Kosovo

See also: kosovo

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Kosova (from Albanian)
• Kosov@ (uncommon; blends the Slavic and Albanian spellings)
• Kossovo (obsolete)

Etymology

Shortened form of Serbo-Croatian Косово поље (“blackbirds’ field”), from косово (kosovo), possessive form of кос (kos, “blackbird”), and поље (polje, “field”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊsəˌvoʊ/, /ˈkɔsəˌvoʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

2. A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Kosovo. Capital and largest city: Pristina. Considered by the Republic of Serbia to be one of its two autonomous provinces.
   • 1999 March 25, “Air Campaign Against Yugoslavia”, in The New York Times‎, New York:

     Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.

   • 2017, Freedom in the world, page 657:

     After Milosevic’s overthrow in October 2000, international pressure on the new authorities in Belgrade to extradict Milosevic for alleged war crimes committed during the Kosovo conflict was intense.

   • 2018 January 16, Milena Veselinovic and Sheena McKenzie, “Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office”, in CNN‎:

     A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.

3. One of five administrative districts of the above region as viewed by the Serbian government.

Derived terms

• Kosovan
• Kosovar
• kosovar
• Kosovo and Metohija

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

Acehnese: Kosovo Afrikaans: Kosovo Albanian: Kosovë f (indefinite), Kosova (sq) f (definite) Amharic: ኮሶቮ (kosovo), ኮሶቮ (kosovo) Arabic: كُوسُوفُو f (kūsūfū), قُوصُوُه f (qūṣuwuh) Egyptian Arabic: كوسوڤو f (kōsōvō) Hijazi Arabic: كوسوڤو f (kōsōvō), كوسوفو f (kōsōfō) Aragonese: Kosovo m Armenian: Կոսովո (hy) (Kosovo) Aromanian: Cusovã f (indefinite), Cusova f (definite) Asturian: Kosovo m, Kosovu m Aymara: Kusuwu Azerbaijani: Kosovo (az) Bashkir: Косово (Kosovo) Basque: Kosovo (eu) Bavarian: Kosovo Belarusian: Ко́сава n (Kósava) Bengali: কসোভো (bn) (kośōbhō) Bikol Central: Kosobo Breton: Kosovo Bulgarian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo) Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗို (kuihcuibui) Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m Cebuano: Kosobo, Kosovo Chechen: Косово (Kosovo) Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ (godiquo) Chinese: Cantonese: 科索沃 (fo1 sok3 juk1) Mandarin: 科索沃 (zh) (Kēsuǒwò) Chuvash: Косово (Kos̬ovo) Cornish: Kosovo Crimean Tatar: Kosovo Czech: Kosovo (cs) n Danish: Kosovo n Dutch: Kosovo (nl) n Esperanto: Kosovo (eo) Estonian: Kosovo (et) Extremaduran: Cosovu Farefare: Kosovo Faroese: Kosovo Finnish: Kosovo (fi) French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo m Gagauz: Kosova Galician: Kosovo (gl) m Georgian: კოსოვო (ka) (ḳosovo) German: Kosovo (de) m or n Greek: Κόσοβο n (Kósovo), Κοσσυφοπέδιο (el) n (Kossyfopédio, literally “Blackbird Field”) Greenlandic: Kosovo Guaraní: Kosovo Hebrew: קוֹסוֹבוֹ (he) f (kosovo) Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) m (kosovo) Hungarian: Koszovó (hu) Icelandic: Kosóvó Ido: Kosovo Indonesian: Kosovo Interlingua: Kosovo Irish: an Chosaiv f, Cosaiv f Italian: Kosovo m, Kossovo m, Cossovo m Japanese: コソボ (ja) (Kosobo) コソヴォ (ja) (Kosovo) Javanese: Kosovo Kabardian: Косово (Kʷosovo) Kabyle: Kosovo Kannada: ಕೊಸೊವೊ (kosovo) Kazakh: Косово (kk) (Kosovo) Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ (km) (kousouvou) Korean: 코소보 (ko) (Kosobo), 꼬쏘보 (ko) (kkossobo) (North Korea) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ (ckb) (kosovo) Northern Kurdish: Kosova (ku) Kyrgyz: Косово (Kosovo) Lak: Косова (Kosowa) Lao: ໂກໂຊໂວ (kō sō wō) Latin: Kosovia f Latvian: Kosova f Limburgish: Kosovo (li) Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt) m Luxembourgish: Kosovo (lb) Macedonian: Косово n (Kosovo) Malay: Kosovo Malayalam: കൊസോവോ (kosōvō) Maltese: Kosovo (mt) m, Kosova Manx: Kosovo Maori: Kotopo Marathi: कोसोव्हो (kosovho) Mazanderani: کوزوو, کوسوو Mongolian: Cyrillic: Косово (mn) (Kosovo) Nahuatl: Cosovo Nauruan: Kosovo North Frisian: Kosovo Norwegian: Bokmål: Kosovo (no) n Nynorsk: Kosovo (nn) n Occitan: Kosovë, Kosovo (oc), Kosova Ossetian: Косово (Kosovo) Papiamentu: Kosovo Persian: Dari: کوسُوَا (kōsuwā) Iranian Persian: کوسوو (kosovo), کوزوو (kozovo) Picard: Kosovo Piedmontese: Kosovo m Polish: Kosowo (pl) n Pontic Greek: Κόσοβο (Kósovo) Portuguese: Cosovo m, Kosovo (pt) m Punjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ (kosovo) Quechua: Kusuwu, Kosovo, Kosova Romanian: Kosovo Romansch: Cosovo Russian: Ко́сово (ru) n (Kósovo) Rwanda-Rundi: Kosovo Samoan: Kosovo Sardinian: Kòssovu Saterland Frisian: Kosovo Scots: Kosovo Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ко̏сово n Roman: Kȍsovo (sh) n Shona: Kosovo Sicilian: Kòssuvu m Silesian: Kosowo Sinhalese: කොසෝවො (kosōwo) Slovak: Kosovo n Slovene: Kosovo n Somali: Kosofo Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Kosowo Upper Sorbian: Kosowo Spanish: Kosovo (es) m Sranan Tongo: Kosovokondre Sundanese: Kosovo Swahili: Kosovo Swedish: Kosovo (sv) n Tagalog: Kosovo Tajik: Косово (Kosovo) Tamil: கொசோவோ (kocōvō) Tatar: Косово (Qosowo) Thai: โคโซโว (koo-soo-woo), คอซอวอ (th) (kɔɔ-sɔɔ-wɔɔ) Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ (kho so wo) Turkish: Kosova (tr) Turkmen: Kosowo Ukrainian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo) Urdu: کوسووُ m (kosovu), کوسووَہ m (kosova) Uyghur: كوسوۋو (kosowo) Uzbek: Kosovo Venetan: Kósovo, Cosovo, Kosovo Vietnamese: Cô-xô-vô Võro: Kosovo Waray-Waray: Kosovo Welsh: Cosofo West Flemish: Kosovo West Frisian: Kosovo Yakut: Косова (Kosova) Yiddish: קאָסאָוואָ (kosovo) Yoruba: Kósófò Zealandic: Kosovo

