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Slovakian
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English
Etymology
From en Slovakia -an or en Slovak -ian.
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to Slovakia, a country in Central Europe.
en Slovak#Adjective
Hannah Rabinowitz Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/white-supremacist-terrorgram-indictment/index.html 2024-09-09 One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. https://web.archive.org/web/20260102084301/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/white-supremacist-terrorgram-indictment/index.html 2 January 2026
Derived terms
en Slovakian Wirehaired Pointer
Translations
of or pertaining to Slovakia Slovak#Adjective
Noun
A person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent.
en Slovak#Noun
Steve Goldberg Barber to the SS, witness to the Holocaust https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/auschwitz.barber/ 2005-01-26 But he was arrested crossing the Polish-Slovak border, and the Slovakians handed him to the Germans. https://web.archive.org/web/20050212042603/http://www.cnn.com:80/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/auschwitz.barber/ 12 February 2005
Related terms
en Czechoslovakia
en Czechoslovakian
Translations
a person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent Slovak#Noun
Proper noun
en Slovak#Proper noun.
25 February 2001 Ellen Baskin w:Noah Taylor Once Upon a Time, When Truths Ran Deep https://web.archive.org/web/20260902093637/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-25-ca-29876-story.html Ben’s appallingly intelligent. He speaks about eight languages fluently. I’ve done foreign press junkets and film festivals with him, and he’ll be doing one interview in Polish and one in Italian and be fielding questions in Slovakian or whatever.
9 July 2012 Stuart Jeffries Hive talking: Tomás Libertíny's bee art https://web.archive.org/web/20160322120418/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/09/tomas-libertiny-bee-living-sculpture Over lunch, a delightfully dewey-eyed apiarist, there to assist Libertíny delivers a passionate eulogy in Slovakian to the honey bee.
9 January 2013 Ann Czernik A radical year in the north https://web.archive.org/web/20140829130837/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/09/bradford-bradford-west-byelection-2012 Belica made regular appearances in Slovakian media along with David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, who recorded a YouTube broadcast in Slovakian to reassure the eastern European community.
15 November 2013 w:Helen Pidd Slovakian Roma in Sheffield: 'This is a boiling pot ready to explode' https://web.archive.org/web/20131116102703/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/15/sheffield-page-hall-roma-slovakia-immigration He would not let the Guardian go out on patrol with him, and when he saw us chatting to a group of youths at around 8pm on Wednesday night he told them in Slovakian to not talk to us.
30 May 2019 Kevin Mitchell Johanna Konta faces meeting of minds with Viktoria Kuzmova in French Open https://web.archive.org/web/20190530211819/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/30/johanna-konta-viktoria-kuzmova-french-open If Johanna Konta is to continue her new-found love affair with the clay of Roland Garros, she will have to outsmart an opponent who is studying for a degree in international relations and diplomacy, and reads Hamlet in her spare time – in Slovakian. As for Shakespeare, the 21-year-old Slovak revealed: “They are also translated into Slovakian but I prefer them in English. It’s fairly ‘easy’ poetry so I can understand it in English. But I would never understand Shakespeare in English. I read Shakespeare in Slovakian.”
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