Slovakia

See also: slovakia, Slovákia, and Slóvakía

English

Etymology

First attested to in German in 1586, itself apparently derived from Slovak Slováky, equivalent to English Slovak + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sləʊˈvæ.ki.ə/, /sləʊˈvɑː.ki.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sloʊˈvɑ.ki.ə/, /sloʊˈvæ.ki.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ækiə, -ɑːkiə

Proper noun

Slovakia

2. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Slovak Republic

Translations

Slovakia

• Abkhaz: Словактәыла (Slovakʼtʷʼəla), Словакиа (Slovakʼja)
• Afrikaans: Slowakye
• Akan: Slowakia
• Albanian: Sllovaki f (indefinite), Sllovakia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ስሎቫኪያ (səlovakiya)
• Arabic: سْلُوفَاكِيَا‎ f (slovākiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: سلوفاكيا‎ f (slōfākya), سلوڤاكيا‎ f (slōvākya)

• Armenian: Սլովակիա (hy) (Slovakia)
• Aromanian: Sluvakii f (indefinite), Sluvakia (definite)
• Asturian: Eslovaquia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Slovakiya (az)
• Bashkir: Словакия (Slovakiya)
• Basque: Eslovakia (eu)
• Bavarian: Slowàkai
• Belarusian: Слава́кія f (Slavákija), Слава́ччына f (Slaváččyna) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: স্লোভাকিয়া (bn) (slōbhakiẏa)
• Breton: Slovakia (br)
• Bulgarian: Слова́кия (bg) f (Slovákija)
• Burmese: ဆလိုဗားကီးယား (hca.luiba:ki:ya:)
• Catalan: Eslovàquia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯洛伐克 (zh) (Sīluòfákè)

• Crimean Tatar: Slovakiya
• Czech: Slovensko (cs) n
• Danish: Slovakiet (da) n
• Dhivehi: ސުލޮވާކިއާ‎ (dv) (sulovākiā)
• Dutch: Slowakije (nl) n, Slovakije n
• Esperanto: Slovakio, Slovakujo
• Estonian: Slovakkia (et)
• Farefare: Solovakgo, Solvakgo
• Faroese: Slovakia f or n
• Finnish: Slovakia (fi)
• French: Slovaquie (fr) f
• Friulian: Slovachie f
• Gagauz: Slovakiya
• Galician: Eslovaquia (gl) f
• Georgian: სლოვაკეთი (ka) (slovaḳeti)
• German: Slowakei (de) f
• Greek: Σλοβακία (el) f (Slovakía)
• Hausa: Sulobakiya
• Hawaiian: Solowakia
• Hebrew: סְלוֹבַקְיָה‎ (he) f (slovakiya)
• Hindi: स्लोवाकिया (hi) (slovākiyā)
• Hungarian: Szlovákia (hu)
• Icelandic: Slóvakía (is) f
• Ido: Slovakia (io)
• Indonesian: Slowakia (id)
• Irish: Slóvaic f, Poblacht na Slóvaice f
• Italian: Slovacchia (it) f
• Japanese: スロヴァキア (ja) (Surovakia), スロバキア (ja) (Surobakia)
• Kazakh: Словакия (Slovakiä)
• Khmer: ស្លូវ៉ាគី (slouvaakii)
• Korean: 슬로바키아 (ko) (Seullobakia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Slovakya (ku) f

• Kven: Slovakia
• Kyrgyz: Словакия (Slovakiya)
• Lao: ສະໂລວາກີ (lo) (sa lō wā kī)
• Latvian: Slovākija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Slovakija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Словачка (mk) f (Slovačka), Словакија (mk) f (Slovakija)
• Malay: Slovakia
• Maltese: is-Slovakja f
• Maori: Horowākia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Словак (Slovak)

• Navajo: Słóbaʼ bikéyah
• Norman: Slovaquie f
• Northern Sami: Slovakia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Slovakia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Slovakia (nn) n

• Occitan: Eslovaquia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Словѣньско n (Slověnĭsko)

• Pashto: سلواکيا‎ f (salwākyā)
• Persian: اسلواکی‎ (fa) (eslovâki)
• Picard: Slovakie f
• Polish: Słowacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eslováquia (pt)
• Quechua: Isluwakya
• Romanian: Slovacia (ro) f
• Russian: Слова́кия (ru) f (Slovákija)
• Rusyn: Словеньско n (Slovenʹsko)
• Scottish Gaelic: An t-Slòbhac
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сло̀ва̄чка f

  Roman: Slòvāčkā (sh) f

• Shan: မိူင်းသလူဝ်ႇဝႃးၵီးယႃး (móeng sǎ lò wáa kíi yáa)
• Silesian: Słowacyjo f
• Sinhalese: ස්ලෝවැකියාව (slōwækiyāwa)
• Slovak: Slovensko (sk) n
• Slovene: Slováška (sl) f
• Spanish: Eslovaquia (es) f
• Swahili: Slovakia (sw), Uslovaki
• Swedish: Slovakien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Eslobakya
• Tajik: Словакия (tg) (Slovakiya)
• Tatar: Словакия (Slowaqiya)
• Thai: สโลวาเกีย (th) (sà-loo-waa-giia)
• Tibetan: སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ (si lo pha khe)
• Tigrinya: ስሎቫኪያ (səlovakiya)
• Tongan: Silovakia
• Turkish: Slovakya (tr)
• Turkmen: Slowakiýa
• Ukrainian: Слова́ччина (uk) f (Slováččyna), Слове́ньско n (Slovénʹsko) (Ruthenian)
• Urdu: سلوواکیہ‎ m (slovākiyā)
• Uyghur: سلوۋاكىيە‎ (slowakiye)
• Uzbek: Slovakiya (uz)
• Veps: Slovakii
• Vietnamese: Xlô-va-ki-a
• Welsh: Slofacia (cy)
• Yiddish: סלאָוואַקיע‎ f (slovakye), סלאָװאַקײַ‎ f (slovakay)
• Yoruba: Silofakia

See also

• (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
• Countries of the world
• Wikipedia article on Slovakia

Further reading

• Slovakia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately from Slovak Slovák + -ia.

Proper noun

Slovakia n

1. Slovakia

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Slovakia
Accusative	Slovakia
Dative	Slovakia
Genitive	Slovakia

Finnish

Etymology

From German Slowakei, from Slovak Slovák.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsloʋɑkiɑ/, [ˈs̠lo̞ʋɑˌkiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Slo‧va‧ki‧a

Proper noun

Slovakia

1. Slovakia

Declension

Inflection of Slovakia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Slovakia	—
genitive		Slovakian	—
partitive		Slovakiaa	—
illative		Slovakiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Slovakia	—
accusative	nom.	Slovakia	—
	gen.	Slovakian
genitive		Slovakian	—
partitive		Slovakiaa	—
inessive		Slovakiassa	—
elative		Slovakiasta	—
illative		Slovakiaan	—
adessive		Slovakialla	—
ablative		Slovakialta	—
allative		Slovakialle	—
essive		Slovakiana	—
translative		Slovakiaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Slovakiatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Slovakia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Slovakiani	Slovakiamme
2nd person	Slovakiasi	Slovakianne
3rd person	Slovakiansa

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sloˈvaki̯a/

Proper noun

Slovakia

1. Slovakia

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Slovakia

1. Slovakia

Related terms

• slovak
• slovakisk

See also

• Tsjekkoslovakia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Slovakia

1. Slovakia

Related terms

• slovak
• slovakisk

See also

• Tsjekkoslovakia