Slavic

See also: slavic, slavić, slavíc, and Slavić

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Sl.

Etymology

From Slav + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɑːvɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvɪk

Adjective

Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)

1. Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
   • 1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:

     Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.

Synonyms

• Slav
• Slavonic
• Sclavonic

Derived terms

• non-Slavic

Related terms

• Slavdom, Slavia, Slavism, Slavistics, Pan-Slavic, Interslavic

Translations

of the Slavs, their culture or languages

• Afrikaans: Slawies
• Albanian: sllav (sq)
• Arabic: سْلَافِيّ (slāfiyy), صَقْلَبِيّ (ṣaqlabiyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: سلاڤي m (slāvi)

• Armenian: սլավոնական (hy) (slavonakan)
• Azerbaijani: slavyan
• Belarusian: славя́нскі (slavjánski)
• Bengali: স্লাভিক (slabhik), স্লাভীয় (slabhiẏo)
• Bulgarian: славя́нски (bg) (slavjánski)
• Burmese: ဆလဗ (hca.la.ba.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый (slavjánskŷj)
• Catalan: eslau (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斯拉夫 (si¹ laai¹ fu¹)

  Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (zh) (sīlāfū)

• Cree: slovenski
• Czech: slovanský (cs)
• Danish: slavisk
• Dutch: Slavisch (nl)
• Esperanto: slava
• Estonian: slaavi
• Finnish: slaavilainen (fi)
• French: slave (fr), slavon (fr)
• Friulian: slâf
• Georgian: სლავური (slavuri)
• German: slawisch (de)
• Greek: σλαυικός (slavikós), σλαβικός (el) (slavikós)
• Hawaiian: Selawika, ʻōlelo Selawika
• Hebrew: סְלָאבִי (slávi)
• Hindi: स्लाव (slāv), स्लावी (slāvī)
• Hungarian: szláv (hu)
• Icelandic: slavískur
• Irish: Slavach, Slavónach
• Italian: slavo (it)
• Japanese: スラヴ (ja) (suravu), スラブ (ja) (surabu)
• Kashubian: słoviński
• Kazakh: славян (slavän), славяндық (slavändyq)
• Khmer: ស្លាវ (slaaw), ស្លាវី (slaavii)
• Komi-Permyak: славян (slavʹan)
• Komi-Zyrian: славян (slavan)
• Korean: 슬라브 (seullabeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: slavî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: славян (slavyan), славяндык (slavyandık)
• Latvian: slāvu, slāvisks
• Lithuanian: slavų m, slaviškas
• Macedonian: словенски (slovenski)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: славян (slavjan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slavisk

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ)

• Pashto: سلاو (sláw), اسلاو (esláw)
• Persian: اسلاو (fa) (eslâv)
• Polish: słowiański (pl)
• Portuguese: eslavo (pt), eslávico
• Romanian: slavon (ro), slavonesc (ro), slav (ro)
• Russian: славя́нский (ru) (slavjánskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сло̀ве̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), сло̀вје̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), сла̀ве̄нскӣ (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)

  Roman: slòvēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), slòvjēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), slàvēnskī (sh) (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)

• Sicilian: slavu m
• Silesian: słowjański
• Slovak: slovanský
• Slovene: slovánski (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower: słowjański

  Upper: słowjanski (hsb)

• Spanish: eslavo (es)
• Swedish: slavisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Eslabo
• Tajik: славян (slavyan)
• Tatar: славян (slawyan)
• Thai: สลาฟ (sà-láaf)
• Turkish: Slav (tr)
• Turkmen: slawýan
• Udmurt: славян (slavan)
• Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (uk) (slovʺjánsʹkyj)
• Urdu: سلاو (slāv), سلاوی (slāvī)
• Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان (silawiyan)
• Uzbek: slavyan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xla-vơ
• Welsh: Slafaidd
• Yiddish: סלאַוויש (slavish)

Noun

Slavic (uncountable)

1. Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

   It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.

   • 2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 January 2022:

     Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.

Synonyms

• Slavonic, Sclavonic

Meronyms

• Church Slavic, Church Slavonic
  • Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
• East Slavic,
  • Old East Slavic, Old East Slavonic
  • Great Russian = Russian = Russ
  • Little Russian = Ukrainian
  • White Russian = Belarusian
• South Slavic,
  • Bulgarian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Slovenian, Slovene
• West Slavic,
  • Czech
  • Kashubian
  • Slovak
  • Sorbian

Translations

Translations

• German: Slawisch (de) n

Anagrams

• cavils, clavis