Prague

English

Etymology

From German Prag or Czech Praha. Earlier origin is contested; compare Czech pražiti (“(land cleared by) burning”) or práh (“threshold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɑːɡ/

  • Audio (UK)

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
• (archaic (in use until the early 20th c.)) IPA^(key): /pɹeɪ̯ɡ/

Proper noun

Prague

1. The capital city of the Czech Republic; former capital of Czechoslovakia; former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
2. (metonymically) The Czech government.

Derived terms

• Praguer
• Praguian

Translations

capital of the Czech Republic

• Albanian: Praga f
• Amharic: ፕራግ ? (pərag)
• Arabic: بْرَاغ‎ f (brāg)

  Egyptian Arabic: بْرَاج‎ f (brāg), پْرَاج‎ f (prāg)

  Hijazi Arabic: براق‎ f (brāg), پراق‎ f (prāg)

• Armenian: Պրագա (Praga)
• Asturian: Praga f
• Azerbaijani: Praqa (az)
• Basque: Praga (eu)
• Bavarian: Prag ?
• Belarusian: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Bengali: প্রাগ (prag)
• Bulgarian: Пра́га f (Prága)
• Burmese: ပရာ့ဂ်မြို့ (pa.rag.mrui.), ပရက်ဂ်မြို့ (pa.rakgmrui.)
• Catalan: Praga f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布拉格 (bou³ laai¹ gaak³)

  Mandarin: 布拉格 (zh) (Bùlāgé)

• Chuvash: Прага (Praga)
• Czech: Praha (cs) f
• Danish: Prag (da) n
• Dutch: Praag (nl) n
• Esperanto: Prago (eo)
• Estonian: Praha (et)
• Faroese: Praha f, Prag m
• Finnish: Praha (fi)
• French: Prague (fr) f
• Galician: Praga (gl) f
• Georgian: პრაღა (ṗraɣa)
• German: Prag (de) n

  Alemannic German: Prag ?

• Greek: Πράγα (el) f (Prága)
• Hebrew: פראג / פְּרָג‎ (he) f (prag)
• Hindi: प्राग (hi) m (prāg)
• Hungarian: Prága (hu)
• Icelandic: Prag f
• Irish: Prág m
• Italian: Praga (it) f
• Japanese: プラハ (ja) (Puraha)
• Karachay-Balkar: Прага (Praga)
• Kashubian: Praga f
• Kazakh: Прага (Praga)
• Khmer: ប្រាក (km) (praak)
• Korean: 프라하 (ko) (Peuraha)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Prag ?

• Kyrgyz: Прага (ky) (Prağa)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: פראגא‎ f

  Roman: Praga f

• Lao: ປຣາກ (pa rāk), ປຣາຮາ (pa rā hā)
• Latin: Praga f
• Latvian: Prāga f

• Lithuanian: Praha f
• Luxembourgish: Prag ?
• Macedonian: Прага f (Praga)
• Malay: Praha, Prague
• Maltese: Praga ?
• Manx: Praag f
• Marathi: प्राग n (prāg)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Праг (Prag)

• Navajo: Pwaag
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Praha (no) n

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Прага f (Praga)

• Pashto: پراګ‎ m (prāg), پراها‎ f (prāhā)
• Persian: پراگ‎ (perâg)
• Polish: Praga (pl) f
• Portuguese: Praga (pt) f
• Romanian: Praga (ro) f
• Russian: Пра́га (ru) f (Prága)
• Rusyn: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Scottish Gaelic: Pràg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пра̏г m

  Roman: Prȁg (sh) m

• Silesian: Praga f
• Slovak: Praha f
• Slovene: Prága (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Praha f

  Upper Sorbian: Praha f

• Spanish: Praga (es) f
• Swedish: Prag (sv) n
• Tagalog: Praga
• Tajik: Прага (Praga)
• Tamil: பிராகா (pirākā)
• Tatar: Прага (Prağa)
• Thai: ปราก (th) (bpráak)
• Tibetan: པུ་ལ་ཁེ། (pu la khe), པེ་རེག (pe reg)
• Turkish: Prag (tr)
• Turkmen: Praga
• Ukrainian: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Urdu: پراگ‎ m (prāg)
• Uyghur: پراگا‎ (praga)
• Uzbek: Praga
• Vietnamese: Pra-ha, Thiệp Khẩu
• Welsh: Prag f
• West Frisian: Praach ?
• Yakut: Прага (Praga)
• Yiddish: פּראַג‎ n (prag)

See also

• Praha

References

2. Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “Prague”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• gear up, upgear

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁaɡ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡ

Proper noun

Prague f

1. Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)

Derived terms

• Pragois, pragois
• Praguois, praguois

Anagrams

• purgea