/mol day"vee euh, -vyeuh/ , n.
1. a region in NE Rumania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Rumania. Cap.: Jassy.
2. Official name, Moldova . Formerly, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic . a republic in SE Europe: formed in 1940 from the former republic of Moldavia and the ceded Rumanian territory of Bessarabia. 4,341,000, 13,100 sq. mi. (33,929 sq. km). Cap.: Kishinev.