Czechia

English

Etymology

From Czech +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛkiə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkiə

Proper noun

Czechia

2. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Czech Republic.

Usage notes

The Czech government approved Czechia as the official short name in 2016.

Synonyms

• Czech Republic
• Czechland, Czechlands

Meronyms

• Bohemia
• Moravia
• Czech Silesia (cf. Silesia)

Translations

country in Europe

• Abkhaz: Чехиа (Čexja)
• Afrikaans: Tsjeggië
• Albanian: Çekia (sq) f
• Amharic: ቼክ (ček)
• Arabic: التّْشِيك f (at-tšīk), تْشِيكِيَّا f (tšīkiyyā), تْشِيسْكُو f (tšīskū) (rare)
• Armenian: Չեխիա (Čʻexia)
• Asturian: Chequia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Çexiya (az)
• Bashkir: Чехия (Çexiya)
• Bavarian: Tschechei f
• Belarusian: Чэ́хія f (Čéxija)
• Breton: Tchekia (br)
• Bulgarian: Че́хия (bg) f (Čéhija)
• Burmese: ချက် (my) (hkyak), ချက်သမ္မတ (hkyaksamma.ta.) (Czech Republic)
• Catalan: Txèquia (ca) f
• Chechen: Чехи (Čexi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 捷克 (zit⁶ hak¹)

  Mandarin: 捷克 (zh) (Jiékè)

• Corsican: Cecchìa f
• Crimean Tatar: Çehiya
• Czech: Česko (cs) n
• Danish: Tjekkiet (da) n
• Dhivehi: ޗެކް (cek̊)
• Dutch: Tsjechië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĉeĥio, Ĉeĥujo (eo)
• Estonian: Tšehhi (et), rarely Tšehhimaa
• Farefare: Sɛkgɔ, Tcɛkgɔ
• Faroese: Kekkia (fo) n
• Finnish: Tšekki (fi); Tšekinmaa (fi) (rare)
• French: Tchéquie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Tsjechje

• Galician: Chequia (gl) f
• Georgian: ჩეხეთი (čexeti)
• German: Tschechien (de) n, Tschechei (de) f (dated)
• Greek: Τσεχία (el) f (Tsechía)

  Pontic Greek: Τσεχία (Tsechía)

• Greenlandic: Tjekkia
• Hausa: Kazech
• Hawaiian: Tiekia
• Hebrew: צֶ׳כְיָה f (chekhia)
• Hindi: चेक (hi) m (cek)
• Hungarian: Csehország (hu)
• Icelandic: Tékkland (is) n
• Ido: Chekia (io)
• Indonesian: Ceko
• Interlingua: Chechia
• Irish: an tSeic f
• Italian: Cechia (it) f
• Japanese: チェコ (ja) (Cheko)
• Kabardian: Чехиэ (Čexiɛ)
• Kannada: ಜೆಕ್ (kn) (jek)
• Karakalpak: Shexiya
• Kashubian: Czeskô n
• Kazakh: Чехия (Çexiä)
• Khmer: ឆែក (km) (chaek)
• Komi-Permyak: Ческо (Ćesko)
• Korean: 체코 (ko) (Cheko), 체스꼬 (ko) (Cheseukko) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Çekya

• Kyrgyz: Чехия (ky) (Cehiya)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: צ׳אקא f

  Roman: Chekia f

• Lao: ເຊັກກີ (sek kī)
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• Latin: Cechia f, Czechia f, Tzechia f
• Latvian: Čehija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Čekija (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: d'Tschechei (lb)
• Macedonian: Чешка (mk) f (Češka), Чехија f (Čehija) (rare)
• Malay: Czech
• Malayalam: ചെക്ക് (cekk‌)
• Maltese: Ċekja f
• Maori: Tīekia
• Marathi: चेक (cek)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Чех (mn) (Čex)

  Uyghurjin: ᠴᠧᠬᠣ᠋ (čēqo)

• Northern Sami: Čeahkka
• Norwegian: Tsjekkia (no)

  Bokmål: Tsjekkia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Tsjekkia (nn) n

• Occitan: Chequia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Чешьско n (Češĭsko) (modern)

• Oromo: Cheekiyaa
• Ossetian: Чехи (Ḱexi)
• Pashto: چک (ps) m (ček)
• Persian: چک (fa) (ček)
• Polish: Czechy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Chéquia (pt) f, Tchéquia (pt) f
• Romanian: Cehia (ro) f
• Romansch: Tschechia f
• Russian: Че́хия (ru) f (Čéxija)
• Rusyn: Че́сько n (Čésʹko), Че́хія f (Čéxija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Че̏шка̄ f

  Roman: Čȅškā (sh) f

• Silesian: Czesko n
• Sinhalese: චෙක් (cek)
• Slovak: Česko (sk) n
• Slovene: Čẹ̑ška (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Česka f

  Upper Sorbian: Čěska f

• Spanish: Chequia (es) f
• Swahili: Ucheki
• Swedish: Tjeckien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Tsekya, Tseko (tl)
• Tajik: Чехия (Čexiya)
• Tamil: செக் (cek)
• Tatar: Чехия (Çexiyä)
• Telugu: చెక్ (cek)
• Thai: เช็กเกีย (chék-giia)
• Tibetan: ཅེ་ཁེ། (ce khe)
• Turkish: Çekya (tr)
• Turkmen: Çehiýa
• Udmurt: Чехия (Ćexija)
• Ukrainian: Че́хія (uk) f (Čéxija)
• Urdu: چیک (cek)
• Uyghur: چېخ (chëx)
• Uzbek: Chexiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Séc
• Voro: Tsehhi
• Yakut: Чехия (Ceqiya)
• Yiddish: טשעכײַ f (tshekhay), טשעכיע f (tshekhye)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Çekıstan (diq)
• Zulu: ITsheki

See also

• (countries of Europe) countries 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

Further reading

• Czech Republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Name of the Czech Republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Czechia, Czech Republic at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Cechia

Proper noun

Czechia f sg (genitive Czechiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Czechia (the Czech government approved this as official short name for the Czech Republic in 2016))

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Czechia
genitive	Czechiae
dative	Czechiae
accusative	Czechiam
ablative	Czechiā
vocative	Czechia
locative	Czechiae

Synonyms

• Bōhēmia