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia ^af

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe; capital and largest city: Pristina)

Related terms

• Kosovaar
• Kosovaars

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/ [koˈso.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Cóssova
• Cóssovo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈko.su.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈko.so.vo]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Cornish

Cornish Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia ^kw

Baner Kosovo.

Kosovo yn Europa.

Alternative forms

• Kosova

Etymology

From English Kosovo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsɔvɔ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Coordinate terms

countries in Europe: powyow Europa (appendix)edit

• Albani
• Almayn
• Andorra
• Armeni
• Azerbayjan
• Belarus
• Bosni ha Herzegovina
• Bulgari
• Cita an Vatikan
• Cheki, Repoblek Chek
• Danmark
• Estoni
• Frynk
• Fynndir
• Gres, Pow Grek
• Hungari
• Iseldiryow
• Itali
• Iwerdhon
• Jorji
• Kazakstan
• Kosovo
• Kroati
• Kyprus
• Latvi
• Lightenstayn
• Lithuani
• Luksembourg
• Makedoni Gledh
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monako
• Montenegro
• Norgagh
• Ostri
• Poloni
• Portyngal
• Pow Belg
• Pow Swis
• Rewenys
• Romani
• Russi
• Ruvaneth Unys
• Serbi
• Slovaki
• Sloveni
• Spayn
• Sweden
• Synt Marino
• Turki
• Ukrayn

Related terms

• kosovek (“Kosovar”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutation of Kosovo

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
Kosovo	Gosovo	Hosovo	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia ^crh

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkosovo]

Proper noun

Kosovo n (relational adjective kosovský, demonym Kosovan)

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Kosovo
genitive	Kosova
dative	Kosovu
accusative	Kosovo
vocative	Kosovo
locative	Kosovu
instrumental	Kosovem

Further reading

• “Kosovo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Kosovo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Kosovo

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ко̏сово/Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.soːˌvoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo n (adjective Kosovaars, demonym Kosovaar m or Kosovaarse f)

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Kosovaar

German

 Kosovo on German Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsovo/, (rarer also) /ˈkɔzovo/

• Audio (Germany):

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Proper noun

der/das Kosovo m or n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Kosovo or des Kosovos)
Kosovo n (proper noun, genitive Kosovos or (optionally with an article) Kosovo)

1. Kosovo (a partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, masculine // neuter, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der, das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovo, Kosovos
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	den, das	Kosovo

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovos, Kosovo1
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	das	Kosovo

¹Optionally with an article.

Related terms

• Kosovare
• kosovarisch
• Kosovo-Albaner