Srebrenica

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Srȅbrenica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/, /ˌʃɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/, (UK, also) /-ˈnɪtsə/
• Rhymes: -iːtsə

Proper noun

Srebrenica

1. A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.

Translations

Bosnian town

• Armenian: Սրեբրենիցա (Srebrenicʻa)
• Belarusian: Срэ́браніца f (Srébranica)
• Bulgarian: Сре́бреница f (Srébrenica)
• Czech: Srebrenica f
• Danish: Srebrenica
• Dutch: Srebrenica
• French: Srebrenica
• Georgian: სრებრენიცა (srebrenica)
• German: Srebrenica
• Greek: Σρεμπρένιτσα (Sremprénitsa)
• Latin: Argentaria f
• Macedonian: Сребреница f (Srebrenica)
• Polish: Srebrenica (pl)
• Russian: Сре́бреница (ru) f (Srébrenica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сре̏бреница f

  Roman: Srȅbrenica (sh) f

• Slovak: Srebrenica f
• Slovene: Srebrenica f
• Turkish: Srebrenitsa
• Ukrainian: Сре́брениця f (Srébrenycja)

Noun

Srebrenica (plural Srebrenicas)

1. An ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.
   • 2008, Ralph Peters, Never Quit the Fight, →ISBN, page 132:

     And another Srebrenica, a Lidice, a Babi Yar . . .

   • 2011, Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict, Roger D. Petersen, →ISBN, page 155:

     The West had seen enough of Milosevic and they would not tolerate the possibility of another Srebrenica.

   • 2012 January 17, Canon Ian Woodward, in comments before the United Kingdom House of Commons, published in South Sudan: prospects for peace and development, fifteenth report of session 2010–12 →ISBN, page 15:

     I think we all saw that very strong leader in The Times on Saturday, with the suggestion that the UN was walking, in the case of Jonglei, into another Srebrenica or another Rwanda.

See also

• Vietnam, Chernobyl

Anagrams

• carbineers

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /srɛˈbreːnitsaː/

Proper noun

Srebrenica n

1. Srebrenica (a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
   • 2006, Parlement en kiezer: jaarboek zittingsjaar, G. G. J. Thissen, →ISBN, page 213:

     Nederlandse troepen hadden in het kader van de Verenigde Naties in een aantal gebieden rond de stad Srebrenica de veiligheid van de (overwegend uit moslims bestaande) bevolkering tijdens de Bosnische burgeroorlog moeten waarborgen, maar zij hadden in 1995 niet weten te verhinderen dat duizenden moslims door (christelijke) Servische Bosniërs werden vermoord. […] Kok wilde met zijn aftreden 'op een zichtbare manier verantwoordelijkheid nemen tegenover de slachtoffers en nabestaanden van Srebrenica'.

     In a number of areas around the town of Srebrenica, Dutch troops under a United Nations framework were supposed to ensure the safety of the population (consisting predominantly of Muslims) during the Bosnian civil war, but in 1995 they were not able to prevent thousands of Muslims being murdered by (Christian) Serbian Bosnians. […] Kok wanted, by his resignation, to "in a visible way take responsibility towards the victims and survivors of Srebrenica".

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From srèbro (“silver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /srêbrenit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: Sre‧bre‧ni‧ca

Proper noun

Srȅbrenica f (Cyrillic spelling Сре̏бреница)

1. Srebrenica (a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Srebrenica

	singular
nominative	Srebrenica
genitive	Srebrenice
dative	Srebrenici
accusative	Srebrenicu
vocative	Srebrenice / Srebrenico
locative	Srebrenici
instrumental	Srebrenicom