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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Proper noun

Prague

1. The capital city of the Czech Republic; former capital of Czechoslovakia; former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Derived terms

• Praguer
• Praguian

Translations

capital of the Czech Republic

• Albanian: Praga
• Arabic: بْرَاغ‎ m (brāḡ)
• Armenian: Պրագա (Praga)
• Asturian: Praga
• Azerbaijani: Praqa (az)
• Basque: Praga (eu)
• Bavarian: Prag
• Belarusian: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Bulgarian: Пра́га f (Prága)
• Catalan: Praga
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布拉格 (zh) (Bùlāgé)

• Chuvash: Прага (Praga)
• Czech: Praha (cs) f
• Danish: Prag (da)
• 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)
• Georgian: პრაღა (ṗraɣa)
• German: Prag (de)

  Alemannic German: Prag

• Greek: Πράγα (el) f (Prága)
• Hebrew: פראג \ פְּרָג‎ f
• Hindi: प्राग (hi) (prāg)
• Hungarian: Prága (hu)
• Icelandic: Prag f
• Irish: Prág
• Italian: Praga (it) f
• Japanese: プラハ (ja) (Puraha)
• Karachay-Balkar: Прага (Praga)
• Kashubian: Praga f
• Kazakh: Прага (Praga)
• Korean: 프라하 (ko) (Peuraha)
• Kyrgyz: Прага (ky) (Praga)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: פראגא‎

  Roman: Praga

• Latin: Praga
• Latvian: Prāga f

• Lithuanian: Praha f
• Luxembourgish: Prag
• Macedonian: Прага f (Praga)
• Malay: Praha
• Maltese: Praga
• Manx: Praag
• Marathi: प्राग n (prāg)
• Navajo: Pwaag
• Norwegian: Praha, Prag (no)
• Old Church Slavonic: Прага f (Praga)
• Persian: پراگ‎ (perâg)
• Polish: Praga (pl)
• Portuguese: Praga (pt)
• Romanian: Praga (ro) f
• Russian: Пра́га (ru) f (Prága)
• Rusyn: Прага f (Praha)
• Scottish Gaelic: Pràg
• 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)
• Swedish: Prag (sv) n
• Tagalog: Praga
• Tamil: பிராகா (pirākā)
• Tatar: Praga, Прага (Prağa)
• Thai: ปราก (th) (bpráak)
• Tibetan: པུ་ལ་ཁེ། (pu la khe), པེ་རེག (pe reg)
• Turkish: Prag (tr)
• Ukrainian: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Uyghur: پراگا‎ (praga)
• Uzbek: Praga
• Vietnamese: Praha
• Welsh: Prag f
• West Frisian: Praach
• Yakut: Прага (Praga)
• Yiddish: פּראַג‎ n (prag)

See also

• Praha

References

• “Prague” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

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