Transylvania
/ˌtɹæn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
Transylvania proper noun: a historical region in western Romania.
Proper noun
Transylvania
- A historical region in western Romania.
Transylvania meaning in Arabic, Malay, Indonesian and Persian
Transylvania in Arabic
- Transylvania
- تْرَانْسِيلْفَانِيَا transilfāniyā
Transylvania in Malay
- Transylvania
- Transylvania
Transylvania in Indonesian
- Transylvania
- Transilvania
Transylvania in Persian
- Transylvania
- ترانسیلوانی trânsilvâni
More languagesFewer languages
- Transylvania in Thai
- ทรานซิลเวเนีย traan-sil-wee-niia
- Transylvania in Vietnamese
- Transilvania
Forms of Transylvania
| alternative form | Transsilvania |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Transsylvania |
Origin of Transylvania
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Trānsylvānia, alternative spelling of Trānssilvānia, from trāns (“across”) + silvānus (“forest”, relational adjective) + -ia (abstract noun suffix), i.e. “region across the forest”, a calque of Hungarian Erdély, from erdő (“forest”) + elv/elü (“region beyond”). By surface analysis, tran- + sylvan + -ia.
Words formed from Transylvania
Phrases with Transylvania
Words that rhyme with Transylvania
- Pennsylvania
- dipsomania
- Lusitania
- mania
- megalomania
- urania
- Aquitania
- erotomania
- graphomania
- metromania
- monomania
- Occitania
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Pittsylvania
- Romania
- Ruritania
- Spotsylvania
- Tasmania
- theomania
- tulipomania
- acrania
- Albania
- anthomania
- arithmomania
- bibliomania
- Chinamania
- crania
- egomania
- ergomania
- extemporanea
- extemporania
- Francomania
- Gallomania
- gazania
- habromania
- hagiomania
- Hellenomania
- hemicrania
- kleptomania
- laconomania
- Lithuania
- Mauretania
- musomania
- nostomania
- nymphomania
- oniomania
- orchidomania
- paramania
- phyllomania
- Pistolvania
- politicomania
- polytoxicomania
- Pomerania
- pornomania
- pyromania
- Rumania
- syphilomania
- theatromania
- timbromania
- toxicomania
- trichotillomania
Questions about Transylvania
- What does Transylvania mean?
- Transylvania means a historical region in western Romania.
- What is Transylvania in Arabic?
- Transylvania in Arabic is تْرَانْسِيلْفَانِيَا (transilfāniyā). See Transylvania meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is Transylvania?
- Transylvania is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Transylvania?
- Transylvania is pronounced /ˌtɹæn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/.
Words near Transylvania in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Transylvania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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