Kosovo

English

Wikipedia

Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans

Kosovo (2) district

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. A disputed region 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.
3. The Republic of Kosovo, a country in the Balkans.

Derived terms

• Kosovan

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

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

  Egyptian Arabic: كوسوڤو

  Hijazi Arabic: كوسوفو f ‎(kōsōfō)

• Aragonese: Kosovo m
• Armenian: Կոսովո ‎(Kosovo)
• Aromanian: Cosova
• Asturian: Kosovo m
• Aymara: Kusuwu
• Azeri: Kosovo (az)
• Bashkir: Косово ‎(Kosovo)
• Basque: Kosovo (eu)
• Bavarian: Kosovo
• Belarusian: Косава n ‎(Kósava)
• Bengali: কসোভো ‎(kôsobho)
• Bikol Central: Kosobo
• Breton: Kosovo
• Bulgarian: Косово ‎(Kosovo)
• Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m
• Cebuano: Kosobo, Kosovo
• Chechen: Косово ‎(Kosowo)
• Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ ‎(godiquo)
• Chinese:

  Gan: 科索沃

  Hakka: Kosovo

  Mandarin: 科索沃 (zh) ‎(Kēsuǒwò)

  Min Dong: Kosovo

  Wu: 科索沃

• Chuvash: Косово ‎(Kosovo)
• Cornish: Kosova
• Crimean Tatar: Kosovo
• Czech: Kosovo (cs) n
• Danish: Kosovo
• Dutch: Kosovo (nl)
• Esperanto: Kosovo
• Estonian: Kosovo (et)
• Extremaduran: Cosovu
• Faroese: Kosovo
• Finnish: Kosovo (fi)
• French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo m
• Gagauz: Kosova
• Galician: Kosovo (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსოვო ‎(ḳosovo)
• German: Kosovo (de) m, n
• Greek: Κόσοβο n ‎(Kósovo)
• Greenlandic: Kosovo
• Guaraní: Kosovo
• Hebrew: קוסובו (he) ‎(kosovo)
• Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) ‎(kosovo)
• Hungarian: Koszovó (hu)
• Icelandic: Kosóvó
• Ido: Kosovo
• Indonesian: Kosovo
• Interlingua: Kosovo
• Interlingue: 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) ‎(koosoovoo)
• Korean: 코소보 (ko) ‎(Kosobo)
• Kurdish: Kosova (ku)

  Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ

• Kyrgyz: Косово ‎(Kosovo)
• Lak: Косова ‎(Kosowa)

• Lao: ປະເທດໂກໂຊໂວ ‎(pa thēt kō sō wō)
• Latin: Kosovia
• Latvian: Kosova f
• Limburgish: Kosovo (li)
• Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Kosovo (lb)
• Macedonian: Косово n ‎(Kósovo)
• Malay: Kosovo
• Malayalam: കൊസോവോ ‎(kosōvō)
• Maltese: Kosovo m, Kosova
• Manx: Kosovo
• Marathi: कोसोव्हो ‎(kosovho)
• Mazanderani: کوزوو, کوسوو
• Mongolian: Косово (mn) ‎(Kosovo)
• Nahuatl: Cosovo
• Nauruan: Kosovo
• North Frisian: Kosovo
• Norwegian: Kosovo (no)
• Novial: Kosovo
• 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 n ‎(Kósovo) also
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kosovo
• Samoan: Kosovo
• Sardinian: Kòssovu
• Saterland Frisian: Kosovo
• Scots: Kosovo
• Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Косово n

  Roman: Kosovo (sh) n

• Shona: Kosovo
• Sicilian: Kòssuvu m
• Silesian: Kosowo
• Sinhalese: කොසෝවො ‎(kosōvo)
• 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)
• Tagalog: Kosovo
• Tamil: கொசோவோ ‎(kocōvō)
• Tatar: Косово ‎(Qosowo)
• Thai: โคโซโว ‎(kohsohwoh)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ། ‎(kho so wo)
• Turkish: Kosova (tr)
• Ukrainian: Косово n ‎(Kósovo)
• Urdu: کوسوو ‎(Kosovo)
• Uzbek: Kosovo
• Venetian: Kósovo, Cosovo, Kosovo
• Vietnamese: Kosovo
• Võro: Kosovo
• Waray-Waray: Kosovo
• Welsh: Cosofo
• West Flemish: Kosovo
• West Frisian: Kosovo
• Yakut: Косова ‎(Kosova)
• Yoruba: Kósófò
• Zealandic: Kosovo

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

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Asturian

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (disputed region in the Balkans)

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Catalan

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo

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Czech

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo

Derived terms

• kosovský

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsovo/

Proper noun

Kosovo n ‎(genitive Kosovos) or m

1. Kosovo

Related terms

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

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs(ː)ovo/

Alternative forms

• Cossovo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo

Derived terms

• kosovaro

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Maltese

Wikipedia ^mt

Proper noun

Il-Kosovo m

1. Kosovo

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Cosovo (rare)

Etymology

Borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.'zo.vu/

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (a breakaway state within Serbia)

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

Declension

Declension of Kosovo

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

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (disputed region in the Balkans)