Hercegovina

See also: Hercegovinā

English

Proper noun

Hercegovina

Alternative spelling of Herzegovina

Derived terms

Bosnia and Hercegovina

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /əɾ.sə.ɡuˈvi.nə/

(Central) IPA^(key): /ər.sə.ɡuˈbi.nə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /eɾ.se.ɡoˈvi.na/

Proper noun

Hercegovina f

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Derived terms

Bòsnia i Hercegovina

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrt͡sɛɡovɪna]

Proper noun

Hercegovina f

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Related terms

Bosna a Hercegovina

Latvian

Hercegovina

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Херцеговина (Hercegovina), itself from German Herzog (“duke”), with a Slavic adjectival ending -(o)vina, referring to the medieval duchy of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, who took the title of Herceg (= Herzog, Duke) of Saint Sava in 1419.

Pronunciation

(without vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hertseɡɔvina]

(file)

(with vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hærtsæɡɔvina]

(file)

Proper noun

Hercegovina f (4th declension)

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Hercegovina (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Hercegovina	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Hercegovinu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Hercegovinas	—
dative (datīvs)	Hercegovinai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Hercegovinu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Hercegovinā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Hercegovina	—

Derived terms

Bosnija un Hercegovina
Bosnijas un Hercegovinas Federācija

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Hercegovina f

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Related terms

hercegovinietis m, hercegovinietė f

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from the title herceg (“duke”), from German Herzog, plus the Serbo-Croatian suffixes -ov and -ina, thus “Land of the Duke”. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xěrt͡seɡoʋina/
- Homophone: hercegovina
Hyphenation: Her‧ce‧go‧vi‧na

Proper noun

Hèrcegovina f (Cyrillic spelling Хѐрцеговина)

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Hercegovina

	singular
nominative	Hercegovina
genitive	Hercegovine
dative	Hercegovini
accusative	Hercegovinu
vocative	Hercegovino
locative	Hercegovini
instrumental	Hercegovinom

Descendants

Descendants in other languages

→ Armenian: Հերցեգովինա (Hercʿegovina)
→ Azerbaijani: Herseqovina
→ Belarusian: Герцагаві́на (Hjercahavína)
→ Bulgarian: Херцего́вина (Hercegóvina)
→ Catalan: Hercegovina
→ Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑塞哥維那／黑塞哥维那, 黑塞哥维那 (Hēisāigēwéinà)
→ Czech: Hercegovina
→ English: Herzegovina, Herzegowina, Hercegovina
→ Esperanto: Hercegovino
→ Faroese: Hersegovina
→ Finnish: Hertsegovina
→ French: Herzégovine
→ German: Herzegowina
→ Icelandic: Hersegóvína
→ Irish: Heirseagaivéin
→ Italian: Erzegovina
→ Japanese: ヘルツェゴヴィナ (Herutsegovina)
→ Korean: 헤르체고비나 (hereuchegobina)
→ Latvian: Hercegovina
→ Lithuanian: Hercegovina
→ Macedonian: Херцеговина (Hercegovina)
→ Ottoman Turkish: هرسك‎ (Hersek)
→ Polish: Hercegowina
→ Portuguese: Herzegovina
→ Russian: Герцегови́на (Gercegovína)
→ Slovak: Hercegovina
→ Slovene: Hercegovína
→ Spanish: Herzegovina
→ Swedish: Hercegovina
→ Turkish: Hersek
→ Ukrainian: Герцегови́на (Hercehovýna), Герцеґови́на (Hercegovýna)
→ Welsh: Hertsegofina
→ Yiddish: הערצעגאָווינע‎ (hertsegovine)

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xɛrt͡sɛɡɔʋìːna/

Proper noun

Hercegovína f

Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Hercegovína
genitive	Hercegovíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Hercegovína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Hercegovíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Hercegovíno

Derived terms

Bósna in Hercegovína

Related terms

Hercegôvec / Hercegôvka
hercegôvski