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English
Commons:Category
Location of Lithuania
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Līthuānia f , from Proto-Slavic *Litъva f , from Old Lithuanian Lietuva f .
It has been speculated that the name comes from the rivulet Lietauka ,[ 1] although archeological evidence does not corroborate this hypothesis.
Pronunciation
( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˌlɪθ.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/ , /ˌlɪð.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/
( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˌlɪθ.uˈeɪ.ni.ə/ , /lɪθˈweɪ.ni.ə/
Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Lithuania
A country in northeastern Europe . Official name: Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika ).
2022 August 13, Yew Lun Tian, Augustas Stankevicius, Ben Blanchard, “China sanctions Lithuanian deputy minister for Taiwan visit”, in Mark Heinrich, Paul Simao, William Mallard, editors, Reuters , archived from the original on 13 August 2022 , World:Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the sanctions, saying they amounted to "irrational retaliation" by China. "Taiwan vows to continue to do its best to assist Lithuania to counter the unreasonable and arbitrary suppression of the Chinese government," the ministry said in a statement.
Translations
country
Abkhaz: Литва ( Litʼva )
Acehnese: Lithuania
Afrikaans: Litaue , Litoue
Albanian: Lituani f , Lituania (sq) f ( definite )
Amharic: ሊትዌኒያ ( litweniya )
Arabic: لِتُوَانِيَا f ( lituwāniyā )
Hijazi Arabic: لِتْوانْيا ( litwānya )
Armenian: Լիտվա (hy) ( Litva )
Assamese: লিথুৱেনিয়া ( lithuenia )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܸܬܘܼܵܢܝܼܵܐ f ( lituwaniya )
Asturian: Lituania (ast)
Azerbaijani: Litva (az)
Cyrillic: Литва (az)
Bashkir: Литва ( Litva )
Basque: Lituania (eu)
Bavarian: Litaun
Belarusian: Літва́ f ( Litvá ) , Летува́ f ( Ljetuvá ) ( Taraškievica )
Bengali: লিথুয়ানিয়া (bn) ( lithuẏaniẏa )
Breton: Lituania
Bulgarian: Ли́тва (bg) f ( Lítva )
Burmese: လစ်သူယေးနီးယား ( lacsuye:ni:ya: )
Buryat: Литва ( Litva )
Carpathian Rusyn: Літва́ f ( Litvá )
Catalan: Lituània (ca) f
Chagatai: لیپقا ( līpqā /lipqa/ ) , لیبقا ( lībqā /libqa/ )
Chechen: Литва ( Litʷa )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 立陶宛 ( lap6 tou4 jyun2 )
Mandarin: 立陶宛 (zh) ( Lìtáowǎn )
Wu: 立陶宛 ( 8 liq-dau-uoe)
Chuvash: Литва ( Litva )
Crimean Tatar: Litvaniya
Czech: Litva (cs) f
Danish: Litauen (da)
Dhivehi: ލިތުއޭނިއާ ( lituēniā )
Dutch: Litouwen (nl) n
Dzongkha: ལི་ཐུ་ནི་ཡ། ( li thu ni ya )
Esperanto: Litovio , Litovujo
Estonian: Leedu (et)
Farefare: Litugo
Faroese: Litava (fo) n
Finnish: Liettua (fi)
French: Lituanie (fr) f
Friulian: Lituanie f
Galician: Lituania (gl) f
Georgian: ლიტვა ( liṭva ) , ლიეტუვა (ka) ( lieṭuva )
German: Litauen (de) n
Greek: Λιθουανία (el) f ( Lithouanía )
Gujarati: લિથુઆનિયા ( lithuāniyā )
Hausa: Lithuania , Lituweniya
Hawaiian: Lituania
Hebrew: לִיטָא (he) f ( litá )
Hindi: लिथुआनिया (hi) m ( lithuāniyā )
Hungarian: Litvánia (hu)
Icelandic: Litháen (is) n , Lithaugaland n ( obsolete )
Ido: Lituania (io)
Indonesian: Lithuania
Ingrian: Litva
