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
• Arabic: لِتْوَانِيَا f (litwāniyā)
• 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 (lithuẏaniẏa)
• 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: 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)
• Kazakh: Литва (Litva)
• Khmer: លីទុយអានី (liituyʼaanii)
• 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

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• 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)
• Navajo: Łitʼoowę́ęya
• Norman: Lithuanie f
• Northern Sami: Lietuva
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Litauen (no)

  Nynorsk: Litauen (nn)

• 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 (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: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• 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, 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
• Appendix:Place names in Lithuania

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Acehnese

Etymology

From English Lithuania.

Proper noun

Lithuania

1. Lithuania