Serbia

See also: serbia, sèrbia, Serbía, and Sèrbia

English

Alternative forms

• Servia (archaic)

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Србија (Srbija).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.bi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.bi.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Serbia

2. A country in southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia
3. A region in southeastern Europe

Related terms

• Serb
• Serbian
• Serbinization

Translations

a country in southeastern Europe

• Afrikaans: Serwië
• Albanian: Serbi f (indefinite), Serbia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ሰርቢያ (särbiya)
• Arabic: صِرْبِيَا‎ f (ṣirbiyā), الصِّرْب‎ f (aṣ-ṣirb)
• Armenian: Սերբիա (hy) (Serbia)
• Aromanian: Sãrghii f, Sãrbii f (indefinite), Sãrghia f, Sãrbia (definite)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܹܪܒܝܼܵܐ‎ f (ṣerbiya)
• Azerbaijani: Serbiya (az)
• Bashkir: Сербия (Serbiya)
• Basque: Serbia (eu)
• Belarusian: Се́рбія f (Sjérbija), Сэ́рбія f (Sérbija) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: সার্বিয়া (bn) (sarbiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Съ́рбия (bg) f (Sǎ́rbija)
• Burmese: ဆားဘီးယား (hca:bhi:ya:)
• Catalan: Sèrbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塞爾維亞／塞尔维亚 (coi³ ji⁵ wai⁴ aa³)

  Mandarin: 塞爾維亞／塞尔维亚 (zh) (Sāi'ěrwéiyà)

• Czech: Srbsko (cs) n
• Danish: Serbien (da)
• Dutch: Servië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Serbio
• Estonian: Serbia (et)
• Farefare: Sɛrbgɔ
• Faroese: Serbia n
• Finnish: Serbia (fi)
• French: Serbie (fr) f
• Friulian: Serbie f
• Galician: Serbia (gl) f
• Georgian: სერბეთი (ka) (serbeti)
• German: Serbien (de) n
• Greek: Σερβία (el) f (Servía)
• Hausa: Serbiya
• Hebrew: סֶרְבְּיָה‎ (he) f (serbiya)
• Hindi: सर्बिया (hi) (sarbiyā)
• Hungarian: Szerbia (hu)
• Icelandic: Serbía f
• Ido: Serbia (io)
• Indonesian: Serbia (id)
• Irish: An tSeirbia f, Poblacht na Seirbia f
• Italian: Serbia (it) f
• Japanese: セルビア (ja) (Serubia)
• Kazakh: Сербия (Serbiä)
• Khmer: ស៊ឺបៀ (sɨɨbiə), ស៊េប៊ី (seibii)
• Korean: 세르비아 (ko) (Sereubia), 쓰르비아 (Sseureubia) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Sirbistan (ku), Serbistan (ku), Serbiya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Сербия (Serbiya)
• Lao: ແຊກບີ (sǣk bī)
• Latvian: Serbija f
• Lithuanian: Serbija (lt) f
• Livonian: Serbij
• Macedonian: Србија (mk) f (Srbija)
• Malay: Serbia
• Maltese: is-Serbja
• Manx: Yn Serb
• Maori: Hēpia
• Mongolian: Серби (mn) (Serbi)
• Navajo: Séwib bikéyah
• Norman: Serbie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Serbia (no)

  Nynorsk: Serbia (nn)

• Old Church Slavonic: Срьбїꙗ (Srĭbija)
• Pashto: صربیا‎ f
• Persian: صربستان‎ (fa) (serbestân)
• Polish: Serbia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sérvia (pt)
• Romanian: Serbia (ro) f
• Russian: Се́рбия (ru) f (Sérbija)
• Samoan: Serepia
• Scots: Serbie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ср̀бија f

  Roman: Sr̀bija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Serbia f
• Silesian: Syrbijo
• Sinhalese: සර්බියාව (sarbiyāwa)
• Slovak: Srbsko n
• Slovene: Sŕbija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Serbiska f

