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Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xǐstoːrija/
- Hyphenation: hi‧sto‧ri‧ja
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
hìstōrija f (Cyrillic spelling хѝсто̄рија)
- history
- Synonym: (Croatia) povijest
Usage notes
- In Croatia, the word is used to refer to the academic discipline that studies history, as well as in some fixed expressions. In other cases, the word povijest is used (that is, one would say povijest SAD and not historija SAD, meaning the history of United States).
Declension
Further reading
- “historija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024