Estonia

See also: estonia, Estónia, estonià, Éstonia, Èstonia, Estònia, and Estônia

English

Location of Estonia

Alternative forms

• Esthonia (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Estonia. Other early Latin forms were Estia and Hestia, possibly derived from the tribal name Aesti described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD). Displaced Middle English Estland, from Old English Estland. Compare also Old Norse Æistland, Icelandic Eistland, German Estland (“Estonia”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛsˈtəʊ.ni.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛsˈtoʊ.ni.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊniə

Proper noun

Estonia (plural Estonias)

2. A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia

Related terms

• Estonian
• Estonian SSR

Translations

country

• Acehnese: Èstonia
• Afrikaans: Estland
• Albanian: Estonia (sq)
• Amharic: ኤስቶኒያ (ʾestoniya)
• Arabic: إِسْتُونِيَا‎ f (ʾistōniyā)
• Aragonese: Estonia
• Aramaic: ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ‎
• Armenian: Էստոնիա (hy) (Ēstonia)
• Aromanian: Estonia
• Asturian: Estonia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Estoniya (az)
• Bambara: Estonia
• Bashkir: Эстония (Estoniya)
• Basque: Estonia (eu)
• Bavarian: Estland
• Belarusian: Эсто́нія f (Estónija)
• Bengali: ইস্তোনিয়া (iśtoniẏa)
• Bikol Central: Estonya
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: এস্তোনিয়া
• Breton: Estonia
• Bulgarian: Есто́ния (bg) f (Estónija)
• Burmese: အက်စတိုးနီးယား (akca.tui:ni:ya:)
• Catalan: Estònia (ca)
• Cebuano: Estonia
• Central Franconian: Estland
• Chechen: Эстони (Estoni)
• Cherokee: ᎡᏍᏙᏂᏯ (esdoniya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 愛沙尼亞, 爱沙尼亚 (oi³ saa¹ nei⁴ aa³)

  Mandarin: 愛沙尼亞 (zh), 爱沙尼亚 (zh) (Àishāníyà)

• Chuvash: Эстони (Estoni)
• Cornish: Estoni
• Corsican: Estonia
• Crimean Tatar: Estoniya
• Czech: Estonsko (cs) n
• Danish: Estland (da) n
• Dutch: Estland (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨིསི་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ། (isi ṭo ni ya)
• Eastern Mari: Эстоний (Èstonij)
• Emilian: Estògna
• Erzya: Эстэнь Мастор (Estenʹ Mastor)
• Esperanto: Estonio (eo), Estonujo
• Estonian: Eesti (et), Eestimaa (et) (colloquial, historical)
• Ewe: Estonia
• Faroese: Estland n
• Fiji Hindi: Estonia
• Finnish: Viro (fi), Eesti (fi) (colloquial)
• Franco-Provençal: Èstonie
• French: Estonie (fr) f
• Friulian: Estonie
• Galician: Estonia (gl) f
• Georgian: ესტონეთი (ka) (esṭoneti)
• German: Estland (de) n
• Greek: Εσθονία (el) f (Esthonía)
• Greenlandic: Estland (kl)
• Guaraní: Etoña
• Gujarati: ઈસ્ટોનિયા (īsṭoniyā)
• Haitian Creole: Estoni
• Hausa: Estoniya
• Hawaiian: ʻEsetonia
• Hebrew: אֶסְטוֹנְיָה‎ (he) f (estonyá)
• Hindi: एस्टोनिया (hi) m (esṭoniyā), एस्तोनिया m (estoniyā)
• Hungarian: Észtország (hu)
• Icelandic: Eistland (is) n
• Ido: Estonia (io)
• Ilocano: Estonia
• Indonesian: Estonia (id)
• Interlingua: Estonia
• Irish: An Eastóin f, Poblacht na hEastóine f
• Italian: Estonia (it)
• Japanese: エストニア (ja) (Esutonia)
• Kabyle: Isṭuni
• Kamba: Estonia
• Kannada: ಎಸ್ಟೊನಿಯ (kn) (esṭoniya)
• Kapampangan: Estonia
• Kashubian: Estóńskô
• Kazakh: Эстония (Éstonïya)
• Khmer: អេស្តូនី (km) (ʼeistounii)
• Komi-Zyrian: Эстония (Estonija)
• Kongo: Estonia
• Korean: 에스토니아 (ko) (Eseutonia), 에스또니야 (ko) (Eseuttoniya) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Estonya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Эстония (Estoniya)
• Ladino: Estonia
• Lao: ເອັສໂຕເນຍ (lo) (ʼet tō nīa)
• Latgalian: Igauneja f
• Latin: Estonia, Æstonia f
• Latvian: Igaunija f
• Ligurian: Estònia
• Limburgish: Esland
• Lingala: Estonia
• Lithuanian: Estija (lt) f
• Livonian: Ēstimō
• Livvi: Estounii, Viro
• Lombard: Estonia
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Estlaand (nds)

  German Low German: Eestland (nds)

• Luhya: Estonia

• Luo: Estonia
• Luxembourgish: Estland (lb)
• Macedonian: Естонија (mk) f (Estonija)
• Malay: Estonia
• Malayalam: എസ്റ്റോണിയ (esṟṟōṇiya)
• Maltese: l-Estonja
• Manx: Estaan, Esthoin
• Maori: Etonia
• Marathi: एस्टोनिय (esṭoniy)
• Meru: Estonia
• Middle English: Estland
• Mongolian: Эстон (Eston)
• Nahuatl: Estonia
• Nauruan: Estonia
• Navajo: Ééstii bikéyah
• Nepali: इस्टोनिया (isṭoniyā)
• Norman: Estonîn

