Moravia

See also: Moràvia and Morávia

English

Alternative forms

• Morauia (obsolete)

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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪviə

Proper noun

Moravia

2. A historic 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)
• Asturian: Moravia (ast)
• 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
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Мора́вія f (Morávija)

  Glagolitic: ^{(please verify)} Ⰿⱁⱃⰰ́ⰲⰻⱗ f (Moráviję)

• Picard: Moravie
• Polish: Morawy (pl) nvir pl
• Portuguese: Morávia f
• Romanian: Moravia f
• Russian: Мора́вия (ru) f (Morávija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Моравска f

  Latin: 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

Romanian

Alternative forms

• Моравия (Moravia) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

From Latin Moravia. By surface analysis, morav +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.vi.a/
• Rhymes: -avia
• Hyphenation: Mo‧ra‧vi‧a

Proper noun

Moravia f

1. Moravia (a historic region in the eastern Czech Republic)

Declension

	singular
	definite
nominative-accusative	Moravia
genitive-dative	Moraviei

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Moravia f

1. Moravia (a historic region in the eastern Czech Republic)

Related terms

• moravo