Lithuania

English

Location of Lithuania

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.

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Lithuania

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

Related terms

• Lithuanian
• Lithuanian SSR

Translations

country

• Acehnese: Lithuania
• Afrikaans: Litaue
• Albanian: Lituani f
• Arabic: لِتْوَانِيَا‎‎ f (litwāniyā)
• Armenian: Լիտվա (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 (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)
• Hausa: Lithuania, Lituweniya
• 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 (liituyʾaanii)
• 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)
• Scots: Lithuanie
• 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)
• 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, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, 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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Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania