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Lithuania
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English
thumb|200px|Location of Lithuania
Etymology
From en la-med Lītuānia Līthuānia f, from en sla-pro *Litъva f, from en olt Lietuva f; compare the Early Modern synonym en Lettow (from enm Lettowe).
It has been speculated that the name comes from the rivulet Lietauka,Zigmas Zinkevičius, Lietuvos senosios valstybės 40 svarbiausių mįslių, Vilnius, 2011, p. 111 although archeological evidence does not corroborate this hypothesis.
Pronunciation
en /ˌlɪθ.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/ /ˌlɪð.juˈeɪ.ni.ə/ RP
en /ˌlɪθjʉwɛjnɪjə/ SSB
en Lithuania pronunciation RP.ogg Southern England
en /ˌlɪθ.uˈeɪ.ni.ə/ /lɪθˈweɪ.ni.ə/ US
en /ˌlɪθjʉ.e.ne.ə/ /-nɪ.ə/ /-ni.ə/ Scotland
en /lɪθˈwan̪.jɐ/ Philippines
en eɪniə 5
Proper noun
en Q37en country in northeastern cont/Europe Republic of Lithuania Vilnius.
en August 13, 2022 Yew Lun Tian; Augustas Stankevicius; Ben Blanchard China sanctions Lithuanian deputy minister for Taiwan visit Mark Heinrich; Paul Simao; William Mallard https://web.archive.org/web/20220813100038/https://www.reuters.com/world/china-sanctions-lithuanian-deputy-minister-visiting-taiwan-2022-08-12/ 13 August 2022 w:Reuters 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.
Derived terms
en Central Lithuania Lithuanian Lithuanian SSR Lithuanic Middle Lithuania Republic of Central Lithuania
Translations
Q37 country
Abkhaz: ab Литва
Acehnese: ace Lithuania
Afrikaans: af Litaue, af Litoue
Albanian: sq Lituani f, sq Lituania f definite
Amharic: am ሊትዌኒያ
Arabic: ar لِتُوَانِيَا f or ar لِثُوَانِيَا f, ar لِيتُوَانِيَا f, ar لِيثُوَانِيَا f
Hijazi Arabic: acw لتوانيا litwānya
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܠܸܬܘܼܵܢܝܼܵܐ f lituwaniya
Armenian: hy Լիտվա
Assamese: as লিথুৱেনিয়া
Asturian: ast Lituania
Azerbaijani: az Litva
Cyrillic: az Литва
Bashkir: ba Литва
Basque: eu Lituania
Belarusian: be Літва́ f, be Летува́ f Taraškievica
Bengali: bn লিথুয়ানিয়া
Breton: br Lituania
Bulgarian: bg Ли́тва f
Burmese: my လစ်သူယေးနီးယား
Buryat: bua Литва
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Літва́ f
Catalan: ca Lituània f
Chagatai: chg لیپقا līpqā lipqa, chg لیبقا lībqā libqa
Chechen: ce Литва
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 立陶宛 lap6 tou4 jyun2
Mandarin: cmn 立陶宛
Wu: wuu 立陶宛
Chuvash: cv Литва
Crimean Tatar: crh Litvaniya
Czech: cs Litva f
Danish: da Litauen
Dhivehi: dv ލިތުއޭނިއާ
Dutch: nl Litouwen n
Dzongkha: dz ལི་ཐུ་ནི་ཡ།
Esperanto: eo Litovio, eo Litovujo
Estonian: et Leedu
Farefare: gur Litugo
Faroese: fo Litava n
Finnish: fi Liettua
French: fr Lituanie f
Friulian: fur Lituanie f
Galician: gl Lituania f
Georgian: ka ლიტვა, ka ლიეტუვა
German: de Litauen n
Bavarian: bar Litaun
Greek: el Λιθουανία f
Gujarati: gu લિથુઆનિયા
Hausa: ha Lithuania, ha Lituweniya
Hawaiian: haw Lituania
Hebrew: he לִיטָא f litá
Hindi: hi लिथुआनिया m
Hungarian: hu Litvánia
Icelandic: is Litáen n, is Litháen n, is Lithaugaland n obsolete
