Hercegovina

Hercegovina

1. Alternative spelling of Herzegovina

• Bosnia and Hercegovina

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əɾ.sə.ɡuˈvi.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ər.sə.ɡuˈbi.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /eɾ.se.ɡoˈvi.na/

Hercegovina f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Bòsnia i Hercegovina

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrt͡sɛɡovɪna]

Hercegovina f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Херцеговина (Hercegovina), itself from German Herzog (“duke”), with a Slavic adjectival ending -(o)vina, referring to the medieval duchy of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, who took the title of Herceg (= Herzog, Duke) of Saint Sava in 1419.

• (without vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hertseɡɔvina]

• (with vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hærtsæɡɔvina]

Hercegovina f (4th declension)

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Bosnija un Hercegovina
• Bosnijas un Hercegovinas Federācija

historical regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hercegovina f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• hercegovinietis m, hercegovinietė f

Derived from the title herceg (“duke”), from German Herzog, plus the Serbo-Croatian suffixes -ov and -ina, thus “Land of the Duke”. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /xěrt͡seɡoʋina/
  • Homophone: hercegovina
• Hyphenation: Her‧ce‧go‧vi‧na

Hèrcegovina f (Cyrillic spelling Хѐрцеговина)

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• IPA^(key): /xɛrt͡sɛɡɔʋìːna/

Hercegovína f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Bósna in Hercegovína

• Hercegôvec / Hercegôvka
• hercegôvski