Kosovo

Kosovo

See also: kosovo

English

Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans

Kosovo (2) district

Alternative forms

• Kosova (from Albanian)
• Kosov@ (uncommon; blends the Slavic and Albanian spellings)
• Kossovo (obsolete)

Etymology

Shortened form of Serbo-Croatian Косово поље (“blackbirds’ field”), from косово (kosovo), possessive form of кос (kos, “blackbird”), and поље (polje, “field”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsəˌvoʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. The Republic of Kosovo, a partially recognised country in the Balkans, considered by the Republic of Serbia to be one of its two autonomous provinces.
2. One of five administrative districts of the above region as viewed by the Serbian government.

Derived terms

• Kosovan
• Kosovar
• kosovar

Related terms

• Kosovar

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

Acehnese: Kosovo Afrikaans: Kosovo Albanian: Kosovë f (indefinite), Kosova (sq) f (definite) Amharic: ኮሶቮ (kosovo), ኮሶቮ (kosovo) Arabic: كُوسُوفُو‎ f (kūsūfū), قُوصُوُه‎ f (qūṣuwuh) Egyptian Arabic: كوسوڤو‎ f (kōsōvō) Hijazi Arabic: كوسوڤو‎ f (kōsōvō), كوسوفو‎ f (kōsōfō) Aragonese: Kosovo m Armenian: Կոսովո (hy) (Kosovo) Aromanian: Cusovã f (indefinite), Cusova f (definite) Asturian: Kosovo m Aymara: Kusuwu Azerbaijani: Kosovo (az) Bashkir: Косово (Kosovo) Basque: Kosovo (eu) Bavarian: Kosovo Belarusian: Ко́сава n (Kósava) Bengali: কসোভো (bn) (kôsobho) Bikol Central: Kosobo Breton: Kosovo Bulgarian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo) Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗို (kuihcuibui) Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m Cebuano: Kosobo, Kosovo Chechen: Косово (Kosowo) Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ (godiquo) Chinese: Cantonese: 科索沃 (fo1 sok3 juk1) Mandarin: 科索沃 (zh) (Kēsuǒwò) Chuvash: Косово (Kos̬ovo) Cornish: Kosova Crimean Tatar: Kosovo Czech: Kosovo (cs) n Danish: Kosovo n Dutch: Kosovo (nl) n Esperanto: Kosovo (eo) Estonian: Kosovo (et) Extremaduran: Cosovu Farefare: Kosovo Faroese: Kosovo Finnish: Kosovo (fi) French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo m Gagauz: Kosova Galician: Kosovo (gl) m Georgian: კოსოვო (ka) (ḳosovo) German: Kosovo (de) m or n Greek: Κόσοβο n (Kósovo) Greenlandic: Kosovo Guaraní: Kosovo Hebrew: קוֹסוֹבוֹ‎ (he) f (kosovo) Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) m (kosovo) Hungarian: Koszovó (hu) Icelandic: Kosóvó Ido: Kosovo Indonesian: Kosovo Interlingua: Kosovo Irish: an Chosaiv f, Cosaiv f Italian: Kosovo m, Kossovo m, Cossovo m Japanese: コソボ (Kosobo) コソヴォ (Kosovo) Javanese: Kosovo Kabardian: Косово (Kʷosoovoo) Kabyle: Kosovo Kannada: ಕೊಸೊವೊ (kosovo) Kazakh: Косово (Kosovo) Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ (km) (kousouvou) Korean: 코소보 (ko) (Kosobo) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ‎ (kosovo) Northern Kurdish: Kosova (ku) Kyrgyz: Косово (Kosovo) Lak: Косова (Kosowa) Lao: ໂກໂຊໂວ (kō sō wō) Latin: Kosovia f Latvian: Kosova f Limburgish: Kosovo (li) Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt) m Luxembourgish: Kosovo (lb) Macedonian: Косово n (Kosovo) Malay: Kosovo Malayalam: കൊസോവോ (kosōvō) Maltese: Kosovo (mt) m, Kosova Manx: Kosovo Maori: Kotopo Marathi: कोसोव्हो (kosovho) Mazanderani: کوزوو‎, کوسوو‎ Mongolian: Cyrillic: Косово (mn) (Kosovo) Nahuatl: Cosovo Nauruan: Kosovo North Frisian: Kosovo Norwegian: Bokmål: Kosovo (no) Nynorsk: Kosovo (nn) Occitan: Kosovë, Kosovo (oc), Kosova Ossetian: Косово (Kosovo) Papiamentu: Kosovo Persian: کوسوو‎ (kosovo) Picard: Kosovo Piedmontese: Kosovo m Polish: Kosowo (pl) n Pontic Greek: Κόσοβο (Kósovo) Portuguese: Kosovo (pt) Punjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ (kosovo) Quechua: Kusuwu, Kosovo, Kosova Romanian: Kosovo Romansch: Cosovo Russian: Ко́сово (ru) n (Kósovo) Rwanda-Rundi: Kosovo Samoan: Kosovo Sardinian: Kòssovu Saterland Frisian: Kosovo Scots: Kosovo Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ко̏сово n Roman: Kȍsovo (sh) n Shona: Kosovo Sicilian: Kòssuvu m Silesian: Kosowo Sinhalese: කොසෝවො (kosōwo) Slovak: Kosovo n Slovene: Kosovo n Somali: Kosofo Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Kosowo Upper Sorbian: Kosowo Spanish: Kosovo (es) m Sranan Tongo: Kosovokondre Sundanese: Kosovo Swahili: Kosovo Swedish: Kosovo (sv) n Tagalog: Kosovo Tajik: Косово (Kosovo) Tamil: கொசோவோ (kocōvō) Tatar: Косово (Qosowo) Thai: โคโซโว (koo-soo-woo), คอซอวอ (th) (kɔɔ-sɔɔ-wɔɔ) Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ། (kho so wo) Turkish: Kosova (tr) Turkmen: Kosowo Ukrainian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo) Urdu: کوسوو‎ m (kosovo), کوسووہ‎ m (kosova) Uyghur: كوسوۋو‎ (kosowo) Uzbek: Kosovo Venetian: Kósovo, Cosovo, Kosovo Vietnamese: Cô-xô-vô Võro: Kosovo Waray-Waray: Kosovo Welsh: Cosofo West Flemish: Kosovo West Frisian: Kosovo Yakut: Косова (Kosova) Yiddish: קאָסאָוואָ‎ (kosovo) Yoruba: Kósófò Zealandic: Kosovo

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/, [koˈso.β̞o]

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• Cóssova
• Cóssovo

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.zo.vo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.zu.bu/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkosovo]

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovský
• Kosovan

Further reading

• Kosovo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ко̏сово/Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.soːˌvoː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Kosovaar

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsovo/, (rarer also) /ˈkɔzovo/

• Audio

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Proper noun

der/das Kosovo m or n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Kosovo or des Kosovos)
Kosovo n (proper noun, genitive Kosovos or (optionally with an article) Kosovo)

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, masculine // neuter, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der, das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovo, Kosovos
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	den, das	Kosovo

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovos, Kosovo1
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	das	Kosovo

¹Optionally with an article.

Related terms

• Kosovare
• kosovarisch
• Kosovo-Albaner

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Italian

Alternative forms

• Cossovo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.so.vo/, /koˈsɔ.vo/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔsovo, -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: Kò‧so‧vo, Ko‧sò‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovaro

References

1. Kossovo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Maltese

Proper noun

Il-Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Cosovo

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vo/, /ˈko.zo.vo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɔˈzo.vu/

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• kosovar

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Romanian

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôsoʋo/
• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kȍsovo n (Cyrillic spelling Ко̏сово)

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo

	singular
nominative	Kosovo
genitive	Kosova
dative	Kosovu
accusative	Kosovo
vocative	Kosovo
locative	Kosovu
instrumental	Kosovom

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/ [koˈso.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovar