Prague

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɑːɡ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Audio (General American):

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /pɹeɪ̯ɡ/

Proper noun

Prague

2. The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

   Synonym: Praha

   • 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:

     I said, I've always wanted to visit Prague.

   • 2026 May 31, Michael Kahn, “China criticizes Czech Senate President's trip to Taiwan”, in Deepa Babington, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 05 June 2026:

     The Czech Republic, like most countries, only formally recognises Beijing and not Taipei, but ​in recent years ​has grown ⁠closer to Taiwan, a powerhouse in the semiconductor industry, and has seen growing investment ​from it. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung visited Prague ​earlier ⁠in May and spoke at a forum in the city.

3. (metonymic) The Czech government.

Derived terms

• Maharal of Prague
• Praguer
• Praguian

Translations

capital city of Czechia

• Afrikaans: Praag
• Albanian: Praga f, Pragë f
• Amharic: ፕራግ ? (pərag)
• Arabic: بْرَاغ f (brāg)

  Egyptian Arabic: بْرَاج f (brāg), پْرَاج f (prāg)

  Hijazi Arabic: براق f (brāg)

• Armenian: Պրագա (Praga)
• Asturian: Praga (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Praqa (az)
• Basque: Praga (eu)
• Belarusian: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Bengali: প্রাগ (bn) (prag)
• Bulgarian: Пра́га f (Prága)
• Burmese: ပရာ့ဂ်မြို့ (pa.rag.mrui.), ပရက်ဂ်မြို့ (pa.rakgmrui.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Пра́га f (Práha)
• Catalan: Praga f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布拉格 (bou³ laai¹ gaak³)

  Mandarin: 布拉格 (zh) (Bùlāgé)

• Chuvash: Прага (Praga)
• Czech: Praha (cs) f
• Danish: Prag (da) n
• Dutch: Praag (nl) n
• Esperanto: Prago (eo)
• Estonian: Praha (et)
• Faroese: Praha f, Prag m
• Finnish: Praha (fi)
• French: Prague (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Praach n

• Galician: Praga (gl) f
• Georgian: პრაღა (ka) (ṗraɣa)
• German: Prag (de) n

  Alemannic German: Prag ?

  Bavarian: Prag ?

• Greek: Πράγα (el) f (Prága)
• Hebrew: פראג / פְּרָג (he) f (prag)
• Hindi: प्राग (hi) m (prāg)
• Hungarian: Prága (hu)
• Icelandic: Prag f
• Indonesian: Praha
• Irish: Prág m
• Italian: Praga (it) f
• Japanese: プラハ (ja) (Puraha)
• Karachay-Balkar: Прага (Praga)
• Kashubian: Praga f
• Kazakh: Прага (Praga)
• Khmer: ប្រាក (km) (praak)
• Korean: 프라하 (ko) (Peuraha)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Prag (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Прага (ky) (Praga)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: פראגא f

  Latin: Praga f

• Lao: ປຣາກ (prāk), ປຣາຮາ (prā hā)
• Latin: Praga f
• Latvian: Prāga f
• Lithuanian: Praha f
• Luxembourgish: Prag n
• Macedonian: Прага f (Praga)
• Malay: Praha, Prague
• Maltese: Praga f
• Manx: Praag f
• Marathi: प्राग n (prāg)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Праг (Prag)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Praha (no) n

• Occitan: Praga f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Прага f (Praga)

• Pashto: پراګ m (prāg), پراها f (prāhā)
• Persian: پراگ (perâg)
• Polish: Praga (pl) f
• Portuguese: Praga (pt) f
• Romanian: Praga (ro) f
• Russian: Пра́га (ru) f (Prága)
• Sardinian: Praga f
• Scottish Gaelic: Pràg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пра̏г m

  Latin: Prȁg (sh) m

• Silesian: Praga f
• Slovak: Praha f
• Slovene: Prága (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Praha f

  Upper Sorbian: Praha f

• Spanish: Praga (es) f
• Swedish: Prag (sv) n
• Tagalog: Praga
• Tajik: Прага (Praga)
• Tamil: பிராகா (pirākā)
• Tatar: Прага (Prağa)
• Thai: ปราก (th) (bpráak)
• Tibetan: པུ་ལ་ཁེ། (pu la khe), པེ་རེག (pe reg)
• Turkish: Prag (tr)
• Turkmen: Praga
• Ukrainian: Пра́га (uk) f (Práha)
• Urdu: پراگ m (prāg)
• Uyghur: پراگا (praga)
• Uzbek: Praga
• Vietnamese: Pra-ha, Thiệp Khẩu
• Welsh: Prag (cy) f
• Yakut: Прага (Praga)
• Yiddish: פּראַג n (prag)

attributive form of Prague

• Belarusian: пражскі (pražski)
• Bulgarian: пражки (pražki)
• Catalan: praguès (ca)
• Czech: pražský (cs)
• Dutch: Praagse (nl)
• Finnish: prahalainen
• French: pragois (fr), praguois (fr)
• German: Prager (de), pragisch
• Hungarian: prágai (hu)
• Italian: praghese (it)
• Latin: pragensis
• Macedonian: прашки (praški)
• Occitan: pragués
• Polish: praski (pl)
• Portuguese: praguense (pt)
• Russian: пра́жский (ru) (prážskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: praški (sh)

  Latin: прашки

• Slovak: pražský
• Slovene: praški
• Spanish: praguense
• Turkish: Praglı
• Ukrainian: пра́зький (prázʹkyj)

References

2. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “Prague”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• gear up, upgear

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁaɡ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -aɡ

Proper noun

Prague f

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

Derived terms

• Pragois, pragois
• Praguois, praguois

Anagrams

• purgea