Moldova

Etymology
Unclear; see 🇨🇬 for theories.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: Молдова
 * Acehnese: Moldova
 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian: Moldavi ,
 * Amharic: ሞልዶቫ
 * Arabic: مُولْدُوفَا, مُولْدَافِيَا
 * Hijazi Arabic: مولدوفا
 * Armenian:, Մոլդավիա
 * Aromanian: Muldavii, Muldavie, Muldhavii, Muldhavie, Muldavia, Muldhavia
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܘܿܠܕܘܿܒ݂ܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, Moldaviya
 * Bashkir: Молдова
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: Малдо́ва, Малда́вія
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Moldova
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: မော်လ်ဒိုဗာ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎼᎸᏙᏩ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 摩爾多瓦
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Moldavio, Moldavujo
 * Estonian:, Moldaavia
 * Faroese: Moldova
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: Moldavia
 * Georgian: მოლდოვა, მოლდავეთი
 * German: ; ,
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: Maldoba
 * Hebrew: מוֹלְדוֹבָה, מוֹלְדַּבְיָה
 * Hindi: मोल्दाविया, माल्डोवा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Moldavía
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: Moldóiv
 * Italian:, Moldovia, Moldova
 * Japanese:, , モルダビア
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:, Молдавия
 * Khmer: ម៉ុលដូវ៉ា
 * Korean:, ^몰다비아
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, Молдавия
 * Lao: ໂມນດາວີ
 * Latvian:, Moldāvija
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Молдавија
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മൊള്‍ഡോവ
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: Morotawa, Morotouwa
 * Marathi: मोल्डोव्हा
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Молдав, Молдав улс
 * Nepali: मोल्दोवा
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, Moldau
 * Ossetian: Молдави
 * Pashto: مولداويا
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: مولْداوی
 * Polish:, Mołdowa
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: (Republica)
 * Cyrillic:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: मोल्दोवा
 * Scots: Moldovae
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Молдова, Мо̀лда̄вија
 * Roman: Moldova,
 * Silesian: Mołdawijo
 * Sinhalese: මෝල්ඩෝවා
 * Slovak: Moldavsko
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: Moldabya
 * Tajik: Молдова, Молдавия
 * Tamil: மல்டோவா
 * Tatar: Молдавия
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ሞልዶቫ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Moldawiýa, Moldowa
 * Ukrainian:, Молда́вія
 * Urdu: مالْدووا, مالْڈووا
 * Uyghur: مولدوۋا, مولداۋىيە
 * Uzbek:, Moldaviya
 * Vietnamese: Môn-đô-va
 * Yiddish: מאָלדאָווע
 * Yoruba: Modofia

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Etymology
Borrowed from, from the name of the Moldova river. The origin of this word is unclear.

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Etymology
Of unclear origin. The suffix -ova is probably of origin. Theories about the first element: For more theories see
 * It is possibly ultimately from (possibly Moldavia); compare the river  in Germany and, the German name of the river , which may be of related origin.
 * Alternatively, it may be related to 🇨🇬, though the loss of the i in this word is difficult to explain.
 * A folk etymology, according to Dimitrie Cantemir, says the name of the Moldova River comes from Prince Dragoș, after his hound Molda, who drowned in it while attempting to hunt an aurochs.
 * The Romanian people may have called themselves "Moldoveni" or "Munteni" (literally "of the mountains") so Moldova may alternatively derive from a - language, from +.