Irish: An Liotuáin f
Italian: Lituania (it) f
Japanese: リトアニア (ja) ( Ritoania )
Kannada: ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯ (kn) ( lithuvēniya )
Kashubian: Lëtwa f
Kazakh: Литва (kk) ( Litva )
Khmer: លីទុយអានី ( liituyʼaanii )
Korean: 리투아니아 (ko) ( Rituania ) , 리뜨바 (ko) ( Ritteuba ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Lîtvanya
Kyrgyz: Литва ( Litva )
Lao: ລີຕົວນີ ( lī tūa nī ) , ລິດທົວເນຍ (lo) ( lit thūa nīa ) , ລິດຕົວນີ ( lit tūa nī )
Latgalian: Lītova f
Latin: Lītua f , Lītuānia f , Līthuānia f
Latvian: Lietuva (lv) f
Lithuanian: Lietuva (lt) f (Aukštaitian or standard)
Samogitian: Lietova f
Livonian: Leišmō
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Litouwen
German Low German: Litauen (nds)
Macedonian: Литванија (mk) f ( Litvanija )
Malay: Lithuania (ms)
Malayalam: ലിത്വാനിയ ( litvāniya )
Maltese: Il-Litwanja f
Maori: Rituānia
Marathi: लिथुएनिया ( lithueniyā )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Литва ( Litva )
Mongolian: ᠯᠢᠲ᠋ᠸᠠ ( litwa )
Nauruan: Rituainiya (na)
Navajo: Tséjééʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah
Nepali: लिथुआनिया ( lithuāniyā )
Norman: Lithuanie f
Northern Sami: Lietuva
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Litauen (no) n
Nynorsk: Litauen (nn) n
Occitan: Lituània (oc) f
Odia: ଲିଥୁଆନିଆ ( lithuāniā )
Ossetian: Литва ( Litva )
Pashto: ليتوانيا f ( litwānyā ) , لتوانيا f ( letwānyā )
Persian:
Dari: لِتْوَانِیَا ( litwāniyā )
Iranian Persian: لیتْوانی (fa) ( litvâni )
Polish: Litwa (pl) f
Portuguese: Lituânia (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਲਿਥੁਆਨੀਆ m ( lithuānīā )
Romanian: Lituania (ro) f
Cyrillic: Литуания f ( Lituania )
Russian: Литва́ (ru) f ( Litvá )
Scots: Lithuanie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Лѝтва̄нија f , Ли̏тва f
Roman: Lìtvānija f , Lȉtva (sh) f
Shan: မိူင်းလီႉတူႇဝေးၼီးယႃး ( móeng lḭ̂i tùu wée níi yáa )
Silesian: Litwa f
Sinhalese: ලිතුවේනියාව ( lituwēniyāwa )
Slovak: Litva f
Slovene: Lítva (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Litawska f
Upper Sorbian: Litawska f
Spanish: Lituania (es)
Swedish: Litauen (sv) n
Tagalog: Litwanya
Tajik: Литва ( Litva )
Tamil: லித்துவேனியா ( littuvēṉiyā )
Tatar: Литва ( Litwa )
Telugu: లిథువేనియా (te) ( lithuvēniyā )
Thai: ลิทัวเนีย (th) ( lí-tuua-niia )
Tibetan: ལི་ཐུ་ཨེ་ནི་ཡ ( li thu e ni ya )
Tigrinya: ሊቱዌኒያ ( lituweniya )
Turkish: Litvanya (tr)
Turkmen: Litwa
Cyrillic: Литва
Ukrainian: Литва́ (uk) f ( Lytvá )
Urdu: لِتُھوینِیا m ( lithueniyā ) , لِتُھوانِیا m ( lithuāniyā )
Uyghur: لىتۋا ( litwa )
Cyrillic: Литва ( Litwa )
Uzbek: Litva (uz)
Cyrillic: Литва ( Litva )
Vietnamese: Lít-va
Volapük: Lietuvän (vo)
Võro: Leedu
Welsh: Lithwania (cy) , Llethaw
Yakut: Литва ( Litva )
Yiddish: ליטע f ( lite )
Yoruba: Lituania
See also
Ethnographic regions of Lithuania
(countries of Europe ) countries of Europe ; Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia (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
Appendix:Countries of the world
References
^ Zigmas Zinkevičius, Lietuvos senosios valstybės 40 svarbiausių mįslių , Vilnius, 2011, p. 111
Acehnese
Etymology
From English Lithuania .
Proper noun
Lithuania
Lithuania