Romania

See also: romania, Románia, România, Romãnia, Romānia, and Romanía

English

Romania (in dark green) within Europe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹoˈmeɪˌni.ə/

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• IPA^(key): /ɹoˈmɪˌni.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Alternative forms

• Rumania, Roumania (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Romanian român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin romanus (“Roman”)) + -ia.

Proper noun

Romania

2. A country in South-Eastern Europe, bordered by Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine.

Derived terms

• Romanian

Translations

South-Eastern European country

• Abkhaz: Румыниа (Rumənja)
• Afrikaans: Roemenië
• Albanian: Rumani f (indefinite), Rumania (sq) f
• Amharic: ሮማንያ (romanya)
• Arabic: رُومَانِيَا f (rūmāniyā)
• Aragonese: Rumanía f
• Armenian: Ռումինիա (hy) (Ṙuminia)
• Aromanian: Romãnia
• Asturian: Rumanía (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Rumıniya (az)
• Bashkir: Румыния (Rumıniya)
• Basque: Errumania (eu)
• Belarusian: Румы́нія f (Rumýnija)
• Bengali: রোমানিয়া (rōmaniẏa)
• Breton: Roumania
• Bulgarian: Румъ̀ния f (Rumǎ̀nija)
• Burmese: ရူမေးနီးယား (rume:ni:ya:)
• Catalan: Romania (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎶᎹᏂᏯ (lomaniya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羅馬尼亞／罗马尼亚 (lo⁴ maa⁵ nei⁴ aa³), 罗马尼亚 (lo⁴ maa⁵ nei⁴ aa³)

  Mandarin: 羅馬尼亞／罗马尼亚 (zh) (Luómǎníyà), 罗马尼亚 (zh) (Luómǎníyà)

  Min Nan: 羅馬尼亞／罗马尼亚, 罗马尼亚 (Lô-má-nî-a)

• Corsican: Rumenia
• Crimean Tatar: Romaniya
• Czech: Rumunsko (cs) n
• Danish: Rumænien (da)
• Dhivehi: ރުމޭނިއާ (dv) (rumēniā)
• Dutch: Roemenië (nl)
• Esperanto: Rumanio, Rumanujo
• Estonian: Rumeenia (et)
• Faroese: Rumenia n
• Finnish: Romania (fi)
• French: Roumanie (fr) f
• Galician: Romanía (gl) f
• Georgian: რუმინეთი (ka) (rumineti)
• German: Rumänien (de) n
• Greek: Ρουμανία (el) f (Roumanía)
• Gujarati: રોમાનિયા (romāniyā)
• Hausa: Romaniya
• Hawaiian: Romānia
• Hebrew: רוֹמַנְיָה (he) f (románya)
• Hindi: रोमानिया (hi) (romāniyā)
• Hungarian: Románia (hu)
• Icelandic: Rúmenía (is) f
• Ido: Rumania (io)
• Indonesian: Rumania (id)
• Interlingua: Romania
• Irish: An Rómáin f
• Italian: Romania (it) f
• Japanese: ルーマニア (ja) (Rūmania)
• Kannada: ರೊಮಾನಿಯ (romāniya)
• Kazakh: Румыния (Rumyniä)
• Khmer: រូម៉ានី (ruumaanii)
• Korean: 루마니아 (Rumania), (North Korea) 로므니아 (Romeunia)
• Kyrgyz: Румыния (Rumıniya)
• Lao: ລູມານີ (lo) (lū mā nī)
• Latin: Romania (la) f
• Latvian: Rumānija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Rumunija (lt) f
• Livonian: Rumāņmō
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• Macedonian: Романија (mk) f (Romanija)
• Malay: Romania
• Malayalam: റൊമാനിയ (ṟomāniya)
• Maltese: ir-Rumanija
• Marathi: रोमेनिया (romeniyā)
• Mongolian: Румын (mn) (Rumyn)
• Nahuatl: Rumantlān
• Navajo: Wooméiniya
• Nepali: रोमानिया (romāniyā)
• Norman: Roumanie f, ^{(please verify)} Roumanîn f
• Northern Sami: Románia
• Norwegian: Romania (no)
• Occitan: Romania (oc) f, Roumagnu m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Роумꙑнїꙗ f (Rumynija)

• Pashto: رومانیا (rōmāniyā)
• Persian: رومانی (fa) (români)
• Polish: Rumunia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Roménia (pt) f (Portugal), Romênia (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਰੋਮਾਨੀਆ (romānīā)
• Romani: i Rumùnia f
• Romanian: România (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Ромыния f (Romînia)

• Romansch: Rumenia
• Russian: Румы́ния (ru) f (Rumýnija)
• Rusyn: Руму́ньско n (Rumúnʹsko)
• Scots: Romanie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Румунија f, Румуњска f

