Russia

See also: Rússia

English

Etymology

1538, from Medieval Latin Russi (“Russians”). Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Ρωσσία (Rōssía) (whence also Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”)), from an earlier (10th century) ethnonym Ῥῶς (Rhôs) (Arabic رُوس‎ (rūs), Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ, “Rus”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). See Finnish Ruotsi for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌʃə/

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• Hyphenation: Rus‧sia
• Rhymes: -ʌʃə

Proper noun

Russia (countable and uncountable, plural Russias)

2. A country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The country extends from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean, and was part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Capital and largest city: Moscow.
3. (historical, informal) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
4. (historical) The Russian Empire.
5. (historical, dated) Rus, the medieval East Slavic state.
6. (dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from the Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia or Kievan Russia).
   • 1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24:

     Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.

   • 1914, Russia and the Russian People:

     Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]

Synonyms

• Russian Federation

Derived terms

• Black Russia
• Great Russia
• Kievan Russia
• Little Russia
• Mother Russia
• New Russia
• Russia calf
• Russia iron
• Russia leather
• Russia linen
• Russia mat
• Russia matting
• Russian
• White Russia

 

Translations

country in Asia and Europe

• Abkhaz: Урыстәыла (Urəsṭ°əlā)
• Acehnese: Rusia
• Adyghe: Урысый (Wrəsəj)
• Afrikaans: Rusland (af)
• Ainu: ヌチャ (nuca), ヌチャ モシㇼ (nuca mosir), ヌチャ モシㇽ (nuca mosir)
• Akan: Russia
• Albanian: Rusi f
• Amharic: ሩሲያ (rusiya), ሩስያ (rusya)
• Arabic: رُوسِيَا‎ (ar) f (rūsiyā)
• Aragonese: Rusia
• Aramaic: ܪܘܣܝܐ‎ (rūsiyā)
• Armenian: Ռուսաստան (hy) (Ṙusastan)
• Aromanian: Rusii, Arusia
• Assamese: ৰুচিয়া (rusia)
• Asturian: Rusia (ast) f
• Avar: Россия (Ros̄ija)
• Azerbaijani: Rusiya (az)

  Cyrillic: Русия

• Bambara: Risila
• Banjarese: Rusia
• Banyumasan: Rusia
• Bashkir: Рәсәй (Räsäy)
• Basque: Errusia (eu)
• Belarusian: Расі́я f (Rasíja), Расе́я f (Rasjéja) (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bengali: রাশিয়া (raśiya)
• Bikol Central: Rusya
• Breton: Rusia (br)
• Bulgarian: Ру́сия (bg) f (Rúsija)
• Burmese: ရုရှား (my) (ru.hra:)
• Buryat: Ород (Orod)
• Catalan: Rússia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Rusya
• Chamorro: Russia
• Chavacano: Rusia
• Chechen: Оьрсий (Örsī)
• Cherokee: ᎶᏏᏴ (losiyv), ᏲᏂᏱ (yoniyi)
• Cheyenne: Russia
• Chichewa: Russia
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 俄國, 俄国 (ngo⁴ gwok³), 俄羅斯, 俄罗斯 (ngo⁴ lo⁴ si¹)

  Dungan: Вурус (Vurus), Россия (Rossii͡a)

  Hakka: 俄羅斯, 俄罗斯 (Ngò-lò-sṳ̂)

  Mandarin: 俄羅斯 (zh), 俄罗斯 (zh) (Éluósī); 俄國 (zh), 俄国 (zh) (Éguó); (rare) 露西亞 (zh), 露西亚 (zh) (Lùxīyǎ)

  Min Dong: 俄羅斯, 俄罗斯 (Ngò̤-lò̤-sṳ̆)

  Min Nan: 露西亞, 露西亚 (Lō͘-se-a), 俄羅斯 (zh-min-nan), 俄罗斯 (zh-min-nan) (Gô-lô-su), 俄國, 俄国 (Ngô͘-kok)

  Wu: 俄羅斯, 俄罗斯 (ngu lu sr)

• Chuvash: Раҫҫей (Raśśej), Раҫҫей (Raśśej)
• Cornish: Russi
• Crimean Tatar: Rusiye
• Czech: Rusko (cs) n
• Danish: Rusland (da)
• Dhivehi: ރޫސީވިލާތް‎ (rūsīvilāt), ރަށިއާ‎ (rashiā)
• Dutch: Rusland (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨུ་རུ་སུ (u ru su)
• Erzya: Россия (Rossija)
• Esperanto: Rusio, Rusujo, Ruslando (eo)
• Estonian: Venemaa (et)
• Faroese: Russland
• Fiji Hindi: Russia
• Fijian: Rusi
• Finnish: Venäjä (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Russie
• French: Russie (fr) f
• Fula: Roosiya
• Gagauz: Rusiya
• Galician: Rusia (gl) f
• Georgian: რუსეთი (ruseti)
• German: Russland (de) n