  Jèrriais: Estonnie

• North Frisian: Estlönj
• Northern Sami: Estlánda, Estteeana, Estteeanan, Estteriika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Estland (no)

  Nynorsk: Estland (nn)

• Occitan: Estònia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Єсть (Estĭ)
• Old English: Estland n
• Old Norse: Eistland n
• Ossetian: Эстони (Èstoni)
• Papiamentu: Estonia
• Pashto: اېسټونيا‎
• Pennsylvania German: Eschdooni
• Persian: استونی‎ (fa) (estoni)
• Picard: Éstonie
• Piedmontese: Estònia
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Estonya
• Polish: Estonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Estónia (pt) f (Portugal), Estônia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Quechua: Istunya
• Romani:

  Vlax Romani: Estoniya

• Romanian: Estonia (ro) f
• Romansch: Estonia
• Russian: Эсто́ния (ru) f (Estónija)
• Samogitian: Estėjė
• Sanskrit: एस्टोनिया (esṭoniyā)
• Sardinian: Estònia
• Saterland Frisian: Estlound
• Scots: Estonie, Eastland, Estonia
• Scottish Gaelic: Eastòinia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Естонија f

  Roman: Estonija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Estonia
• Silesian: Estůńijo
• Sinhalese: එස්ටෝනියා (esṭōniyā)
• Slovak: Estónsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Estónija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Estniska

  Upper Sorbian: Estiska

• Spanish: Estonia (es) f
• Swahili: Estonia (sw)
• Swazi: IWestoniya
• Swedish: Estland (sv)
• Tagalog: Estonya (tl)
• Tajik: Эстония (tg) (Estoniya)
• Tamil: எசுத்தோனியா (ecuttōṉiyā)
• Tatar: Эстония (Estoniya)
• Telugu: ఎస్టోనియా (te) (esṭōniyā)
• Tetum: Estónia
• Thai: เอสโตเนีย (th) (ées-dtoo-niia)
• Tigrinya: ኤስቶኒያ (ʾestoniya)
• Tok Pisin: Estonia
• Turkish: Estonya (tr)
• Turkmen: Estoniýa
• Tuvan: Эстония (Estoniya)
• Udmurt: Эстония (Estonija)
• Ukrainian: Есто́нія (uk) f (Estónija)
• Urdu: استونیا‎ m (estoniyā), ایسٹونیا‎ m (esṭoniyā)
• Uyghur: ئېستونىيە‎ (ëstoniye)
• Uzbek: Estoniya (uz)
• Venetian: Estonia (vec)
• Veps: Estinma
• Vietnamese: E-xtô-ni-a
• Volapük: Lestiyän (vo)
• Votic: viromaa
• Võro: Eesti
• Walloon: Estoneye
• Waray-Waray: Estonya
• Welsh: Estonia (cy)
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Estland
• West Frisian: Estlân (fy)
• Western Panjabi: اسٹونیا‎ (pnb)
• Wolof: Estooni
• Yakut: Эстония (Estoniya)
• Yiddish: עסטלאַנד‎ n (estland)
• Yoruba: Estonia
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Estonya
• Zealandic: Estland

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Estonia
• (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, 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

Anagrams

• Osetian, anetiso, anteiso-, astonie

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Aragonese

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Asturian

Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺tonia/, [e̞s̺.t̪o̞.ni.a]

Proper noun

Estonia inan

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Estonia (inan, indef, -A)

	indefinite
absolutive	Estonia
ergative	Estoniak
dative	Estoniari
genitive	Estoniaren
comitative	Estoniarekin
causative	Estoniarentzat
benefactive	Estoniarengatik
instrumental	Estoniaz
inessive	Estonian
locative	Estoniako
allative	Estoniara
terminative	Estoniaraino
directive	Estoniarantz
destinative	Estoniarako
ablative	Estoniatik
partitive	Estoniarik
prolative	Estoniatzat

Derived terms

• estoniar
• estoniera

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Breton

Proper noun

Estonia ?

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Galician

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• estoniano

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Ido

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

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Ilocano

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɔ.nja/

Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• estone

Anagrams

• aonesti, atesino, esitano, noiaste, onestai, osteina, soniate

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Aestonia, Esthonia, Aesthonia, Estlandia, Estia

Etymology

Possibly derived from the tribal name Aestī described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD).

Proper noun

Estonia f sg (genitive Estoniae); first declension

1. (medieval, New Latin) Estonia (a country in Europe)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Estonia
Genitive	Estoniae
Dative	Estoniae
Accusative	Estoniam
Ablative	Estoniā
Vocative	Estonia

Related terms

• estonicus

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Luhya

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Luo

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Polish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Estonia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ɛsˈtɔɲ.ja//

• Audio

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Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Estonia

	singular
nominative	Estonia
genitive	Estonii
dative	Estonii
accusative	Estonię
instrumental	Estonią
locative	Estonii
vocative	Estonio

Derived terms

• (nouns) Estończyk, Estonka
• (adjective) estoński

Further reading

• Estonia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Estonia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Estonia
Gen/Dat	Estoniei

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Sicilian

Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtonja/, [esˈt̪o.nja]

Proper noun

Estonia f

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• estoniano

Related terms

• estonio

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Estonia

1. Estonia (a country in Europe)