Prague

English

Etymology

From German Prag, from Slavic. See Czech Praha for further origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹɑːɡ/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /pɹeɪ̯ɡ/[1][2]

Proper noun

Prague

  2. The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
  3. (metonymic) The Czech government.

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See also

References

  1. ^ Thomas Baldwin. (1851). A Vocabulary of Geographical Pronunciation, p. 37; William S. Walsh. (1890). "Books and Literature" in The Illustrated American, Vol. 4, p. 370.
  2. ^ Ross, Alan S. C. (1970), “Prague”, in How to pronounce it‎[1], London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144.
2. Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “Prague”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Prague f

  1. Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)

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