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): (file)

Proper noun

Herzegovina

A historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Derived terms

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

Alternative forms

Herzegóvina

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /eʁ.ze.ɡoˈvĩ.nɐ/ [eɦ.ze.ɡoˈvĩ.nɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /eɾ.ze.ɡoˈvĩ.nɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /eʁ.ze.ɡoˈvĩ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eɻ.ze.ɡoˈvi.na/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛɾ.zɨ.ɡɔˈvi.nɐ/ [ɛɾ.zɨ.ɣɔˈvi.nɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛɾ.zɨ.ɡɔˈbi.nɐ/ [ɛɾ.zɨ.ɣɔˈβi.nɐ]

Rhymes: (Brazil) -ĩnɐ, (Portugal) -inɐ
Hyphenation: Her‧ze‧go‧vi‧na

Proper noun

Herzegovina f

Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Spanish

Proper noun

Herzegovina f

Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)