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Croatian

UK/ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən//ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən/

Croatian adjective: of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language.

Adjective

Croatian (comparative more Croatian, superlative most Croatian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language.
    • Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but in 2021 Bugatti was spun off from Volkswagen Group and merged with Rimac, the Croatian company that makes the all-electric Rimac Nevera supercar.2024 June 20, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Bugatti’s new car is a $4 million, 1,800 horsepower hybrid”, in CNN

Noun

Croatian (plural Croatians)

  1. An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.
    • [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]2006, J. M. Smits, Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, →ISBN, page 352
    • Serbian forces committed egregious violent acts against ethnic Croatians in the early 1990s, but they don’t equate to genocide, a U.N. court ruled Tuesday.2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN

Proper noun

Croatian

  1. A standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Croats.
  2. (historical) Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Croatia.

Croatian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Croatian in Hindi

of or pertaining to Croatia
क्रोएशियाई kroeśiyāī
person of Croatia
क्रोएशियाई kroeśiyāī, क्रोट kroṭ
the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
क्रोएशियाई kroeśiyāī

Croatian in Tamil

the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
சுராவேசியன் curāvēciyaṉ

Croatian in Marathi

of or pertaining to Croatia
क्रोएशियन kroeśiyan
person of Croatia
क्रोएशियन kroeśiyan
the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
क्रोएशियन kroeśiyan

Croatian in Urdu

the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian
کراتی krati
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Croatian in Bengali
ক্রোয়েশীয়
Croatian in Nepali
क्रोएसियाली kroesiyālī
Croatian in Arabic
كُرُوَاتِيّ kuruwātiyy, كُرُوَاتِيَّة kuruwātiyya
Croatian in Malay
Croatia, orang Croatia, bahasa Croatia
Croatian in Indonesian
Kroasia
Croatian in Persian
کروآت koro-ât
Croatian in Thai
โครเอเชีย kroo-ee-chiia, ภาษาคโรเอะ, ภาษาโครเอเชีย
Croatian in Vietnamese
Crô-a-ti-a, người Crô-a-ti-a, tiếng Cro-xi-an
Croatian in Myanmar
ခရိုအေးရှား hka.ruie:hra:

Forms of Croatian

Adjective
comparativemore Croatian
superlativemost Croatian
Noun
pluralCroatians

Origin of Croatian

From Croat + -ian or Croatia + -an.

Words formed from Croatian

Phrases with Croatian

Words that rhyme with Croatian

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Croatian

What does Croatian mean?
Croatian means of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language.
What is Croatian in Hindi?
Croatian in Hindi is क्रोएशियाई (kroeśiyāī), क्रोट (kroṭ). See Croatian meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Croatian?
Croatian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Croatian?
Croatian is pronounced /ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən/ (UK).

Words near Croatian in the dictionary

  1. Croatan
  2. Croatan Island
  3. Croatan Sound
  4. Croatans
  5. Croatia
  6. Croatian
  7. Croatian checkerboard
  8. Croatian checkerboards
  9. Croatian chessboard
  10. Croatian chessboards
  11. Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Croatian (page history and authors); Croatian (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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