Kosovo

See also: kosovo

English

Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans

Kosovo (2) district

Alternative forms

• Kosova (from Albanian)
• Kosov@ (uncommon; blends the Slavic and Albanian spellings)
• Kossovo (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsəˌvoʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

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

Derived terms

• Kosovan
• Kosovar
• kosovar

Related terms

• Kosovar

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

• Acehnese: Kosovo
• Afrikaans: Kosovo
• Albanian: Kosova (sq) f (definite), Kosovë f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ኮሶቮ (kosovo), ኮሶቮ (kosovo)
• Arabic: كُوسُوفُو‎ m (kūsūfū), قُوصُوُه‎ m (qūṣuwuh)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوسوڤو‎

  Hijazi Arabic: كوسوڤو‎ f (kōsōvō), كوسوفو‎ f (kōsōfō)

• Aragonese: Kosovo m
• Armenian: Կոսովո (hy) (Kosovo)
• Aromanian: Cosova
• Asturian: Kosovo m
• Aymara: Kusuwu
• Azerbaijani: Kosovo (az)
• Bashkir: Косово (Kosovo)
• Basque: Kosovo (eu)
• Bavarian: Kosovo
• Belarusian: Ко́сава n (Kósava)
• Bengali: কসোভো (kôśobho)
• Bikol Central: Kosobo
• Breton: Kosovo
• Bulgarian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo)
• Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗို (kuihcuibui)
• Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m
• Cebuano: Kosobo, Kosovo
• Chechen: Косово (Kosowo)
• Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ (godiquo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科索沃 (fo¹ sok³ juk¹)

  Mandarin: 科索沃 (zh) (Kēsuǒwò)

• Chuvash: Косово (Kosovo)
• Cornish: Kosova
• Crimean Tatar: Kosovo
• Czech: Kosovo (cs) n
• Danish: Kosovo
• Dutch: Kosovo (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kosovo (eo)
• Estonian: Kosovo (et)
• Extremaduran: Cosovu
• Faroese: Kosovo
• Finnish: Kosovo (fi)
• French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo m
• Gagauz: Kosova
• Galician: Kosovo (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსოვო (ka) (ḳosovo)
• German: Kosovo (de) m or n
• Greek: Κόσοβο n (Kósovo)
• Greenlandic: Kosovo
• Guaraní: Kosovo
• Hebrew: קוֹסוֹבוֹ‎ (he) (kosovo)
• Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) (kosovo)
• Hungarian: Koszovó (hu)
• Icelandic: Kosóvó
• Ido: Kosovo
• Indonesian: Kosovo
• Interlingua: Kosovo
• Irish: an Chosaiv f, Cosaiv f
• Italian: Kosovo m, Kossovo m, Cossovo m
• Japanese: コソボ (Kosobo) コソヴォ (Kosovo)
• Javanese: Kosovo
• Kabardian: Косово (Kosovo)
• Kabyle: Kosovo
• Kannada: ಕೊಸೊವೊ (kosovo)
• Kazakh: Косово (Kosovo)
• Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ (km) (kousouvou)
• Korean: 코소보 (ko) (Kosobo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ‎ (kosovo)

  Northern Kurdish: Kosova (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Косово (Kosovo)
• Lak: Косова (Kosowa)
• Lao: ໂກໂຊໂວ (kō sō wō)
• Latin: Kosovia f
• Latvian: Kosova f
• Limburgish: Kosovo (li)
• Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Kosovo (lb)

• Macedonian: Косово n (Kosovo)
• Malay: Kosovo
• Malayalam: കൊസോവോ (kosōvō)
• Maltese: Kosovo (mt) m, Kosova
• Manx: Kosovo
• Maori: Kotopo
• Marathi: कोसोव्हो (kosovho)
• Mazanderani: کوزوو‎, کوسوو‎
• Mongolian: Косово (mn) (Kosovo)
• Nahuatl: Cosovo
• Nauruan: Kosovo
• North Frisian: Kosovo
• Norwegian: Kosovo (no)
• Occitan: Kosovë, Kosovo (oc), Kosova
• Ossetian: Косово (Kosovo)
• Papiamentu: Kosovo
• Persian: کوسوو‎ (kosovo)
• Picard: Kosovo
• Piedmontese: Kosovo m
• Polish: Kosowo (pl) n
• Pontic Greek: Κόσοβο (Kósobo)
• Portuguese: Kosovo (pt)
• Punjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ (kosovo)
• Quechua: Kusuwu, Kosovo, Kosova
• Romanian: Kosovo
• Romansch: Cosovo
• Russian: Ко́сово (ru) n (Kósovo)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kosovo
• Samoan: Kosovo
• Sardinian: Kòssovu
• Saterland Frisian: Kosovo
• Scots: Kosovo
• Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ко̏сово n

  Roman: Kȍsovo (sh) n

• Shona: Kosovo
• Sicilian: Kòssuvu m
• Silesian: Kosowo
• Sinhalese: කොසෝවො (kosōwo)
• Slovak: Kosovo n
• Slovene: Kosovo n
• Somali: Kosofo
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Kosowo

  Upper Sorbian: Kosowo

• Spanish: Kosovo (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: Kosovokondre
• Sundanese: Kosovo
• Swahili: Kosovo
• Swedish: Kosovo (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kosovo
• Tajik: Косово (Kosovo)
• Tamil: கொசோவோ (kocōvō)
• Tatar: Косово (Qosowo)
• Thai: โคโซโว (koo-soo-woo), คอซอวอ (th) (kɔɔ-sɔɔ-wɔɔ)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ། (kho so wo)
• Turkish: Kosova (tr)
• Turkmen: Kosowo
• Ukrainian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo)
• Urdu: کوسوو‎ (kosovo), کوسووہ‎ (kosova)
• Uyghur: كوسوۋو‎ (kosowo)
• Uzbek: Kosovo
• Venetian: Kósovo, Cosovo, Kosovo
• Vietnamese: Kosovo
• Võro: Kosovo
• Waray-Waray: Kosovo
• Welsh: Cosofo
• West Flemish: Kosovo
• West Frisian: Kosovo
• Yakut: Косова (Kosova)
• Yiddish: קאָסאָוואָ‎ (kosovo)
• Yoruba: Kósófò
• Zealandic: Kosovo

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

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Asturian

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• Cóssova
• Cóssovo

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.so.vo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.su.bu/

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Czech

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovský
• Kosovan

Further reading

• Kosovo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ко̏сово/Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.soːˌvoː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo ?

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Kosovaar

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsovo/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Kosovo n or m (genitive Kosovos)

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Kosovare, Kosovarin
• kosovarisch
• Kosovo-Albaner, Kosovo-Albanerin

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Italian

Alternative forms

• Cossovo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs(ː)ovo/

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovaro

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Maltese

Proper noun

Il-Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Cosovo (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.ˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• kosovar

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôsoʋo/
• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kȍsovo n (Cyrillic spelling Ко̏сово)

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/, [koˈso.β̞o]
• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (partly-recognized country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovar