Lithuania

English

Location of Lithuania

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Līthuānia f, from Proto-Slavic *Litъva f, from Old Lithuanian Lietuva f.

It has been speculated that the name comes from the rivulet Lietauka, although archeological evidence does not corroborate this hypothesis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪθ.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/, /ˌlɪð.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪθ.uˈeɪ.ni.ə/, /ˌlɪθˈweɪ.ni.ə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Lithuania

2. A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika).
   • 2022 August 13, Yew Lun Tian, Augustas Stankevicius, Ben Blanchard, “China sanctions Lithuanian deputy minister for Taiwan visit”, in Mark Heinrich, Paul Simao, William Mallard, editors, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 August 2022, World:

     Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the sanctions, saying they amounted to "irrational retaliation" by China.
     "Taiwan vows to continue to do its best to assist Lithuania to counter the unreasonable and arbitrary suppression of the Chinese government," the ministry said in a statement.

Related terms

• Lithuanian
• Lithuanian SSR

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Литва (Litʼva)
• Acehnese: Lithuania
• Afrikaans: Litaue, Litoue
• Albanian: Lituani f, Lituania (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ሊትዌኒያ (litweniya)
• Arabic: لِتُوَانِيَا f (lituwāniyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: لِتْوانْيا (litwānya)

• Armenian: Լիտվա (hy) (Litva)
• Assamese: লিথুৱেনিয়া (lithuenia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܸܬܘܼܵܢܝܼܵܐ f (lituwaniya)
• Asturian: Lituania (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Litva (az)

  Cyrillic: Литва (az)

• Bashkir: Литва (Litva)
• Basque: Lituania (eu)
• Bavarian: Litaun
• Belarusian: Літва́ f (Litvá), Летува́ f (Ljetuvá) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: লিথুয়ানিয়া (bn) (lithuẏaniẏa)
• Breton: Lituania
• Bulgarian: Ли́тва (bg) f (Lítva)
• Burmese: လစ်သူယေးနီးယား (lacsuye:ni:ya:)
• Buryat: Литва (Litva)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Літва́ f (Litvá)
• Catalan: Lituània (ca) f
• Chagatai: لیپقا (līpqā /⁠lipqa⁠/), لیبقا (lībqā /⁠libqa⁠/)
• Chechen: Литва (Litʷa)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 立陶宛 (lap⁶ tou⁴ jyun²)

  Mandarin: 立陶宛 (zh) (Lìtáowǎn)

  Wu: 立陶宛 (⁸liq-dau-uoe)

• Chuvash: Литва (Litva)
• Crimean Tatar: Litvaniya
• Czech: Litva (cs) f
• Danish: Litauen (da) n
• Dhivehi: ލިތުއޭނިއާ (lituēniā)
• Dutch: Litouwen (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ལི་ཐུ་ནི་ཡ། (li thu ni ya)
• Esperanto: Litovio, Litovujo
• Estonian: Leedu (et)
• Farefare: Litugo
• Faroese: Litava (fo) n
• Finnish: Liettua (fi)
• French: Lituanie (fr) f
• Friulian: Lituanie f
• Galician: Lituania (gl) f
• Georgian: ლიტვა (liṭva), ლიეტუვა (ka) (lieṭuva)
• German: Litauen (de) n
• Greek: Λιθουανία (el) f (Lithouanía)
• Gujarati: લિથુઆનિયા (lithuāniyā)
• Hausa: Lithuania, Lituweniya
• Hawaiian: Lituania
• Hebrew: לִיטָא (he) f (litá)
• Hindi: लिथुआनिया (hi) m (lithuāniyā)
• Hungarian: Litvánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Litháen (is) n, Lithaugaland n (obsolete)
• Ido: Lituania (io)
• Indonesian: Lithuania
• Ingrian: Litva
• Irish: An Liotuáin f
• Italian: Lituania (it) f
• Japanese: リトアニア (ja) (Ritoania)
• Kannada: ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯ (kn) (lithuvēniya)
• Kashubian: Lëtwa f
• Kazakh: Литва (kk) (Litva)
• Khmer: លីទុយអានី (liituyʼaanii)
• Korean: 리투아니아 (ko) (Rituania), 리뜨바 (ko) (Ritteuba) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Lîtvanya

