Kosovo

English

Wikipedia

Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans

Kosovo (2) district

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

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

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

• Albanian: Kosova (sq) (definite), Kosovë (sq) (indefinite)
• Arabic: كوسوفو (ar) (kuusuufuu) m, قوصوه (ar) (quuSuwuh) m
• Aragonese: Kosovo (an) m
• Armenian: Կոսովո (hy) (Kosovo)
• Asturian: Kosovo (ast) m
• Azeri: Kosovo (az)
• Basque: Kosovo (eu)
• Belarusian: Косава (be) (Kósava) n
• Bulgarian: Косово (bg) (Kosovo)
• Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科索沃 (cmn) (Kēsuǒwò)

• Czech: Kosovo (cs) n
• Danish: Kosovo (da)
• Dutch: Kosovo (nl)
• Esperanto: Kosovo (eo)
• Estonian: Kosovo (et)
• Finnish: Kosovo (fi)
• French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo (fr) m
• Galician: Kosovo (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსოვო (ka) (kosovo)
• German: Kosovo (de) m and n
• Greek: Κοσσυφοπέδιο (el) (Kossyfopédio) n
• Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) (kosovo)
• Hungarian: Koszovó (hu)
• Icelandic: Kosóvó (is)
• Ido: Kosovo
• Indonesian: Kosovo (id)
• Interlingue: Kosovo (ie)
• Irish: an Chosaiv (ga) f, Cosaiv (ga) f

• Italian: Kosovo (it) m, Kossovo (it) m, Cossovo (it) m
• Japanese: コソボ (ja) (Kosobo) コソヴォ (ja) (Kosovo)
• Javanese: Kosovo (jv)
• Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ (km) (koosoovoo)
• Korean: 코소보 (ko) (Kosobo)
• Latvian: Kosova (lv)
• Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt)
• Macedonian: Косово (mk) (Kósovo) n
• Malay: Kosovo (ms)
• Maltese: Kosovo (mt) m
• Norwegian: Kosovo (no)
• Persian: کوسوو (fa) (Kosovo)
• Piedmontese: Kosovo m
• Polish: Kosowo (pl) n
• Portuguese: Kosovo (pt)
• Romanian: Kosovo (ro)
• Russian: Косово (ru) (Kósovo) n also
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Косово (sh) n

  Roman: Kosovo (sh) n

• Sicilian: Kòssuvu (scn) m
• Slovak: Kosovo (sk) n
• Slovene: Kosovo (sl) n
• Spanish: Kosovo (es) m
• Swedish: Kosovo (sv)
• Thai: โคโซโว (th) (kohsohwoh)
• Turkish: Kosova (tr)
• Ukrainian: Косово (uk) (Kósovo) n
• Urdu: کوسوو (ur) (Kosovo)

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

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Czech

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo

Derived terms

• kosovský

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Maltese

Wikipedia ^mt

Proper noun

Il-Kosovo m

1. Kosovo

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kôsoʋo/
• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kȍsovo n (Cyrillic spelling Ко̏сово)

1. Kosovo

Declension

    declension of Kosovo

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