Lithuania

English

Location of Lithuania

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɪθ.(j)uˈeɪ.ni.ə/, /ˌlɪθˈweɪ.ni.ə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Etymology

From Latin Lituania, which is a loanword from Slavic Литъва (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.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. A country in north-eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika).

Translations

country

• Acehnese: Lithuania
• Afrikaans: Litaue
• Albanian: Lituani f
• Arabic: لِتْوَانِيَا‏‎ f (litwāniyā)
• Armenian: Լիտվա (Litva)
• Asturian: Lituania (ast)
• Azeri: Litva (az)
• Bashkir: Литва (Litva)
• Basque: Lituania (eu)
• Bavarian: Litaun
• Belarusian: Літва́ f (Litvá), Летува́ f (Ljetuvá) (taraškievica)
• Bengali: লিথুয়ানিয়া (lithuyaniya)
• Breton: Lituania
• Bulgarian: Литва (bg) f (Litva)
• 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)
• Hawaiian: Lituania
• Hebrew: לִיטָא‏‎ (he) f (litá)
• Hindi: लिथुआनिया (hi) (lithuāniyā)
• Hungarian: Litvánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Litáen, Litháen (is)
• Indonesian: Lithuania
• Irish: An Liotuáin f, Poblacht na Liotuáine f
• Italian: Lituania (it) f
• Japanese: リトアニア (ja) (Ritoania)
• Kazakh: Литва (Lïtva)
• Khmer: លីទុយអានី (liituyaanii)
• Korean: 리투아니아 (Rituania)
• Kyrgyz: Литва (Litva)
• Lao: ລີຕົວນີ (lī tūa nī)
• Latgalian: Lītova f

• Latin: Lituania f, Lithuania f
• Latvian: Lietuva f
• Lithuanian: Lietuva (lt) f (Aukštaitian or standard)

  Samogitian: Lietova f

• Livonian: Leišmō
• Macedonian: Литванија (mk) f (Litvanija)
• Maltese: Il-Litwanja f
• Maori: Rituānia
• Mongolian: Литва (Litva)
• Navajo: Łitʼoowę́ęya
• Norman: Lithuanie f
• Northern Sami: Lietuva
• Norwegian: Litauen (no)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Литванија f, Литва f

  Roman: Litvanija f, Litva (sh) f

• Silesian: Litwa f
• Sinhalese: ලිතුවේනියාව (lituvēniyāva)
• 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)
• Tatar: Литва (Litwa)
• Thai: ลิทัวเนีย (th) (lí-tuua-niia)
• Turkish: Litvanya (tr)
• Turkmen: Litwa
• Ukrainian: Литва́ (uk) f (Lytvá)
• Urdu: لیتھوینیا‏‎ (lithuāniyā)
• Uyghur: لىتۋا‏‎ (litwa)
• Uzbek: Litva (uz)
• Vietnamese: Lít-va
• Võro: Leedu
• Welsh: Lithwania (cy)
• Yiddish: ליטע‏‎ f (lite)

Related terms

• Lithuanian
• Lithuanian SSR

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, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Category: en:Countries of Europe)}
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Appendix:Place names in Lithuania

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Acehnese

Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania