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Slavic
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slavic slavić slavíc Slavić
English
Alternative forms
abbreviation: en Sl.
Etymology
en :af Slav -ic 1 1 en slavey.
Pronunciation
en /ˈslɑːvɪk/ /ˈslævɪk/
en /ˈslɑːvɪk/ /ˈslavɪk/ SSB
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Slavic.wav Southern England
en ɑːvɪk 2
Adjective
Of the Slavs, their cultures or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
en Michel Salomon w:Helen Eustis Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967 Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont. w:Little, Brown and Company 1971 section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism) 20 https://archive.org/details/praguenotebook0000unse/page/20/mode/1up 77-135438 Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.
Synonyms
en Slav#Adjective
en Slavonic
en Sclavonic
Derived terms
en anti-Slavic Balto-Slavic Panslavic pro-Slavic proslavic Slavically Slavicism Slavicization Slavicize Slavicness non-Slavic Slavfrican Blavic Slavaboo
Related terms
en Slavdom Slavia Slavism Slavistics Pan-Slavic Interslavic Slavonia slava slava Ukraini heroiam slava
Translations
of the Slavs, their culture or languages
Afrikaans: af Slawies
Albanian: sq sllav
Arabic: ar سْلَافِيّ, ar صَقْلَبِيّ
Hijazi Arabic: acw سلاڤي m slāvi
Armenian: hy սլավոնական
Azerbaijani: az slavyan
Belarusian: be славя́нскі
Bengali: bn স্লাভিক, bn স্লাভীয়
Bulgarian: bg славя́нски
Burmese: my ဆလဗ
Carpathian Rusyn: rue славя́нскый
Catalan: ca eslau
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 斯拉夫 si1 laai1 fu1
Mandarin: cmn 斯拉夫 sīlāfū
Cree: cr slovenski
Czech: cs slovanský
Danish: da slavisk
Dutch: nl Slavisch
Esperanto: eo slava
Estonian: et slaavi
Finnish: fi slaavilainen
French: fr slave, fr slavon
Friulian: fur slâf
Galician: gl eslavo
Georgian: ka სლავური
German: de slawisch
Greek: el σλαυικός, el σλαβικός
Hawaiian: haw Selawika, haw ʻōlelo Selawika
Hebrew: he סְלָאבִי slávi
Hindi: hi स्लाव, hi स्लावी
Hungarian: hu szláv
Icelandic: is slavískur
Irish: ga Slavach, ga Slavónach
Italian: it slavo
Japanese: ja スラヴ suravu, ja スラブ surabu
Kashubian: csb słoviński
Kazakh: kk славян, kk славяндық
Khmer: km ស្លាវ, km ស្លាវី
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi славян
Komi-Zyrian: kpv славян
Korean: ko 슬라브
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr slavî
Kyrgyz: ky славян, ky славяндык
Latvian: lv slāvu, lv slāvisks
Lithuanian: lt slavų m, lt slaviškas
Macedonian: mk словенски
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn славян
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb slavisk
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu словѣньскъ
Pashto: ps سلاو sláw, ps اسلاو esláw
Persian: fa اسلاو eslâv
Polish: pl słowiański
Portuguese: pt eslavo, pt eslávico
Romanian: ro slavon, ro slavonesc, ro slav
Russian: ru славя́нский
Scottish Gaelic: gd Slàbhach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh сло̀ве̄нскӣ now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian, sh сло̀вје̄нскӣ now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian, sh сла̀ве̄нскӣ Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian
Latin: sh slòvēnskī now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian, sh slòvjēnskī now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian, sh slàvēnskī Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian
Sicilian: scn slavu m
Silesian: szl słowjański
Slovak: sk slovanský
Slovene: sl slovánski
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb słowjański
Upper Sorbian: hsb słowjanski
Spanish: es eslavo
Swedish: sv slavisk
Tagalog: tl Eslabo
Tajik: tg славян
Tatar: tt славян
Thai: th สลาฟ
Turkish: tr Slav
Turkmen: tk slawýan
Udmurt: udm славян
Ukrainian: uk слов'я́нський
Urdu: ur سلاو slāv, ur سلاوی slāvī
Uyghur: ug سىلاۋىيان
Uzbek: uz slavyan
Vietnamese: vi Xla-vơ
Welsh: cy Slafaidd
Yiddish: yi סלאַוויש
Noun
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Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.
en It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.
Emily Dreyfuss That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-expanse-belter-language/ 2017-04-05 Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos. https://web.archive.org/web/20260930021319/https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-expanse-belter-language/ 30 September 2026
Synonyms
en Slavonic, en Sclavonic
Meronyms
en Church Slavic, en Church Slavonic
en Old Church Slavic, en Old Church Slavonic
en East Slavic,
en Old East Slavic, en Old East Slavonic
en Great Russian = en Russian = en Russ
en Little Russian = en Ukrainian
en White Russian = en Belarusian
en South Slavic,
en Bulgarian
en Serbo-Croatian
en Slovenian, en Slovene
en West Slavic,
en Czech
en Kashubian
en Slovak
en Sorbian
Translations
German: de Slawisch n
Anagrams
en acilsv cavils clavis
en Language families