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English

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Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans
 
Kosovo (2) district

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

Etymology

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

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Kosovo

  1. 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[1], 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.
  2. One of five administrative districts of the above region as viewed by the Serbian government.

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Afrikaans

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Kosovo

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

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  • IPA(key): /koˈsobo/, [koˈso.β̞o]

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Kosovo m

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

Catalan

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Kosovo m

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

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Kosovo

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

Czech

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Kosovo n (related adjective kosovský, demonym Kosovan)

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

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Further reading

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  • Kosovo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • Kosovo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ко̏сово/Kȍsovo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.soːˌvoː/
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  • Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

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

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

German

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 Kosovo on German Wikipedia

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

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.so.vo/, /koˈsɔ.vo/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔsovo, -ɔvo
  • Hyphenation: Kò‧so‧vo, Ko‧sò‧vo

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Kosovo m

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

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References

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  1. ^ Kossovo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Lithuanian

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Kòsovo

  1. genitive singular of Kòsovas (Kosovo)

Maltese

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Il-Kosovo m

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

Portuguese

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Unadapted borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Kȍsovo.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈzo.vo/, /ˈko.zo.vo/
 

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Kosovo m

  1. Alternative form of Cosovo: Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)
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Romanian

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Kosovo n

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

Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA(key): /kôsoʋo/
  • Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

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Kȍsovo n (Cyrillic spelling Ко̏сово)

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

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Spanish

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

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Kosovo m

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

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Swedish

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Kosovo n (genitive Kosovos)

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