Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

English

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
• Yougoslavia

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/

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Proper noun

Yugoslavia

1. (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
2. (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
3. (nonstandard) Serbia and Montenegro.

Derived terms

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Translations

former country in the Balkans

Afrikaans: Joego-Slawië Albanian: Jugosllavi f (indedinite), Jugosllavia (definite) Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا‎ f (yūḡoslāviyā), يُوجُوسْلَافِيَا‎ f (yūgoslāviyā) Hijazi Arabic: يوقوسلاڤيا‎ f (yūgōslāvya) Armenian: Հարավսլավիա (Haravslavia) Aromanian: Iuguslavii f (indefinite), Iuguslavia (definite) Azerbaijani: Yuqoslaviya Basque: Jugoslavia (eu) Belarusian: Югасла́вія f (Juhaslávija) Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া (ĵugoślabhiya) Bulgarian: Югосла́вия f (Jugoslávija) Burmese: ယူဂိုဆလားဗီးယား (yuguihca.la:bi:ya:) Catalan: Iugoslàvia f Chinese: Cantonese: 南斯拉夫 (naam4 si1 laai1 fu1) Mandarin: 南斯拉夫 (zh) (Nánsīlāfū), 南聯盟／南联盟 (zh) (Nánliánméng) Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f Danish: Jugoslavien Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl) n Esperanto: Jugoslavio Estonian: Jugoslaavia Faroese: Jugoslavia Finnish: Jugoslavia (fi) French: Yougoslavie (fr) f Georgian: იუგოსლავია (iugoslavia) German: Jugoslawien (de) n Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f (Giougkoslavía) Hawaiian: Iugosolawia Hebrew: יוּגוֹסְלַבְיָה‎ f Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया (yūgoslāviyā) Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu) Icelandic: Júgóslavía f Irish: an Iúgslaiv f Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia (it) f Japanese: ユーゴスラビア (Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア (Yūgosuravia) Kazakh: Югославия (Ügoslaviä) Khmer: យូហ្គោស្លាវ (km) (yuugooslaaw) Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) (Yugoseullabia) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Yûgoslavya Kyrgyz: Югославия (ky) (Yugoslaviya) Lao: ຢູໂກສະລາເວັຍ (yū kō sa lā wia) Latvian: Dienvidslāvija f Lithuanian: Jugoslavija f Macedonian: Југославија (mk) f (Jugoslavija) Malay: Yugoslavia Maltese: il-Jugoslavja f Manx: Yn Yugoslaavey Maori: Ukorāwia Mongolian: Cyrillic: Югослав (Jugoslav) Norwegian: Bokmål: Jugoslavia Nynorsk: Jugoslavia Pashto: يوګوسلاويا‎ f (yugoslāwyã) Persian: یوگسلاوی‎ (yugoslâvi) Polish: Jugosławia (pl) f Portuguese: Jugoslávia (pt) f ((Portugal)), Iugoslávia (pt) f ((Brazil)) Rarotongan: Ūkotaravia Romanian: Iugoslavia f Russian: Югосла́вия (ru) f (Jugoslávija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f Latin: Jugòslāvija (sh) f, Jugoslȁvija (sh) f Sindhi: يوگوسلاويا‎ Slovak: Juhoslávia f Slovene: Jugoslávija (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Jugosłowjańska f Upper Sorbian: Juhosłowjanska f Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia (es) f Swedish: Jugoslavien (sv) n Tagalog: Yugoslabya, Hugoslabya Tajik: Югославия (tg) (Yugoslaviya) Thai: ยูโกสลาเวีย (yuu-goo-sà-laa-wiia) Turkish: Yugoslavya (tr) Turkmen: Ýugoslawiýa Ukrainian: Югосла́вія f (Juhoslávija), Юґосла́вія f (Jugoslávija) Urdu: یوگوسلاویہ‎ m (yūgoslāviyā) Uyghur: يۇگوسلاۋىيە‎ (yugoslawiye) Uzbek: Yugoslaviya Vietnamese: Nam Tư (vi) (南斯) Welsh: Iwgoslafia (cy) Yiddish: יוגאָסלאַוויע‎ (yugoslavye)

Further reading

• Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝuɡosˈlabja/ [ɟ͡ʝu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuɡosˈlabja/ [ɟ͡ʝu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃuɡosˈlabja/ [ʃu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuɡosˈlabja/ [ʒu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]

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• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via

Proper noun

Yugoslavia f

1. Yugoslavia