familija

See also: famīlija and famīlijā

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Familie, from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mʲi.li.ja/
• Rhymes: -amʲilija
• Syllabification: fa‧mi‧li‧ja

Noun

familija f (diminutive familinka)

1. (nuclear) family

Declension

Declension of familija

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	familija	familiji	familije
genitive	familije	familijowu	familijow
dative	familiji	familijoma	familijam
accusative	familiju	familiji	familije
instrumental	familiju	familijoma	familijami
locative	familiji	familijoma	familijach

Synonyms

• swójźba

Derived terms

• familański
• familijowy

Further reading

• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “familija”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /faˈmi.li.jɒ/

Noun

familija f

1. Middle Polish form of familia (“clan, people of one surname descended from one ancestor, home, family”)
   1. (Middle Polish) synonym of nazwisko / zawołanie
2. Middle Polish form of familia (“home community with its servants and domestic staff”)
3. (Middle Polish) family (order, brotherhood, congregation of clergy or lay people of a religious nature)

Declension

Attested forms of familijå

	singular	plural
nominative	familijå	familije
genitive	familijéj/familiji	familijej/familij
dative	—	—
accusative	familiją	familije
instrumental	familiją	—
locative	familijej	familijach
vocative	—	—

References

• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “familija”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Romani

Noun

familija f (plural familije)

1. alternative form of famìlia (“family”)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǎmiːlija/
• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧ja
• Rhymes: -ija

Noun

fàmīlija f (Cyrillic spelling фа̀мӣлија)

1. family

Declension

Declension of familija

	singular	plural
nominative	familija	familije
genitive	familije	familija
dative	familiji	familijama
accusative	familiju	familije
vocative	familijo	familije
locative	familiji	familijama
instrumental	familijom	familijama

See also

• (Croatia) obitelj
• (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) porodica

Further reading

• “familija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Votic

Alternative forms

• familia

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фамилия (familija).

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑmilijɑ/, [ˈfɑmʲiˌliʝɑ]
• Rhymes: -ijɑ
• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧ja

Noun

familija

1. family name, surname
   • 2012, “familija”, in V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik, editor, Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition (dictionary citing attested dialectal material: Jõgõperä dialect):

     võtti enelleez uuvvõõ familʹaa

     took herself a new surname

Inflection

Declension of familija (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	familija	familijad
genitive	familija	familijojõ
partitive	familijja	familijoit
illative	familijja, familijasõ	familijoisõ
inessive	familijaz	familijoiz
elative	familijass	familijoiss
allative	familijallõ	familijoillõ
adessive	familijall	familijoill
ablative	familijalt	familijoilt
translative	familijassi	familijoissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “familija”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Tallinn