Hercegovina

See also: Hercegovinā

English

Proper noun

Hercegovina

1. Alternative spelling of Herzegovina

Derived terms

• Bosnia and Hercegovina

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ər.sə.ɣuˈβi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ər.sə.ɣuˈvi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eɾ.se.ɣoˈvi.na]

Proper noun

Hercegovina f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Derived terms

• Bòsnia i Hercegovina

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrt͡sɛɡovɪna]

Proper noun

Hercegovina f (related adjective hercegovský, demonym Hercegovec, female demonym Hercegovka)

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Hercegovina (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Hercegovina
genitive	Hercegoviny
dative	Hercegovině
accusative	Hercegovinu
vocative	Hercegovino
locative	Hercegovině
instrumental	Hercegovinou

Related terms

• Bosna a Hercegovina

 

Latvian

Hercegovina

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Херцеговина (Hercegovina), itself from German Herzog (“duke”), with a Slavic adjectival ending -(o)vina, referring to the medieval duchy of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, who took the title of Herceg (= Herzog, Duke) of Saint Sava in 1419.

Pronunciation

• (without vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hertseɡɔvina]

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• (with vowel harmony) IPA^(key): [hærtsæɡɔvina]

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Proper noun

Hercegovina f (4th declension)

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Hercegovina (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Hercegovina	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Hercegovinu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Hercegovinas	—
dative (datīvs)	Hercegovinai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Hercegovinu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Hercegovinā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Hercegovina	—

Derived terms

• Bosnija un Hercegovina
• Bosnijas un Hercegovinas Federācija

See also

historical regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Bosnija
• Hercegovina

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Hercegovina f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Related terms

• hercegovinietis m, hercegovinietė f

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from the title herceg (“duke”), from German Herzog, plus the Serbo-Croatian suffixes -ov and -ina, thus “Land of the Duke”. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xěrt͡seɡoʋina/
  • Homophone: hercegovina
• Hyphenation: Her‧ce‧go‧vi‧na

Proper noun

Hèrcegovina f (Cyrillic spelling Хѐрцеговина)

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Hercegovina

	singular
nominative	Hercegovina
genitive	Hercegovine
dative	Hercegovini
accusative	Hercegovinu
vocative	Hercegovino
locative	Hercegovini
instrumental	Hercegovinom

Descendants

Descendants in other languages

• → Armenian: Հերցեգովինա (Hercʻegovina)
• → Azerbaijani: Herseqovina
• → Belarusian: Герцагаві́на (Hjercahavína)
• → Bulgarian: Херцего́вина (Hercegóvina)
• → Catalan: Hercegovina
• → Chinese:

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

• → Czech: Hercegovina
• → English: Herzegovina, Herzegowina, Hercegovina
• → Esperanto: Hercegovino
• → Faroese: Hersegovina
• → Finnish: Hertsegovina
• → French: Herzégovine
• → German: Herzegowina
• → Icelandic: Hersegóvína
• → Irish: Heirseagaivéin
• → Italian: Erzegovina
• → Japanese: ヘルツェゴヴィナ (Herutsegovina)
• → Korean: 헤르체고비나 (hereuchegobina)
• → Latvian: Hercegovina
• → Lithuanian: Hercegovina
• → Macedonian: Херцеговина (Hercegovina)
• → Ottoman Turkish: هرسك (Hersek)
• → Polish: Hercegowina
• → Portuguese: Herzegovina
• → Russian: Герцегови́на (Gercegovína)
• → Slovak: Hercegovina
• → Slovene: Hercegovína
• → Spanish: Herzegovina
• → Swedish: Hercegovina
• → Turkish: Hersek
• → Ukrainian: Герцегови́на (Hercehovýna), Герцеґови́на (Hercegovýna)
• → Welsh: Hertsegofina
• → Yiddish: הערצעגאָווינע (hertsegovine)

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɛrt͡sɛɡɔʋìːna/

Proper noun

Hercegovína f

1. Herzegovina (the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Hercegovína
genitive	Hercegovíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Hercegovína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Hercegovíne
dative (dajȃlnik)	Hercegovíni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Hercegovíno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Hercegovíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Hercegovíno

Derived terms

• Bósna in Hercegovína

Related terms

• Hercegôvec / Hercegôvka
• hercegôvski