Yugoslavia
English dictionary entry
Meanings
name
- A former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
- The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
- The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
- A former country in Southeast Europe, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992; in full, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
Pronunciation
/ˌjuː.ɡəˈslɑː.vi.ə/
/ˌjuː.ɡəʊˈslɑː.vi.ə/
/ˌjʉwɡəˈslɑːvɪjə/
/ˌjʉwɡəwˈslɑːvɪjə/
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/ˌju.ɡəˈslɑ.vi.ə/
/ˌju.ɡoʊˈslɑ.vi.ə/
/ˌjʉɡəˈslave.ə/
/-ɡo/
/-vɪ.ə/
/-vi.ə/
Word forms
Yugoslavia
Jugoslavia
Yougoslavia
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs. By surface analysis, Yugoslav + -ia.
Translations
Afrikaans: Joego-Slawië
Albanian: Jugosllavi (indedinite)
Albanian: Jugosllavia
Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا
Arabic: يُوجُوسْلَافِيَا
Arabic: يُوجُسْلَافِيَا
Arabic: يُوغُوسْلافِيَا
Arabic: يوقوسلاڤيا
Armenian: Հարավսլավիա
Aromanian: Iuguslavii
Aromanian: Iuguslavia
Azerbaijani: Yuqoslaviya
Basque: Jugoslavia
Belarusian: Югасла́вія
Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া
Bulgarian: Югосла́вия
Burmese: ယူဂိုဆလားဗီးယား
Catalan: Iugoslàvia
Chinese Cantonese: 南斯拉夫
Chinese Mandarin: 南斯拉夫
Chinese Mandarin: 南聯盟 /南联盟
Czech: Jugoslávie
Danish: Jugoslavien
Dutch: Joegoslavië
Dutch: Zuid-Slavië
Esperanto: Jugoslavio
Esperanto: Jugoslavujo
Estonian: Jugoslaavia
Faroese: Jugoslavia
Finnish: Jugoslavia
French: Yougoslavie
Georgian: იუგოსლავია
German: Jugoslawien
Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία
Hawaiian: Iugosolawia
Hebrew: יוּגוֹסְלַבְיָה
Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया
Hungarian: Jugoszlávia
Icelandic: Júgóslavía
Indonesian: Yugoslavia
Irish: an Iúgslaiv
Italian: Jugoslavia
Italian: Iugoslavia
Japanese: ユーゴスラビア
Japanese: ユーゴスラヴィア
Kazakh: Югославия
Khmer: យូហ្គោស្លាវ
Korean: 유고슬라비아
Northern Kurdish: Yûgoslavya
Kyrgyz: Югославия
Lao: ຢູໂກສະລາເວັຍ
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