Slavic

See also: slavic, slavić, and slavíc

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Sl.

Etymology

From Slav + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɑːvɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvɪk

Adjective

Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)

1. Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
   • 1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:

     Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.

Synonyms

• Slav
• Slavonic
• Sclavonic

Derived terms

• non-Slavic

Related terms

• Slavdom, Slavia, Slavism, Slavistics, Pan-Slavic, Interslavic

Translations

of the Slavs, their culture or languages

• Afrikaans: Slawies
• Albanian: sllav (sq), nashke
• Arabic: سْلَافِيّ (slāfiyy), صَقْلَبِيّ (ṣaqlabiyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: سلاڤي m (slāvi)

• Armenian: սլավոնական (hy) (slavonakan)
• Azerbaijani: slavyan
• Belarusian: славя́нскі (slavjánski)
• Bengali: স্লাভিক (slabhik), স্লাভীয় (slabhiẏo)
• Bulgarian: славя́нски (bg) (slavjánski)
• Burmese: ဆလဗ (hca.la.ba.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый (slavjánskŷj)
• Catalan: eslau
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斯拉夫 (si¹ laai¹ fu¹)

  Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (zh) (sīlāfū)

• Cree: slovenski
• Czech: slovanský (cs)
• Danish: slavisk
• Dutch: Slavisch (nl)
• Esperanto: slava
• Estonian: slaavi
• Finnish: slaavilainen (fi)
• French: slave (fr), slavon (fr)
• Friulian: slâf
• Georgian: სლავური (slavuri)
• German: slawisch (de)
• Greek: σλαυικός (slavikós), σλαβικός (el) (slavikós)
• Hawaiian: Selawika, ʻōlelo Selawika
• Hebrew: סְלָאבִי (slávi)
• Hindi: स्लाव (slāv), स्लावी (slāvī)
• Hungarian: szláv (hu)
• Icelandic: slavískur
• Irish: Slavach, Slavónach
• Italian: slavo (it)
• Japanese: スラヴ (suravu), スラブ (surabu)
• Kashubian: słoviński
• Kazakh: славян (slavän), славяндық (slavändyq)
• Khmer: ស្លាវ (slaaw), ស្លាវី (slaavii)
• Komi-Permyak: славян (slavʹan)
• Komi-Zyrian: славян (slavan)
• Korean: 슬라브 (seullabeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: slavî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: славян (slavyan), славяндык (slavyandık)
• Latvian: slāvu, slāvisks
• Lithuanian: slavų m, slaviškas
• Macedonian: словенски (slovenski)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: славян (slavjan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slavisk

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ)

• Pashto: سلاو (sláw), اسلاو (esláw)
• Persian: اسلاو (fa) (eslâv)
• Polish: słowiański (pl)
• Portuguese: eslavo (pt), eslávico
• Romanian: slavon (ro), slavonesc (ro), slav (ro)
• Russian: славя́нский (ru) (slavjánskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сло̀ве̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), сло̀вје̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), сла̀ве̄нскӣ (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)

  Roman: slòvēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), slòvjēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), slàvēnskī (sh) (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian)

• Sicilian: slavu m
• Silesian: słowjański
• Slovak: slovanský
• Slovene: slovánski (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower: słowjański

  Upper: słowjanski (hsb)

• Spanish: eslavo (es)
• Swedish: slavisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Eslabo
• Tajik: славян (slavyan)
• Tatar: славян (slawyan)
• Thai: สลาฟ (sà-láaf)
• Turkish: Slav (tr)
• Turkmen: slawýan
• Udmurt: славян (slavan)
• Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (uk) (slovʺjánsʹkyj)
• Urdu: سلاو (slāv), سلاوی (slāvī)
• Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان (silawiyan)
• Uzbek: slavyan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xla-vơ
• Welsh: Slafaidd
• Yiddish: סלאַוויש (slavish)

Noun

Slavic (uncountable)

1. Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

   It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.

Synonyms

• Slavonic, Sclavonic

Meronyms

• Church Slavic, Church Slavonic
  • Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
• East Slavic, East Slavonic
  • Old East Slavic, Old East Slavonic
  • Great Russian = Russian = Russ
  • Little Russian = Ukrainian
  • White Russian = Belarusian
• South Slavic, South Slavonic
  • Bulgarian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Slovenian, Slovene
• West Slavic, West Slavonic
  • Czech
  • Kashubian
  • Slovak
  • Sorbian

Translations

Translations

• German: Slawisch (de) n

Anagrams

• cavils, clavis