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

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

• Audio (US)

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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

• Acehnese: Lithuania
• Afrikaans: Litaue
• 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:)
• Catalan: Lituània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 立陶宛 (laap⁶ tou⁴ jyun²)

  Mandarin: 立陶宛 (zh) (Lìtáowǎn)

• Crimean Tatar: Litvaniya
• Czech: Litva (cs) f
• Danish: Litauen (da) n
• Dhivehi: ލިތުއޭނިއާ‎ (lituēniā)
• Dutch: Litouwen (nl) n
• 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 (lieṭuva)
• German: Litauen (de) n
• 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 (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)
• 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)
• Malayalam: ലിത്വാനിയ (litvāniya)
• Maltese: Il-Litwanja f
• Maori: Rituānia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Литва (Litva)

  Mongolian: ᠯᠢᠲ᠋ᠸᠠ (litwa)

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

  Bokmål: Litauen (no) n

  Nynorsk: Litauen (nn) n

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: ليتوانيا‎ f (litwānyā), لتوانيا‎ f (letwānyā)
• Persian: لیتوانی‎ (fa) (litvâni)
• Polish: Litwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lituânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Lituania (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Литуания f

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

  Cyrillic: Литванија f, Ли̏тва f

  Roman: Litvanija 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: لیتھوینیا‎ 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
• 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, 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

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Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania