Slavic

See also: slavic, slavić, slavíc, and Slavić

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Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Sl.

Etymology

From Slav + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɑːvɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvɪk

Adjective

Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)

1. Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
   • 1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:

     Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.

Synonyms

• Slav
• Slavonic
• Sclavonic

Derived terms

• non-Slavic

Related terms

• Slavdom, Slavia, Slavism, Slavistics, Pan-Slavic, Interslavic

Translations

of the Slavs, their culture or languages

Afrikaans: Slawies Albanian: sllav (sq), nashke Arabic: سْلَافِيّ (slāfiyy), صَقْلَبِيّ (ṣaqlabiyy) Hijazi Arabic: سلاڤي m (slāvi) Armenian: սլավոնական (hy) (slavonakan) Azerbaijani: slavyan Belarusian: славя́нскі (slavjánski) Bengali: স্লাভিক (slabhik), স্লাভীয় (slabhiẏo) Bulgarian: славя́нски (bg) (slavjánski) Burmese: ဆလဗ (hca.la.ba.) Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый (slavjánskŷj) Catalan: eslau (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 斯拉夫 (si1 laai1 fu1) Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (zh) (sīlāfū) Cree: slovenski Czech: slovanský (cs) Danish: slavisk Dutch: Slavisch (nl) Esperanto: slava Estonian: slaavi Finnish: slaavilainen (fi) French: slave (fr), slavon (fr) Friulian: slâf Georgian: სლავური (slavuri) German: slawisch (de) Greek: σλαυικός (slavikós), σλαβικός (el) (slavikós) Hawaiian: Selawika, ʻōlelo Selawika Hebrew: סְלָאבִי (slávi) Hindi: स्लाव (slāv), स्लावी (slāvī) Hungarian: szláv (hu) Icelandic: slavískur Irish: Slavach, Slavónach Italian: slavo (it) Japanese: スラヴ (ja) (suravu), スラブ (ja) (surabu) Kashubian: słoviński Kazakh: славян (slavän), славяндық (slavändyq) Khmer: ស្លាវ (slaaw), ស្លាវី (slaavii) Komi-Permyak: славян (slavʹan) Komi-Zyrian: славян (slavan) Korean: 슬라브 (seullabeu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: slavî (ku) Kyrgyz: славян (slavyan), славяндык (slavyandık) Latvian: slāvu, slāvisks Lithuanian: slavų m, slaviškas Macedonian: словенски (slovenski) Mongolian: Cyrillic: славян (slavjan) Norwegian: Bokmål: slavisk Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ) Pashto: سلاو (sláw), اسلاو (esláw) Persian: اسلاو (fa) (eslâv) Polish: słowiański (pl) Portuguese: eslavo (pt), eslávico Romanian: slavon (ro), slavonesc (ro), slav (ro) Russian: славя́нский (ru) (slavjánskij) Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сло̀ве̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), сло̀вје̄нскӣ (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), сла̀ве̄нскӣ (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian) Roman: slòvēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian), slòvjēnskī (sh) (now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian), slàvēnskī (sh) (Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian) Sicilian: slavu m Silesian: słowjański Slovak: slovanský Slovene: slovánski (sl) Sorbian: Lower: słowjański Upper: słowjanski (hsb) Spanish: eslavo (es) Swedish: slavisk (sv) Tagalog: Eslabo Tajik: славян (slavyan) Tatar: славян (slawyan) Thai: สลาฟ (sà-láaf) Turkish: Slav (tr) Turkmen: slawýan Udmurt: славян (slavan) Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (uk) (slovʺjánsʹkyj) Urdu: سلاو (slāv), سلاوی (slāvī) Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان (silawiyan) Uzbek: slavyan (uz) Vietnamese: Xla-vơ Welsh: Slafaidd Yiddish: סלאַוויש (slavish)

Noun

Slavic (uncountable)

1. Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

   It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.

Synonyms

• Slavonic, Sclavonic

Meronyms

• Church Slavic, Church Slavonic
  • Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
• East Slavic,
  • Old East Slavic, Old East Slavonic
  • Great Russian = Russian = Russ
  • Little Russian = Ukrainian
  • White Russian = Belarusian
• South Slavic,
  • Bulgarian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Slovenian, Slovene
• West Slavic,
  • Czech
  • Kashubian
  • Slovak
  • Sorbian

Translations

Translations

German: Slawisch (de) n

Anagrams

• cavils, clavis