Praha
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech Praha, earlier origin is contested; compare Czech pražit (“(land cleared by) burning”) or práh (“threshold”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha f (related adjective pražský, demonym Pražan or (informal) Pražák)
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Norwegian Bokmål: Praha
Further reading edit
Estonian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Declension edit
Inflection of Praha (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Praha | — | ||
genitive | Prahan | — | ||
partitive | Prahaa | — | ||
illative | Prahaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Praha | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Praha | — | |
gen. | Prahan | |||
genitive | Prahan | — | ||
partitive | Prahaa | — | ||
inessive | Prahassa | — | ||
elative | Prahasta | — | ||
illative | Prahaan | — | ||
adessive | Prahalla | — | ||
ablative | Prahalta | — | ||
allative | Prahalle | — | ||
essive | Prahana | — | ||
translative | Prahaksi | — | ||
abessive | Prahatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Lithuanian edit
Proper noun edit
Praha f
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /prahə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /praha/
- Rhymes: -ahə, -hə, -ə
Proper noun edit
Praha
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Czech Praha (“Prague”), from práh (“threshold”), from Old Czech práh (“threshold”), from Proto-Slavic *porgъ (“threshold, doorstep”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porgos.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
- Praha har helt siden middelalderen vært et naturlig kommunikasjons- og handelssentrum
- Since the Middle Ages, Prague has been a natural center of communication and trade
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “Praha” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams edit
Old Czech edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha f (related adjective pražský, demonym Pražěnín or Pražák)
Declension edit
Declension of Praha (sg-only hard a-stem)
singular | |
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nominative | Praha |
genitive | Prahy |
dative | Prazě |
accusative | Prahu |
vocative | Praho |
locative | Prazě |
instrumental | Prahú |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants edit
- Czech: Praha
- → Slovak: Praha
- Knaanic: פרגא (prga)
- → Old Polish: Praga
- Sorbian:
- → Latin: Praga
- → Arabic: [script needed] (frāga), [script needed] (farāga)
Proper noun edit
Praha m pers
- a surname
Declension edit
Declension of Praha (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | Praha | Prazě | Prahy |
genitive | Prahy | Prahú | Prah |
dative | Prazě | Prahama | Prahám |
accusative | Prahu | Prazě | Prahy |
vocative | Praho | Prazě | Prahy |
locative | Prazě | Prahú | Prahách |
instrumental | Prahú | Prahama | Prahami |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Further reading edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “Praha”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Czech Praha, from Old Czech Praha.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Praha f (genitive singular Prahy, declension pattern of žena)
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Declension edit
Declension of Praha
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Praha”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024