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Serb

/sɜːb//sɝb/

Serb noun: a person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.).

Noun

Serb (plural Serbs)

  1. A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.)
    • No one knows where Serbian Prince Lazar fell, but a stone tower honors him and the other "heroes of Kosovo." In the summer of 1989 on the 600th anniversary of the battle a million Serbs came to this hilltop.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 100
    • Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors.2023 May 30, Christian Edwards, “Why did ethnic Serbs attack NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo? Here’s what we know”, in CNN

Adjective

Serb (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Serbs; Serbian.
    • A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.2018 January 16, Milena Veselinovic and Sheena McKenzie, “Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office”, in CNN

Serb meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Pashto and Tagalog

Serb in Hindi

person of Serb descent — see also Serbian
सर्ब sarb

Serb in Bengali

person of Serb descent — see also Serbian
সার্ব śarbo

Serb in Pashto

person of Serb descent — see also Serbian
صرب serb

Serb in Tagalog

person of Serb descent — see also Serbian
Serbyo, Serbo-Croatian
More languagesFewer languages
Serb in Arabic
صِرْبِيّ ṣirbiyy, صِرْبِيَّة ṣirbiyya
Serb in Persian
صرب serb
Serb in Vietnamese
người Xéc-bi

Forms of Serb

pluralSerbs

Origin of Serb

From Serbo-Croatian Срби /Srbi, from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ (“ally, Serb, Sorb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to protect, watch over”); akin to Latin servo (“to guard, to protect”), Old English searu (“weapons, armor”), Lithuanian sárgas (“watchman”), Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haraⁱti), 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haᵘruuaⁱti, “to guard”). Doublet of Sorb.

Words formed from Serb

Words that rhyme with Serb

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Serb

What does Serb mean?
Serb means a person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.).
What is Serb in Hindi?
Serb in Hindi is सर्ब (sarb). See Serb meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Serb?
Serb can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Serb?
Serb is pronounced /sɝb/ (US).
What is the plural of Serb?
The plural of Serb is Serbs.

Words near Serb in the dictionary

  1. Serax
  2. seraya
  3. serayas
  4. Seraydarian
  5. Seraydarians
  6. Serb
  7. Serb.
  8. Serban
  9. Serbans
  10. Serbdom
  11. Serbhood

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Serb (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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