Ido: io Lituania
Indonesian: id Lithuania, id Lituania
Ingrian: izh Litva
Irish: ga Liotuáin f An Liotuáin
Italian: it Lituania f
Japanese: ja リトアニア Ritoania
Javanese: jv Litowen, jv Lituania
Kannada: kn ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯ
Kashubian: csb Lëtwa f
Kazakh: kk Литва
Khmer: km លីទុយអានី
Korean: ko ^리투아니아, ko ^리뜨바 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Lîtvanya
Kyrgyz: ky Литва
Lao: lo ລີຕົວນີ, lo ລິດທົວເນຍ, lo ລິດຕົວນີ
Latgalian: ltg Lītova f
Latin: la Lītua f, la Lītuānia f, la Līthuānia f
Latvian: lv Lietuva f
Lithuanian: lt Lietuva f (Aukštaitian or standard)
Samogitian: sgs Lietova f
Livonian: liv Leišmō
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Litouwen
German Low German: nds-de Litauen
Macedonian: mk Литванија f
Malay: ms Lithuania
Malayalam: ml ലിത്വാനിയ
Maltese: mt Litwanja f Il-Litwanja
Māori: mi Rituānia
Marathi: mr लिथुएनिया
Middle English: enm Lettowe
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Литва
Mongolian script: mn ᠯᠢᠲ᠋ᠸᠠ
Nauruan: na Rituainiya
Navajo: nv Tséjééʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah
Nepali: ne लिथुआनिया
Norman: nrf Lithuanie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Litauen n
Nynorsk: nn Litauen n
Occitan: oc Lituània f
Odia: or ଲିଥୁଆନିଆ
Ossetian: os Литва
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Литвания f
Pashto: ps ليتوانيا f litwānyā, ps لتوانيا f letwānyā
Persian:
Dari: prs لِتْوَانِیَا
Iranian Persian: fa-ira لیتْوانی
Polish: pl Litwa f
Portuguese: pt Lituânia f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਲਿਥੁਆਨੀਆ m
Romanian: ro Lituania f
Cyrillic: ro Литуания f
Russian: ru Литва́ f
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Lietuva
Scots: sco Lithuanie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Лѝтва̄нија f, sh Ли̏тва f
Latin: sh Lìtvānija f, sh Lȉtva f
Shan: shn မိူင်းလီႉတူႇဝေးၼီးယႃး
Silesian: szl Litwa f
Sinhalese: si ලිතුවේනියාව
Slovak: sk Litva f
Slovene: sl Lítva f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Litawska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Litawska f
Spanish: es Lituania
Sundanese: su Lituania
Swedish: sv Litauen n
Tagalog: tl Litwanya
Tajik: tg Литва
Tamil: ta லித்துவேனியா, ta லித்துவானியா
Tatar: tt Литва, tt Либка
Telugu: te లిథువేనియా
Thai: th ลิทัวเนีย
Tibetan: bo ལི་ཐུ་ཨེ་ནི་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ሊቱዌኒያ
Turkish: tr Litvanya
Turkmen: tk Litwa
Cyrillic: tk Литва
Ukrainian: uk Литва́ f
Urdu: ur لِتُھوینِیا m lithueniyā, ur لِتُھوانِیا m lithuāniyā
Uyghur: ug لىتۋا
Cyrillic: ug Литва
Uzbek: uz Litva
Cyrillic: uz Литва
Vietnamese: vi Lít-va
Volapük: vo Lietuvän
Võro: vro Leedu
Welsh: cy Lithwania, cy Llethaw
Yakut: sah Литва
Yiddish: yi ליטע f
Yoruba: yo Lituania
See also
Ethnographic regions of Lithuania
Appendix:Countries of the world
References
en terms suffixed with -ia (place) exonyms
Acehnese
ace:
Etymology
From ace en Lithuania.
Proper noun
ace proper noun
ace Lithuania Q37