Bohemia

Bohemia

See also: bohemia, Bohémia, bohèmia, Bohèmia, bohemià, and Bohemią

English

Etymology

Latinized translation of French Bohème, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)).

Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter.[1] Related to Bavaria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊˈhimiə/
• Rhymes: -iːmiə
• Hyphenation: Bo‧he‧mia

Bohemia (westernmost area) within Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938

Proper noun

Bohemia

1. A region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.

Derived terms

• Bohemian
• bohemium

Translations

The region of the Czech Republic

Afrikaans: Boheme Albanian: Bohemi Arabic: بُوهِيمِيَا‎ f (būhīmiyā) Armenian: Բոհեմիա (Bohemia) Belarusian: Баге́мія f (Bahjémija) Bengali: বোহেমিয়া (bohemiya) Bulgarian: Бохе́мия f (Bohémija) Burmese: ဘိုဟီးမီးယား (bhuihi:mi:ya:) Catalan: Bohèmia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 波希米亞／波希米亚 (zh) (Bōxīmǐyà) Czech: Čechy (cs) f pl, Čechie (cs) f, Bohemie f Danish: Bøhmen Dutch: Bohemen (nl) n Esperanto: Bohemio Estonian: Böömimaa Faroese: Bøhmen n Finnish: Böömi (fi) French: Bohême (fr) f Friulian: Boemie f Georgian: ბოჰემია (bohemia) German: Böhmen (de) n, Böhmerland n Greek: Βοημία (el) f (Voïmía) Hebrew: בוהמיה‎ m (bohémya) Hindi: बोहेमिया (bohemiyā) Hungarian: Bohémia (hu), Csehország (hu) Icelandic: Bæheimur m, Bóhemía f Italian: Boemia f Japanese: ボヘミア (Bohemia) Korean: 보헤미아 (Bohemia) Latin: Bohemia f, Boiohaemum Macedonian: Бохемија f (Bohemija) Marathi: बोहेमिया m (bohemiyā) Mongolian: Бохеми (Boxemi) Norwegian: Bokmål: Bøhmen, Böhmen Persian: بوهم‎ (bohem) Polish: Czechy (pl) f pl, Bohemia (pl) f Portuguese: Boémia f, Boêmia f Rhine Franconian: Behme (Hessian) Romanian: Boemia f Russian: Боге́мия (ru) f (Bogémija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Бохемија f Roman: Bohemija f Silesian: Czechy pl Slovak: Čechy (sk) f pl, Čechia f, Bohemia (sk) f Slovene: Češka (sl) f Spanish: Bohemia (es) f Swedish: Böhmen (sv) Tagalog: Bohemya Thai: โบฮีเมีย (boo-hii-miia) Turkish: Bohemya Ukrainian: Боге́мія (uk) f (Bohémija) Uzbek: Bogemiya Vietnamese: Bohemia Volapük: Bömän (vo) Yiddish: פּיהם‎ n (pihm), בעהמען‎ n (behmen), ביימען‎ n (beymen)

Further reading

• Bohemia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Bohemia (plural Bohemias)

1. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.

Alternative forms

• bohemia

Derived terms

• hobohemia

Translations

Translations

Polish: bohema (pl) f

See also

• Moravia
• Silesia
• Sudetenland
• Czechia

References

1. Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg). “Boiohaemum.” Brill’s New Pauly, 2012. Reference. 14 March 2012

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Bohaemia, Boemia, Boihemia, Boihaemia, *Boiohaemia

Etymology

From Bohēmī +‎ -ia. More at Boihaemum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /boˈheː.mi.a/, [boˈ(ɦ)eːmiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈe.mi.a/, [boˈɛːmiä]

Proper noun

Bohēmia f sg (genitive Bohēmiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)
2. (Medieval Latin) Czechia (the Czech state)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bohēmia
Genitive	Bohēmiae
Dative	Bohēmiae
Accusative	Bohēmiam
Ablative	Bohēmiā
Vocative	Bohēmia

Synonyms

• Boihaemum
• Czechia, Cechia

Related terms

• Bohēmī
• bohēmicus

Descendants

• → English: Bohemia
• → French: Bohême
• → Italian: Boemia
• → Spanish: Bohemia

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Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English Bohemia, ultimately from Late Latin Boiohaemum. By surface analysis, bohema +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈxɛ.mja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Noun

Bohemia f

1. (literary) Bohemia, Czechia

Declension

Declension of Bohemia

	singular
nominative	Bohemia
genitive	Bohemii
dative	Bohemii
accusative	Bohemię
instrumental	Bohemią
locative	Bohemii
vocative	Bohemio

Related terms

adjective

• bohemistyczny

 

nouns

• bohema
• bohemista
• bohemistka
• bohemistyka
• bohemizm

 

verb

• bohemizować impf

 

Further reading

• Bohemia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Bohemia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈemja/ [boˈe.mja]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: Bo‧he‧mia

Proper noun

Bohemia f

1. Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)

Related terms

• bohemio

Further reading

• “Bohemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014