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Praha
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praha Pra-ha
English
Etymology
From en cs Praha. en Prague.
Proper noun
en Prague.
8 July 1945 The Foreign Service https://archive.ph/dcwHf https://www.nytimes.com/1945/07/08/archives/the-foreign-service.html 12 November 2025 Walter W. Birge Jr. of New York, third secretary of legation and vice consul at Baghdad, designated third secretary of embassy at Praha, Czechoslovakia, and assigned vice consul at Dharan, Saudi Arabia, for temporary duty en route.
29 September 1956 w:Eli Waldron Department of Amplification https://web.archive.org/web/20211002044959/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1956/10/06/1956-10-06-168-tny-cards-000250333 I find it very easy (too easy, perhaps) to visualize some scholarly monk coining the word in his dim cell in the midst of the Hussite religious war and passing it on out of the side of his mouth in a quick whisper at vespers, the word then going around from cowl to cowl all over Western Europe, accompanied by many a baleful glance in the direction of Praha, and many a surreptitious, throat-slitting gesture
10 July 2021 Deirdre Simonds; Rebecca Lawrence Katy Perry documents her and fiance Orlando Bloom's fun-filled adventures in Prague as he films Carnival Row https://web.archive.org/web/20210710072643/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9775177/Katy-Perry-documents-fiance-Orlando-Blooms-fun-filled-adventures-Prague.html 'While daddy works mommy plays for dayyys in Praha,' the 13-time Grammy nominee captioned her post on Friday.
Czech
cs:
Etymology
cs zlw-ocs Praha, earlier origin is contested; compare cs pražit (land cleared by) burning or cs práh threshold.
Pronunciation
cs Cs-Praha.ogg
cs LL-Q9056 (ces)-Ghost4Man-Praha.wav
Proper noun
f pražský Pražan,Pražák<l:informal> Pražanka
cs capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Declension
f.sg
Proper noun
m-an Prahová
cs m place names
Declension
m.an.surname
Descendants
nb Praha 1
Further reading
Estonian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
et proper noun
et capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Finnish
Etymology
From fi cs Praha.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Declension
sg Prah a
Lithuanian
Proper noun
lt proper noun f
lt capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Malay
ms:
Etymology
From ms cs Praha.
Pronunciation
Baku
Prahe Johor-Riau ms
ms ahə hə ə
Proper noun
ms capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Norwegian Bokmål
nb:
250px|thumb|View from Petřín, a hill in the centre of Prague, Czechia.
Etymology
From nb cs Praha Prague, from cs práh threshold, from nb zlw-ocs práh threshold, from nb sla-pro *porgъ threshold, doorstep, from nb ine-bsl-pro *parˀgas, from nb ine-pro *porgos.
Pronunciation
nb /ˈprɑːha/
nb nb-praha.ogg
nb ɑːha
nb Pra ha
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
nb 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
nb prager pragerskinke pragerstein
References
“Praha” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams
nb harpa
Old Czech
Etymology
zlw-ocs
Pronunciation
Proper noun
thumb|zlw-ocs Praha|380px
f pražský Pražěnín,Pražák
Prague
Prague Castle
Declension
f.sg
Descendants
cs Praha
sk Praha 1
czk פרגא prga
zlw-opl Praga 1
pl Praga
szl Praga
Sorbian:
dsb Praga 1
hsb Praha 1
la Praga 1
frm Prague 1
fr Prague
en Prague 1
ar frāga farāga 1
Proper noun
m-pr
zlw-ocs
Declension
m.pr
Further reading
Slovak
Etymology
sk :bor cs:Praha<ety:uder<zlw-ocs:Praha>> 2 1
Pronunciation
sk /ˈpraɦa/
Proper noun
f Prahy žena
sk capital city c/Czech Republic Prague
Declension
f sg
Derived terms
sk Pražan
sk pražský
Further reading