Czechia

English

Czechia

Etymology

From Czech +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛk.i.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkiə

Proper noun

Czechia

2. 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.

Synonyms

• Czech Republic
• Czechland, Czechlands

Meronyms

• Bohemia
• Moravia
• Czech Silesia (cf. Silesia)

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
• Voro: Tsehhi
• Yakut: Чехия (Ceqiya)
• Yiddish: טשעכײַ f (tshekhay), טשעכיע f (tshekhye)
• Yoruba: Tsẹ́kíà
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Çekıstan
• Zulu: ITsheki

See also

countries in Europe (appendix)edit

• Albania
• Andorra
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic, Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Vatican City

Further reading

• Czech Republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Name of the Czech Republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Czechia, Czech Republic at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Cechia

Proper noun

Czechia f sg (genitive Czechiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Czech Republic, Czechia (a country in Central Europe)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Czechia
genitive	Czechiae
dative	Czechiae
accusative	Czechiam
ablative	Czechiā
vocative	Czechia
locative	Czechiae

Synonyms

• Bōhēmia