• Bohemian
• bohemium

Translations

The region of the Czech Republic

• Afrikaans: Boheme
• Albanian: Bohemi
• Arabic: بُوهِيمِيَا f (būhīmiyā)
• Armenian: Բոհեմիա (Bohemia)
• 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), 波希米亚 (zh) (Bōxīmǐyà)

• Czech: Čechy (cs) f pl, Čechie (cs) f pl, Bohemie f pl
• Danish: Bøhmen n
• Dutch: Bohemen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bohemio
• Faroese: Bøhmen n
• Finnish: Böömi (fi)
• French: Bohême (fr) f
• Georgian: ბოჰემია (bohemia)
• German: Böhmen (de) n, Böhmerland n
• Greek: Βοημία (el) f (Voïmía)
• Hindi: बोहेमिया (bohemiyā)
• Hungarian: Bohémia (hu), Csehország (hu)
• Icelandic: Bæheimur m, Bóhemía f
• Italian: Boemia f
• Japanese: ボヘミア (Bohemia)
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• 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) f pl
• Portuguese: Boémia f, Boêmia f
• Romanian: Boemia f
• Russian: Боге́мия (ru) f (Bogémija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бохемија f

  Roman: Bohemija 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
• Volapük: Bömän (vo)
• Yiddish: פיהם n (pihm), בעהמען n (behmen)

Noun

Bohemia (plural Bohemias)

1. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.

Alternative forms

• bohemia

Derived terms

• hobohemia

See also

• Moravia
• Silesia
• Sudetenland
• Czechia

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Boēmia

Etymology

From Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Germanic *haimaz (“home”) and Boio- ‘the Boii’, the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area. The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boio and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws, a reference to cattle owners, or from *bhei- (“warrior, strong hitter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boˈheː.mi.a/, [boˈ(ɦ)eːmiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈe.mi.a/, [boˈɛːmiä]

Proper noun

Bohēmia f sg (genitive Bohēmiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)
2. (New Latin) Czechia (the Czech state)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bohēmia
Genitive	Bohēmiae
Dative	Bohēmiae
Accusative	Bohēmiam
Ablative	Bohēmiā
Vocative	Bohēmia

Synonyms

• Czechia, Cechia

Related terms

• Bohēmus
• bohēmicus

Descendants

• English: Bohemia
• French: Bohême
• Italian: Boemia
• Spanish: Bohemia

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈxɛ.mja/

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Noun

Bohemia f

1. (literary) Bohemia, Czechia

Declension

Declension of Bohemia

	singular
nominative	Bohemia
genitive	Bohemii
dative	Bohemii
accusative	Bohemię
instrumental	Bohemią
locative	Bohemii
vocative	Bohemio

Related terms

• (nouns) bohema, bohemizm

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Spanish

Proper noun

Bohemia f

1. Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)

Related terms

• bohemio