Bohemia

See also: bohemia, Bohémia, bohèmia, Bohèmia, bohemià, and Bohemią

English

Etymology

Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)).

Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter. Related to Bavaria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊˈhimiə/
• Rhymes: -iːmiə
• Hyphenation: Bo‧he‧mia

Bohemia (westernmost area) within Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938

Proper noun

Bohemia

1. A region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.
2. A place name elsewhere:
   1. A place in England:
      1. An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
      2. A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
   2. A place in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
      2. A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
      3. A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
      4. A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
      5. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Derived terms

• Bohemian
• bohemium

Translations

The region of the Czech Republic

• Afrikaans: Boheme
• Albanian: Bohemi f (indefinite), Bohemia f (definite)
• Arabic: بُوهِيمِيَا f (būhīmiyā)
• Armenian: Բոհեմիա (Bohemia)
• Asturian: Bohemia (ast)
• Belarusian: Баге́мія f (Bahjémija)
• Bengali: বোহেমিয়া (bōhemiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Бохе́мия f (Bohémija)
• Burmese: ဘိုဟီးမီးယား (bhuihi:mi:ya:)
• Catalan: Bohèmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波希米亞／波希米亚 (zh) (Bōxīmǐyà)

• Czech: Čechy (cs) f pl, Čechie (cs) f, Bohemie f
• Danish: Bøhmen
• Dutch: Bohemen (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bohemio
• Estonian: Böömimaa
• Faroese: Bøhmen n
• Finnish: Böömi (fi)
• French: Bohême (fr) f
• Friulian: Boemie f
• Georgian: ბოჰემია (bohemia)
• German: Böhmen (de) n, Böhmerland n
• Greek: Βοημία (el) f (Voïmía)
• Hebrew: בוהמיה m (bohémya)
• Hindi: बोहेमिया (bohemiyā)
• Hungarian: Bohémia (hu), Csehország (hu)
• Icelandic: Bæheimur m, Bóhemía f
• Italian: Boemia f
• Japanese: ボヘミア (Bohemia)
• Korean: 보헤미아 (Bohemia)
• Latin: Bohemia f, Boiohaemum
• Macedonian: Бохемија f (Bohemija)
• Marathi: बोहेमिया m (bohemiyā)
• Mongolian: Бохеми (Boxemi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bøhmen, Böhmen

• Persian: بوهم (bohem)
• Polish: Czechy (pl) f pl, Bohemia (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Boêmia f

  European: Boémia f

• Rhine Franconian: Behme (Hessian)
• Romanian: Boemia f
• Russian: Боге́мия (ru) f (Bogémija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бохемија f

  Roman: Bohemija f

• Sicilian: Buemia f
• Silesian: Czechy pl
• Slovak: Čechy (sk) f pl, Čechia f, Bohemia (sk) f
• Slovene: Češka (sl) f
• Spanish: Bohemia (es) f
• Swedish: Böhmen (sv)
• Tagalog: Bohemya
• Thai: โบฮีเมีย (boo-hii-miia)
• Turkish: Bohemya
• Ukrainian: Боге́мія (uk) f (Bohémija)
• Uzbek: Bogemiya
• Vietnamese: Bohemia
• Volapük: Bömän (vo)
• Yiddish: פּיהם n (pihm), בעהמען n (behmen), ביימען n (beymen)

Further reading

• Bohemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Bohemia (plural Bohemias)

1. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.

Alternative forms

• bohemia

Derived terms

• hobohemia

Translations

Translations

• Polish: bohema (pl) f

See also

• Moravia
• Silesia
• Sudetenland
• Czechia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Bohaemia, Boemia, Boihemia, Boihaemia, *Boiohaemia

Etymology

From Bohēmī +‎ -ia. More at Boihaemum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boˈheː.mi.a/, [boˈ(ɦ)eːmiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈe.mi.a/, [boˈɛːmiä]

Proper noun

Bohēmia f sg (genitive Bohēmiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)
2. (Medieval Latin) Czechia (the Czech state)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bohēmia
Genitive	Bohēmiae
Dative	Bohēmiae
Accusative	Bohēmiam
Ablative	Bohēmiā
Vocative	Bohēmia

Synonyms

• Boihaemum
• Czechia, Cechia

Related terms

• Bohēmī
• bohēmicus

Descendants

• → English: Bohemia
• → French: Bohême
• → Italian: Boemia
• → Spanish: Bohemia

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English Bohemia, ultimately from Late Latin Boiohaemum. By surface analysis, bohema +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈxɛ.mja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Proper noun

Bohemia f

1. (literary) Bohemia (a region in Czech Republic)

   Synonym: Czechy

Declension

Declension of Bohemia

	singular
nominative	Bohemia
genitive	Bohemii
dative	Bohemii
accusative	Bohemię
instrumental	Bohemią
locative	Bohemii
vocative	Bohemio

Related terms

adjective

• bohemistyczny

 

nouns

• bohema
• bohemista
• bohemistka
• bohemistyka
• bohemizm

 

verb

• bohemizować impf

 

Further reading

• Bohemia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈemja/ [boˈe.mja]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Proper noun

Bohemia f

1. Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)

Derived terms

• rubí de Bohemia

 

Related terms

• bohemio

 

Further reading

• “Bohemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014