Branislav

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brǎnislaʋ/
• Hyphenation: Bra‧ni‧slav

Proper noun

Brànislav m (Cyrillic spelling Бра̀нислав)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Branislav

	singular
nominative	Branislav
genitive	Branislava
dative	Branislavu
accusative	Branislava
vocative	Branislave
locative	Branislavu
instrumental	Branislavom

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraɲisɫau̯/

Proper noun

Branislav m anim (genitive singular Branislava, nominative plural Branislavovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Branislav

	singular	plural
nominative	Branislav	Branislavovia
genitive	Branislava	Branislavov
dative	Branislavovi	Branislavom
accusative	Branislava	Branislavov
locative	Branislavovi	Branislavoch
instrumental	Branislavom	Branislavmi

Derived terms

• Braňo
• Branko

Further reading

• “Branislav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024