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Romania
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romania Románia România Romãnia Romānia Romanía
English
thumb|Romania (in dark green) within Europe.
Pronunciation
en /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Romania.wav UK
en /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ GA
en en-us-Romania.ogg US
en /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ RP,USalternative pronunciation derived from the old spelling Rumania
en /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ /-nɪ.ə/ /-ni.ə/ Scotland
en /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ Wales
en /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ Philippines
en eɪniə 4
Etymology 1
From en ro România, from ro român Romanian (in turn from en la Rōmānus Roman) + ro -ia.
Alternative forms
en România rare
en Rumania Roumania dated
Proper noun
en Q218en country r/Southeastern Europe Bucharest.
en Stanley Reed Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry w:The New York Times 2014-11-09 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/international/britain-plans-for-future-of-shale-oil-and-gas-industry-.html 0362-4331 There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland. https://web.archive.org/web/20220118185540/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/business/international/britain-plans-for-future-of-shale-oil-and-gas-industry-.html
Derived terms
en Roexit Romano- Kingdom of Romania Romanian
Translations
Q218 South-Eastern European country
Abkhaz: ab Румыниа
Afrikaans: af Roemenië
Akan: ak Romania
Albanian: sq Rumani f indefinite, sq Rumania f definite
Old Albanian: sq Gogëni f Gheg, sq Gogëri f Tosk
Amharic: am ሮማንያ
Arabic: ar رُومَانِيَا f
Aragonese: an Rumanía f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܪܗ݇ܘܿܡܵܢܝܼܵܐ f Romaniya
Armenian: hy Ռումինիա
Aromanian: rup Armãnii f indefinite, rup Armãnia f definite, rup Rãmãnii f indefinite, rup Rãmãnia f definite, rup Rumãnii f indefinite, rup Rumãnia f definite, rup Romãnii f indefinite, rup Romãnia f definite
Assamese: as ৰোমানিয়া
Asturian: ast Rumanía f
Azerbaijani: az Rumıniya
Bashkir: ba Румыния
Basque: eu Errumania
Belarusian: be Румы́нія f
Bengali: bn রোমানিয়া
Breton: br Roumania
Bulgarian: bg Румъ́ния f
Burmese: my ရူမေးနီးယား
Buryat: bua Румыни
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Руму́ньско n
Catalan: ca Romania f
Chechen: ce Румыни
Cherokee: chr ᎶᎹᏂᏯ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 羅馬尼亞
Hokkien: nan-hbl 羅馬尼亞 Lô-má-nî-a
Mandarin: cmn 羅馬尼亞 Luómǎníyà
Chuvash: cv Румыни
Corsican: co Rumenia
Crimean Tatar: crh Romaniya
Czech: cs Rumunsko n
Danish: da Rumænien
Dhivehi: dv ރުމޭނިއާ
Dutch: nl Roemenië n
Esperanto: eo Rumanio, eo Rumanujo
Estonian: et Rumeenia
Farefare: gur Domaŋo
Faroese: fo Rumenia n
Finnish: fi Romania
French: fr Roumanie f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Roemeenje
Friulian: fur Romanie f
Gagauz: gag Romıniya
Galician: gl Romanía f
Georgian: ka რუმინეთი
German: de Rumänien n
Greek: el Ρουμανία f
Gujarati: gu રોમાનિયા
Hausa: ha Romaniya
Hawaiian: haw Romānia
Hebrew: he רוֹמַנְיָה f románya
Hindi: hi रोमानिया m
Hungarian: hu Románia
Icelandic: is Rúmenía f
Ido: io Rumania
Indonesian: id Rumania
Interlingua: ia Romania
Irish: ga Rómáin f An Rómáin
Italian: it Romania f
Japanese: ja ルーマニア Rūmania
Kannada: kn ರೊಮಾನಿಯ
Kashubian: csb Rumùńskô f
Kazakh: kk Румыния
Khmer: km រូម៉ានី
Korean: ko ^루마니아, North Korea ko ^로므니아
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Romanya
Kyrgyz: ky Румыния
Ladino: lad Rumania
Lao: lo ລູມານີ, lo ຣູມານີ
Latin: la Rōmānia f New Latin
Latvian: lv Rumānija f
Lithuanian: lt Rumunija f
Livonian: liv Rumāņmō
Macedonian: mk Романија f
Malay: ms Romania
Malayalam: ml റൊമാനിയ
Maltese: mt Rumanija f ir-Rumanija
Marathi: mr रोमेनिया
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Румын
Mongolian script: mn ᠷᠦᠮᠢᠨ, mn ᠷᠣᠮᠠᠨᠢᠶᠠ China
Nahuatl: nah Rumantlān
