Josip

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Іѡсифъ (Iosifŭ), from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yōsép). Doublet of Josif and Jusuf.

Pronunciation

• (Croatia) IPA^(key): /jǒsip/
• Hyphenation: Jo‧sip

Proper noun

Jòsip m anim (Cyrillic spelling Јо̀сип)

1. (biblical) Joseph
2. (chiefly Croatia) a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joseph

Declension

Declension of Josip

	singular
nominative	Josip
genitive	Josipa
dative	Josipu
accusative	Josipa
vocative	Josipe
locative	Josipu
instrumental	Josipom

Further reading

• “Josip”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025