Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Bosnia, the Bosniaks, their language, or their culture.
- noun The South Slavic language of the Bosniaks.
- noun A Bosniak.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Bosnia, a nominal province of Turkey, lying west of Servia, the administration of which was transferred to Austria-Hungary by the Berlin Congress of 1878.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Bosnia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Bosnia and Herzegovina , a country in the formerYugoslavia , in southeasternEurope . - noun A person from
Bosnia and Herzegovina . - proper noun The standardized variety of
Serbo-Croatian , a SouthSlavic language, spoken primarily byBosniaks inBosnia and Herzegovina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Bosnia-Herzegovina or the people of Bosnia
Etymologies
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Examples
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Asked by defence attorney Vesna Alaburić whether territorial defence, TO, troops loyal to the Sarajevo government - what she called the Bosnian president's army - had "enough force to eliminate the attacking JNA and Bosnian Serb forces", the witness said it did not.
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Co-authored paper and presentation on forgiveness and morality in Bosnian adolescents; varsity pole vaulter.
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MR. VERSHBOW: People keep using the word Bosnian Serb state.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995
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His language service provides interpreting and translating services in Arabic, Bosnian, German, Mandarin, Russian, Somali and Spanish.
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It was because of his expertise that I turned to him back in 2006 when the so-called Bosnian pyramid was being picked up by various media.
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We did have Hello Kitty but only in Bosnian, which is not our native tongue.......
Going on Elizabeth McClung 2008
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The effort, also known as the Bosnian Book of the Dead, surprised the public, who had consistently been told that 250,000 citizens died.
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His rhetoric -- calling Bosnian Serb leaders "war profiteers" who were "insane with political ambitions and greed" -- seemed a familiar ploy to stall Western action.
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• Bora at Science and Politics expresses skepticism about a discovery that hits close to home, the so-called Bosnian pyramid...
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Q Does the President support the idea of Bosnian Muslim enclaves defended by U.S. military forces?
Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos ITY National Archives 1993
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