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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Italian 2.1 Proper noun 2.1.1 Related terms 2.1.2 See also

[ English

[ Etymology

Disputed Etymology. See Wikipedia article on Russia and discussion page. Probably from one of the groups of the Varangians known as the Rūs, who settled at Kiev in the 9th Century.

[ Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌʃə

[ Proper noun

Russia

1. Country in Asia and Europe. Official name: Russian Federation.

[ Derived terms

• Black Russia
• Great Russia
• Kievan Russia
• Little Russia
• Mother Russia
• New Russia
• White Russia

[ Related terms

• Soviet Union (hist.)
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• Russian Federation
• Russian SFSR

[ Translations

country in Asia and Europe

Afrikaans: Rusland af(af) Albanian: Rusia sq(sq) Arabic: روسيا (rú:sya) f. Aragonese: Rusia an(an) Armenian: Ռուսաստան (Rousastan) Aromanian: Rusii Asturian: Rusia Basque: Errusia Belarusian: Расея (Raséja) f. Bosnian: Rusija bs(bs) f. Breton: Rusia Bulgarian: Русия bg(bg) (Rusija) f. Catalan: Rússia f. Chinese: 俄國, 俄国 (Éguó); formally: 俄羅斯, 俄罗斯 (Éluósī) Chinese Min Nan: Lō·-se-a Chuvash: Раççей Патшалăхě or Раҫҫей Патшалӑхӗ (Raççey Patşalöχə) Cornish: Russi Croatian: Rusija hr(hr) f. Czech: Rusko cs(cs) Danish: Rusland da(da) Dutch: Rusland nl(nl) Esperanto: Rusio, Rusujo, Ruslando Estonian: Venemaa et(et) Faroese: Russland fo(fo) Finnish: Venäjä fi(fi) French: Russie fr(fr) f. Galician: Rusia Georgian: რუსეთი (ruset‘i) German: Rußland n. (pre-1998), Russland (since 1998) Greek: Ρωσία el(el) (Rosía) f. Haitian: Risi Hebrew: רוסיה (rusia) Hindi: रूस (Roos) Hungarian: Oroszország hu(hu) Icelandic: Rússland is(is) Indonesian: Rusia id(id) Interlingua: Russia Inuktitut: ᐅᓛᓴ Irish: An Rúis Italian: Russia it(it) Japanese: ロシア, 露西亜 (Róshia) Kalmyk: Әрәсә Kashmiri: रूस Kashubian: Ruskô Kazakh: Ресей (Resey) Korean: 러시아 (Reosia) Kurdish: Rûsya ku(ku) Kyrgyz: Оруссия (Orussiya) Lappish: Ruošša

Latin: Russia la(la) f., Ruthenia la(la) f. Latvian: Krievija lv(lv) Limburgish: Rösland Lithuanian: Rusija lt(lt) Livonian: Krīevõmō Low Saxon: Russland nds(nds) Luxembourgish: Russland lb(lb) Macedonian: Русија (Rusija) Malay: Rusia ms(ms) Maltese: Russja mt(mt) Marathi: रशिया Moldovan: Русия (Rusija) Nauruan: Russia na(na) Norwegian: Russland no(no) Old English: Russland ang(ang) Ossetian: Уæрæсе (Uæræse) Pashto: روسيه (Rosia) Persian: روسیه (Rosya) Polish: Rosja pl(pl) f. Portuguese: Rússia pt(pt) f. Romanian: Rusia ro(ro) f. Russian: Россия ru(ru) (Rossíja) f. Scots: Roushie Scottish Gaelic: An Ruis Serbian: Cyrillic: Русија f. Roman: Rusija f. Sicilian: Russia scn(scn) Slovak: Rusko sk(sk) n. Slovene: Rusija sl(sl) f. Spanish: Rusia es(es) f. Sundanese: Rusia su(su) Swedish: Ryssland sv(sv) Tagalog: Rusya Tamil: ரஷ்யா Tatar: Räsäy, Rusiä Telugu: రష్యా Turkish: Rusya tr(tr) Udmurt: Россия (Rossiya) Ukrainian: Росія uk(uk) (Rosíja) f. Urdu: روس (rus) Uzbek: Rossiya Vietnamese: Nga Võro: Vinnemaa Walloon: Rûsseye Welsh: Rwsia cy(cy) f. West Frisian: Ruslân Yiddish: רוסלאנד (rusland)

[ See also

• Former Soviet Union
• Former USSR
• Soviet Union (hist.)
• USSR (hist.)
• Countries of thee world

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[ Italian

Wikipedia ^it

[ Proper noun

Russia f.

1. Russia

[ Related terms

• russo
• russofilo
• RUS

[ See also

• ruteno