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Appendix:Variations of "serbia"
English
thumb|240px|Flag of Serbia
Alternative forms
en Servia archaic
Etymology
en 1 * :lbor la-med:Serbia :af<surf> Serb -ia<id:place>
Pronunciation
sûr′bē-ə
en /ˈsɜː.bi.ə/ UK
en /ˈsəːbɪjə/ SSB
en /ˈsɝ.bi.ə/ US
en /ˈsɝb.jɐ/ Philippines
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Serbia.wav UK
en en-us-Serbia.ogg US
en ɜː(ɹ)biə 3
en Ser bi a
Proper noun
en Q403 en country on the r/Balkan Peninsula in r/Southeastern Europe Belgrade Republic of Serbia 1. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
Greg Botelho U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/03/europe/croatia-serbia-genocide/index.html 2015-02-03 The 153-page ruling from the International Court of Justice means that modern-day Serbia will not have to pay restitution to Croatia, which in 1991 split from what was then Yugoslavia. https://web.archive.org/web/20260212085156/https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/03/europe/croatia-serbia-genocide/index.html 12 February 2026
en geographic region r/Southeastern Europe.
Derived terms
en White Serbia Socialist Republic of Serbia
Related terms
en Serb
en Serbian
en Serbinization
Translations
a country in Southeastern Europe Q403
Afrikaans: af Serwië
Albanian: sq Serbi f indefinite, sq Serbia f definite
Amharic: am ሰርቢያ
Arabic: ar صِرْبِيَا f, ar الصِّرْب f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܨܸܪܒܝܵܐ f
Armenian: hy Սերբիա
Aromanian: rup Sãrghii f, rup Sãrbii f indefinite, rup Sãrghia f, rup Sãrbia definite
Assamese: as ছাৰ্বিয়া
Asturian: ast Serbia
Azerbaijani: az Serbiya
Bashkir: ba Сербия
Basque: eu Serbia
Belarusian: be Се́рбія f, be Сэ́рбія f Taraškievica
Bengali: bn সার্বিয়া
Bulgarian: bg Съ́рбия f
Burmese: my ဆားဘီးယား
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Се́рбія f
Catalan: ca Sèrbia f
Chechen: ce Серби
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 塞爾維亞
Mandarin: cmn 塞爾維亞 Sài'ěrwéiyà
Wu: wuu 塞爾維亞
Chuvash: cv Серби
Crimean Tatar: crh Sırbistan
Czech: cs Srbsko n
Danish: da Serbien
Dhivehi: dv ސާބިއާ
Dutch: nl Servië n
Esperanto: eo Serbio
Estonian: et Serbia
Farefare: gur Sɛrbgɔ
Faroese: fo Serbia n
Finnish: fi Serbia
French: fr Serbie f
Friulian: fur Serbie f
Galician: gl Serbia f
Georgian: ka სერბეთი
German: de Serbien n
Greek: el Σερβία f
Gujarati: gu સર્બિયા
Hausa: ha Serbiya
Hebrew: he סֶרְבְּיָה f serbiya
Hindi: hi सर्बिया m
Hungarian: hu Szerbia
Icelandic: is Serbía f
Ido: io Serbia
Indonesian: id Serbia
Irish: ga Seirbia An tSeirbia f
Italian: it Serbia f
Japanese: ja セルビア Serubia
Kannada: kn ಸೆರ್ಬಿಯ
Kashubian: csb Serbiô f
Kazakh: kk Сербия
Khmer: km ស៊ឺបៀ, km ស៊េប៊ី
Korean: ko ^세르비아, ko ^쓰르비아 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Sirbistan, kmr Serbistan, kmr Serbiya
Kyrgyz: ky Сербия
Lao: lo ແຊກບີ
Latin: la Serbia f Medieval and Modern Latin
Latvian: lv Serbija f
Lithuanian: lt Serbija f
Livonian: liv Serbij
Macedonian: mk Србија f
Malay: ms Serbia
Malayalam: ml സെർബിയ
Maltese: mt Serbja f is-Serbja
Manx: gv Serb Yn Serb
Māori: mi Hēpia
Marathi: mr सर्बिया
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Серби
Navajo: nv Séwib bikéyah
Nepali: ne सर्बिया
Norman: nrf Serbie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Serbia
Nynorsk: nn Serbia n
Odia: or ସର୍ବିଆ
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Срьбїꙗ f modern
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Сербия f
Pashto: ps صربیا f sarbiyā
Persian:
Dari: prs صَرْبِسْتَان, prs صَرْبِیَا
Iranian Persian: fa-ira صِرْبِسْتان, fa-ira صِرْبِیا
Polish: pl Serbia f
Portuguese: pt Sérvia
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਸਰਬੀਆ m
Romanian: ro Serbia f
Russian: ru Се́рбия f
Samoan: sm Serepia
Scots: sco Serbie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ср̀бија f
Latin: sh Sr̀bija f
Sicilian: scn Serbia f, scn Sèrbia f
Silesian: szl Syrbijo f
Sinhalese: si සර්බියාව
Slovak: sk Srbsko n
Slovene: sl Sŕbija f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Serbiska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Serbiska f
Spanish: es Serbia f, es Servia
Swedish: sv Serbien n
Tagalog: tl Serbya, tl Serbiya
Tajik: tg Сербия
Tamil: ta செர்பியா
Tatar: tt Сербия
Telugu: te సెర్బియా
Thai: th เซอร์เบีย
Tibetan: bo སེར་བྷི་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ሰርቢያ
Turkish: tr Sırbistan
Ottoman Turkish: ota صربستان Sırbistan
Turkmen: tk Serbiýa
Ukrainian: uk Се́рбія f
Urdu: ur سَرْبِیا m, ur صَرْبِسْتان m
Uyghur: ug سېربىيە
Uzbek: uz Serbiya
Vietnamese: vi Xéc-bi
Yiddish: yi סערביע
Yoruba: yo Sẹbia
See also
en Kosovo
en Montenegro
