Lithuania

English

Location of Lithuania

Etymology

From Latin Lituania, which is a loanword from Proto-Slavic *Litъva, which is a loanword from Old Lithuanian Lietuva.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɪθ.(j)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)

Related terms

• Lithuanian
• Lithuanian SSR

Translations

country

• Acehnese: Lithuania
• Afrikaans: Litaue
• Albanian: Lituani f
• Amharic: ሊትዌኒያ (litweniya)
• Arabic: لِتُوَانِيَا‎ f (lituwāniyā)
• Armenian: Լիտվա (hy) (Litva)
• Asturian: Lituania (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Litva (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:)
• Catalan: Lituània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立陶宛 (zh) (Lìtáowǎn)

• Crimean Tatar: Litvaniya
• Czech: Litva (cs) f
• Danish: Litauen (da)
• Dutch: Litouwen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Litovio, Litovujo
• Estonian: Leedu (et)
• Faroese: Litava (fo) n
• Finnish: Liettua (fi)
• French: Lituanie (fr) f
• Galician: Lituania (gl) f
• Georgian: ლიტვა (liṭva)
• German: Litauen (de)
• Greek: Λιθουανία (el) f (Lithouanía)
• 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
• Irish: An Liotuáin f, Poblacht na Liotuáine f
• Italian: Lituania (it) f
• Japanese: リトアニア (ja) (Ritoania)
• Kannada: ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯ (kn) (lithuvēniya)
• Kazakh: Литва (Lïtva)
• Khmer: លីទុយអានី (liituyʼaanii)
• Korean: 리투아니아 (ko) (Rituania)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Lîtvanya

• Kyrgyz: Литва (Litva)
• Lao: ລີຕົວນີ (lī tūa nī)
• Latgalian: Lītova f
• Latin: Lītua f, Lītuānia f, Līthuānia f
• Latvian: Lietuva 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)
• Maltese: Il-Litwanja f
• Maori: Rituānia
• Mongolian: Литва (Litva)
• Nauruan: Rituainiya (na)
• Navajo: Łitʼoowę́ęya
• Norman: Lithuanie f
• Northern Sami: Lietuva
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Litauen (no)

  Nynorsk: Litauen (nn)

• Pashto: ليتوانيا‎ f (litwānyã), لتوانيا‎ f (letwānyã)
• Persian: لیتوانی‎ (fa) (litvâni)
• Polish: Litwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lituânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Lituania (ro) f
• Russian: Литва́ (ru) f (Litvá)
• Rusyn: Літва́ f (Litvá)
• Scots: Lithuanie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Литванија f, Литва f

  Roman: Litvanija f, Litva (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)
• Tagalog: Litwanya
• Tajik: Литва (Litva)
• Tamil: லித்துவேனியா (littuvēṉiyā)
• Tatar: Литва (Litwa)
• 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
• Ukrainian: Литва́ (uk) f (Lytvá)
• Urdu: لیتھوینیا‎ m (lithuāniyā)
• Uyghur: لىتۋا‎ (litwa)
• Uzbek: Litva (uz)
• Vietnamese: Lít-va
• Volapük: Lietuvän (vo)
• Võro: Leedu
• Welsh: Lithwania (cy)
• Yiddish: ליטע‎ f (lite)
• Yoruba: Lituania

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Lithuania
• Ethnographic regions of Lithuania
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, 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
• Appendix:Place names in Lithuania

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Acehnese

Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania