Morava

See also: morava

English

Etymology

Related to Czech Moře, German March and Latin Marus, both deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea, standing water”). The river was first documented as Maraha in an 892 deed.

River Morava

Proper noun

Morava

2. A left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria.
4. A river in central Serbia; in full, Great Morava.

Translations

river in Central Europe

• Belarusian: Мо́рава f (Mórava)
• Bulgarian: Мора́ва f (Moráva)
• Czech: Morava (cs) f
• Danish: Morava c
• German: March (de) f
• Hindi: मोरावा (morāvā)
• Hungarian: Morva (hu)
• Italian: Morava f
• Latin: Margus m
• Marathi: मोरावा f (morāvā)
• Polish: Morawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Morava m
• Russian: Мора́ва f (Moráva)
• Slovak: Morava f
• Turkish: Morava

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmorava]

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• Hyphenation: Mo‧ra‧va

Proper noun

Morava f (relational adjective moravský, demonym Moravan or (informal) Moravák)

1. Moravia (a historic region in the eastern Czech Republic)
2. Morava (a left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria)
3. Morava, Great Morava (a river in central Serbia; in full, Great Morava)

Declension

Declension of Morava (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Morava
genitive	Moravy
dative	Moravě
accusative	Moravu
vocative	Moravo
locative	Moravě
instrumental	Moravou

Further reading

• “Morava”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Morava”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Morava”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech Morava, from Latin Marus.

Proper noun

Morava f

1. Morava (a left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria)
2. Morava, Great Morava (a river in central Serbia; in full, Great Morava)

Anagrams

• armavo, ormava, ramavo

Portuguese

Proper noun

Morava m

1. Morava (a left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria)
2. Morava, Great Morava (a river in central Serbia; in full, Great Morava)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrava/

Proper noun

Morava f

1. Moravia (a historic region in the eastern Czech Republic)
2. Morava (a left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria)
3. Morava, Great Morava (a river in central Serbia; in full, Great Morava)

Declension

Declension of Morava
(pattern žena)

	singular
nominative	Morava
genitive	Moravy
dative	Morave
accusative	Moravu
locative	Morave
instrumental	Moravou

Derived terms

• Moravan, Moravanka
• moravský
• Veľká Morava

Further reading

• “Morava”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026