en Serbia and Montenegro
en Vojvodina
en Yugoslavia
Anagrams
en abeirs Baiers braies braise rabies rebias
en exonyms
Albanian
Proper noun
sq proper noun form
sq Serbi def nom s
Asturian
ast:
Proper noun
ast proper noun
ast Serbia Q403
Derived terms
ast serbiu
Basque
eu:
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-Serbia.wav>
Proper noun
in
eu Serbia Q403
Declension
in.pr
Derived terms
eu serbiar<t:Serbian> serbiera<t:Serbian language>
See also
Further reading
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Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nch proper noun
nch Serbia Q403
Estonian
et:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Serbia Serbiat
et Serbia Q403
Declension
Serbia sg
See also
References
Finnish
Etymology
From fi sh Србија.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Serbia Q403
Declension
sg Serbi a
Derived terms
fi serbia serbialainen Suur-Serbia
See also
Galician
Proper noun
f
gl Serbia Q403
Related terms
gl serbio
Ido
io:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
io proper noun
io Serbia Q403
See also
Indonesian
id:
Etymology
id la-med Serbia
Pronunciation
Sèr.bia
Proper noun
id Serbia Q403
Noun
Serbian
Serb
Adjective
Serbian
Serb
See also
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
^è<r:DiPI>
Proper noun
f
it Serbia Q403
Derived terms
it serbo
See also
References
Anagrams
it abeirs Baresi baresi basire bearsi serbai
it exonyms
Latin
la:
Alternative forms
la Servia
Etymology
la 1
Pronunciation
Serbia 1
la Ser bi a
Serbiā 1
la Ser bi ā
Proper noun
Serbia<1>
la Q403 la Medieval Latin New Latin la Serbia Q403
Declension
Serbia<1>
Malay
ms:
Etymology
ms en Serbia
Pronunciation
Ser.bia Baku
ms Ser bia
Proper noun
سربيا
ms Serbia Q403
Noun
Serbian
Serb
Adjective
Serbian
Serb
References
Norwegian Bokmål
no
thumb|The flag of Serbia.
thumb|The location of Serbia in Europe.
thumb|The meanders of the Uvac River in southwestern Serbia.
Etymology
nb ine-pro *ser-
nb, ultimately from Medieval Latin la Serbia Serbia. The name belongs to the same word family as Serbo-Croatian sh Ср̏бин Serb and ultimately continues nb sla-pro *sьrbъ Serb; Sorb. The Proto-Slavic ethnonym has been connected with nb ine-pro *ser- to protect, watch over, though its deeper origin remains uncertain.
Compare Serbo-Croatian sh Ср̀бија Serbia. Parallel international forms include nn Serbia, da Serbien, sv Serbien, de Serbien, nl Servië, fr Serbie, it Serbia, es Serbia, pt Sérvia, pl Serbia, ro Serbia and en Serbia.
Pronunciation
nb /¹ˈsær.bi.a/ [ˈsæ̀ɾ.bi.a]
nb ærbia 3
nb Ser bi a
Proper noun
nb proper noun
Serbia; nb country on the r/Balkan Peninsula in r/Southeastern Europe Beograd.
nb Hun reiste med tog gjennom Serbia. She travelled through Serbia by train.
nb 21 July 2026 Jørn Holm-Hansen Serbia Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Serbia Serbia er et land på Balkanhalvøya sørøst i Europa. Serbia is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. https://web.archive.org/web/20261002003816/https://snl.no/Serbia 2 October 2026
Usage notes
The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Serbia (“the Republic of Serbia”).
Related terms
nb serber a Serb; a Serbian person
nb serbisk Serbian
nb Serbia og Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
See also
References
“Navn på stater” by no Språkrådet.
“Serbia” in Store norske leksikon.
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Serbia Q403
Related terms
nn Serbia og Montenegro, nn Montenegro
nn serbar
nn serbisk
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl 1 * :bor sh:Ср̀бија//Sr̀bija
Pronunciation
Pl-#.ogg
Proper noun
f serbski
pl Q403 pl Serbia Q403
Declension
<f.sg>
Derived terms
pl nouns Serb<g:m-pr>,Serbka<g:f>
See also
Further reading
Modern Standard Polish:
44657
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Historic dictionaries:
217 3
pl exonyms
Romanian
ro:
Alternative forms
ro Сербия new cyrl
Etymology
ro 1 * :lbor la-med:Serbia
Pronunciation
ro /ˈser.bi.a/
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Serbia.wav
ro Ser bi a
Proper noun
f
ro Serbia Q403
Declension
Serbi sg
See also
Spanish
es:
Alternative forms
es Servia dated
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Serbia.wav<a:Spain>>
Proper noun
f
es Serbia Q403
Derived terms
es Serbia y Montenegro
See also
Further reading
es exonyms
Welsh
cy:
Etymology
cy :der sh:Ср̀бија//Sr̀bija
Ultimately from cy sh Ср̀бија//Sr̀bija.
Pronunciation
cy /ˈsɛr.bja/
cy ɛrbja 2
cy Ser bia
Proper noun
f
cy Serbia Q403
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
cy sbriws Serbia Serbian spruces
cy Gweriniaeth Serbia Republic of Serbia
cy exonyms