Yugoslavia

English

Alternative forms

• Jugoslavia (common pre-WWII spelling)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/

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Proper noun

Yugoslavia

2. (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
3. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
4. (nonstandard) Serbia and Montenegro.

Derived terms

• Yugosphere
• Yugo-nostalgia / Yugonostalgia

Related terms

• Yugoslav

Translations

former country in the Balkans

• Afrikaans: Joego-Slawië
• Albanian: Jugosllavi f (indedinite), Jugosllavia (definite)
• Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا‎ f (yūḡoslāviyā), يُوجُوسْلَافِيَا‎ f (yūgoslāviyā)
• Armenian: Հարավսլավիա (Haravslavia)
• Aromanian: Iuguslavii f (indefinite), Iuguslavia (definite)
• Azerbaijani: Yuqoslaviya
• Basque: Jugoslavia (eu)
• Belarusian: Югасла́вія f (Juhaslávija)
• Bengali: যুগোশ্লাভিয়া (jugoślabhiẏa)
• 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 (Nánliánméng)

• Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f
• Danish: Jugoslavien
• Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jugoslavio
• Estonian: Jugoslaavia
• Faroese: Jugoslavia
• Finnish: Jugoslavia (fi)
• French: Yougoslavie (fr) f
• Georgian: იუგოსლავია (iugoslavia)
• German: Jugoslawien (de) n
• Greek: Γιουγκοσλαβία (el) f (Giougkoslavía)
• Hawaiian: Iugosolawia
• Hebrew: יוּגוֹסְלַבְיָה‎ f
• Hindi: यूगोस्लाविया (yūgoslāviyā)
• Hungarian: Jugoszlávia (hu)
• Icelandic: Júgóslavía f
• 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)
• Khmer: យូហ្គោស្លាវ (km) (yuugooslaaw)
• Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) (Yugoseullabia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Yûgoslavya

• Kyrgyz: Югославия (ky) (Yuğoslaviya)
• Lao: ຢູໂກສະລາເວັຍ (yū kō sa lā wia)

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

  Cyrillic: Югослав (Yugoslav)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jugoslavia

  Nynorsk: Jugoslavia

• Pashto: يوګوسلاويا‎ f (yugoslāwyã)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f

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

• Slovak: Juhoslávia f
• Slovene: Jugoslávija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Jugosłowjańska f

  Upper Sorbian: Juhosłowjanska f

• Spanish: Yugoslavia (es) f, Yugoeslavia (es) f
• 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)

Further reading

• Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 

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

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

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Proper noun

Yugoslavia f

1. Yugoslavia