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Bosnian

UK/ˈbɒzni.ən//ˈbɑːzni.ən/

Bosnian adjective: of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.

Adjective

Bosnian (comparative more Bosnian, superlative most Bosnian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.
    • In his provocative essay, David Gibbs makes the following statement about diplomacy and the war in Bosnia. “There is also abundant evidence that diplomacy might have prevented the Bosnian war and thus prevented the Srebrenica massacre, but this option was blocked by prointerventionist forces in the...2015, Various Authors, “Responses to David N. Gibbs Article by John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha V Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, K ajan, Kees van der Pijl, an der Pijl...
  2. (historical) Of or pertaining to Bosnia.
  3. (nonstandard) Pertaining to Bosniaks.

Noun

Bosnian (plural Bosnians)

  1. A person from Bosnia and Herzegovina or of Bosnian descent.
    • Ten days later, however, the deal was dead, largely because the United States opposed it and persuaded the Bosnians to do the same, or so Gibbs argues.2015, Various Authors, “Responses to David N. Gibbs Article by John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha V Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, K ajan, Kees van der Pijl, an der Pijl...
  2. (nonstandard) A Bosniak.

Proper noun

Bosnian

  1. The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  2. (historical) Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Bosnia.

Bosnian meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

Bosnian in Hindi

of or pertaining to Bosnia
बोस्नियाई bosniyāī
the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
बोस्नियाई bosniyāī

Bosnian in Urdu

the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
بوسنیائی bosniyāī

Bosnian in Bengali

বসনীয়

Bosnian in Arabic

of or pertaining to Bosnia
بُوسْنِيّ būsniyy
the people
بُوسْنِيّ būsniyy, بُوسْنِيَّة būsniyya
the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
الْبُوسْنِيَّة al-būsniyya
More languagesFewer languages
Bosnian in Malay
Bosnia, orang Bosnia, bahasa Bosnia
Bosnian in Persian
بوسنیائی bosniyâ'i

Forms of Bosnian

Adjective
comparativemore Bosnian
superlativemost Bosnian
Noun
pluralBosnians

Origin of Bosnian

From Bosnia + -an.

Words formed from Bosnian

Phrases with Bosnian

Questions about Bosnian

What does Bosnian mean?
Bosnian means of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language.
What is Bosnian in Hindi?
Bosnian in Hindi is बोस्नियाई (bosniyāī). See Bosnian meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Bosnian?
Bosnian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Bosnian?
Bosnian is pronounced /ˈbɒzni.ən/ (UK).

Words near Bosnian in the dictionary

  1. Bosniak
  2. Bosniakisation
  3. Bosniakization
  4. Bosniakness
  5. Bosniaks
  6. Bosnian
  7. Bosnian pine
  8. Bosnian pines
  9. Bosnianness
  10. Bosnians
  11. Bosnisch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bosnian (page history and authors); Bosnian (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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