Moravia

See also: Moràvia and Morávia

English

Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin Moravia, which is named after River Morava, (German March, Latin Marus), the main river of the land. The water's name is in all likelihood derived ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈɹeɪvi.ə/, /məˈɹeɪvi.ə/

Proper noun

Moravia

1. A historical region in the eastern Czech Republic.

Derived terms

• Moravian

Translations

historical region

• Afrikaans: Morawië
• Albanian: Moravi f (indefinite), Moravia f (definite)
• Arabic: مُورَافِيَا f (mūrāfiyā)
• Armenian: Մորավիա (Moravia)
• Aromanian: Muravii f, Murãvii f (indefinite), Muravia f, Murãvia f (definite)
• Basque: Moravia f
• Belarusian: Мара́вія f (Marávija)
• Bengali: মোরাভিয়া (mōrabhiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Мора́вия f (Morávija)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Мора́ва f (Moráva)
• Catalan: Moràvia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩拉維亞／摩拉维亚 (Mólāwéiyǎ)

• Czech: Morava (cs) f
• Danish: Mähren c, Mæhren c
• Dutch: Moravië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Moravio
• Finnish: Määri (fi)
• French: Moravie (fr) f
• Georgian: მორავია (moravia)
• German: Mähren (de) n, Morawien n (rare)
• Greek: Μοραβία f (Moravía)
• Hungarian: Morvaország (hu)
• Icelandic: Mæri n
• Irish: an Mhoráiv f
• Italian: Moravia f
• Japanese: モラビア (Morabia)
• Korean: 모라비아 (ko) (Morabia)
• Latin: Moravia f
• Latvian: Morāvija f
• Lithuanian: Moravija f
• Macedonian: Моравија f (Moravija)
• Malay: Moravia
• Norwegian: Mähren
• Occitan: Moràvia f
• Picard: Moravie
• Polish: Morawy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Morávia f
• Romanian: Moravia f
• Russian: Мора́вия (ru) f (Morávija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Моравска f

  Roman: Moravska (sh) f

• Silesian: Morawijo
• Slovak: Morava f
• Slovene: Moravska f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Morawa

• Spanish: Moravia
• Swedish: Mähren c
• Thai: มอเรเวีย (mɔɔ-ree-wiia)
• Turkish: Moravya
• Ukrainian: Мора́вія (uk) f (Morávija)
• Vietnamese: Morava, Moravia
• Welsh: Morafia f

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈɾabja/ [moˈɾa.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: Mo‧ra‧via

Proper noun

Moravia f

1. Moravia

Related terms

• moravo