• Kyrgyz: Литва (Litva)
• Lao: ລີຕົວນີ (lī tūa nī), ລິດທົວເນຍ (lo) (lit thūa nīa), ລິດຕົວນີ (lit tūa nī)
• Latgalian: Lītova f
• Latin: Lītua f, Lītuānia f, Līthuānia f
• Latvian: Lietuva (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Lietuva (lt) f (Aukštaitian or standard)

  Samogitian: Lietova f

• Livonian: Leišmō
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Litouwen

  German Low German: Litauen (nds)

• Macedonian: Литванија (mk) f (Litvanija)
• Malay: Lithuania (ms)
• Malayalam: ലിത്വാനിയ (litvāniya)
• Maltese: Il-Litwanja f
• Maori: Rituānia
• Marathi: लिथुएनिया (lithueniyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Литва (Litva)

  Mongolian: ᠯᠢᠲ᠋ᠸᠠ (litwa)

• Nauruan: Rituainiya (na)
• Navajo: Tséjééʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah
• Nepali: लिथुआनिया (lithuāniyā)
• Norman: Lithuanie f
• Northern Sami: Lietuva
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Litauen (no) n

  Nynorsk: Litauen (nn) n

• Occitan: Lituània (oc) f
• Odia: ଲିଥୁଆନିଆ (lithuania)
• Ossetian: Литва (Litva)
• Pashto: ليتوانيا f (litwānyā), لتوانيا f (letwānyā)
• Persian:

  Dari: لِتْوَانِیَا (litwāniyā)

  Iranian Persian: لیتْوانی (fa) (litvâni)

• Polish: Litwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lituânia (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਲਿਥੁਆਨੀਆ m (lithuānīā)

• Romanian: Lituania (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Литуания f (Lituania)

• Russian: Литва́ (ru) f (Litvá)
• Scots: Lithuanie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лѝтва̄нија f, Ли̏тва f

  Roman: Lìtvānija f, Lȉtva (sh) f

• Shan: မိူင်းလီႉတူႇဝေးၼီးယႃး (móeng lḭ̂i tùu wée níi yáa)
• Silesian: Litwa f
• Sinhalese: ලිතුවේනියාව (lituwēniyāwa)
• Slovak: Litva f
• Slovene: Lítva (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Litawska f

  Upper Sorbian: Litawska f

• Spanish: Lituania (es)
• Swedish: Litauen (sv) n
• Tagalog: Litwanya
• Tajik: Литва (Litva)
• Tamil: லித்துவேனியா (littuvēṉiyā)
• Tatar: Литва (Litwa)
• Telugu: లిథువేనియా (te) (lithuvēniyā)
• Thai: ลิทัวเนีย (th) (lí-tuua-niia)
• Tibetan: ལི་ཐུ་ཨེ་ནི་ཡ (li thu e ni ya)
• Tigrinya: ሊቱዌኒያ (lituweniya)
• Turkish: Litvanya (tr)
• Turkmen: Litwa

  Cyrillic: Литва

• Ukrainian: Литва́ (uk) f (Lytvá)
• Urdu: لِتُھوینِیا m (lithueniyā), لِتُھوانِیا m (lithuāniyā)
• Uyghur: لىتۋا (litwa)

  Cyrillic: Литва (Litwa)

• Uzbek: Litva (uz)

  Cyrillic: Литва (Litva)

• Vietnamese: Lít-va
• Volapük: Lietuvän (vo)
• Võro: Leedu
• Welsh: Lithwania (cy), Llethaw
• Yakut: Литва (Litva)
• Yiddish: ליטע f (lite)
• Yoruba: Lituania

See also

• Ethnographic regions of Lithuania
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, 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
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Acehnese

Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania