Serbia

See also: serbia, sèrbia, Serbía, and Sèrbia

English

Alternative forms

• Servia (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Serbia, equivalent to modern Serb +‎ -ia.

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 on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia. Capital and largest city: Belgrade. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
3. A region of Southeast 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)
• Assamese: ছাৰ্বিয়া (sarria)
• 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) (śarbiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Съ́рбия (bg) f (Sǎ́rbija)
• Burmese: ဆားဘီးယား (hca:bhi:ya:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Се́рбія f (Sérbija)
• Catalan: Sèrbia (ca) f
• Chechen: Серби (Serbi)
• Chinese:

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

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

  Wu: 塞爾維亞／塞尔维亚 (⁵se-gher-vi-ia)

• Chuvash: Серби (Serbi)
• Crimean Tatar: Sırbistan
• Czech: Srbsko (cs) n
• Danish: Serbien (da)
• Dhivehi: ސާބިއާ (sābiā)
• 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)
• Gujarati: સર્બિયા (sarbiyā)
• Hausa: Serbiya
• Hebrew: סֶרְבְּיָה (he) f (serbiya)
• Hindi: सर्बिया (hi) m (sarbiyā)
• Hungarian: Szerbia (hu)
• Icelandic: Serbía f
• Ido: Serbia (io)
• Indonesian: Serbia (id)
• Irish: An tSeirbia f
• Italian: Serbia (it) f
• Japanese: セルビア (ja) (Serubia)
• Kannada: ಸೆರ್ಬಿಯ (kn) (serbiya)
• Kashubian: Serbiô f
• Kazakh: Сербия (kk) (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)
• Latin: Serbia f (Medieval and Modern Latin)
• Latvian: Serbija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Serbija (lt) f
• Livonian: Serbij
• Macedonian: Србија (mk) f (Srbija)
• Malay: Serbia (ms)
• Malayalam: സെർബിയ (seṟbiya)
• Maltese: is-Serbja f
• Manx: Yn Serb
• Maori: Hēpia
• Marathi: सर्बिया (sarbiyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Серби (mn) (Serbi)

• Navajo: Séwib bikéyah
• Nepali: सर्बिया (sarbiyā)
• Norman: Serbie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Serbia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Serbia (nn) n

• Odia: ସର୍ବିଆ (sarbiā)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Срьбїꙗ f (Srĭbija) (modern)

• Ottoman Turkish: صربستان (Sırbistan)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия f (Serbija)
• Pashto: صربیا f (sarbiyā)
• Persian:

  Dari: صَرْبِسْتَان (fa) (sarbistān), صَرْبِیَا (fa) (sarbiyā)

  Iranian Persian: صِرْبِسْتان (fa) (serbestân), صِرْبِیا (fa) (serbiyâ)

• Polish: Serbia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sérvia (pt)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਰਬੀਆ m (sarbīā)

• 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 f
• 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)
• Tamil: செர்பியா (cerpiyā)
• Tatar: Сербия (Serbiyä)
• Telugu: సెర్బియా (te) (serbiyā)
• Thai: เซอร์เบีย (th) (səə-biia)
• Tibetan: སེར་བྷི་ཡ (ser bhi ya)
• Tigrinya: ሰርቢያ (särbiya)
• Turkish: Sırbistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Serbiýa
• Ukrainian: Се́рбія (uk) f (Sérbija)
• Urdu: سَرْبِیا m (sarbiyā), صَرْبِسْتان m (sarbistān)
• Uyghur: سېربىيە (sërbiye)
• Uzbek: Serbiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xéc-bi
• Yiddish: סערביע (serbye)
• Yoruba: Sẹbia

See also

• (countries of Europe) countries of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (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 (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• serbiu

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̺erbia/ [s̺er.β̞i.a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: Ser‧bi‧a

Proper noun

Serbia inan

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Serbia (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite
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 (“Serbian”)
• serbiera (“Serbian language”)

 

Further reading

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈserb̥iɑ/

Proper noun

Serbia (genitive Serbia, partitive Serbiat)

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Serbia (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Serbia	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Serbia
genitive			—
partitive		Serbiat	—
illative		Serbiasse	—
inessive		Serbias	—
elative		Serbiast	—
allative		Serbiale	—
adessive		Serbial	—
ablative		Serbialt	—
translative		Serbiaks	—
terminative		Serbiani	—
essive		Serbiana	—
abessive		Serbiata	—
comitative		Serbiaga	—

See also

• (countries of Europe) Euroopa riigid; Albaania, Andorra, Armeenia, Aserbaidžaan, Austria, Belgia, Bosnia ja Hertsegoviina, Bulgaaria, Eesti, Georgia/Gruusia, Hispaania, Holland/Madalmaad, Horvaatia, Iirimaa/Iiri, Island, Itaalia, Kasahstan, Kreeka, Küpros, Leedu, Liechtenstein, Luksemburg, Läti, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norra, Poola, Portugal, Põhja-Makedoonia, Prantsusmaa, Rootsi, Rumeenia, Saksamaa, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakkia, Sloveenia, Soome, Suurbritannia, Šveits, Taani, Tšehhi, Türgi, Ukraina, Ungari, Valgevene, Vatikan, Venemaa ^{(Category: et:Countries in Europe)}

References

• Serbia in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “Serbia”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Finnish

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Србија.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

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	—
abessive		Serbiatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Serbia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Serbiani — accusative nom. Serbiani — gen. Serbiani genitive Serbiani — partitive Serbiaani — inessive Serbiassani — elative Serbiastani — illative Serbiaani — adessive Serbiallani — ablative Serbialtani — allative Serbialleni — essive Serbianani — translative Serbiakseni — abessive Serbiattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Serbiasi — accusative nom. Serbiasi — gen. Serbiasi genitive Serbiasi — partitive Serbiaasi — inessive Serbiassasi — elative Serbiastasi — illative Serbiaasi — adessive Serbiallasi — ablative Serbialtasi — allative Serbiallesi — essive Serbianasi — translative Serbiaksesi — abessive Serbiattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Serbiamme — accusative nom. Serbiamme — gen. Serbiamme genitive Serbiamme — partitive Serbiaamme — inessive Serbiassamme — elative Serbiastamme — illative Serbiaamme — adessive Serbiallamme — ablative Serbialtamme — allative Serbiallemme — essive Serbianamme — translative Serbiaksemme — abessive Serbiattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Serbianne — accusative nom. Serbianne — gen. Serbianne genitive Serbianne — partitive Serbiaanne — inessive Serbiassanne — elative Serbiastanne — illative Serbiaanne — adessive Serbiallanne — ablative Serbialtanne — allative Serbiallenne — essive Serbiananne — translative Serbiaksenne — abessive Serbiattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Serbiansa — accusative nom. Serbiansa — gen. Serbiansa genitive Serbiansa — partitive Serbiaansa — inessive Serbiassaan Serbiassansa — elative Serbiastaan Serbiastansa — illative Serbiaansa — adessive Serbiallaan Serbiallansa — ablative Serbialtaan Serbialtansa — allative Serbialleen Serbiallensa — essive Serbianaan Serbianansa — translative Serbiakseen Serbiaksensa — abessive Serbiattaan Serbiattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• serbia
• serbialainen
• Suur-Serbia

 

See also

• (countries of Europe) Euroopan maat; Alankomaat, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaidžan, Belgia, Bosnia ja Hertsegovina, Bulgaria, Espanja, Georgia, Irlanti, Islanti, Iso-Britannia, Italia, Itävalta, Kazakstan, Kreikka, Kroatia, Kypros, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Liettua, Luxemburg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norja, Pohjois-Makedonia, Portugali, Puola, Ranska, Romania, Ruotsi, Saksa, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Suomi, Sveitsi, Tanska, Tšekki, Turkki, Ukraina, Unkari, Valko-Venäjä, Vatikaani, Venäjä, Viro ^{(Category: fi:Countries in Europe)}