  Roman: Rumunija f, Rumunjska (sh) f

• Sicilian: Rumanìa f
• Silesian: Růmůńijo f
• Sinhalese: රුමේනියාව (rumēniyāwa)
• Slovak: Rumunsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Romúnija (sl) f
• Spanish: Rumania (es) f, Rumanía (es) f
• Swahili: Romania (sw)
• Swedish: Rumänien (sv)
• Tagalog: Rumanya (tl)
• Tajik: Руминия (tg) (Ruminiya)
• Tamil: உருமேனியா (urumēṉiyā)
• Tatar: Румыния (Rumıniyä)
• Telugu: రొమేనియా (te) (romēniyā)
• Thai: โรมาเนีย (th) (roo-maa-niia)
• Tibetan: རོ་མ་ནི་ཡ (ro ma ni ya)
• Turkish: Romanya (tr)
• Turkmen: Rumyniýa
• Ukrainian: Руму́нія (uk) f (Rumúnija)
• Urdu: رومانیہ (romāniyā)
• Uyghur: رۇمىنىيە (ruminiye)
• Uzbek: Ruminiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ru-ma-ni, Lỗ Má Ni
• Võro: Romaania
• Welsh: Rwmania (cy) f
• West Frisian: Roemeenje
• Yiddish: רומעניע (rumenye)
• Yoruba: Romaniya
• Zhuang: Lozmajnizya

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Romania
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Etymology 2

From Latin [Term?].

Proper noun

Romania

1. (academic, historical, linguistics) The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
2. (historical) The Byzantine Empire or its former territories.
   • 1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682:

     There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]

   • 1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208:

     The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.

   • 1989, Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, page 110:

     In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”.

   • 1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change” in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204, page 1:

     The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.

   • 1999, Rustam Shukurov, “Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia” in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies:

     If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers.

   • 2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West” in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, page 197:

     The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.

   • 2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69:

     Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country [Thrace] is Byzantium, formerly called Agios.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ru.məˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ro.məˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ro.maˈni.a]

Proper noun

Romania f

1. Romania

Derived terms

• romanès

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈromɑniɑ/, [ˈro̞mɑ̝ˌniɑ̝]

Proper noun

Romania

1. Romania

Declension

Inflection of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Romania	—
genitive		Romanian	—
partitive		Romaniaa	—
illative		Romaniaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Romania	—
accusative	nom.	Romania	—
	gen.	Romanian
genitive		Romanian	—
partitive		Romaniaa	—
inessive		Romaniassa	—
elative		Romaniasta	—
illative		Romaniaan	—
adessive		Romanialla	—
ablative		Romanialta	—
allative		Romanialle	—
essive		Romaniana	—
translative		Romaniaksi	—
abessive		Romaniatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Romaniani — accusative nom. Romaniani — gen. Romaniani genitive Romaniani — partitive Romaniaani — inessive Romaniassani — elative Romaniastani — illative Romaniaani — adessive Romaniallani — ablative Romanialtani — allative Romanialleni — essive Romanianani — translative Romaniakseni — abessive Romaniattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Romaniasi — accusative nom. Romaniasi — gen. Romaniasi genitive Romaniasi — partitive Romaniaasi — inessive Romaniassasi — elative Romaniastasi — illative Romaniaasi — adessive Romaniallasi — ablative Romanialtasi — allative Romaniallesi — essive Romanianasi — translative Romaniaksesi — abessive Romaniattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Romaniamme — accusative nom. Romaniamme — gen. Romaniamme genitive Romaniamme — partitive Romaniaamme — inessive Romaniassamme — elative Romaniastamme — illative Romaniaamme — adessive Romaniallamme — ablative Romanialtamme — allative Romaniallemme — essive Romanianamme — translative Romaniaksemme — abessive Romaniattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Romanianne — accusative nom. Romanianne — gen. Romanianne genitive Romanianne — partitive Romaniaanne — inessive Romaniassanne — elative Romaniastanne — illative Romaniaanne — adessive Romaniallanne — ablative Romanialtanne — allative Romaniallenne — essive Romaniananne — translative Romaniaksenne — abessive Romaniattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Romaniansa — accusative nom. Romaniansa — gen. Romaniansa genitive Romaniansa — partitive Romaniaansa — inessive Romaniassaan Romaniassansa — elative Romaniastaan Romaniastansa — illative Romaniaansa — adessive Romaniallaan Romaniallansa — ablative Romanialtaan Romanialtansa — allative Romanialleen Romaniallensa — essive Romanianaan Romanianansa — translative Romaniakseen Romaniaksensa — abessive Romaniattaan Romaniattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• romania
• romanialainen

 

Anagrams

• romaani

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ma.nja/

Proper noun

Romania ?

1. (academic, historical, linguistics) the Romance speaking areas of Europe

See also

• Roumanie (nation)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /romaˈnia/

Proper noun

Romania f

1. Romania

Derived terms

• romeno
• rumeno

 

Anagrams

• armonia
• mariano, Mariano
• riamano

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /roːˈmaː.ni.a/, [roːˈmäːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /roˈma.ni.a/, [roˈmäːniä]

Proper noun

Rōmānia f sg (genitive Rōmāniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Romania
2. (historical) Roman Empire
3. (historical) Byzantine Empire

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Rōmānia
Genitive	Rōmāniae
Dative	Rōmāniae
Accusative	Rōmāniam
Ablative	Rōmāniā
Vocative	Rōmānia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Romania

1. Romania

Related terms

• rumener
• rumensk

 

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Romania

1. Romania

Related terms

• rumen
• rumenar
• rumensk