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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.
Emir Kusturica

Meaning of "Bosnian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOSNIAN

Bosnian  [ˈbɒznɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOSNIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bosnian can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

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WHAT DOES BOSNIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bosnian

Bosnian may refer to: ▪ Anything related to Bosnia or its inhabitants ▪ Anything related to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or its inhabitants ▪ Bosnian language, a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina ▪ Bosniaks, an ethnic group mainly inhabiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina ▪ Bosnian Croats, an ethnic group and one of three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina ▪ Bosnian Serbs, an ethnic group and one of the three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina ▪ Bosnians, people who live in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina ▪ Bošnjani, the name of inhabitants of Bosnia during the Middle Ages...

Definition of Bosnian in the English dictionary

The first definition of Bosnian in the dictionary is of or relating to Bosnia or its inhabitants. Other definition of Bosnian is a native or inhabitant of Bosnia. Bosnian is also the language spoken in Bosnia-Herzegovina, formerly regarded as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOSNIAN


Albanian
ælˈbeɪnɪən
Argentinian
ˌɑːdʒənˈtɪnɪən
Armenian
ɑːˈmiːnɪən
Californian
ˌkælɪˈfɔːnɪən
Estonian
ɛˈstəʊnɪən
Guinean
ˈɡɪnɪən
Iranian
ɪˈreɪnɪən
Jordanian
dʒɔːˈdeɪnɪən
Lithuanian
ˌlɪθjʊˈeɪnɪən
Macedonian
ˌmæsɪˈdəʊnɪən
Mauritanian
ˌmɒrɪˈteɪnɪən
Mediterranean
ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪnɪən
Palestinian
ˌpælɪˈstɪnɪən
Panamanian
ˌpænəˈmeɪnɪən
Papua-New-Guinean
ˈpæpjʊənjuːˌɡɪnɪən
Romanian
rəʊˈmeɪnɪən
Slovenian
sləʊˈviːnɪən
Smithsonian
smɪθˈsəʊnɪən
Tanzanian
ˌtænzəˈnɪən
Ukrainian
juːˈkreɪnɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOSNIAN

Boskop
bosky
Bosman ruling
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia-Herzegovina
bosom
bosom friend
bosomy
boson
bosonic
Bosphorus
Bosporus

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOSNIAN

Amazonian
Athenian
Babylonian
banian
Caledonian
Carthaginian
draconian
Fenian
Hamiltonian
Hibernian
Indo-Iranian
Ionian
Newtonian
Oceanian
parkinsonian
Pomeranian
Sardinian
the Devonian
Tyrrhenian
Virginian

Synonyms and antonyms of Bosnian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Bosnian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOSNIAN

Find out the translation of Bosnian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Bosnian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Bosnian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

波斯尼亚的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bosnio
570 millions of speakers

English

Bosnian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बोस्नियाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بوسْنِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

боснийский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bosniano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বসনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bosniaque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bosnia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bosnisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボスニアの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보스니아의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bosnia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc nước/người Bosnia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போஸ்னியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोस्नियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boşnakça
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bosniaco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bośniacki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

боснійський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bosniac
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βοσνιακός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Bosniese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bosnisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bosnisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Bosnian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOSNIAN»

The term «Bosnian» is very widely used and occupies the 15.607 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOSNIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Bosnian

EXAMPLES

7 QUOTES WITH «BOSNIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Bosnian.
1
Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
2
Janine di Giovanni
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
3
Aleksandar Hemon
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
4
Emir Kusturica
I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.
5
John Pomfret
I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
6
John Pomfret
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
7
John Pomfret
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOSNIAN»

