Bosniak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Bòšnjāk (“Bosniak”), from Bȍsna (“Bosnia”). Equivalent to Bosniac: Bosnia+-ac.

Noun

Bosniak (plural Bosniaks)

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

Coordinate terms

• Albanian
• Balkan
• Bosnia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnian
• Croat
• Croatian
• Herzegovina
• Herzegovinan
• Herzegovinian
• Serb
• Serbian
• Yugoslav
• Yugoslavian

 

Related terms

• Bosnia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnian

 

Translations

person belonging to autochthonous South Slavic people

• Arabic: بُشْنَاق pl (bušnāq), بُوشْنَاق pl (būšnāq)

  Hijazi Arabic: بُشْناق pl (bušnāg), بُشْناقي m (bušnāgi)

• Finnish: bosniakki
• German: Bosniak (de)
• Hungarian: bosnyák (hu)
• Polish: Boszniak (pl) m, Boszniaczka f
• Portuguese: bosníaco m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бо̀шња̄к m

  Roman: Bòšnjāk (sh) m

• Turkish: Boşnak (tr)
• Yiddish: באָסניאַק m (bosnyak)

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

• Finnish: bosniakki
• German: Bosniak (de)
• Hungarian: bosnyák (hu)
• Italian: bosgnacco m
• Kazakh: бошнақ (boşnaq)
• Polish: Boszniak (pl) m, Boszniaczka f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бо̀шња̄к m, Муслиман m

  Roman: Bòšnjāk (sh) m, Musliman m

• Turkish: Boşnak (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 波斯尼亞人／波斯尼亚人 (Bōsīníyǎ-rén)

• French: ^{(please verify)} Bosniaque (fr) m or 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
• 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)