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Bosnia-Herzegovinan
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English
Etymology
From en Bosnia-Herzegovina an.
Adjective
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en Bosnia and Herzegovinian.
21 May 1992 w:William Safire Essay; Punish the Serbs A Bosnia-Herzegovinan official -- this year's Haile Selassie -- says that if the world intervened to escort relief to starving, persecuted Kurds, why not Bosnians? "We are real people, too."
en 3 June 2004 Ari LaVaux Married to the Hmong w:Eugene Weekly Eugene, Ore. What’s Happening Inc. 30 https://archive.org/details/20040603EW/page/30/mode/1up 3 3066-1145 33226082 Indeed, dear reader, leavened hamburgers. “And,” said Jasenka, a Bosnian Muslim, “there is also the secret weapon.” At which point, Veljko, a Serbian Serb, placed a bag of Vegeta on the counter in front of me. “Its’ like Mrs. Dash,” he said, “but way better.” I inspected the bag, noting that this Serbian/Bosnia-Herzegovinan specialty is made in Croatia. It has carrot, celery, and onion powder; salt, pepper, and MSG.
12 July 2021 Bill Gardner; Tony Diver; Izzy Lyons; Lizzie Roberts England star accuses Priti Patel of 'stoking fire' of racism https://web.archive.org/web/20210712211357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/12/savills-suspends-employee-looks-racist-tweets-euro-final/ One user, with Turkish and Bosnia-Herzegovinan flags in their profile, posted monkey emojis, while another from an account by a user who used their full name and described themselves as a "teaching assistant" posted a string of orangutan emojis.
Noun
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en Bosnia and Herzegovinian.
en 2003 w:Michael Ignatieff The Bridge Builder Empire Lite: Nation-building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan Toronto, Ont. Penguin Canada 36 https://archive.org/details/empirelitenation0000igna/page/36/mode/1up 0-14-301491-9 A couple of years ago, the Bosnian parliament spent a week debating whether the front page of the passport that all Bosnia-Herzegovinans carry should list the ethnic entity they come from, and if so, how high the lettering for that line should be.
en 2013 Michel S. Laguerre Croatia: Diaspora Parliamentary Representation Parliament and Diaspora in Europe Europe in Translation: The NYU European Studies Series New York, N.Y. w:Palgrave Macmillan 79 https://archive.org/details/parliamentdiaspo0000lagu/page/79/mode/1up 978-1-137-28059-6 The ideal formulated above provides the larger framework for understanding the ways of the transnational parliament. Its spatial shape varies, with some communities better represented than others as a result of size, wealth, or proximity to the homeland territory. The transnational Croatian parliament presents a singular case, differing from Italy and France in that Bosnia-Herzegovinans constitute the totality of diaspora representatives, while the EU and North America house a large Croatian diaspora but remain completely absent from Parliament.
25 June 2014 Alan Tyers Bosnia-Herzegovina v Iran, World Cup 2014: as it happened https://web.archive.org/web/20140627180001/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10921131/Bosnia-Herzegovina-vs-Iran-World-Cup-2014-live.html Who do you fancy for this megaclash? Any Iranians in? Or Bosnia-Herzegovinans? Have you gotten over England yet? What should be done about Luis Suarez? Who is going to win the World Cup?