Yugoslavia

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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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

  2. (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
    1. (historical, specific) The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
    2. (historical, specific) The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
  3. (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
  4. (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuɡosˈlabja/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃuɡosˈlabja/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuɡosˈlabja/

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -abja
  • Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via

Proper noun

Yugoslavia f

  1. Yugoslavia
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