Besarábie

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian Basarabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛsaraːbɪjɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɪjɛ
• Hyphenation: Be‧sa‧rá‧bie

Proper noun

Besarábie f (relational adjective besarabský, demonym Besarábec, female demonym Besarábka)

1. (historical) Bessarabia (a geographic region of Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west; now divided politically between Moldova and Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Besarábie (sg-only soft feminine)

	singular
nominative	Besarábie
genitive	Besarábie
dative	Besarábii
accusative	Besarábii
vocative	Besarábie
locative	Besarábii
instrumental	Besarábií

Further reading

• “Besarábie”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Besarábie”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025