Yugoslavia

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, in turn from jugo (“south”) and slavija (“slavia, the land of the Slavs”). Literally, the land of the southern Slavs.

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

Proper noun

Yugoslavia

1. A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.

Translations

former country in the Balkans

• Albanian: Jugosllavia
• Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا‏‎ f (yūḡoslāviyā)
• Armenian: Հարավսլավիա (Haravslavia)
• Azeri: Yuqoslaviya
• Belarusian: Югасла́вія f (Juhaslávija)
• Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া (jugoślabhiya)
• Bulgarian: Югосла́вия f (Jugoslávija)
• Catalan: Iugoslàvia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南斯拉夫 (zh) (Nánsīlāfū)

• Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f
• Danish: Jugoslavien
• Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jugoslavio
• Faroese: Jugoslavia
• Finnish: Jugoslavia (fi)
• French: Yougoslavie (fr) f
• Georgian: იუგოსლავია (iugoslavia)
• German: Jugoslawien (de) n
• Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f (Giougkoslavía)
• Hawaiian: Iugosolawia
• Hebrew: יוגוסלביה‏‎
• Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया (yūgoslāviyā)
• Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu)
• Irish: an Iúgslaiv f
• Italian: Jugoslavia, Iugoslavia (it) f
• Japanese: ユーゴスラビア (Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア (Yūgosuravia)
• Kazakh: Югославия (Ywgoslavïya)
• Korean: 유고슬라비아 (Yugoseullabia)
• Kyrgyz: Югославия (ky) (Yugoslaviya)

• Latvian: Dienvidslāvija f
• Macedonian: Југославија (mk) f (Jugoslavija)
• Malay: Yugoslavia
• Maltese: il-Jugoslavja f
• Manx: Yn Yugoslaavey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jugoslavia

  Nynorsk: Jugoslavia

• Persian: یوگسلاوی‏‎ (yugoslâvi)
• Polish: Jugosławia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jugoslávia (pt) f ((Portugal)), Iugoslávia (pt) f ((Brazil))
• Romanian: Iugoslavia f
• Russian: Югосла́вия (ru) f (Jugoslávija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f

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

• Slovak: Juhoslávia f
• Slovene: Jugoslávija (sl) f
• Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia f
• Swedish: Jugoslavien (sv)
• Tagalog: Yugoslabya, Hugoslabya
• Thai: ยูโกสลาเวีย
• Turkish: Yugoslavya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýugoslawiýa
• Ukrainian: Югосла́вія f (Juhoslávija)
• Uyghur: يۇگوسلاۋىيە‏‎ (yugoslawiye)
• Uzbek: Yugoslaviya
• Vietnamese: Nam Tư (vi) (南斯)
• Welsh: Iwgoslafia (cy)

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Derived terms

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Spanish

Proper noun

Yugoslavia ?

1. Yugoslavia