Srbin

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sr̩̂bin/

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• Hyphenation: Sr‧bin

Noun

Sȑbin m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ср̏бин, female equivalent Sȑpkinja)

1. Serb (a male of Serb ethnicity)

   „Ja sam Srbin”, rastumači mirno i dostojanstveno Tesla. ― "I am a Serb", Tesla explained calmly and with dignity.

   Samo sloga Srbina spasava ― Only Unity Saves the Serbs (a Serb patriotic slogan)

   Srbi i Hrvati su jedan te isti komad kravlje balege koji je kotač zaprežnih kola povijesti slučajno prerezao na pola. ― Serbs and Croats are one and the same piece of cow dung that the wheel of history accidentally cut in half. (quote by Miroslav Krleža)

Declension

Declension of Srbin

	singular	plural
nominative	Srbin	Srbi
genitive	Srbina	Srba
dative	Srbinu	Srbima
accusative	Srbina	Srbe
vocative	Srbine	Srbi
locative	Srbinu	Srbima
instrumental	Srbinom	Srbima

Related terms

• sr̀bēnda
• Srbija
• Srbijánac
• Srbìjānka
• Sȑpkinja
• Sȑpskā

Further reading

• “Srbin”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025