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Slovakia
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slovakia Slovákia Slóvakía
English
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Etymology
First attested to in German in 1586, itself apparently derived from en sk Slovák Slováky,Ferdinand Uličný Toponymum Slovensko – pôvod a obsah názvu The name Slovakia (Slovensko) – its origin and content Historický časopis Historický ústav SAV 3 2014 548 0018-2575 equivalent to English en Slovak -ia place.
Pronunciation
en /sləʊˈvæ.ki.ə/ /sləʊˈvɑː.ki.ə/ UK
en /sloʊˈvɑ.ki.ə/ /sloʊˈvæ.ki.ə/ US
en /sloˈvɐk.jɐ/ Philippines
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Slovakia.wav UK
en en-us-Slovakia.ogg US
en ækiə ɑːkiə 4
Proper noun
en Q214en country r/Central Europe Slovak Republic Bratislava.
Eliza Mackintosh No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/europe/european-countries-not-meeting-refugee-resettling-obligations/index.html 2017-03-02 Hungary, Austria and Poland are still refusing to participate in the resettlement plan, due to end in September. Other Eastern European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia, are only doing so on a limited basis, the commission said. https://web.archive.org/web/20180125011850/https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/europe/european-countries-not-meeting-refugee-resettling-obligations/index.html
Derived terms
en Czechoslovakia
Descendants
ja 1 スロバキア Surobakia
Translations
Q214 country in eastern Europe
Abkhaz: ab Словактәыла, ab Словакиа
Afrikaans: af Slowakye
Akan: ak Slowakia
Albanian: sq Sllovaki f indefinite, sq Sllovakia f definite
Amharic: am ስሎቫኪያ
Arabic: ar سُلُوفَاكِيَا f
Hijazi Arabic: acw سلوفاكيا f slovākya
Armenian: hy Սլովակիա
Aromanian: rup Sluvakii f indefinite, rup Sluvakia definite
Assamese: as শ্লোভাকিয়া
Asturian: ast Eslovaquia f
Azerbaijani: az Slovakiya
Bashkir: ba Словакия
Basque: eu Eslovakia
Belarusian: be Слава́кія f, be Слава́ччына f Taraškievica
Bengali: bn স্লোভাকিয়া
Breton: br Slovakia
Bulgarian: bg Слова́кия f
Burmese: my ဆလိုဗားကီးယား
Buryat: bua Словаки
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Словеньско n
Catalan: ca Eslovàquia f
Chechen: ce Словаки
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 斯洛伐克
Mandarin: cmn 斯洛伐克
Chuvash: cv Словаки
Corsican: co Slovacchia f, co Sluvacchia f
Crimean Tatar: crh Slovakiya
Czech: cs Slovensko n
Danish: da Slovakiet n
Dhivehi: dv ސުލޮވާކިއާ
Dutch: nl Slowakije n, nl Slovakije n
Esperanto: eo Slovakio, eo Slovakujo
Estonian: et Slovakkia
Farefare: gur Solovakgo, gur Solvakgo
Faroese: fo Slovakia f n
Finnish: fi Slovakia
French: fr Slovaquie f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Slowakije n
Friulian: fur Slovachie f
Gagauz: gag Slovakiya
Galician: gl Eslovaquia f
Georgian: ka სლოვაკეთი
German: de Slowakei f
Bavarian: bar Slowàkai
Greek: el Σλοβακία f
Gujarati: gu સ્લોવાકિયા
Hausa: ha Sulobakiya
Hawaiian: haw Solowakia
Hebrew: he סְלוֹבַקְיָה f slovákya
Hindi: hi स्लोवाकिया m
Hungarian: hu Szlovákia
Icelandic: is Slóvakía f
Ido: io Slovakia
Indonesian: id Slowakia
Irish: ga Slóvaic f
Italian: it Slovacchia f
Japanese: ja スロヴァキア Surovakia, ja スロバキア Surobakia
Kannada: kn ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯ
Kashubian: csb Słowackô f
Kazakh: kk Словакия
Khmer: km ស្លូវ៉ាគី
Korean: ko ^슬로바키아, ko ^슬로벤스꼬 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Slovakya f
Kven: fkv Slovakia
Kyrgyz: ky Словакия
Lao: lo ສະໂລວາກີ
Latin: la Slovacia f New Latin
Latvian: lv Slovākija f
Lithuanian: lt Slovakija f
Macedonian: mk Словачка f, mk Словакија f
Malay: ms Slovakia
Malayalam: ml സ്ലോവാക്യ
Maltese: mt Slovakja f is-Slovakja
Māori: mi Horowākia
Marathi: mr स्लोव्हाकिया m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Словак
Mongolian script: mn ᠰᠯᠤᠸᠠᠻ
Navajo: nv Słóbaʼ bikéyah
Nepali: ne स्लोभाकिया
Norman: nrf Slovaquie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Slovakia
Nynorsk: nn Slovakia n
Occitan: oc Eslovaquia f
Odia: or ସ୍ଲୋଭାକିଆ