  Upper Sorbian: Serbiska f

• Spanish: Serbia (es) f
• Swedish: Serbien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Serbya
• Tajik: Сербия (Serbiya)
• Thai: เซอร์เบีย (səə-biia)
• Tigrinya: ሰርቢያ (särbiya)
• Turkish: Sırbistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Serbiýa
• Ukrainian: Се́рбія (uk) f (Sérbija)
• Urdu: سربیا‎ (sarbiyā)
• Uyghur: سېربىيە‎ (sërbiye)
• Uzbek: Serbiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xéc-bi
• Yiddish: סערביע‎ (serbye)
• Yoruba: Sẹbia

See also

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Kosovo
• Montenegro
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Vojvodina
• Yugoslavia

Anagrams

• Baiers, braies, braise, rabies, rebias

Albanian

Proper noun

Serbia

1. definite nominative singular of Serbi

Asturian

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia

Derived terms

• serbiu

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̺erbia/, [s̺e̞r.β̞i.a]

Proper noun

Serbia inan

1. Serbia

Declension

Declension of Serbia (inanimate, ending in -a)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	Serbia	—	—
ergative	Serbiak	—	—
dative	Serbiari	—	—
genitive	Serbiaren	—	—
comitative	Serbiarekin	—	—
causative	Serbiarengatik	—	—
benefactive	Serbiarentzat	—	—
instrumental	Serbiaz	—	—
inessive	Serbian	—	—
locative	Serbiako	—	—
allative	Serbiara	—	—
terminative	Serbiaraino	—	—
directive	Serbiarantz	—	—
destinative	Serbiarako	—	—
ablative	Serbiatik	—	—
partitive	Serbiarik	—	—
prolative	Serbiatzat	—	—

Derived terms

• serbiar
• serbiera

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia (a country in Europe)

Finnish

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Србија.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈserbiɑ/, [ˈs̠e̞rbiɑ]
• Rhymes: -erbiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ser‧bi‧a

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia

Declension

Inflection of Serbia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Serbia	—
genitive		Serbian	—
partitive		Serbiaa	—
illative		Serbiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Serbia	—
accusative	nom.	Serbia	—
	gen.	Serbian
genitive		Serbian	—
partitive		Serbiaa	—
inessive		Serbiassa	—
elative		Serbiasta	—
illative		Serbiaan	—
adessive		Serbialla	—
ablative		Serbialta	—
allative		Serbialle	—
essive		Serbiana	—
translative		Serbiaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Serbiatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Serbia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Serbiani	Serbiamme
2nd person	Serbiasi	Serbianne
3rd person	Serbiansa

Derived terms

• serbia
• serbialainen

Galician

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia

Related terms

• serbio

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈserbi̯a/

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.bja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrbja
• Syllabification: Sèr‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia

Derived terms

• serbo

Anagrams

• Baresi, baresi, basire, bearsi, serbai

Latin

Alternative forms

• Servia

Proper noun

Serbia f sg (genitive Serbiae); first declension

1. Serbia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Serbia
Genitive	Serbiae
Dative	Serbiae
Accusative	Serbiam
Ablative	Serbiā
Vocative	Serbia

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia

Related terms

• Serbia og Montenegro, Montenegro
• serber
• serbisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia

Related terms

• Serbia og Montenegro, Montenegro
• serbar
• serbisk

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Србија (Srbija).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.bja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrbja
• Syllabification: Ser‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country in Southeast Europe, in the Balkans)

Declension

Declension of Serbia

	singular
nominative	Serbia
genitive	Serbii
dative	Serbii
accusative	Serbię
instrumental	Serbią
locative	Serbii
vocative	Serbio

Derived terms

adjective

• serbski

 

nouns

• Serb
• Serbka

 

Further reading

• Serbia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Serbia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾbja/ [ˈseɾ.β̞ja]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾbja
• Syllabification: Ser‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country in southeastern Europe)

Derived terms

• Serbia y Montenegro

 

Welsh

Proper noun

Serbia f (not mutable)

1. Serbia (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• Gweriniaeth Serbia (“Republic of Serbia”)