Moldavia

See also: moldávia, Moldávia, Moldavía, and Moldàvia

English

Map of Romania with the region of Moldavia highlighted in yellow

Proper noun

Moldavia

2. (historical) A former principality in Eastern Europe, which occupied a region now made up of the country of Moldova and northeastern Romania.

   Coordinate term: Wallachia

3. Nonstandard form of Moldova.
   • 1992, Nixon, Richard, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment‎^[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN 91-37743, OCLC 440652941, page 57:

     In Moldavia, a young Leonid Brezhnev orchestrated the postwar subjugation of the newly annexed Romanian territory, ordering thousands of executions and shipping off 30,000 people to Siberian labor camps.

Translations

region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩爾達維亞 (zh), 摩尔达维亚 (zh) (Mó'ěrdáwéiyà)

• Czech: Moldavsko (cs) n
• Danish: Moldavien (da)
• Finnish: Moldavia (fi)
• German: Moldawien (de) n
• Latvian: Moldāvija f
• Norman: Moldova
• Romanian: Moldova (ro) f, Principatul Moldovei n, Țara Moldovei f
• Russian: Молда́вия (ru) f (Moldávija), Молдо́ва (ru) f (Moldóva)
• Ukrainian: Молда́вія f (Moldávija), Молдо́ва (uk) f (Moldóva)

Moldova — see Moldova

See also

• Moldova

Further reading

• Moldavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Albanian

Proper noun

Moldavia

1. definite nominative singular of Moldavi

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moldabia/, [mo̞l̪.d̪a.β̞i.a]

Proper noun

Moldavia inan

1. Moldova (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Moldavia (inanimate, ending in -a)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	Moldavia	—	—
ergative	Moldaviak	—	—
dative	Moldaviari	—	—
genitive	Moldaviaren	—	—
comitative	Moldaviarekin	—	—
causative	Moldaviarengatik	—	—
benefactive	Moldaviarentzat	—	—
instrumental	Moldaviaz	—	—
inessive	Moldavian	—	—
locative	Moldaviako	—	—
allative	Moldaviara	—	—
terminative	Moldaviaraino	—	—
directive	Moldaviarantz	—	—
destinative	Moldaviarako	—	—
ablative	Moldaviatik	—	—
partitive	Moldaviarik	—	—
prolative	Moldaviatzat	—	—

Derived terms

• moldaviera
• moldaviar

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Finnish

Etymology

From German Moldawien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoldɑʋiɑ/, [ˈmo̞ldɑˌʋiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Mol‧da‧vi‧a

Proper noun

Moldavia

1. (historical) Moldavia (former principality)
2. (dated) Synonym of Moldova.

Declension

Inflection of Moldavia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Moldavia	—
genitive		Moldavian	—
partitive		Moldaviaa	—
illative		Moldaviaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Moldavia	—
accusative	nom.	Moldavia	—
	gen.	Moldavian
genitive		Moldavian	—
partitive		Moldaviaa	—
inessive		Moldaviassa	—
elative		Moldaviasta	—
illative		Moldaviaan	—
adessive		Moldavialla	—
ablative		Moldavialta	—
allative		Moldavialle	—
essive		Moldaviana	—
translative		Moldaviaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Moldaviatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Moldavia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Moldaviani	Moldaviamme
2nd person	Moldaviasi	Moldavianne
3rd person	Moldaviansa

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Franco-Provençal

Proper noun

Moldavia

1. Moldova (a country in Europe)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /molˈda.vja/
• Rhymes: -avja
• Hyphenation: Mol‧dà‧via

Proper noun

Moldavia f

1. Moldova

   Synonym: Moldovia

Derived terms

• moldavo

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Latin

Proper noun

Moldavia f sg (genitive Moldaviae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Moldova

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Moldavia
Genitive	Moldaviae
Dative	Moldaviae
Accusative	Moldaviam
Ablative	Moldaviā
Vocative	Moldavia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /molˈdabja/ [mol̪ˈd̪a.β̞ja]

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• Rhymes: -abja
• Hyphenation: Mol‧da‧via

Proper noun

Moldavia f

1. Moldova (a country in Eastern Europe)

Related terms

• moldavo