Navajo: nv Wooméiniya
Nepali: ne रोमानिया
Norman: nrf Roumanie f, nrf Roumanîn f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Romania n
Nynorsk: nn Romania n
Occitan: oc Romania f, oc Roumagnu m
Odia: or ରୋମାନିଆ
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Роумꙑнїꙗ f modern
Pashto: ps رومانیا rōmāniyā
Persian:
Dari: prs رومَانِیَا
Iranian Persian: fa-ira رومانی rumâni
Polish: pl Rumunia f
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt Romênia f
European Portuguese: pt Roménia f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਰੋਮਾਨੀਆ m
Romani: rom Rumùnia f i Rumùnia
Romanian: ro România f
Cyrillic: ro Ромыния f
Romansh: rm Rumenia
Russian: ru Румы́ния f
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Románia
Scots: sco Romanie, sco Roumainie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ру̀мӯнија f Bosnia Serbia, sh Ру̀мӯњска̄ f usually Croatia
Latin: sh Rùmūnija f Bosnia Serbia, sh Rùmūnjskā f usually Croatia
Sicilian: scn Rumanìa f
Silesian: szl Růmůńijo f
Sinhalese: si රුමේනියාව
Slovak: sk Rumunsko n
Slovene: sl Romúnija f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Rumuńska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Rumunska f
Spanish: es Rumania f, es Rumanía f
Swahili: sw Romania
Swedish: sv Rumänien n
Tagalog: tl Rumanya
Tajik: tg Руминия
Tamil: ta உருமேனியா
Tatar: tt Румыния
Telugu: te రొమేనియా
Thai: th โรมาเนีย
Tibetan: bo རོ་མ་ནི་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ሮሜኒያ
Turkish: tr Romanya
Ottoman Turkish: ota رومانیا Românya
Turkmen: tk Rumyniýa
Ukrainian: uk Руму́нія f
Urdu: ur رومانِیَہ m
Uyghur: ug رۇمىنىيە
Uzbek: uz Ruminiya
Vietnamese: vi Ru-ma-ni, vi Lỗ Má Ni, vi România
Võro: vro Romaania
Welsh: cy Rwmania f
Yakut: sah Румыния
Yiddish: yi רומעניע f
Yoruba: yo Ròmáníà
Zhuang: za Lozmajnizya
See also
Appendix:Countries of the world
Etymology 2
From en la Rōmānia, from en gkm Ῥωμανία, itself from en la Rōmānus. en Roman -ia<id:place>. en Romagna.
Alternative forms
en Rhomania
Proper noun
en academic historical linguistics The Latin- or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
en historical en Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
en 1973 Arnold Joseph Toynbee Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world 682 There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government,
en 1988 Donald M. Nicol Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations 208 The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.
en 1989 Ferenc Makk The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century 110 In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”.
en 1989 David Jacoby From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 1 The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.
en 1999 Rustam Shukurov Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers.
en 2001 David Jacoby Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World 197 The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.
2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69:
Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country [Thrace] is Byzantium, formerly called Agios.
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en Romagna.
97 43 In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania:
Anagrams
en aaimnor Maorian Mo i Rana Omarian amanori
Catalan
ca:
Pronunciation
ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Romania.wav Valencia
ca ia 4
Proper noun
f
ca Romania Q218
Derived terms
ca romanès
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi ro România.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Romania Q218
Declension
sg Romani a
Derived terms
fi romania romanialainen
See also
Anagrams
fi aaimnor romaani
French
Etymology
fr :bor grc:Ῥωμανία
fr grc Ῥωμανία.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
fr academic historical linguistics the Romance speaking areas of Europe
See also
fr Roumanie fr nation
Italian
Etymology 1
it.
