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Etymology
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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
- (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.
- (historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
- (historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
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former country in the Balkans
- Afrikaans: Joego-Slawië
- Albanian: Jugosllavi f (indedinite), Jugosllavia (definite)
- Arabic: يُوغُسْلَافِيَا f (yūḡoslāviyā), يُوجُوسْلَافِيَا f (yūgoslāviyā)
- Hijazi Arabic: يوقوسلاڤيا f (yūgōslāvya)
- 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)
- Czech: Jugoslávie (cs) f
- Danish: Jugoslavien n
- Dutch: Joegoslavië (nl) n, Zuid-Slavië n (dated)
- 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 (yugoslávya)
- 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 (ja) (Yūgosurabia), ユーゴスラヴィア (Yūgosuravia)
- Kazakh: Югославия (Ügoslaviä)
- Khmer: យូហ្គោស្លាវ (km) (yuugooslaaw)
- Korean: 유고슬라비아 (ko) (Yugoseullabia)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Yûgoslavya
- Kyrgyz: Югославия (ky) (Yugoslaviya)
- 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 (Jugoslav)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Jugoslavia n
- Nynorsk: Jugoslavia n
- 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)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Југо̀сла̄вија f, Југосла̏вија f
- Latin: Jugòslāvija (sh) f, Jugoslȁvija (sh) f
- Sindhi: يوگوسلاويا
- 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)
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Pronunciation
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- 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.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuɡosˈlabja/ [ʒu.ɣ̞osˈla.β̞ja]
- Rhymes: -abja
- Syllabification: Yu‧gos‧la‧via
Proper noun
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Yugoslavia f
- Yugoslavia