Bolivia

See also: bolivia, bolivià, Bolìvia, Bolívia, and Bólivía

English

Etymology

From Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan statesman; Bolívar's own name derives from the village of Bolibar in Spanish Biscay. Its name comes from the Basque bolu (“windmill”) and ibar (“valley”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bə.ˈlɪv.i.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊ.ˈlɪv.i.ə/, /bə.ˈlɪv.i.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪviə

Proper noun

Bolivia

2. A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia.
3. A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

Translations

country in South America

• Adyghe: Боливие (Booliiviije)
• Afrikaans: Bolivië, Bolivië
• Albanian: Bolivi f (indefinite), Bolivia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ቦሊቪያ (boliviya)
• Arabic: بُولِيفِيَا‎ f (būlīfiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: بوليفيا‎ f (bōlīfya), بوليڤيا‎ f (bōlīvya)

• Armenian: Բոլիվիա (hy) (Bolivia)
• Asturian: Bolivia (ast) f
• Aymara: Wuliwya (ay)
• Azerbaijani: Boliviya (az)
• Basque: Bolivia
• Belarusian: Балі́вія f (Balívija)
• Bengali: বলিভিয়া (bn) (bôlibhiẏa)
• Breton: Bolivia
• Bulgarian: Боли́вия f (Bolívija)
• Burmese: ဘိုလီးဗီးယား (bhuili:bi:ya:)
• Catalan: Bolívia (ca) f
• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: Bolivia
• Central Nahuatl: Bolivia
• Chechen: Боливи (Bolivi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻利維亞 (zh), 玻利维亚 (zh) (Bōlìwéiyà)

• Czech: Bolívie (cs) f
• Danish: Bolivia (da) n
• Dhivehi: ބޮލީވިއާ‎ (bolīviā)
• Dutch: Bolivia (nl) n, Bolivië n
• Esperanto: Bolivio (eo)
• Estonian: Boliivia (et)
• Finnish: Bolivia (fi)
• French: Bolivie (fr) f
• Galician: Bolivia (gl)
• Georgian: ბოლივია (bolivia)
• German: Bolivien (de) n
• Greek: Βολιβία (el) f (Volivía)
• Guaraní: Volívia
• Hebrew: בּוֹלִיבְיָה‎ (he) f (bolívya)
• Hindi: बोलिविया (hi) m (boliviyā)
• Hungarian: Bolívia (hu)
• Icelandic: Bólivía (is) f
• Indonesian: Bolivia (id)
• Interlingua: Bolivia
• Irish: An Bholaiv (ga) f
• Italian: Bolivia (it) f
• Japanese: ボリビア (ja) (Boribia)
• Kalenjin: Bolivia
• Kamba: Bolivia
• Kazakh: Боливия (Boliviä)
• Khmer: បូលីវី (km) (bouliivii)
• Kikuyu: Bolivia
• Korean: 볼리비아 (ko) (Bollibia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bolîvya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Боливия (Boliviya)
• Lao: ໂບລີວີ (bō lī wī)
• Latin: Bolivia
• Latvian: Bolīvija f
• Lithuanian: Bolivija (lt) f
• Luhya: Bolivia
• Luo: Bolivia
• Macedonian: Боливија (mk) f (Bolivija)
• Maltese: il-Bolivja
• Manx: Yn Volivia f
• Maori: Poriwia
• Marathi: बोलिव्हिया m (bolivhiyā)
• Meru: Bolivia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Боливи (Bolivi)

• Navajo: Bolíbiya
• Norman: Bolivie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bolivia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Bolivia (nn) n

• Pashto: بولوويا‎ f (bolowyā)
• Persian: بولیوی‎ (fa) (bolivi)
• Polish: Boliwia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bolívia (pt) f
• Quechua: Buliwya
• Romanian: Bolivia (ro) f
• Russian: Боли́вия (ru) f (Bolívija)
• Sardinian: Bolìvia
• Scots: Bolivie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Боли́вија f

  Roman: Bolívija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: බොලිවියාව (boliwiyāwa)
• Slovak: Bolívia (sk) f
• Slovene: Bolivija (sl) f
• Spanish: Bolivia (es) f
• Swahili: Bolivia (sw)
• Swedish: Bolivia (sv) n
• Tajik: Боливия (Boliviya)
• Tatar: Боливия (Boliwiya)
• Telugu: బొలీవియా (te) (bolīviyā)
• Thai: โบลิเวีย (th) (boo-lí-wiia)
• Tibetan: བྷོ་ལི་ཝི་ཡ (bho li wi ya)
• Turkish: Bolivya (tr)
• Turkmen: Boliwiýa
• Ukrainian: Болі́вія (uk) f (Bolívija)
• Urdu: بولیویا‎ m (bolīviyā)
• Uyghur: بولىۋىيە‎ (boliwiye)
• Uzbek: Boliviya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bô-li-vi-a
• Yiddish: באָליוויע‎ f (bolivye)
• Yoruba: Bọ̀lífíyà

See also

• Bolivian
• (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

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Albanian

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. definite nominative singular of Bolivi

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Asturian

Proper noun

Bolivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Breton

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Danish

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bolivia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌboːˈli.vi.aː/

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• Hyphenation: Bo‧li‧via

Proper noun

Bolivia n

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• Boliviaan
• Boliviaans

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Bolivia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboliʋiɑ/, [ˈbo̞liˌʋiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Bo‧li‧vi‧a

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection of Bolivia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Bolivia	—
genitive		Bolivian	—
partitive		Boliviaa	—
illative		Boliviaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bolivia	—
accusative	nom.	Bolivia	—
	gen.	Bolivian
genitive		Bolivian	—
partitive		Boliviaa	—
inessive		Boliviassa	—
elative		Boliviasta	—
illative		Boliviaan	—
adessive		Bolivialla	—
ablative		Bolivialta	—
allative		Bolivialle	—
essive		Boliviana	—
translative		Boliviaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Boliviatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bolivia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Boliviani	Boliviamme
2nd person	Boliviasi	Bolivianne
3rd person	Boliviansa

Derived terms

• bolivialainen

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Galician

Alternative forms

• Bolívia (reintegrationist)

Proper noun

Bolivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• boliviano

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈli.vja/
• Rhymes: -ivja
• Hyphenation: Bo‧lì‧via

Proper noun

Bolivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• boliviano

Anagrams

• abolivi, obliavi

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /boˈli.u̯i.a/, [bɔˈlʲiu̯iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈli.vi.a/, [boˈliːviä]

Proper noun

Bolivia f sg (genitive Boliviae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Bolivia (a country in South America)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bolivia
Genitive	Boliviae
Dative	Boliviae
Accusative	Boliviam
Ablative	Boliviā
Vocative	Bolivia

Derived terms

• bolivianus

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Manx

Proper noun

Yn Volivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Bolivia	Volivia	Molivia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• bolivianer
• boliviansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bolivia

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• bolivian, bolivianar
• boliviansk

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Romanian

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Bolivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈlibja/ [boˈli.β̞ja]

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• Rhymes: -ibja
• Hyphenation: Bo‧li‧via

Proper noun

Bolivia f

1. Bolivia (a country in South America)
2. A town in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

Related terms

• boliviano, boliviana

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Swedish

Etymology

From Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan statesman; Bolívar's own name derives from the village of Bolibar in Spanish Biscay. Its name comes from the Basque bolu (“windmill”) and ibar (“valley”).

Proper noun

Bolivia n (genitive Bolivias)

2. Bolivia (a country in South America)

Related terms

• boliviansk (“Bolivian”, adjective)
• bolivian c (“Bolivian male”)
• bolivianska c (“Bolivian female”)