Herzegovina

See also: herzegovina

English

Alternative forms

• Herzegowina, Hercegovina

Etymology

A direct borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Hercegovina, from German Herzog (“duke”) + Serbo-Croatian -ov (possessive suffix) + Serbo-Croatian -ina (feminine suffix). Thus meaning, a Duke's possession, a dukedom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɜːtsəˈɡɒvɪnə/, /ˌhɜɹtsəɡoʊˈviːnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Herzegovina

1. The southern wedge of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing a geographic and historic entity, and not an administrative unit.

Derived terms

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Herzegovinan
• Herzegovinian

Translations

Southern wedge of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Albanian: Hercegovinë f, Hercegovina f (definite)
• Arabic: الْهَرْسَك f (al-harsak)
• Armenian: Հերցեգովինա (Hercʻegovina)
• Azerbaijani: Herseqovina
• Belarusian: Герцагаві́на f (Hjercahavína)
• Bengali: হার্জেগোভিনা (harjegōbhina)
• Bulgarian: Херцего́вина f (Hercegóvina)
• Burmese: ဟာဇီဂိုဗီးနား (hajiguibi:na:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Герцеґовина f (Hercegovyna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑塞哥維那 / 黑塞哥维那 (zh) (Hēisāigēwéinà)

• Czech: Hercegovina (cs) f
• Danish: Hercegovina n
• Dutch: Herzegovina n
• Esperanto: Hercegovino
• Estonian: Hertsegoviina
• Faroese: Hersegovina
• Finnish: Hertsegovina (fi)
• French: Herzégovine (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰერცეგოვინა (hercegovina)
• German: Herzegowina (de) n
• Greek: Ερζεγοβίνη (el) f (Erzegovíni)
• Hebrew: הֶרְצֶגוֹבִינָה f (hertsegovina)
• Hindi: हर्ज़ेगोविना m (harzegovinā)
• Icelandic: Hersegóvína f
• Irish: An Heirseagaivéin f
• Italian: Erzegovina f
• Japanese: ヘルツェゴヴィナ (Herutsegovina), ヘルツェゴビナ (Herutsegobina)
• Kazakh: Герцеговина (Gersegovina)
• Korean: 헤르체고비나 (Hereuchegobina), 헤르쩨고비나 (Hereujjegobina) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Herzegovîna

• Kyrgyz: Герцеговина (Gertsegovina)
• Latvian: Hercegovina f
• Lithuanian: Hercegovina (lt) f
• Macedonian: Херцеговина f (Hercegovina)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Херцеговина (Xercegovina), Герцаговин (Gercagovin), Герцеговин (Gercegovin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hercegovina n

• Ottoman Turkish: هرسك (hersek)
• Pashto: هرزېګووين (herzogowin)
• Persian:

  Dari: هَرْزِگُوِینَا (harziguwīnā)

  Iranian Persian: هِرزِگوین (herzegovin)

• Polish: Hercegowina (pl) f
• Portuguese: Herzegovina f
• Russian: Герцегови́на (ru) f (Gercegovína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хѐрцеговина f

  Roman: Hèrcegovina (sh) f

• Slovak: Hercegovina (sk) f
• Slovene: Hercegovína f
• Swedish: Hercegovina (sv) n
• Tagalog: Ersegobina
• Tajik: Ҳерсеговина (Hersegovina)
• Turkish: Hersek (tr)
• Turkmen: Gersegowina
• Ukrainian: Герцегови́на f (Hercehovýna), Герцеґови́на f (Hercegovýna)
• Urdu: ہَرْزِگووِینا m (harzigovīnā)
• Uyghur: ھېرسېگوۋىنا (hërsëgowina)
• Uzbek: Gertsegovina
• Vietnamese: Héc-xê-gô-vi-na
• Welsh: Hertsegofina f
• Yiddish: הערצעגאָווינע f (hertsegovine)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Herzegovina f

1. Herzegovina (a traditional region in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Clipping of Bósnia e Herzegovina.

Spanish

Proper noun

Herzegovina f

1. Herzegovina