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English
Etymology
From Slav + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)
- Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.
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of the Slavs, their culture or languages
- Afrikaans: Slawies
- Albanian: sllav (sq), nashke
- Arabic: سْلَافِيّ (slāfiyy), صَقْلَبِيّ (ṣaqlabiyy)
- Hijazi Arabic: سلاڤي m (slāvi)
- Armenian: սլավոնական (hy) (slavonakan)
- Azerbaijani: slavyan
- Belarusian: славя́нскі (slavjánski)
- Bengali: স্লাভিক (slabhik), স্লাভীয় (slabhiẏo)
- Bulgarian: славя́нски (bg) (slavjánski)
- Burmese: ဆလဗ (hca.la.ba.)
- Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый (slavjánskŷj)
- Catalan: eslau
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 斯拉夫 (si1 laai1 fu1)
- Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (zh) (sīlāfū)
- Cree: slovenski
- Czech: slovanský (cs)
- Danish: slavisk
- Dutch: Slavisch (nl)
- Esperanto: slava
- Estonian: slaavi
- Finnish: slaavilainen (fi)
- French: slave (fr), slavon (fr)
- Friulian: slâf
- Georgian: სლავური (slavuri)
- German: slawisch (de)
- Greek: σλαυικός (slavikós), σλαβικός (el) (slavikós)
- Hawaiian: Selawika, ʻōlelo Selawika
- Hebrew: סְלָאבִי (slávi)
- Hindi: स्लाव (slāv), स्लावी (slāvī)
- Hungarian: szláv (hu)
- Icelandic: slavískur
- Irish: Slavach, Slavónach
- Italian: slavo (it)
- Japanese: スラヴ (suravu), スラブ (surabu)
- Kashubian: słoviński
- Kazakh: славян (slavän), славяндық (slavändyq)
- Khmer: ស្លាវ (slaaw), ស្លាវី (slaavii)
- Komi-Permyak: славян (slavʹan)
- Komi-Zyrian: славян (slavan)
- Korean: 슬라브 (seullabeu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: slavî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: славян (slavyan), славяндык (slavyandık)
- Latvian: slāvu, slāvisks
- Lithuanian: slavų m, slaviškas
- Macedonian: словенски (slovenski)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: славян (slavjan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: slavisk
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ)
- Pashto: سلاو (sláw), اسلاو (esláw)
- Persian: اسلاو (fa) (eslâv)
- Polish: słowiański (pl)
- Portuguese: eslavo (pt), eslávico
- Romanian: slavon (ro), slavonesc (ro), slav (ro)
- Russian: славя́нский (ru) (slavjánskij)
- Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сло̀ве̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), сло̀вје̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), сла̀ве̄нскӣ (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)
- Roman: slòvēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), slòvjēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), slàvēnskī (sh) (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)
- Sicilian: slavu m
- Silesian: słowjański
- Slovak: slovanský
- Slovene: slovánski (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower: słowjański
- Upper: słowjanski (hsb)
- Spanish: eslavo (es)
- Swedish: slavisk (sv)
- Tagalog: Eslabo
- Tajik: славян (slavyan)
- Tatar: славян (slawyan)
- Thai: สลาฟ (sà-láaf)
- Turkish: Slav (tr)
- Turkmen: slawýan
- Udmurt: славян (slavan)
- Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (uk) (slovʺjánsʹkyj)
- Urdu: سلاو (slāv), سلاوی (slāvī)
- Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان (silawiyan)
- Uzbek: slavyan (uz)
- Vietnamese: Xla-vơ
- Welsh: Slafaidd
- Yiddish: סלאַוויש (slavish)
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Noun
Slavic (uncountable)
- Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.
It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.
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