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Словѣньско n modern
Glagolitic: cu Ⱄⰾⱁⰲⱑⱀⱐⱄⰽⱁ n modern
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Словацка f
Pashto: ps سلواکيا f salwākyā
Persian:
Dari: prs سِلُوَاکِیَا silōwākiyā, prs سْلُوَاکِیَا slōwākiyā
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اِسْلُواکی
Picard: pcd Slovakie f
Polish: pl Słowacja f
Portuguese: pt Eslováquia
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਸਲੋਵਾਕੀਆ m
Quechua: qu Isluwakya
Romanian: ro Slovacia f
Russian: ru Слова́кия f
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Slovakia
Sardinian: sc Islovàchia f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Slòbhac
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Сло̀ва̄чка f
Latin: sh Slòvāčkā f
Shan: shn မိူင်းသလူဝ်ႇဝႃးၵီးယႃး
Sicilian: scn Slovacchia f
Silesian: szl Słowacyjo f
Sinhalese: si ස්ලෝවැකියාව
Slovak: sk Slovensko n
Slovene: sl Slováška f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Słowakska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Słowakska f
Spanish: es Eslovaquia f
Swahili: sw Slovakia, sw Uslovaki
Swedish: sv Slovakien n
Tagalog: tl Eslobakya
Tajik: tg Словакия
Tamil: ta சிலோவாக்கியா
Tatar: tt Словакия
Telugu: te స్లొవేకియా
Thai: th สโลวาเกีย
Tibetan: bo སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ
Tigrinya: ti ስሎቫኪያ
Tongan: to Silovakia
Turkish: tr Slovakya
Turkmen: tk Slowakiýa
Ukrainian: uk Слова́ччина f, uk Слове́ньско n Ruthenian
Urdu: ur سْلوواکِیَہ m
Uyghur: ug سلوۋاكىيە
Uzbek: uz Slovakiya
Veps: vep Slovakii
Vietnamese: vi Xlô-va-ki-a
Welsh: cy Slofacia
Yakut: sah Словакия
Yiddish: yi סלאָוואַקיע f, yi סלאָװאַקײַ f
Yoruba: yo Silofakia
See also
Countries of the world
References
Further reading
en exonyms
Faroese
fo:
Etymology
Ultimately from fo sk Slovák + fo -ia.
Proper noun
fo proper noun n
fo Slovakia Q214
Declension
Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi de Slowakei, from fi sk Slovák.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Slovakia Q214
Declension
sg Slovaki a
Derived terms
fi slovakia slovakialainen
fi compounds slovakiancuvac Tšekkoslovakia
Related terms
fi Tšekkoslovakia
See also
Ido
io:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
io proper noun
io Slovakia Q214
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
no
thumb|The flag of Slovakia.
thumb|The location of Slovakia in Europe.
thumb|The High Tatras in northern Slovakia.
Etymology
nb, ultimately based on Slovak sk Slovák Slovak with the place-name suffix la -ia. The international form is first attested in German in 1586.
The ethnonym sk Slovák is from sk Slovan Slav + sk -ák, ultimately from nb sla-pro *slověninъ Slav. This word family is traditionally connected with sla-pro *slovo word, from nb ine-pro *ḱléwos that which is heard; fame, though the deeper analysis of the ethnonym is uncertain.
Parallel international forms include nn Slovakia, fo Slovakia, fi Slovakia, is Slóvakía, da Slovakiet, sv Slovakien, de Slowakei, nl Slowakije, pl Słowacja, ro Slovacia and en Slovakia.
Pronunciation
nb /¹slʊˈʋɑː.ki.a/ [ʃlʊˈʋɑ̀ː.ki.a]
nb ɑːkia 4
nb Slo va ki a
Proper noun
nb proper noun
Slovakia; nb country in r/Central Europe Bratislava.
nb Slovakia ble en selvstendig stat i 1993. Slovakia became an independent state in 1993.
nb 21 July 2026 Jørn Holm-Hansen Slovakia Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Slovakia Slovakia er et land i den østlige delen av Sentral-Europa. Slovakia is a country in the eastern part of Central Europe. https://web.archive.org/web/20260227173333/https://snl.no/Slovakia 27 February 2026
Usage notes
The official Norwegian long-form name is Den slovakiske republikk (“the Slovak Republic”).
Related terms
nb slovak a Slovak
nb slovakisk Slovak; the Slovak language
nb Tsjekkoslovakia Czechoslovakia
See also
References
slovak
slovakisk
“Navn på stater” by no Språkrådet.
“Slovakia” in Store norske leksikon.
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Slovakia Q214
Related terms
nn slovak
nn slovakisk
See also
nn Tsjekkoslovakia