  Alemannic German: Russland

  Rhine Franconian: Russlond (Palatine)

• Greek: Ρωσία (el) f (Rosía), Ρωσσία (Rossía)
• Guaraní: Rrusia
• Gujarati: રશિયા (raśiyā)
• Haitian Creole: Risi
• Hausa: Rāshà f
• Hawaiian: Lūkia
• Hebrew: רוּסְיָה‎ (he) f (rúsya), רַאצְיָה‎ (ratzyá)
• Hindi: रूस (hi) m (rūs), रशिया (hi) m (raśiyā)
• Hungarian: Oroszország (hu)
• Hunsrik: Russland n
• Icelandic: Rússland (is) n
• Ido: Rusia (io)
• Inari Sami: Ruoššâ
• Indonesian: Rusia (id)
• Ingrian: Vennääjä, Venämaa
• Ingush: Россе (Rosse)
• Interlingua: Russia
• Inuktitut: ᐅᓛᓴ (ulaasa)
• Inupiaq: Russia
• Irish: An Rúis f
• Italian: Russia (it) f
• Japanese: ロシア (ja) (Roshia), 魯西亜 (Roshia) (dated, pejorative), 露西亜 (ja) (Roshia) (dated), 露国 (Rokoku) (dated), 魯国 (Rokoku) (dated, pejorative)
• Kabardian: Урысей (Wrəsej), Россиэ (Rossiă)
• Kabyle: Rrus
• Kalmyk: Әрәсә (Äräsä)
• Kannada: ರಷ್ಯಾ (kn) (raṣyā)
• Karachay-Balkar: Россия
• Karakalpak: Rossiya
• Karelian: Veneä
• Kashmiri: रूस (rūs), روٗس‎ (rūs)
• Kashubian: Ruskô (csb) n
• Kazakh:

  Arabic: روسيا‎, رەسەي‎

  Cyrillic: Ресей (Resey), Россия (kk) (Rossïya)

  Latin: Reseı, Rossııa

• Khakas: Россия (Rossiya)
• Khmer: រុស្ស៊ី (rusii), រុស្សី (ruhsəy)
• Kikuyu: Russia
• Kildin Sami: Рӯшш е̄ммьне (Rūšš ʹēmmʹnje)
• Komi-Zyrian: Рочму (Ročmu), Россия (Rossija)
• Korean: 러시아 (Reosia), 로씨야 (Rossiya) (North Korea)
• Krymchak: Русьйе
• Kumyk: Россия (Rossija)
• Kurdish: رووسیا‎ (ku) (Rûsya), ئوورس‎ (ku) (Ûris), ئوورستان‎ (ku) (Ûristan)

  Roman: Rûsya (ku), Ûris (ku), Ûristan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Оруссия (ky) (Orussiya), Россия (ky) (Rossiya)
• Ladino: Rusia
• Lak: Аьрасат (A̱rasat)
• Lao: ລັດເຊັຽ (lat sīa)
• Latgalian: Krīveja f
• Latin: Russia (la) f, Ruthenia f
• Latvian: Krievija f
• Laz: რუსეთი (ruseti)
• Lezgi: Урусат (Urusat)

• Ligurian: Rùscia f
• Limburgish: Rösland
• Lithuanian: Rusija (lt) f
• Livonian: Krīevõmō
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Ruslaand (nds)

  German Low German: Russland (nds)

• Lule Sami: Russlánda
• Luxembourgish: Russland (lb)
• Lü: ᦵᦁᦲᧉᦷᦅᧉ (’oe²ko²)
• Macedonian: Русија (mk) f (Rusija)
• Malagasy: Rosia (mg)
• Malay: Rusia
• Malayalam: റഷ്യ (ṟaṣya)
• Maltese: Russja f
• Manchu: ᠣᡵᠣᠰ (oros)
• Maori: Rūhia, Rūhia
• Marathi: रशिया (raśiyā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Россий (Rossij)

• Mazanderani: ئوروسیا‎
• Mirandese: Rússia
• Mongolian: Орос (mn) (Oros), (Uyghurjin) ᠣᠷᠤᠰ (orus)
• Narom: Russie
• Nauruan: Russia
• Navajo: Biʼééʼ Łichííʼí bikéyah
• Nepali: रूस (rūs), रसिया (rasiyā)
• Norman: Russie f
• Northern Altai: Россия (Rossija)
• Northern Sotho: Russia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Russland (no)

  Nynorsk: Russland (nn)