Discover the use of Bosnian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Bosnian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar: With Sociolinguistic ...
The first book to cover all three components of the post-Yugoslav linguistic environment, this reference manual features: · Thorough presentation of the grammar common to Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, with explication of all the major ...
Ronelle Alexander, 2006
2
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook: With Exercises and ...
"Three official languages have emerged: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both these languages plus Bosnian in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook introduces the student to all three.
Ronelle Alexander, Ellen Elias-Bursac, 2010
3
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a ...
In so doing, she illuminates larger issues of what constitutes "nationality." This is a gripping and heartfelt account of a community that has been torn apart by ethno-political conflict.
Tone Bringa, 1995
4
Bosnian-English/English-Bosnian Dictionary and Phrasebook
Includes essential phrases for getting around the city and the country, and fully indicated pronunciation.
Susan Kroll, Dževad Zahirović, Zumreta Zahirović, 1998
5
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak
By giving them a voice, this book looks beyond the rapes, murders, and atrocities of that dark time to show the agency of these women during and after the war and their fight to uncover the truth of what happened at Srebrenica and why.
Selma Leydesdorff, 2011
6
Genocide and the Bosnian War
Examines the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, following the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Jacqueline Ching, 2009
7
The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities
Examining the common features of the Diaspora this volume addresses the influence of global anti-Muslim rhetoric on the Bosnian Diaspora's self-identification and refugees' relationships to their home country.
Marko Valenta, Sabrina P. Ramet, 2011
8
Bosnian Chronicle
After the defeat of Napoleon, a French consul in Bosnia is threatened with political persecution
Ivo Andrić, 1993
9
The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral ...
Considering both specificities and broader questions, this book is unique in offering a re-examination of the Bosnian case with a 'bottom-up' perspective.
Elissa Helms, Ger Duijzings, Xavier Bougarel, 2012
10
Bosnian-English, English-Bosnian Dictionary
Useful features include commonsense pronunciation guides for both Bosnian and English speakers along with appendices of common English abbreviations.
Nikolina S. Uzicanin, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOSNIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Bosnian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Irish Bosnian community to commemorate Srebrenica genocide
The Bosnian community in Ireland is gathering in front of Government Buildings at lunchtime today, (1-2pm) to mark the 20th anniversary of the ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jul 15»
2
"West was deeply involved in Bosnian war" - govt. official
Mihajlovic said that the burden of guilt is carried by both parties, that is the three sides involved in the Bosnian conflict, but added that much of ... «B92, Jul 15»
3
Bosnian mobile users drop 2% to 3.42 million in Q1
Bosnia ended the first quarter of 2015 with 3.418 million mobile telephony users, a 2.08 percent drop compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
4
Funerals of 136 Bosnian victims to mark anniversary
The Institute for Missing Persons said 160 corpses from the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb ... «VideoNewsUs, Jul 15»
5
Life After Genocide
In the movie, a Bosnian soldier reads the newspaper in the middle of a bloody, utterly senseless skirmish with the Bosnian Serb army and ... «Foreign Affairs, Jul 15»
6
US Diplomat Expects Adoption of Bosnian Massacre Anniversary …
"There's still prosecutions, of course, going on within the Bosnian court system," she said. "We will support the domestic justice efforts, but ... «Voice of America, Jul 15»
7
Roma set price for Pjanic and are prepared to sell Bosnian midfield …
According to reports in Italian publication Gazzetta, the most reliable of their sporting media outlets, Roma will part with Miralem Pjanic – so ... «The Empire of The Kop - a blog about Liverpool F.C., Jul 15»
8
Bosnia rape victims may claim compensation for first time
Bosnian Muslim women cry during a mass funeral in 2010 after the discovery of remains of 31 Bosnian Muslims killed by Serb forces during the ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
9
Bosnian regulator suspends decision to increase power prices
SARAJEVO, June 30 (Reuters) - The power regulator in Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic on Tuesday suspended a decision to allow the ... «Reuters Africa, Jun 15»
10
Bosnian Serb Leader: Drop Srebrenica Genocide Resolution
A top Bosnian Serb politician urged the United Nations on Monday to abandon plans for a British-drafted resolution on the 1995 Srebrenica ... «Voice of America, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Bosnian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bosnian>. Apr 2024 ».
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