Yugoslavia

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Etymology[edit]

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.

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  • IPA(key): /juːɡəˈslɑːvi.ə/
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Yugoslavia

  1. (historical) A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.
  2. (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
  3. (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.

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Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -abja
  • Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via

Proper noun[edit]

Yugoslavia f

  1. Yugoslavia