Alternative forms
it Rumania
Pronunciation
^ì
Proper noun
f
it Romania Q218
Derived terms
it rumeno//romeno
See also
Further reading
it
Etymology 2
it :lbor la:Rōmānia
it la Rōmānia.
Pronunciation
^à
Proper noun
f
it historical or linguistics en Romania Latin or Romance-speaking of Europe
Further reading
Europa latina it
Anagrams
it aaimnor Armonia Mariano armonia mariano riamano
Latin
la:
Etymology
la Rōmānia :der grc:Ῥωμᾱνῐ́ᾱ + 1
Pronunciation
Rōmānia
Proper noun
Rōmānia<1>
la historical Late Latin Roman Empire
la Orosius Historiae adversum paganos 7 43 5 lived ca. 385 CE - ca. 420 CE Nam ego quoque ipse virum quemdam Narbonensem ... audivi, se familiarissimum Ataulpho apud Narbonam fuisse: ac de eo ... didicisse, quod ... referre solitus esset, se in primis ardenter inhiasse: ut, obliterato Romano nomine, Romanum omne sŏlum, Gothorum imperium et faceret et vocaret: essetque, ut vulgariter loquar, Gothia, quod Romania fuisset; fieretque nunc Ataulphus quod quondam Caesar Augustus. I, too, once heard a man from Narbonne who claimed to be very familiar with Athaulf and who had learned that Athaulf would often say that, more than anything else, he desired this: after eliminating the name of Rome, he would make the entire Roman land subject to Gothic power and call it so, calling (if I may speak vulgarly) what was previously Romania as "Gothia". And so Athaulfus would become what Caesar Augustus once was [i.e. the first emperor of a new empire].
la historical Medieval Latin Byzantine Empire
la New Latin la Romania Q218
Declension
Rōmānia<1>
Descendants
fro Romanie
enm Romanie 1
it Romagna
rgn Rumâgna
cel-bry-pro *rrʉβ̃ėn 1 from a Vulgar Latin variant "la Rōmănia" with a short "a" in the second syllable
wlm Ruvein
cy Rhufain
Norwegian Bokmål
no
thumb|The flag of Romania.
thumb|The location of Romania in Europe.
thumb|The Danube Delta in eastern Romania.
Etymology
nb, based ultimately on Romanian ro România Romania. The Romanian name is formed from ro român Romanian and ro -ia, the definite form of ro -ie. The ethnonym ro român is inherited from Latin nb la Rōmānus Roman, from la Rōma Rome.
Parallel international forms include nn Romania, da Rumænien, sv Rumänien, de Rumänien, nl Roemenië, fr Roumanie, it Romania, es Rumanía, pt Roménia and en Romania Romania.
Pronunciation
nb /¹rʊˈmɑː.ni.a/ [ɾʊˈmɑ̀ː.ni.a]
nb ɑːnia 4
nb Ro ma ni a
Proper noun
nb proper noun
Romania; nb country in r/Southeastern Europe on the sea/Black Sea București 1.
nb Hun reiste gjennom Romania med tog. She travelled through Romania by train.
nb 25 June 2026 Jardar Seim Romania Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Romania Romania er et land i Sørøst-Europa. I europeisk målestokk er det et middelstort land. Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe. By European standards, it is a medium-sized country. https://web.archive.org/web/20260928100427/https://snl.no/Romania 28 September 2026
Usage notes
Romania is both the short and official Norwegian name. The official Romanian name is ro România Romania.
Related terms
nb rumener a Romanian
nb rumensk Romanian; the Romanian language
See also
References
“Navn på stater” by no Språkrådet.
“Romania” in Store norske leksikon.
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Romania Q218
Related terms
nn rumen rumenar rumensk
Sardinian
sc:
Proper noun
sc Romania Q218
Swahili
sw:
Proper noun
sw proper noun
sw Romania Q218
Yoruba
Etymology
yo:Ròmáníà
thumb|250px|Ròmáníà
Borrowed from yo en Romania.
Pronunciation
Ròmáníà 1
Proper noun
Ròmáníà
yo Romania Q218