• Novial: Rusia
• Old Church Slavonic: Рѡсїѩ f (Rosiję)
• Old English: Russland
• Old Norse: Ruzía f, Ruzaland n
• Oriya: ରୁଷିଆ (ruṣia)
• Ossetian: Уӕрӕсе (Wæræse)
• Pangasinan: Rusia
• Papiamentu: Rusia
• Pashto: روسيه‎ (ps) f (rusyá)
• Pennsylvania German: Russland
• Persian: روسیه‎ (fa) (rusiye)
• Piedmontese: Russia
• Polish: Rosja (pl) f, Moskwa (pl) f (outdated or bookish)
• Portuguese: Rússia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਰੂਸ (rūs)
• Quechua: Rusiya
• Romanian: Rusia (ro) f

  Cyrillic: Русия (ro) f

• Romansch: Russia
• Russian: Росси́я (ru) f (Rossíja), Русь (ru) f (Rusʹ) (poetic)
• Rusyn: Росі́я f (Rosíja)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: Ruošša

• Samoan: Lusia
• Scots: Roushie
• Scottish Gaelic: an Ruis f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Русија f

  Roman: Rusija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Russia
• Silesian: Rusyjo f
• Sindhi: روس‎ (rūsu)
• Sinhalese: රුසියාව (rusiyāva)
• Skolt Sami: Ruõššjânnam
• Slovak: Rusko (sk) n
• Slovene: Rúsija (sl) f
• Somali: Ruush
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Rusojska f

  Upper Sorbian: Ruska f

• Southern Altai: Россия (Rossija)
• Southern Sami: Russlaante
• Spanish: Rusia (es) f
• Sundanese: Rusia
• Swahili: Urusi
• Swazi: iRashiya
• Swedish: Ryssland (sv)
• Tabasaran: Урусат (Urusat)
• Tagalog: Rusya
• Tajik: Русия (tg) (Rusiya)
• Tamil: உருசியா (ta) (uruciyā), ரஷ்யா (ta) (raṣyā)
• Tatar: Русия (tt) (Rusiya), Рәсәй (Räsäy), Россия (Rossiya)
• Telugu: రష్యా (te) (raṣyā)
• Tetum: Rúsia
• Thai: รัสเซีย (th) (rát-siia)
• Tibetan: ཨུ་རུ་སུ (u ru su), རྒྱ་སེར (rgya ser)
• Tigrinya: ሩስያ (rusya), ራሻ (raša)
• Tongan: Lūsia
• Tsonga: Russia
• Turkish: Rusya (tr)
• Turkmen: Russiýa

  Cyrillic: Руссия

• Tuvan: Россия (Rossïya)
• Udmurt: Россия (Rossija)
• Ukrainian: Росі́я (uk) f (Rosíja)
• Urdu: روس‎ m (rūs)
• Uyghur: روسىيە‎ (rosiye)
• Uzbek: Rossiya (uz), Oʻrusiya

  Cyrillic: Россия (uz), Ўрусия

• Venda: Rashia
• Venetian: Rusia (vec) f
• Veps: Venäma
• Vietnamese: Nga (vi) (俄), Nga La Tư (vi)
• Volapük: Rusän (vo), (in the pre-1929 version) Lusän
• Votic: Venäjä
• Võro: Vinnemaa
• Walloon: Rûsseye
• Waray-Waray: Rusya
• Welsh: Rwsia (cy) f
• West Flemish: Rusland
• West Frisian: Ruslân (fy)
• Wolof: Riisi
• Xhosa: IRashiya
• Xibe: please add this translation if you can
• Yakut: Россия (Rossiya), Арассыыйа (Arassııya)
• Yiddish: רוסלאַנד‎ n (rusland)
• Yoruba: Rọṣia
• Zealandic: Rusland
• Zhuang: Ngozlozswh
• Zulu: iRashiya

See also

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

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Russia

1. Russia

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Italian

Etymology

1538, from Medieval Latin Russi (“Russians”). Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Ρωσία (Rōsía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrus.sja/, [ˈr̺us̪s̪jä]
• Hyphenation: Rùs‧sia

Proper noun

Russia f

1. Russia

Related terms

• russo
• russofilo
• RUS

See also

• rutenio
• ruteno

Anagrams

• russai
• ussari

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Rossia

Etymology

Sixteenth-century Latinisation of the Russian Русь (Rusʹ, “Rus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrus.si.a/, [ˈrʊs.si.a]

Proper noun

Russia f sg (genitive Russiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Russia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Russia
Genitive	Russiae
Dative	Russiae
Accusative	Russiam
Ablative	Russiā
Vocative	Russia

Synonyms

• Ruthenia

Derived terms

• russicus