Yugoslavia

English

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)
• Yougoslavia
• Yugo (clipping)

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jug (“south”) and slavija (“Slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the South Slavs. By surface analysis, Yugoslav +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌjuː.ɡəˈslɑː.vi.ə/, /ˌjuː.ɡəʊˈslɑː.vi.ə/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉwɡəˈslɑːvɪjə/, /ˌjʉwɡəwˈslɑːvɪjə/

  • Audio (Southern England); /ˌjʉwɡəˈslɑːvɪjə/:

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌju.ɡəˈslɑ.vi.ə/, /ˌju.ɡoʊˈslɑ.vi.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌjʉɡəˈslave.ə/, /-ɡo/, /-vɪ.ə/, /-vi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːviə
• Hyphenation: Yu‧go‧sla‧vi‧a, Yu‧go‧slav‧ia

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

2. (historical) A former country in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.
   • 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2025:

     This all relates to what happened in the 1990s, in the bloody aftermath of Yugoslavia splintering into separate nations.

   1. (historical, specific) The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a kingdom ruled by the House of Karađorđević which existed from 1918 to 1941.
   2. (historical, specific) The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist state which existed from 1945 to 1992.
      • 1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 100:

        Though Yugoslavia has large socially owned farms, private farmers make up a quarter of the working population and account for 75 percent of food production.

4. (historical) A former country in Southeastern Europe, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992; in full, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
   • 1999 March 25, “Air Campaign Against Yugoslavia”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, archived from the original on 15 March 2021:

     Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.

   1. (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.

Synonyms

• South Slavia

Derived terms

• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia
• Yugoslavian
• Yugosphere

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Translations

former country in the Balkans

• Afrikaans: Joego-Slawië
• Albanian: Jugosllavi f (indedinite), Jugosllavia (definite)
• Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا f (yūḡuslāfiyā), يُوجُوسْلَافِيَا f (yūjūslāfiyā), يُوجُسْلَافِيَا f (yūjuslāfiyā), يُوغُوسْلافِيَا f (yūḡūslāfiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: يوقوسلاڤيا f (yōgōslāviya)

• Armenian: Հարավսլավիա (Haravslavia)
• Aromanian: Iuguslavii f (indefinite), Iuguslavia (definite)
• Azerbaijani: Yuqoslaviya
• Basque: Jugoslavia (eu)
• Belarusian: Югасла́вія f (Juhaslávija)
• Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া (jugōslabhiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Югосла́вия f (Jugoslávija)
• Burmese: ယူဂိုဆလားဗီးယား (yuguihca.la:bi:ya:)
• Catalan: Iugoslàvia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南斯拉夫 (naam⁴ si¹ laai¹ fu¹)

  Mandarin: 南斯拉夫 (zh) (Nánsīlāfū), 南聯盟 / 南联盟 (zh) (Nánliánméng)

• Crimean Tatar: Yugoslaviya
• Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f
• Danish: Jugoslavien n
• Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl) n, Zuid-Slavië n (dated)
• Esperanto: Jugoslavio, Jugoslavujo
• Estonian: Jugoslaavia
• Faroese: Jugoslavia
• Finnish: Jugoslavia (fi)
• French: Yougoslavie (fr) f; Slavie du Sud f, Slavie méridionale f (literally “South Slavia”)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Joegoslaavje n, Jûgoslaavje n

• Georgian: იუგოსლავია (iugoslavia)
• German: Jugoslawien (de) n
• Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f (Giougkoslavía)
• Hawaiian: Iugosolawia
• Hebrew: יוּגוֹסְלַבְיָה f (yugoslávya)
• Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया (yūgoslāviyā)
• Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu)
• Icelandic: Júgóslavía f
• Indonesian: Yugoslavia
• Irish: an Iúgslaiv f
• Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia (it) f
• Japanese: ユーゴスラビア (ja) (Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア (ja) (Yūgosuravia)
• Kazakh: Югославия (Yuwgoslavıya)
• Khmer: យូហ្គោស្លាវ (km) (yuugooslaaw)
• Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) (Yugoseullabia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Yûgoslavya

• Kyrgyz: Югославия (ky) (Yugoslaviya)
• Lao: ຢູໂກສະລາເວັຍ (yū kō sa lā wia)
• Latin: Iugoslavia f
• Latvian: Dienvidslāvija f
• Lithuanian: Jugoslavija f
• Macedonian: Југославија (mk) f (Jugoslavija)
• Malay: Yugoslavia
• Maltese: il-Jugoslavja f
• Manx: Yn Yugoslaavey
• Māori: Tararā, Ukorāwia
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Югослав (Jugoslav)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jugoslavia

  Nynorsk: Jugoslavia n

• Occitan: Iogoslavia f
• Pashto: يوګوسلاويا f (yugoslāwyā)
• Persian: یوگسلاوی (yugoslâvi)
• Polish: Jugosławia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jugoslávia (pt) f (Portugal), Iugoslávia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Rarotongan: Ūkotaravia
• Romanian: Iugoslavia f
• Russian: Югосла́вия (ru) f (Jugoslávija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùgoslaibhia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f

  Latin: Jugòslāvija (sh) f, Jugoslȁvija (sh) f

• Sindhi: يوگوسلاويا (eogosloyā)
• Slovak: Juhoslávia f
• Slovene: Jugoslávija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Jugosłowjańska f

  Upper Sorbian: Juhosłowjanska f

• Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Yugoslafia
• Swedish: Jugoslavien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Yugoslabya, Hugoslabya
• Tajik: Югославия (tg) (Yugoslaviya)
• Thai: ยูโกสลาเวีย (yuu-goo-sà-laa-wiia)
• Turkish: Yugoslavya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýugoslawiýa
• Ukrainian: Югосла́вія f (Juhoslávija), Юґосла́вія f (Jugoslávija)
• Urdu: یوگوسلاویہ m (yūgoslāviyā)
• Uyghur: يۇگوسلاۋىيە (yugoslawiye)
• Uzbek: Yugoslaviya
• Vietnamese: Nam Tư (vi) (南斯)
• Welsh: Iwgoslafia (cy)
• Yiddish: יוגאָסלאַוויע (yugoslavye)

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Interlingua

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

1. (historical) Yugoslavia (a former country in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia)

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝuɡosˈlabja/ [ɟ͡ʝu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]

• IPA^(key): /ʝuɡosˈlabja/ [ɟ͡ʝu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ʃuɡosˈlabja/ [ʃu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒuɡosˈlabja/ [ʒu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via

Proper noun

Yugoslavia f

1. (historical) Yugoslavia (a former country in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia)