Bosniak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Bòšnjāk (“Bosniak”), from Bȍsna (“Bosnia”).

Noun

Bosniak (plural Bosniaks)

A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.
A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.

Translations

person belonging to autochthonous South Slavic people

Finnish: bosniakki
German: Bosniak
Hungarian: bosnyák (hu)
Portuguese: bosníaco m

Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бо̀шња̄к m
Roman: Bòšnjāk (sh) m
Yiddish: באָסניאַק‎ m (bosnyak)

a person with ties to Bosnia, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language

Finnish: bosniakki
German: Bosniak
Hungarian: bosnyák (hu)
Italian: bosgnacco m

Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бо̀шња̄к m, Муслиман m
Roman: Bòšnjāk (sh) m, Musliman m
Turkish: Boşnak (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 波斯尼亞人, ^{(please verify)} 波斯尼亚人 (Bōsīníyǎ-rén)
French: ^{(please verify)} Bosniaque (fr) m, f
Italian: ^{(please verify)} bosniaco (it) m, ^{(please verify)} bosgnacco m
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ボスニア人 (Bosunia-jin)
Latvian: ^{(please verify)} bosnietis m, ^{(please verify)} bosniete f

Polish: ^{(please verify)} Bośniak (pl) m, ^{(please verify)} Bośniaczka (pl) f
Portuguese: bósnio (pt) m
Russian: ^{(please verify)} босни́ец (ru) m (bosníjec), ^{(please verify)} бошня́к (ru) m (bošnják), ^{(please verify)} босни́йка (ru) f (bosníjka), ^{(please verify)} бошня́чка f (bošnjáčka)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} Boşnak (tr)
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} босні́єць m (bosníjecʹ), ^{(please verify)} босня́к m (bosnják), ^{(please verify)} босні́йка m (bosníjka), ^{(please verify)} босня́чка f (bosnjáčka)