Galician

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• serbio

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈserbi̯a/

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

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
• Hyphenation: Sèr‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• serbo

See also

• (countries of Europe) paesi d'Europa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaigian, Belgio, Bielorussia, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Bulgaria, Cechia, Cipro, Città del Vaticano, Croazia, Danimarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Georgia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Islanda, Italia, Kazakistan, Lettonia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Lussemburgo, Macedonia del Nord, Malta, Moldavia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norvegia, Paesi Bassi, Polonia, Portogallo, Romania, Regno Unito, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Spagna, Svezia, Svizzera, Turchia, Ucraina, Ungheria ^{(Category: it:Countries in Europe)}

Anagrams

• Baresi, baresi, basire, bearsi, serbai

Latin

Alternative forms

• Servia

Proper noun

Serbia f sg (genitive Serbiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

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 (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Serbia og Montenegro, Montenegro
• serber
• serbisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Serbia

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Serbia og Montenegro, Montenegro
• serbar
• serbisk

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Србија (Srbija).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.bja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrbja
• Syllabification: Ser‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

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

 

See also

• (countries of Europe) kraje Europy; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbejdżan, Belgia, Białoruś, Bośnia i Hercegowina, Bułgaria, Chorwacja, Cypr, Czarnogóra, Czechy, Dania, Estonia, Finlandia, Francja, Grecja, Gruzja, Hiszpania, Holandia/Niderlandy, Irlandia, Islandia, Kazachstan, Liechtenstein, Litwa, Luksemburg, Łotwa, Macedonia Północna, Malta, Mołdawia, Monako, Niemcy, Norwegia, Polska, Portugalia, Rosja, Rumunia, San Marino, Szwajcaria, Szwecja, Serbia, Słowacja, Słowenia, Turcja, Ukraina, Watykan, Węgry, Wielka Brytania, Włochy

Further reading

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [serbjˈa]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

declension of Serbia (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) Serbie	Serbia
genitive/dative	(unei) Serbii	Serbiei
vocative	Serbie, Serbio

See also

• (countries of Europe) țările Europei; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia și Herțegovina, Bulgaria, Cehia, Cipru, Croația, Danemarca, Elveția, Estonia, Finlanda, Franța, Georgia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Islanda, Italia, Kazahstan, Letonia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburg, Macedonia de Nord, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Muntenegru, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugalia, Regatul Unit, România, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovacia, Slovenia, Spania, Suedia, Turcia, Țările de Jos, Ucraina, Ungaria, Vatican ^{(Category: ro:Countries in Europe)}

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Servia (dated)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾbja/ [ˈseɾ.β̞ja]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾbja
• Syllabification: Ser‧bia

Proper noun

Serbia f

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• Serbia y Montenegro

 

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrbja/

Proper noun

Serbia f (not mutable)

1. Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Coordinate terms

• (countries of Europe) gwledydd Ewrop; Albania, yr Almaen, Andorra, Armenia, Awstria, Aserbaijan, Belarws, Bosnia a Hertsegofina, Bwlgaria, Casachstan, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmarc, y Deyrnas Unedig, Dinas y Fatican, Estonia, y Ffindir, Ffrainc, yr Eidal, Georgia, Gogledd Macedonia, Gwlad Belg, Gwlad Groeg, Gwlad Pwyl, Gwlad yr Iâ, Hwngari, yr Iseldiroedd, Iwerddon, Latfia, Liechtenstein, Lithwania, Lwcsembwrg, Malta, Moldofa, Monaco, Montenegro, Norwy, Portiwgal, Rwmania, Rwsia, San Marino, Sbaen, Serbia, Slofacia, Slofenia, Sweden, y Swistir, Tsiecia (y Weriniaeth Tsiec), Twrci, Wcráin ^{(Category: cy:Countries in Europe)}

Derived terms

• sbriws Serbia (“Serbian spruces”)
• Gweriniaeth Serbia (“Republic of Serbia”)