Praha
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech Praha, earlier origin is contested; compare Czech pražit (“(land cleared by) burning”) or práh (“threshold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpraɦa]
audio (file)
Proper noun
Praha f (related adjective pražský, demonym Pražan or (informal) Pražák)
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Declension
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: Praha
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɑhɑ/, [ˈprɑɦɑ]
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɑhɑ/, [ˈprɑ̝ɦɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑhɑ
- Syllabification(key): Pra‧ha
Declension
| Inflection of Praha (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Praha | — | ||
| genitive | Prahan | — | ||
| partitive | Prahaa | — | ||
| illative | Prahaan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Praha | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Praha | — | |
| gen. | Prahan | |||
| genitive | Prahan | — | ||
| partitive | Prahaa | — | ||
| inessive | Prahassa | — | ||
| elative | Prahasta | — | ||
| illative | Prahaan | — | ||
| adessive | Prahalla | — | ||
| ablative | Prahalta | — | ||
| allative | Prahalle | — | ||
| essive | Prahana | — | ||
| translative | Prahaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Prahatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Lithuanian
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /prahə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /praha/
- Rhymes: -ahə, -hə, -ə
Norwegian Bokmål
View from Petřín, a hill in the centre of Prague, Czechia.
Etymology
From Czech Praha (“Prague”), from práh (“threshold”), from Old Czech práh (“threshold”), from Proto-Slavic *porgъ (“threshold, doorstep”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porgos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɑːha/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːha
- Hyphenation: Pra‧ha
Proper noun
Praha
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
- 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
- prager
- pragerskinke
- pragerstein
References
- “Praha” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams
Old Czech
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Declension
Descendants
Declension
Declension of Praha (hard a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Praha | Prazě | Prahy |
| genitive | Prahy | Prahú | Prah |
| dative | Prazě | Prahama | Prahám |
| accusative | Prahu | Prazě | Prahy |
| vocative | Praho | Prazě | Prahy |
| locative | Prazě | Prahú | Prahách |
| instrumental | Prahú | Prahama | Prahami |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Further reading
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Praha”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpraɦa/
Proper noun
Praha f (genitive singular Prahy, declension pattern of žena)
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Declension
Further reading
- “Praha”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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